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Show "Love God!'; exclaims Cailyle; "this is the ever-, lasting yea.'' : I T" this day of things '"of the earth, earthy," 1 the average mind is only perplexed by the "subli mated sentimentality" of Carlyle's "soul philosophy."' philoso-phy."' It is amusing how patronizingly they "magnanimously "mag-nanimously tolerate his eccentricities." : : Only awakened souls, who are in conscious har-I har-I inon.v with the deeper and higher meaning of life I i's spiritual content can respond to Carlyle's I more exalted moods and realize though perhaps vaguely, at best that ihe love of God is the most j jj' substantial reality of the human soul. --f I . It is because the soul of man was called' into J being W the sole purpose of rendering love and I homage or loving homage to its Creator, Who is inh'jiite Love, lhat all else that it may conceive I and prize is but accidental, vain and transitory. !! Its "everlasting yea' is the love of God i. ?., the love 'of God is ihe soul's true end, hence ils only peace and happiness. -4- And that the soul of man may not be permitted, with a fatally blind perversity, to become eternally 1 estranged from its true destiny the infinite God of love the God-Man graciously dwelt, taught and j wrought among them. And yet there are rational I beings who presume to impugn ,the justice and mercy of Cod because the hopelessly perverse crca-ture crca-ture is doomed, by virtue of his willful and "stiff-I "stiff-I necked"' negation of the divine decrees, to the poig- ,,a,it pain f baving failed to achieve his God-or- dair.cd destiny! f , . " I Speaking of Carnegie's discrimination against I Caiholie educational institutions: Is it not, per- I haps, a matter for congratulation that a sharp lino I deinarkation is thus maintained; The Catholic I Church must ever stand apart and aloof from all institutions tainted with heresy. Her marked indi- viduaiity must eventually attract the attention of I l!ir' world, until it shall become convinced of her j . true character lhat she is, of an absolute truth, I 1nc "' divine Church vouchsafed to mankind for I , it" eternal salvation. . j I : I "J"m'' Lawson, mentioned in ihese columns J tost week. is. of course, Thomas W. Lawson of Bos- 1 i"n, author of the remarkable story of real life, "Frenzied Finance,"' appearing in Everybody's M"ag- nr.ine. This author announces that his dune in- stallmiit will be in the nature of a climax, and it I will doubtless afford several chapters of intensely I interesting reading. As each installment of this ' ' vitally important arliele is, in a sense, complete in I itself, we would recommend its persual to all per- I who feel an interest in the public and com- -I mcrcial affairs of ihe country. This we do all the. f niorc earnestly and cheerfully because of the char- i actor of the fight being waged against Lawson by the cormorant plutocracy of the land, whose iniquities iniqui-ties he is so intrepidly and masterfully exposing. ' j . ' ' C.od's ideal of a man: the God-man! God's ideal ! ot" a woman: His Blessed Mother! What a stale, 1 insupportable thing this life would be were it be-, j ' reft of all lofty ideals! As the worth and dignity f life is to be measured by the character of its ! ideals, what an unutterable debt of gratitude does not the world owe 1o Holy Church for ihe sublime ideals the has vouchsafed unto it Even if her ministry implied nothing more than this, she would jj still be its incomparably estimable benefactor. I Pause a moment, reader, and reflect: An ideal I . Man! an ideal woman! If the idea does not I aroue within your bosom holy emotions of oxaHed lv' :iml j'.v then have you reason to fervently I implore the God of your heart that He mav merci- I fully vouchsafe you the grace of soul-consciousness I j :1 ii-iousness of how veritably sublime is this j myttcriouc humau life of ours! Our readers will be gratified to loam thnt Bishop Spalding's health is much improved. It is reported from Hot Springs, where the beloved prelate pre-late has becen sojourning, that he will doubtless be able to return to Peoria very soon. Is it not, in earnest truth, an honor and an enviable distinction to a man to be made the butt of the vituperative abuse'of a revolutionary-socialistic organ because of his dreaded denunciations of the execrable machinations of this nefarious cult . W are pleased to note that a considerable number num-ber of the editors of our exchanges show that they know a good thing when they see it. The contributions contri-butions lo this journal by "F. D." are frequently j re-published, and are thus given a deservedly wide circulation. For cogency of logic and incisiveness of treatment, these articles are rarely ever surpassed. sur-passed. - . . : President Roosevelt and Mayor Dunne favored the leaders in the Chicago strike with some plain and vigorous statements concerning their privileges and duty. It is. however, becoming more and more manifest that the vexed problem' involved will