The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-10-05

in the manner of Him who was Meek
and humble of heart"
| Do you ask for illustration? Read
then the pages of your own history?
You have within the confines of your
own state examples enough. Read
again the story beautiful of that gentle
/, friar Juan Gle Padilla. From his II ome
in far Andalrsia, he came to the barren
wastes of Western America. He was
with Coronado, in that famous march
he made over these Western plains
more than three centuries and half
ago. Coronado sought adventures and
gold, but Padilla's quest was that Of
souls. And when Coronado's march
was over, Juan de Padilla would re-
turn to instruct the savage and
| build his mission Churches. Back to
these plains he came, never to return!
The savages he would save, attacked
him; undefended, his hands joined III
prayer, he fell beneath their strokes.
They cast his body into a pit some
where out here. Today his grave lies
unmarked, the place of it unknown,
but the memory Of his zeal and his
sacrifice shall remain among the most
precious treasures of the West.
This proto-martyr is a type of all
missionaries who in the long years
since then, have blessed the people Of
the West, by their presence and their
iabors; of those who like the Vener-
able Mother Duchesne, who came in
the thirties of the last century. as
Ruth of long ago, to make of the land
of Pottawatomies her land, and their
people hers; and to bring all to the
love of Christ and His life-glving
Faith. And there were DeSmedt and
Shoemaker and the Sanity Bishop
Miege. and the unnumbered ones, even
to this day (and largest in number to-
day. who came, their feet shod with
the Gospel of Peace. their purpose to
preach Christ Crucified.
But why should 1 delay? If 1 re-
call the past, 1t is only that may show
the consistency of our mission, the
unity of our Faith.
We are now in the living present.
in free America. American citizens.
rejoicing in our freedom to worship
God as our conscience dictates. We
have presiding in the Sanctuary the
Archbishop of Maryland's Capital
that Maryland which more than a hun
dred years, when Maryland was dom
inantly Catholic. flung out, for all the
worlds beholding the Standard of re-
ligious liberty. give it Sanctuary ana
home. then according to historian Ban
croft its only home in all the wide,
wide world. What does Rome think OF
this religious liberty and its earliest !
home? My friends, she has placed on
the shoulders of that Archbishop, the
mantle Of a Cardinal, the highest Gift,
under the Papacy itself, she has to
offer. He comes to you today from the
cradle OF religious liberty, himself and
his writings still remaining it's best ex.
preston.
Again If you ask me how we would
promote Christian faith, we would
teach the Gospel in the Western land
by building and sustaining at great
cost and sacrifice schools wherein we Il
would suffer the little ones to 90
to the great master Jesus, schools
where His praises would be sung, and
His name honored, and the bread Of
doctrinal Truth broken to those little
ones who otherwise would perish.
We would gather the people in par
ishes and have them build churches,
sacred to the Christ. We would group
the parishes into Dioceses and have
these larger groups build Cathedrals.
which would be for all the Diocese,
which the parish Church is for an in
dividual parish.
After many years and much sacri-
fee your esteemed Bishop aided by
his faithful priests and beloved dioces-
ans, aided also by the generous people
OF Wichita irrespective of creed or
cast. has erected this beautiful temple
to the living God. Today he sees lis
efforts crowned in its dedication. To-
day he rejoices with YOU. and sines.
Holy. Holy, Holy Lord, God of the
sabbaoth," and We rejoice with you
and him; for do we not see in this
Cathedrars completion one more glori-
GUS link in the golden chain that binds
our continent to the throne of God!
1t is long way from the lonely
and unknown grave of Juan de Padil-
la, to the cross crowned dome Of this