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Show WSaints:Ba:WiS I Students, at Ml fallows A great day at All Hallows College was Wednesday f this week, when the i,o . ulty and youth and friends of the i: --titutiou met on common grounds and t. . brated the feast of 'All Saints. J'his is the great anniversary' that i ! College celebrates a day of prayer, l! iiiksgiving and rejoicing. Relatives and friends of the students m Montana, Colorado. Wyoming, .,.iho. Nevada and Utah were present -i i lie students cumins from these dif- i- rent states showing that SaM. Lake ! rapidly advancing us to the educa- :; nal center of the intermountain west. Patriotism and religion were- blended 1 ir the national colors, and pictures of our naval ai-.d military heron-! were e v-rywhore s n. wlr.io patriotic songs wi re united with the anthem. Looking into the happy laces of the students, it was indeed a joyous scene me long to be remembered bv All Hallows, long regarded as one of the great Catholic institutions of learning in the et. The students began the celebration of the day by assisting at Solemn .High ' Mass. which was sung by Rev. Father Lark in. with Rev. Father Murphy as o aeon, and Rev. Father Boeder arf sub- i.acon. The Coik-se choir of thirty voices rendered Wereth's Mass in " in a. very effective manner. At the offertory, offer-tory, "Fiorc-ntini's O'Salutans" was sung by Rev. Fath?r Rulquin. A vtiy eloouent sermon was preached preach-ed bv liev. E. V. Guevrr.ard. An elaborate dinner was served to the students at 12:::o. The large dining room was handsomely decorated with the American colors. On the wall was a line lithograph of Admiral Dewey, who seems to have been enrolled in the ,r-.t of American boys' Saints. During the dinner the toastmaster, Mr. Thomas , Jt Rowers, proposed various toasts, to f r which fflit' of the older students re sponded. FATHEK Gl'EYMARD'S SERMON. Rev. Father E. P. Gueymard's sermon ser-mon on "Ail Saints" was a scholarly and eloquent effort, and The Intermountain Catholic herewith prims it in full, as 'Tt'is'said of great public leaders that tin y became e. when they faithfully npm-ented the thoughts and aspirations aspira-tions ..f their age: when they embodied within themselves, crystallized in their own thoughts, realized in their actions, the thoughts, the desires, the endoay-,,is endoay-,,is ihat lav strewn like scattered pear.s in the smaller, less comprehensive souls f of their fellow-men. They became, as if were, the nucleus around which the in.. if t.hir gcnerat'oii . liis.tered and grew. They were the em-bmied em-bmied spirit of the times in which they j lived. .If they were warriors they be- k ( Hine the storm ce-.it.er of all the hurri canes of war; if scholars, they imaged the intellectual projects and achievements achieve-ments of the age: if statesmen. thv b.came the great storehouse whem-e their followers drew principles of polit-i. polit-i. al wisdom. They had neither only the ir.nd nor only the will: they represented rep-resented neither only theory nor only power of execution, but they held mas-terv mas-terv over the wen Id by leading all their united superior factultics into the channel into which they wished to cL:;:i- their age. The great Roman leaders became so, t when their souls caught and their ac- iion reliectcd the love of power, the passion for pomp and glory that animated ani-mated the conquerors of Carthage and cf Gaul. X.rOLi:nx AND O'CONNELL. Napoleon became the great victorious leader of the young republic of France, because he was a child of the revolutionary, revolu-tionary, domineering age in which he lived and because his genius breathed the warlike instincts, the passion for victory that characterized a nation which" gl u-ied in the aiievements of a ' Charles Martel, a Charlemagne and a , Louis XIV- , . . 1 oVunnell was a leader, because his noble soul caught and retlected the "irih people's dreams of liberty, ana because he united to the rsual bnlliint 1 qualities; of his countrymen a mastery Iover all that crushed those lesser elements ele-ments that have boon the bane of irisit national life, in hot-headed disunion arut discord. ' . Washington was the "Father of His Countrv" becai.-e he was its mo.