The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-03
Continued from page IL
IDEALS OF THE CATHOLIC
COLLEGE.

And the round ocean and the living
air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of
man."
And then she led her youth to the
feet of Philosophy, who discoursed
teaching that the world is primarily
stage on which moral and spiritual
issues are supreme. With growing in
sistence she proclaimed that religion
touches life at every point, and that
without her hallowing touch nothing
is sure or sacred or stable in the world
of man. And as the supreme purpose
of education is characters all edu-
cation has for it's object the moulding
of man for life-she schooled her pu-
pills in the practice of virtue as well
as in the principles of knowledge.
The Church, in all her institutions
that stretch back like mighty chain
through the centuries, has carried on
this great task Today as in days
gone by, she and she alone has the
power to paint the ideals of conduct
and formulate the laws of conduct
which appeal to the mind and kindle
the heart, and sway the will and stir
the conscience of mankind.
Such the high ideal of the Church
in her colleges. For her there is no
such things as divorce between secu-
lar and religious knowledge. All
truth is one, even as the soul is one,
and the Church will have nought to
do with any system of education that
leaves out of account the supreme
concern of humanity. She keeps far
from the portals of her schools every
theory of education that ignores that
divine craving of the soul which has
built all the affairs under the vast
dome of heaven, that longing that
shines so wistfully through the eyes
of the generations as they come, bear
ing witness to the divine hunger of
the heart of man, the desire of the
soul that has made itself heard in
every language spoken under heaven.
In religion all the noblest instincts
of the soul find expression-what a
wrong is done to the young lives that
are robbed of it's conservation in days
when knowledge comes with a love
that later years do not bring!
One of the most scholarly states
men of Europe lately said, Higher
education is the most vital thing for
the progress of nation. A nation
moves forward less by the average
man than by it's strongest and finest
minds. To make the most of these
minds, to send on to the higher insti.
buttons of learning the very strongest
and finest among them-this is the
best investment nation can make.
And this is the best investment the
Church can make. We need today
i great men-men the radiance OF
whose minds will shine far out over
the waters like the radiance of a
light house by the sea-men the In
fluence of whose example will illus
trate once more the truth that char
acter quickened by the graces of re
4 ligion is the power that moves the
world. It is to the halls of ou1
great institutions we must look for
such men. Build Catholic Colleges
equip Catholic Colleges with men
and means, and from their gates
there will go forth great genera
ton of men, men with purpose
men with. great cause in their
hearts, men who value life not fol-
what they can get out of it, but for
the opportunity it offers for service
to God and man-men who, when
the raging floods of unbelief will
thunder against the rock on which
stands the Church, will proclaim
with the psalmist of old, ''The floods
have lifted up, o Lord, the floods
have lifted up their voices, the floods
lift up their waves, but above the
voices of many waters, the mighty
pillows of the sea, the Lord on high
is mighty"