The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-01-04

travel, and read out to us the means
through which we may reach it:
And this is dogma, doctrine. And
Jesus spoke, las one having author
ity." BY what right shall we, in re
bellion to His teachings, hold our
selves free to reject His Words-al
or any single one? Shall we say, His
words are not truth; and if they are
truth are we at liberty to reject the
truth? Shall we say, that, as if in
insanity, Jesus spoke to the winds
careless as to who listened to them
or babe them pass by? No-the God
man does not cast His pearls to the
swine: He does not insult His eternal
majesty, by telling men to do as they
please with the offerings of His love
He taught, and He exacted that His
teachings be accepted, that no one
iota be dropped from them: Going
therefore, teach all nations, teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever
have commanded unto YOU" "He
that believeth not shall be con
demned."
A PhiIanthropic Religion.
Well, yes-we hear it said-we shall
have a Christian Church: but one
more fit to appeal to present humanity
"a church less religious, more philan
thrOpic-a church that will serve bet
ter the requirements of men, that will
turn more to earth than to Heaven
answer: the preaching of Christ was
essentially and primarily religious
What doth it profit man to gain
the whole world, should he lose his
own souI?" What man supremacy
needs is the teaching of religion. OF
earth he can by himself take sufi-
Gent care: of Heaven he knows by
himself but little. 1t is in His reach.
ing towards Heaven that a Saviour, a
longer the prime Office of the Chris
tan Church, in vain were the good It'd
ings of the first Christmas morn: "To-
day is a Saviour born to you in the
City of David" In vain was the shed
ding of the blood of Christ on Cal
vary unto the remission of sim" In
vain was Christ's whole coming,
Christ's whole preaching, Christ's
whole work from Bethlehem to Cal
vary. Blot Christ from memory, sink
Him into Oblivion, rather than desc
crate His name by afixing to it So
called church, philanthropic rather
than religious.
Of course, the religion of Christ is
observation-disclosures truly so, because
by it's dogmas and mandates it lays
the foundations of purest, strongest,
sweetest charity and justice. He who
serves God, will serve the neighbor
for Gods sake He who fulfills the
law of God, will be just-seeking to
give to all men their rights; and char
liable, spending himself in love to
assuage every human sorrow, and re-
lieve every human misery. The re-
ligion of Christ created a new human
ity, wherein justice and charity shone,
as never before. But this it did be-
cause it was religion linking man to
God by belief in revealed truth, by
submission to. the divine commands of
purity of soul and of immolation of
pride and appetite upon the affairs of
divine love and service. A sad day
for the philanthropy even of the
present time, when, yet more loosened
from the religious principles, which
still, with more or less consciousness
on the part of it's advocates, impart
to it inspiration and strength. Thrown
back upon its own resources of
thought and motive, it should quickly
wither and decay, utterly incapable of
battling with the chilling words of
human pride and human selfishness.
A Reinstatement Of the Religion Of
Christ.
Well-we hear it finally said-let
the old religion of Bethlehem and
Calvary survive, and still continue it's
course through the world of men: but
of it's teachings, such as they have
been, re-statement must be made,
recast of form so as to clothe them
with modern vesture; recast of sub
stance even, SO far as this is no longer
expressive of present-day aspirations
and conditions. What, humanity has
today SO grown in stature that it no
longer bends under the ruling hand of
God: its intellect has become so en-
lightened that it no longer bears with
the truths of divine revelation: its
needs are so expansive that the rem
edies provided for them by the
Saviour of Bethlehem no longer are
adequate to satiate them! The time
has come, men dare to assert, when
the world has outgrown the religion
brought to it from Heaven; when it
must seek a life of it's own making, in
dependent of Him, who heretofore has
reigned as Sovereign teacher and
Veriest of follies and of in
sensate relationships audacious
declaration that the revelation of
Jesus must re-state it's formulas of
belief and practice, or make way for a
new religion, such as the one or the
other in the world of men may at will
and enforce. Christ taught
with the authority of the
works of the Infinite. He founded the
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