- noble and most natural s-on: because he re-p-' relented, not the liberty of license, but tb lib'ertv that springs from injustice i ,j.,Pe and that it born of a determina- lion to conquer or die: because in his i v,-hol private and public life he 'meged the colonists' hatred of ' I distinction founded on the force of ircumitances and not on the dictates! of true worth. All these men swayed tht? hearts of their follows because they ' Ire the hishest representative type ;.f the s.K-iety in which they lived u be-I be-I I -Jie thov were the most perfect I creation ef the social and political-at- ::' i m-pherc- in which they moved. j THE CITY OF GOD. i Now, what is true of the city of man, of human political and social life is equally true of the City of Cod" if 1 mav so call it. supernatural i o-ial and political life: of that life ' which consists not in the pursuit of : human happiness, not in the attain ment of human ideal, but in the en- j ovnient of celestial citizenship in the ! possession of eternal liberty and happi- : Men in religious as well as in cular life are the logical exponents I' ,,f the ideas they champion. Religious ideas rMigious sentiments, doctrine jdh! morals, in order to influence the . -world, must of necessity, in the pres- em .-rder of things, manifest them- I seivs through t.he actions of men. i must shape their minds and find in i v. them concrete living beings. And well ; is it so. for man is moved by examples. I To him. life is action and in the lan- i' gnat:.- of one of Mir great American V orators -'When sublime virtues cease f io be abstractions and become em- - bodied in human character and ex- I . empliiied in human conduct we would I 1, false to our nature did we not in- dulse in spontaneous effusions of our v gratitude ami our admiration," and I I would add also, "if we did not look for guidame to their representatives in i concrete living form." ;'; JiliAUTY OF THE REEIGIOI'S LIFE. This, my dear friends, is the spirit of todays celebration. It presents models. It is a biographic study of religion. It is the raising up of a standard that shows the practical beauty of religion. It is the setting up - of models that show to what heights j. of perfection man can be raised by it. j In the lives of the saints, our reiisious ' leaders, we see the wonderful efficacy i of God's grace. In the lives of the I saints our Catholic leaders, we behold i the fruitfulness of the Church's teach-; teach-; ings. her wonderful ability in shaping I the souls of men for heavenlv life. The I saints are practically the Church they ; illustrate its spirit, they embody its I principles, they exemplify its doctrine . and morals. They are creatures of the i Church, fhildren born of its sanctity. ! The Saints are the Church, and the Church has no other object in this ! world but to form Saints. She throws j her whole spirit into them that they j may become our guides and leaders. UNITY OF THE CHURCH. In the Saints we find retlected the I four spiritual marks of her divine .origin: Unity, Apos-tolicit v, Catholie-j Catholie-j ity and Holiness. i Unity. that jJO(i mark which dis-I dis-I tinguishe her from every existing human hu-man institution. Not changing " with 'the swiftness and ease of the ever j changing shifting world: not founded ton the sellis-h lickleiiest; of human character;' not influenced by the vary-I vary-I ing uncertainty of human desires; not j dependent-on the material advance or I retrogression of human civilization: not j a government created to meet the thou-; thou-; sand different ideals in the minds of j the governed; but a society founded by j the living God: fashioned according to His eternal thought; based on the teachings of one head, glorying in one faith and one worship, and participating participat-ing in the same living means of salvation. salva-tion. All the parts of the spiritual edifice edi-fice are built on the self-same everlasting ever-lasting rock, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And the Saints reflect this spirit for they ate one as the Church is one. One in Christ, the fountain head of truth and sanctity. One in the Redeemer, the source of light and love. Differing i in character and in forms of holiness j as do the myriad siars that grace the dome of heaven, and yet all borrowing I their light from the same source; their ! doctrine, their morals, their rules of I holiness from Him. through Ilis only ' lawful representative, the Church, i againet which the gates of hell has I never prevailed. The Church is, as it iwere. the prism; He, the Christ, the j pure white light: they, the Saints the j brilliant refracted rays from the same I holy center. For be their dominant ! virtues w hat they may. their vocation what the Providence of God wills, they i all resolved themselves into one grand j harmonious art production whose model j was the Son of Cod. and whose artist j was the- divinely inspired shaping hand i;f the Church. The Saints had one i ideal, they fought .under one banner j that of Christ, a hey lalored for their own salvation and the salvation of their fellowmen. by the self-same I means, those established