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

just like light should not be hidden
away. Is it not the command of the
God of Truth the gfver of lighr-tn
let the light be known, to have the
world-all the world know the truth
the truth that will make them free?
:. And it is the imparting of religious
truth, that we claim as our proa-
ganda. To Make America Catholic
means that we would teach religious
truth, that we would teach and preach
Him who is for Americans as for the
rest-"The way and the truth and the
life."
Behold, then our mission; it begins
it ends there with Jesus Christ, Our
Lord, Our Master, Our Redeemer;
Jesus Christ, yesterday, today and
forever. For two thousands years he
has stood at the front OF the column.
AL humanity's progress has been Mt
his bidding, and under his leadership.
All the nations that in these long years
have grown to greatness, have dons so.
because they set His Cross above their
national standard,-the nations that
FELL first fell from Him. His Is the
faith, which alone inspires, His the
hope worth the cultivating. His the
charity which alone is all embracing.
And n0uy whom 1onbt tho afr
when nations falter in their alleg-
lance, and enemies burlesque His
sufferinss and spurn His Cross when
His Divinity comes to be denied, His
teachings are rejected, when the Com
mandments are set in irridescent
dreamland, when homes are disrupted,
the bonds Of marriage broken with i'm
punity, and the public mind begins to
drift it knows not whittier, only surely
away from Him,-then this Church of
ours commands us, this charity of His
up. forthflushing in all its primal light,
and vigor, and authoritative command:
Go forth, teach all nations, teach
them all truth, and behold l shall be
with you all days even to the consum
nation of the world"
That Is Catholicity, teaching all the
nations, teaching them all the truth
that Christ has commanded. 1t is
Cathoicity in fact and In meaning. and
to teach America all truth that Christ
has taught is to Make America Cath
olic."
But behold. you say, are there not
others who teach Christ and His law.
who revere His name and who ak
pand His Gospel here in America
great creeds and Churches dedicated to
His service,--and vet decidedly not
Catholic?
My friends. far be it from ne 70
belit,ie their efforts or to deny their
enthusiasm. Gladly will we award them
praise when they teach Christ and His
Gospel. when, and in so far as they
teach the truths.-all the truths tina.
Christ has taught. Yet the facts re-
main that on one hand two-thirds Of
the American people have not even a
nominal utilization with any Christian
church, and on the other, many Of the
so called Christian congregations are
scandaliZed by attacks from their own
pulpits on the Divinity of Christ, the
.Sanctity of Marriage and other teach
<ings fundamental in the order Of
Christian faith and morals.
However these things be the work
remains, the mission endures to preach
Christ and Him Crucifled: One Faith
which is His, one baptism, one God
and Father of us all.
And what method shall obtain in tho
God given work?
Is it by vituperation and Islander,
by uttering libels. asserting with :n-
finite reiteration falsehood after false
hood. claiming for their authority
Catholic books that were written by
authors who never lived. catering to
the prurient by relating immoral
stories. which immoral men composed,
and setting up as excuse for their
obscenity that they are intended as
defense of the Blessed Christ?
My friends, that gentle Savior needs
no such defense. Nor is Gospel OF
charity. of humanity or of hope, pro-
NOTED by such methods.
-.
ePagans Of old adopted such meth
DDS against the early Catholics. They
too said they engaged in immoral rites
and worshiped the ass's head. They
too demanded the Christians punished
in the name Of the sovereign State.
And the Christians answered their
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