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

Most Reverend j. ]. Keane, Arch
bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, delivered the
sermon at the evening services in
the new Cathedral of st. Paul last
Sunday. Archbishop Keane laid spe-
cial stress on the great significance of
the day and the Importance of the
opening of the new cathedral. Arch
bishop Keane spoke in part as fol-
lows:
1T is q day of blessing to this city.
The cross which stood over the cradle
of its infancy to guard its first begin
nings is now securely placed high
above its legislative halls, marts of
commerce and domestic hearths, to
bless it's vigorous youth and to watch
over the peace of it's maturity.
cit is day of intense joy and
gratefulness to all who have taken any
part in the building of this great
church, but especially to him who has
been the inspiration of much that is
best in the city's life and history, and
to whose great courage, splendid en-
thusiasm and magnificent faith is due
this great triumph.
Cathedral, Emblem Of Christ.
"This great cathedral, with it's chair
of Divine truth and it's altar Of d.
vine sacrifice, Is the pledge of Him
who said, I am with you all days to
the consummation Of the world 1t
witnesses of Him who promised, I
will build My church and the gates
of He'll shall not prevail against her.
1t is token and emblem of Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, today and
forever
1T seems fitting, therefore, that the
first service in this His abiding place,
after the dedication which closed the
Mass, should be confession of our
faith in Him. believe that Jesus
Christ is the only Son of God. He is
God in the same unqualified sense in
which the Father is God He is the
Son of God by nature, from all eter-
nifty, equal in all things to the Father,
one God with Him. He is man having
a body and soul like ours. He is not
less truly God for being man, nor less
truly man for being God
1T is absolutely try, and proper to
say, that God was born of the Virgin
Mary, that God suffered, that God
died, and that because of Him of whom
we so speak, Jesus Christ is God. He
who is Man is God, though His human
ity Is not His Godhead, and He who Is
God is Man. Our Lord and Savior
Christ, is then in full and proper sense
of the term, God. This is a chief ar
ticle of the Christian creed; so char.
acteristic that no one can deny it and
be a Christian in any true, historic
sense.
1.-THE prediction and promise of the
resurrection was His answer to the
challenge of those who would not &C.
cept His testimony of Himself. 1t
startled them and they waited and
watched with the guard at the tomb
to make sure of His defeat.
THE records show that the belief
In the resurrection was due not to the
invention of the credulous, but to the
conviction of the incredulous. After
appearances of Christ to the disciples
were not through any cooperation of
their faith, but precisely where that
faith had failed
On the Resurrection.
"The fact of the resurrection was
believed, preached, propagated, before
any OF the books Of the New Tesla
pent were written. The life which
breathes forth upon US from the pages
of the New Testament now is the life
which the Risen Saviour quickened in
Christian souls before the New Tesla.
/ ment or any instrument of conquest
for Him was thought of.
The church, too, is witness to the
Divinity of its Founder. Its creed is,
in the circumstances of human life, un.
popular. 1t is obedience. The obedi-
ence of faith, demanding the submits
sion of intellect to mysteries which
cannot be comprehended. It's moral
law. with its insistence upon purity,
love and self-denial antagonizes the
strongest natural impulses. Its mo.