by Christ in 1 Ilic r-VinreVi i j THE ATOSTOLIC CHURCH. i ; The unity of the Church is but one : element cf her divinity, her Apoistol-I Apoistol-I icity is another. The Apostolicity of j the church is but a corollary of her 1 unity. He who is united to Him that j said "He who believes in Me shall have ' everlasting life." must be united to them to whom He said. "Go ye and teach all nations." He who swears allegiance al-legiance to the founder of an unfalter-able. unfalter-able. infallible everlasting dynasty must also swear allegiance to his first and last lawful successors. He who i puts' his faith in the everlasting sta- bili ty of the foundation of. and his rnn. I fidence in the eternal wisdom of the ! founder must believe in the durability of the whole edifice. And again the j Saints are exponents of the Church's ! spirit. They sought shelter in the j C'hA-ch's Apostolicity as they had i sought protection- in her unity. No j misguided zeal, no erratic private doc j trine, no proud disobedience could move an Athanauis, an Jrenaeus. a St. I Augustine from stern loyalty to the j divine representative of God on earth, j the vicar of Christ and the Rishops of j the Holy Roman Church. j SUPREMACY OF THE POPE. I I do not mean to maintain with literal j strictness that no one has ever entered ; the gates of heaven that did not swear i literal allegiance to the body of the j church. That everyone of that bright j galaxy of - spiritual stars must have I known and acknowledged th suprem-j suprem-j acy of the pope, for God. my friends, i takes into account the good faith of ! men and judges them, punishes them and rewards them according to the ex-i ex-i tent of their knowledge. Hut I do maintain main-tain that, in spirit, all the saints, known and unknown, belonged to the soul of the church; that their sanctified will grasped or would have grasped, if God vouchsafed the gift, at the doctrine preached by that church, which has handed down, pure and undefiled, the teachings of the Redeemer. The saints in the direct purity of their intention, in the burning zeal for the glory of their Maker, in the fullness, of loyalty to Him who had given His bidden grace, would have sacrificed all to prove their loyalty to His most beautiful handiwork. handi-work. THE CHURCH, CATHOLIC. If the lives of saints reflected the unity and apostolicity of the church, they also illustrate her Catholicity. Catholicity, that spirit which, in advance ad-vance of all human civilization, . has carried the- word of God in one great wave with ever widening circles from the eternal gates of Rome to every nation na-tion and clime, lb every people enjoying enjoy-ing the benelicitiit rays of God's ma-t ferial sun. The church Catholic, because it knows no distinction of race or class, has never bowed lefore power or wealth; has without rejecting the rich always found its most beautifui home in the humble heart of the poor. The church aristocratic, only when the word means government by the best, for she, like a mighty giant, overleaps the tiny barriers erected by human hands and acknowledges no title to honor or distinction dis-tinction but that which is founded on the nobility of virtue. The church Catholic, because while it 'remains 'a f'-iend and protector, stands a peer to the powerful and the rich. The church which brings the gospel of peace where the merchantman has not brought its comforts, which brings the pure light o,T heaven where the broken rays of human hu-man science has not yet penetrated. The Catholicity of the church which makes the world too small to escape her eternal vigilance and the lives of saints admirably manifest this spirit. Thev were the monuments erected in her "victorious path the trophies presented pre-sented to the God of spiritual ' armies iP thanksgiving for His help and guidance guid-ance They, the proofs that the spirit of God is all pervading, and that no household of the soul is closed to the j influence of His grace through the min-j min-j istrations of his church. Kings figure on her martyrology, and the peasant I hero has a place upon her altars. The ! brilliant mind of an Augustine or an ; Aquinas borrows light where a St. Vin-i Vin-i cent de Paul or a Cure d'Ars sought I heavenly wisdom. The mai'tyrs of (China and Oceanica, of Africa and j Asia mingle their blood on the same ! altar with that of a proud citizen of J, Rome or a member of the civilized na-j na-j tions of .Europe or America. PURITY OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE. j The church is holy, her government is holy, and those masterpieces of grace, the saints, are holy. The holiness of the church manifests itself in the purity pur-ity of her