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Show Bishop Spalding, in his address on i "The University: A Nursery of the Higher Life," points out a way in which Catholics, and particularly j wealthy Catholics, can be of immeas- , urable benefit to the Church. He says: J "They who realize how much of the spiritual activity of the present age is found outside of the Church, cannot but see that the Catholic religion must, more and more,, cease to be a power in the world unless Catholics themselves become morally and intellectually more alive." No one will for a moment dispute the learned Bishop of Peoria in the statement state-ment printed above. .But how, it will be asked, are Catholics to become morally mor-ally and intellectually more alive than they are at the present day? Such a condition can only come through broader opportunities, and broader opportunities op-portunities can only come through wealthy Catholics. The Church in her ministry will be no more able in the future than she has been in the past to arouse Catholics to greater moral and intellectual lit'e unless means for such activity are placed at the Church's disposal. Only the rich can give to the Church means whereby intellectual in-tellectual life can be stimulated. This can be done in countless ways. For. as the Bishop says, whatever is an aid to human progress is favorable to the Christian religion, to the worship of God in spirit and in truth. The Church has been so busy in th's country educating and caring for our poor Catholics that it has not yet found time to begin the education of our rich Catholics. It is true that institutions for the support of the widow and the orphan, and hospitals for the sick have not lacked support. These were, all ueceaaiti , auu iiitr viiuii u lias uesrn obliged to give much time to their upbuilding. up-building. But when we look over the list of our institutions for the public good, we find each one without exception excep-tion more or less hampered b poverty of funds, and when we realize furthermore further-more that the actual support of these institutions is borne in great part by benefactors of moderate or straightened straight-ened incomes, it seems a3 if the time had come to begin an educational crusade cru-sade among our rich Catholics. It can hardly be said that it is good will that is wanting among them; it is rather knowledge both as to their duty in the matter and as to the real needs of religion and humanity in thi3 country that they lack. As matters now stand, when a rich Catholic dies and out of a fortune of several-millions bequeaths a few thousand dollars to the public good, there is a fueling altogether al-together that he has done his entire duty in this respect. Doubtless he him-j self was so convinced when he devised his scant request. No fault can be found anywhere with the generous spirit of our Catholic people peo-ple in making bequests to hospitals, orphan asylums and kindred institutions. institu-tions. Such institutions are necessities and they are needed everywhere, but why. it may be asked, do our Catholic benefactors stop with such remarkable unanimity at hospitals and orphan asy-' asy-' lums? The fact seems to show that it is because they are generally not aware cf the thousands of other good works waiting and languishing for their help. Here is where the educative progress ought to begin. Here lie3 the opportunities oppor-tunities of our pulpit teachers and all other teachers, if they would but throw-aside throw-aside their ill-timed: delicacy and speak out on this subject. Why not organize a mission as wide as the boundaries of this country for the awakening of rich Catholics to a knowledge of their real duty and priv- j ilege in this matter? Show them with I words of fire what Catholic education j needs in this country. j Point out to them in verile tongue the good which an intelligent and intellectual intellec-tual Catholic press can do in the matter mat-ter of awakening a larger intellectual and moral life. An intelligent, healthy, intellectual Catholic press is as much of a necessity neces-sity to the Church in this country as any other institution". Make them realize what a successful Catholic University means to us, and picture to them its actual present needs; number over for them thf hundreds hun-dreds of colleges and a.-ii.U-rni-s f.,r boys and girls hampered. evry siiy.. one of them, by want of funds. Make them see that in the great I mopolitan population of this country the genius of the world lies .!.,rm,int! and wait3 and dies for want of opportunity. oppor-tunity. Among us germinate the ru-h ari l versatile Celtic mind, the pt-of,in,i Teutonic, the art-ioving nature of th. great Latin races. These are the peoPi.. who enriched the world in former tinu-s. Why not endow generous scholar- j ships right and left for the ben-fit of our unmoneyed talent? If a thousand scholarships were ( r, , ated tomorrow in the various avenu. - j of science, literature and art. for th--I benefit of poor Catholic boys and girls, f' how long would our present reproach, that in America we are behind in the race, cling to us? Not ten years. The Catholics of America would mankind. Out of the magni.leent possibilities possi-bilities of the conglomerate races of tlv world we would give that world a !M'!e- in every branch of human achievement. The Intermountain Catholic has a. firm faith that the heroic generosity of our fathers, who. with everything against them, yet in two generations I covered this iand with costly temples land rragnifi nt asylums, still survive in their wealthier descendant-!, and wait I only the kindling tongue of an eloquent teacher to arouse it to deeds as lofty in. the cause of religion and humanity ad any of an earlier day. But it is time to give over the anti-I anti-I quated fashion of sermonizing to tho rich man on the sin of avaricious sav-I sav-I ing. The millionaire will not give over his darling- project of doubling his mil- j lions for all the sermons that ever worn preached against avarice. Because he takes account of thousands instead of pennies, he cannot recognize his picture in those sermons built on old-fashioned lines, and which over the dead facts of bygone sins try to lash the wrongs of this peculiar time. Try the effect, rather, of showing him the glory and beauty of heroic spending. spend-ing. Fire his imagination with pictures of the possibility tied up in his money bags if applied to public uses. Instill into him the truly modern ambition am-bition to live to future generations as a Christian founder. Speaking on this point, another Catholic Cath-olic writer has very pointedly said: I "Thei-e is another powerful teacher to whom the rich man will bow as to no other. That teacher is public opinion. opin-ion. "The other day a young man picked up a. vdiuuuu paper cilia ma eye leu upon a eulogy of a recently dead Cath- olic millionaire. He threw it down with I a burst of indignation. 'I'm sick of such stuff,' he broke out to a roomful j. of astonished people. 'Here is the fourth paper I've seen in a week with a column devoted to the virtues of thi.s man. who lived merely the life of an ordinarily good Christian, and out of his millions used to make driblet donations dona-tions of a few thousands at a time to great public needs. - " 'Why didn't he do something really-worthy really-worthy of a good Catholic who happened hap-pened to have so many millions? ' 'Why didn't he have the pluck to leave a million to the Catholic Univer-sity? Univer-sity? Protestant men nave aone such things over and over. " 'Why didn't he found five hundred free kindergartens in New York or Chicago? I " 'Why didn't he ' But is it need- f less to follow the outbreak of this un- I usual young man. I He is quoted here only to call atten- f tion to the fact that when public opin- t ion has been educated up to the point I of uttering such condemnation gener- j ally against men and women who go out of this world and leave millions to . their natural heirs and patlry thou- sands to the great public religious I needs of our people, then only will Catholic interests prosper as they j should, and then only will the Church t I among us as it was ordained that she should. f |