The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-07-20
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STHE CORNERSTONE LAYING
OF COLUMBUS HALL.


full the address of the Most Reverend
Archbishop at the laying of the corner
stone of the Knights of Columbus
building in this city last Sunday.
l congratulate the Knights of Colum-
bus. The cornerstone of their new
home in the City of St. Paul has been
laid. This new home, as it's rising
walls foretoken, is to be, in ample
proportions and artistic architecture,
worthy of their noble association and
of the high purposes to which it is
pledged. The blessings of the Church
have been invoked upon the corner
stone, upon the whole achievement
which it symbolizes, and no less upon
| the good works of religion and Chris
tian benevolence to which birth will
here be given, whose invigorating in
fluences will go forth in devoted and
far-reaching wavings of serviceable-
ness to God and to humanity. The
beginnings are ominous of a bright
and prosperous future: from our
hearts do we pray that coming years
be rich in fruition as the present day
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The ideals and purposes of the AS
sociation known as the Knights of
Columbus are worthy of all commen-
dation, AS a bishop of the Church l
prize and praise them, and to the car
rying out of them into effective reali-
zation / am not most willing to lend
my earnest and continuous co-opera-
| tion.
/ And before l go further, l take
pride and pleasure in stating as fact
that, so far as my observations of
men and things teach me, in Mime
sofa and in the country at large, the
ideals and purposes embodied in the
constitution and rules of the associa-
tion are no mere words or theories,
that, wherever they work, the Knights
of Columbus make the loyal effort to
rise in practice to the high altitude of
their profession, to be in all things
what they propose to be, typical
Christians, typical sons and soldiers
of Christ's Church-loyal in word and
in act to it's teachings, responsive to
it's aspirations, generous in defence
and support of it's interests and it's
enduring welfare.
The Typical Christian.
To be the typical Christian is the
duty to which every Catholic is COM
mitted, the high aim to which every
Catholic should bend the spring of
mind and heart. 1t is we'll, however,
that in the Church there be those who
with more than usual deliberation
rouse themselves into valorous uplift,
whether to make the more secure
their own upward fight, or by force
of example to impel into similar as
cension friends and neighbors, seen
to be too needless of the better things
of life, or too sluggish of motion in
research of them. Nor to this intent
is it a necessity that Catholics should
band themselves into column array,
and under the banner of a definite
association walk forward, shoulder to
shoulder, towards the coveted goal
Many advance successfully, each one
toiling by himself: to many no other
way is open. In an association, how
ever, there are valued helps, which,
when within reach, the wise will glad
ly put to profit. The atmosphere one
breathes is potent agency of life
and health: vitalizing element of
faith and good works is to be found
in the Catholic atmosphere of a truly
Catholic association. There, too, is
the stimulus of silent example, the
encouraging exhortation, the guardian
ship of command and prohibition.
The Church never fails to bless and
abet associations among it's children:
from associations it culls opulent
fruit, which otherwise would not have
fallen to it's portion. 1t is written:
TT is better, therefore, that two
should be together than one; for they
have the advantage of their society,"
In our yearnings for typical Catholics,
let us bid God-speed to typical Catho-
lie associations: and God-speed to one
young in promise, yet even now rich
in results-that OF the Knights of Co
lumbus
lis struck-it echoes the music of the
skies; 1t tells OF Gods own super
natural region. Every man, con-
sciously or unconsciously, has his
philosophy of life," and as his
philosophy" SO his ideals, SO his aim
Eof thought and act. For the Christian,
1.-THE philosophy of life" is this
Mans responsibility to personal liv-
ing God, Creator and Sovereign Mas
ter, mans supreme duty to hold his
life on earth I'm harmony with the
/, laws of the Master, to the end that In
eternity he be united with Him in in
J innate fruition of His own divine life.
For the Christian the philosophy OF
life" is this obedience to, and imita-
, ton Of, the Exemplar OF the super.
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