doctrine; in the constant How j of graces from her motherly hands, in her numerous good works, some, of them transcending all human power, and reaching miraculous proportions by the j assistance of her Almighty Creator. The saints of the Roman Catholic mar-j mar-j tyrology, those wondrous fruits of her I mission, proclaim that her growth is j from divine seed, and that that seed is I nourished by his infinite grace, i Study her history, extricate those hu-! hu-! man influences that seemed at times to smother her divinity, cast out the dark-j dark-j ness by the light of serious research, ;and you will see her sanctity unfail-j unfail-j ingly cropping out in the model lives i furnished by the cloister and the sanctuary. sanc-tuary. When heresies would rend her I in twain, an Athanasius, a Louola or a I Dominie, with their hundred life-giving I followers, became the rocks upon which I were shattered the hopes of -her ene-! ene-! mies. When monarchies would enthral her, and chain her to their ambitious chariot, a sycophant and a slave, a Thomas a Re.ket or an Anselm proclaimed pro-claimed htr independence, declared her heaven born lineage, and asserted that political purity should be her garment. When pleasures bom of loose moral principles pervaded high society in the corrupt courts of the world, and like a festering cancer sought to spread i through the body politic, a St. Vincent de Paul or a St. Francis de Saile became be-came the salt of the earth, the light on the mount, the granite dam that pent up the waters of corruption until the evaporation of time and the clearing influence in-fluence of sober thought had restored the minds of men to the dignity o? moral order. I THE GOODNESS OF GOD. i I And so, my dear boys, you seehow I the lives of the" s-aihts emblazon" the ! goodness .f Gou and His tender care for the souls of men. How they manifest mani-fest the influence exercised upon the world by His all abiding grace. They were, by their example the moral search lights that cast their warning rays to the inexperienced sinner struggling with the storms of passion. They were by their steady adherence to the faith and their heroic practice of Christian virtue, the pillars of God's kingdem on earth. The watchman on the prow of Peter's bark, at solemn sound of the warning midnight bell, crying All is well! All is well! They were the ac-1 credited envoys of God to man, armed; with plenipotentiary power. dispensinT freoly the priceless gifts of their Mas- ter. and heralding His eternal reign j who will come with pow er nnd majesty, j gathering to the right His lambs and thrusting to the left the renegades to His Father's standard. THE SAINTS AND THE CHURCH. The saints are. as I have already said, the embodied spirit of the church, her lawful representatives, they whom she has fashioned with exquisite care ar.d patience to catch and reflect every delicate deli-cate tint of the light of faith, every graceful form of Christian virtue. They are put forward today to solicit out-special out-special reverence; raised on her altars to claim our special honor, but most of all are they presented to us that they may become our guides in the path they have trod; that they may attract us by the rewards they have gained; that they may spur us on in that grand advance, that famous charge against the heavenly c itadel, for the "Kingdom cf Heaven suffers violence and the violent alone shall take it." Not the violence of anger and of pride, but that violence which comes with the overwhelming over-whelming strength acquired by doing; unswervingly our duty, sacrificing un-stintingiy un-stintingiy our greedy passions and striking unremittingly at the heart cf Him that said ' Seek and ye shall .find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." THE STUDENTS ENTERTAIN. At the students' banquet toasts were responded to bv Thomas J. Wolohan. Paul McCormick. J. E. Smith, 2.1. E. Bonner, C. Dewey and others. President Larkin and Frank McGuire also addressed the boys. In the evenir.'g a private entertainment entertain-ment was given by the College Literary and Glee Club. The following programme pro-gramme was rendered in a manner that brought forth repeated and prolonged applause: "Smoky Mokes" Orchestra Recitation, ""Just Before Christmas" James Cloonan Song, "In Dreamland". .Thomas Power Trio, flute, violin and piano P. McCormick. E. Bonner. R. Rice Mat Work R. Flynn and W. Moran Overture, "The Jewel" Orchestra Recitation, "Christmas. Carol" .' . . R. Lawier Chorus. "Morning Invitation" Glee Club Recitation, "The Captain's Advice" R. Flynn Song. "Happened to Be There" T. Powers Recitation.. "The Suicide".' E. Bonner March. "Atoka" Brass Band |