Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-23
Quotes Bible History to Show
That God Still Lives With
Men and His Presence Is
Known and Felt.

The Forty Hours Devotion which
opened at ST. Johns Cathedral on Sun
day, Nov. Is, and closed on Tuesday
evening following was grand success.
The Catholic people of Boise by their
faithful attendance each day and at
every hour gave striking proof of their
lcve and lively faith in the doctrine of
the Real Presence, which 10 the most
characteristic dogma of the Catholic
church. The Rev. T. ]. Purcell preach
cd the sermons on the occasion. His
proof of the doctrine of Christ's pres
ence in the Holy Eucharist was clear
end convincing,
He spoke in part as follows:
This Is one of the characteristic
cogmas Of the Catholic church. 1t is
the doctrine that makes Catholicism
distinctive. The Church seems to exist
because of 1t. 1t is the center towards
which all the doctrines and ryactices
OF the Church converge. In fact SO es-
sentially Catholic is this doctrine that
up to the close of the nineteenth GEN.
ttry the reputation of it under oath
was demanded of all who would hold
office under the British crown.
DOCTRINE OF PRESENCE
''Now the doctrine of the Real Pres
ence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist,
we believe in it's entirety, just as the
Catholic church teaches 1t. 1t is our
firm belief and we stand by 1t. When
men say we are foolish for believing
such doctrine, we reply that we can
afford to be foolish in good company.
Some of the most learned, the most
honest, the most virtuous and wisest
of men believed in it firmly. We can
then certainly afford to believe in the
company of the saints and sages of all
ages with such giants of intellect as
st. Augustine, st. Thomas Aquinas.
the Doctors of the Church, with Man
ming, Newman and Sir Thomas More
Lord Macauley cannot be accused of
any love for the Catholic church, vet
in writing of Sir Thomas More, he has
these remarkable words to say of this
doctrine, Sir Thomas More was firm
believer In the doctrine of Transub
sanitation. He had all the evidence
Tor its truth that men could have or
ever may have, and ] see no reason
why other men of like intellect and at
tAinment may not believe the same
'1The Council of Trent, defines the
doctrine of the Real Presence as fol-
lows: 1t Is the belief of the Catholic
church that after the words of conse-
Grafton, the substance of the bread and
the substance of tSe wine are taken
away: that nothing remains but the
appearances: and that instead of the
substance Of bread and the substance
OF wine comes the substance of the
hody and blood of Christ, so that under
the appearance of what we see and
what we taste and what we handle and
which would seem to us to be bread
and wine. there Is really and truly
present the same body in which Jesus
Christ lived while here on earth.
This presence ! will endeavor to
prove by first dealing with the realism
which pervades the sacred scriptures
when speaking with Gods dealings
with men prior to the coming of Christ,
secondly, by dealing with the evidence
found in the sixth chapter of the Cos
pei according to st. John that Christ
Intended and now promised to remain
with His followers all days even to the
consumma ton OF the world, in a ;angi-
hle, visible form, which would be to
them food and drink. Thirdly by deal
Ing with the evidence that he fulfilled
this promise.
DIVINE LONGING
The human heart is a peculiar thing
and human nature is very strange But
such as it is God created it and He is
responsible for It. Men are never sat-
fsfied; we are not satisfied. We are
ever cropping after, reaching out for
something that seems to elude our
grasp. Nothing we have seems to sat
isfy US, hence some one says no pleas
ure or success in life quite satisfies the
craving of the human heart we take
our good things with enthusiasm and
think ourselves happy, but when the
froth and the foam have subsidized, we
find the glass not more than half filled
with the golden liquid poured into it,
The basis of this discomfort is a
fundamental longing after God We
may call it a Divine longing 1t re-
solves itself into desire TO be near
God, hence st. Augustine said. The
human heart has been created by Thee
o God. created for Thee and it shall
never find rest until 1t rests in Thee
DESIRE FOR GOD
This desire to be near God is uni
versal in time and place. There was
time, brief however, when this did not
exist, namely the time when God walk
ed with our first parents at the close of
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