The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-11-08

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the fact that in this contest for the
assertion of the right of the people 10
govern through their representatives,
Ireland leads (Applause) and one of
the first fruits of this triumph for the
doctrine of self-government over he
reditary government-one of the first
fruits is to be Home Rule. (Applause.)
Faith in God.
branch Of my subject. have now set
forth three kinds of faith that one
must have If he is to accomplish great
things: Faith in himself; faith in the
people-in his fellow-men faith in tho
form of government which rests upon
the people, but l have left as the
manifestation of faith the most i'm
portant one, and that is, faith in God,
| and in the presence OF the knights
! of Columbus and in the presence of
I, representatives Of the great Catholic
| church l need not apologize for maxi
ing paramount to all other forms of
faith the effect upon the life of faith
in God. (Applause.) I do not hesitate
to say that there Is no other founda-
ton upon which our moral character
can be built except upon a religious
foundation. know of no other founda-
ton upon which moral character can
be built, no other foundation upon
| which a moral code can rest, and I
know of no moral code that did not
If you can succeed in finding one whose
foundations go down SO deep or run
| back SO far that you cannot discover
| beneath them q religion, let mo tell
you that it will be impossible to find
any such system in the future. UNI
less some great catastrophe shall de-
stroy all that man now knows, there
will never be a time in all the ages
, yet to come when any group of men
can be found anywhere intelligent
| enough to write a code of morals,
| whose ideas of mortality will not have
been colored by the Sermon OIL the
Mount, so all-pervasive has become the
thought of the Man Of Galilee. Gap
plause.)
| The first and most fundamental fact
that q man has to deal with in the
building Of character Is God. A man
cannot live great life without a plan,
and he cannot plan a life until he be-
lieves that this universe is built upon
a plan. and he cannot conceive of a
universe built upon plan without
putting behind that plan a designer:
therefore, 1t is necessary to have a
plan In life--to lay the foundation for
any work in life-that one shall link
himself with his Creator.
Faith in God is not only necessary
in the beginning, but 1t Is necessary
all through life. There Is not a step
that one can take without faith. 1t
was the faith that Columbus had that
the world was round that bade him
start and make a discovery. Whit
thought he discovered something OF
which he had not dreamed. God has put
undiscovered planets in the path Of
every one of faith. The one who goe,
i forward does not know what he Is te
1 find. The men who have been led by
the hand Of God have not been able
to see far, but they have gone for
ward; and in life today what we need
everywhere Is the faith in God that
makes man believe that the arm OF
the Almighty is on the side of faith
(Applause.)
The Power Of Personal Conservation
You have 100000 in your great or
ganization. What can 100000 men do
when they stand on the side of right
eousness? What can they do? You do
not need 100000 to start, you do not
need 100000, you do not need 10000,
you do not need 1000, you do not need
100; all you need is one man who is
willing to die rather than surrender
his faith. (Applause) l remember
some twenty years ago l heard an
Englishwoman speaking in the city of
Washington, and she used an illustrs-
ton that I have not forgotten. She
said that when one person sees a thinG
he is a fanatic, that when a nuinber
see the same thing then he is nc
longer a fanatic, he is then merely an
enthusiast, and when everybody sees
1t he Is hero. (Laughter.) All great
movements begin when one man steps
out and is willing to stand alone. The
most paralyzing thing in this world is
mathematics-when one waits to act
till counts. Until somebody prove.
that he is willing to stand for thing
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