con tinue to baffle the best efforts of our ablest and most devoted statesmen until we shall have wrought a radical readjustment in our industrial'systcm. . -f It is gratifying to learn that a thorough examination exam-ination into the financial affairs of ihe Catholic University develops the fact that they are in a !much move encouraging condition than was believed be-lieved to be the case since Mr. Waggaman's failure. fail-ure. "Mr. Charles Bonaparte of Baltimore was selected as one of the trustees, vice Mr. Wag-gaman, Wag-gaman, and Mr. Michael Jenkins of Baltimore was chosen for treasurer. In no particular, perhaps, is the Holy Father's encyclical, ''On the Teaching of the Catechism," more noteworthy than in the determination it manifests man-ifests of his purpose of having the instructions-it contains faithfully executed. As a whole, it clearly indicates his devoted zeal to "restore all things Ho Christ." ''.God bless and prosper him in this most, noble and supremely important work,' will oe the fond prayer of his devoted flock throughout the world. j "We love him for the enemies he has made. This sentiment may be very properly applied to the man who has incurred the enmity of the revolutionary-socialistic agitators because of waginsr relent less .war against their iniquitous machinations. Personal enmity is to be shunned as one would shun pestilence or fire, but no man worthy of ihe name will avoid the danger if, by incurring it. he may render a valuable service to God and humanity. hu-manity. . . , Incidentally, President Roosevelt administered a severe rebuke to the Chicago btrikc leaders for the tone of their petition to him. In the "straight talk' he gave to 1hem as to their rights and duties this .wonderful man once more gave evidence of his remarkable readiness to meet all demands upon him in a straightforward manner, heroically disdaining dis-daining all merely politic considerations. Were all our politicians and statesmen imbued with a like spirit of sterling devotion to duty, how thankful ' might! we be! t Last week we took pleasure in commenting upon the successful test of a wireless telegraphic system invcnled by a Catholic priest. Now we hear of a gratifyingly successful test of a flying machine invented by a professor in a Jesuit college in Santa Clara, California. It is predicted that this aeroplane aero-plane will be in general use within five years. Yet it is safe to presume that ten years hence there will be found men to solemnly declare that the Cath'olic Church should be suppressed because she is the implacable im-placable foe of progress. , : The teamsters' strike in Chicago continues to be a dread menace lo the peace andj commerce of the afflicted community. A committee of the strikers strik-ers called on President Roosevelt during his recent re-cent visit to Chicago, but were assured by him that he would not countenance any outlawry, but would co-operate with the local authorities, in every way possible and proper, to suppress its every manifestation. mani-festation. Mayor Dunne, also, administered sonic "'straight from the shoulder" talk to the strike leaders, warning them that if the strike spread and became general, he would probably call upon the state militia to interfere. The Reformation or "Deformation," as the Protestant Cobbett, in his history, aptly styles it impiously "repudiated"' the Mother of God and presumptuously pre-sumptuously chided Ihe faithful Christians for their teifder and filial devotion to the ''Peerless Creature." In' view of this fact, is there aught to wonder at-that the adherents of this ''religion of negation" are now falling over one another in their headlong haste lo repudiate the Founder of Christianitythe Chris-tianitythe God-Man '. that is to say, that they arc tryingvto outdo one another in "rationistically" proving that He was Himself only a human creature crea-ture "a little better than thou, perhaps, and not quite as good as me"? -f . "Salt Lake has gotten from nature resources and climate that should make her one of the great cities of the west. I am just here from California. That state is famed for its glorious climate. Salt Lake has, to my mind, a more beautiful climate than California. And she has resources unbounded." The foregoing is the opening paragraph of an interview of a prominent New Yorker, which appeared ap-peared in last Tuesday's Tribune. This gentleman proceeds to state that, after having traveled from northern Canada down to the Bahamas, he was compelled com-pelled to conclude that nowhere on this continent is there aught to equal this wonderful Salt Lake basin in natural attractions and - resources. He I declared that if the people of America possessed I an adequate knowledge of the urrparallelled induce- ' ments afforded by this section of. the country we would experience an unprecedented growth and development. In time all", tin's is bound to become known, and then those who are wise enough to take advantage of present conditions will reap a rich harvest. f |