The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-04-17

city until you be endued with power
from on High" l believe in the Holy
Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church.
There is more than mere juxtapost.
tion' there is a necessary and logical
connection between those two articles
OF the Greed, the one is cause of the
other. Let this truth take hold Of
your minds, and the Church will stand
before you divine creation filed.
permeated and quickened by the spir.
1t OF God, sustained not by the efforts
OF man but by the power Of God.
guided not by human counsels but by
the wisdom of the divine dweller.
knowing no LAPSE of time, no flux Of
change, but eternal like its indweller
and like Him unchangeable; in a word
the temple of God, from whose dome
shines the light of truth on a world of
darkness, on whose entablature ia
written the duty and the right to
teach, at whose portals stand the com.
missfoned heralds who cry aloud to
the generations as they pass that
within are to be found truth, grace
and salvation. Christ dwells in no
other material temple than the Catho.
lie, the Holy Ghost dwells in no other
spiritual temple than the Church Of
the Apostles.
Why, outside the Catholic Church
the divine element has been eliminat.
ed, the Holy Ghost has been ostracised
and silenced. Christ had promised to
His Apostles-not to each and every
individual believer but to the Apostles
as collegiate body-a Paraclete. the
Third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
to abide with them forever, to bring
to their minds all things He had
taught them; He commanded them to
teach all nations and assure them
that He should be forever with them
through the abiding Paraclete. Look
at the group sculptured over the por.
tai of this Cathedral. The twelve
only were the receivers of this prom.
ise as of the command to teach. They
are the foundation, we are the living
stones of the walls built upon them,
and therefore sharers in the qualities
with which they have been endowed
not independently of them, but
through them. Listen to St. Paul ex-
posing this doctrine in the Epistle to
the Ephesians: "Now, therefore, you
are no more strangers and foreigners,
but you are fellow citizens with the
Saints and the domestics of God:
built upon the foundation of the Amos.
ties, Jesus Christ Himself being the
chief cornerstone, in whom all the
building being framed together grow.
eth up into holy temple in the Lord,
In whom you also are built together
into an habitation of God in the
spirit"
Well now the right of private judg-
ment, the right of each one to choose.
interpret, change his religion is the
denial of a divinely commissioned
teaching body, the denial of a divine
teacher dwelling in that body and
through it speaking to the world.
Alas, their material temple, no matter
how costly and beautiful, is without q
divine dweller, no altar. no saints, no
loving master and brother, no Christ.
Their spiritual temple likewise is
empty of divine dweller, as cold and
cheerless as the material habitation
from which the saints have been
driven, in which the Sanctuary light
has been extinguished and the altar
leveled to the ground. That sculp-
tured group of Christ and the Apos-
ties over the main door of this church
and the words underneath, "Euntes
docte omnes gentes" proclaim that
we admit divine teacher and q duly
commissioned body of teachers to
whom our private judgment is sub
jected in faith, proclaim that we are
built on the foundation Of Christ and
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