The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-30
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upon the scene, wrestling into his serv-
ice the rich resources of nature,
spreading freely over them his in
genuity of mind and his skill of hand,
and fashioning them into new forms,
as his needs and designs suggest-and
behold new world arises, the world
of man. Hennepin was not insensible
to the marvels that European culture
might one day effect upon field and
river in his louisiana" he prayed
that the teeming population of the old
er continent should overflow into the
newer. But little did he believe that
within the space of 228 years there
should be here the great common
wealth of Minnesota, the great cities
Of st. Paul and Minneapolis-tha his
cataract of St. Anthony, inaccessible
to civilization save through Journey
ings Of months from the st. Lawrence,
in birch-bark canoes, through wilder
nesses inhabited only by scattered
tribes of wild men, should be, as it
now is, almost the very center of the
worlds commercial life and activity,
in the greatest Of commercial ages.
Man reigns today. And what today of
the reign of God and Of Christ?
Today as long ago, God reigns and
Christ reigns; and so it will be for
evermore. Whatever man does, what
ever the transformations coming
through his achievements, God re-
mains and Christ remains.
"Thou, in the beginning, o Lord,
didst found the earth; and the works
of thy hands are the heavens. They
shall PERISH and they shall grow old
as garment. AS a vesture shalt thou
change them, and they shall be
changed; but Thou art the self-same,
and thy years shall not fail"
God remains. The earth and the
heavens cease not to cry out: We
have not made ourselves; Supreme
Being has made us, and preserves US.
self; nor am from nothing; nor am
I a creature of chance. A being, in
finitely greater than /, made me and
endowed me. Through His power and
wisdom have I come into existence,
formed to His own image and like
ness; the more vast the projects
I am able to plan, the more in
tricate the problems l am able
to solve, the more manifestly do
l show forth the divine mind, of which
my own is faint image. The greater
man becomes, and the more fruitful
his achievements prove to be, the
more manifest is God in the world;
for man, all things said and recounted,
is but the creature of God, the in
strument of Gods supreme wisdom
and power.
God remains; and Christ remains.
Since the days of Hennepin much has
been done to uproot from earth the
worship of Christ, to convince man
that God did not incarnate Himself
in the Savior Of Galilee, that He who
for long centuries had been adored as
the Son of God, was only the son of
man-man and nothing else. Has
Christ receded before the foes of His
divinity? Most assuredly not. God,
as Creator, has indelibly impressed
Himself upon nature, and nothing can
obliterate His footsteps; and so the
Incarnate God, Christ, has indelibly
impressed Himself upon the pages of
human history, and as long as history
speaks Christ is revealed.
The fact persists, durable and IRE
sistible as earth itself, that nineteen
hundred years ago Jesus Christ lived,
wrought and taught. He lived, the
purest, the highest, the most perfect
that earth ever knew, ever believed
possible rising in all the virtues of
moral goodness to such attitudes above
other children of men that plainly a
stream of moral grace, not sprung
from earth, coursed through His soul.
He taught, as the wisest never taught,
revealing the things of God and of
the human soul, the things of the eter-
nal and the immortal, which sanctify
man and uplift him to the throne of
the Creator, so that, plainly, the light