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Show "THY KINGDOM COME." I The most beautiful and significant of prayers, I first uttered by, now piously addressed in a spe- I cial sense to, the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 1 a. , j J Thy kingdom come! Thy unalloyed devotion to J the Heavenly Father; Thy hunger and thirst after I 1 righteousness; Thy infinite love; Thy ineffably Tender sympathy for and Avith the loving and as- I piring heart of Thy .brother men imbue, subdue I and reign over all this world of rational beings! it not, indeed, the essence and summary of all divine and Heavenly aspiration for this life and I Hie Jjfe eternal. ! 'Team of Me, Who am meek and humble of Heart' Ah, assuredly is Holy Church divinely justified in teaching that humility is the funda- I mental virtue for man! The world this great, I eager, aspiring mass of humanity guided by its I own wisdom, would extol pride, in the guise of no- ble self-esteem, as man's most befitting and becom- l ing attitude and adornment. Does this not clearly I prove that the spirit of Christ and the spirit of the I world are diametrically opposed, and that the I ( 'liurch is, of an absolute certainty, the divinely eon- l stituted conservator of the saving spirit of the 1 Cod-Man? i - I Lord Kelvin, the eminent English scientist, 1 whose serious illness is announced, affords a living J example of men whose advance in knowledge has served to increase their reverence for I Things spiritual. It has ever been the superfi- I dally learned who were prone to proelsim that scientific knowledge precludes all idea of a myste- rious first causethe God of revelation. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," as it is all-too frequently accompanied by that pride of intellect that fosters a pernicious sense of self-sufficiency; ;j whilst profound learning with its resultant wisdom seems to imbue the mind with a sense of the limitations limita-tions of all things human. i . I I he Catholic Tribune scathingly arraigns ) J Christians, and especially Catholics, who eompla- ? cently profit, as members of a corporation, by un- f just business methods which they would righteously ; scorn to employ as individuals. These salve their I consciences by the specious sophistry that they are unf responsible for the acts of a management I which they cannot control, and that they cannot 1 be held to moral accountability for passively partic- I ipatinp in business transactions that are, by com- mon consent, labeled legitimate, however oppres- sive they may ultimately prove to be in their logi- , consequences. That this is a damnable sop- I phisni no man in his saner moods can for a moment ! i doubt. And the most pernicious pha.se of the atti- I rude of the men alluded to is that they are thus f led to justify and perpetuate a financial system that ! is subversive of all true Christianity." -I . : j 1 he school question has been engrossing the at- I tention of the people of the northern portion of the I American continent to an unusual degree during recent months. Over in Canada the autonomy bill for the. new provinces carried by an overwhelming majority, and the Catholics of those provinces are ! 1 hereby guaranteed their separate schools. In New I York a proposition has been submitted by the I Church authorities to those of the state, with a I view to securing the co-operation of the latter in I the matter of secular education in the parochial schools. If this proposition is accepted by tho I state, the secular education of the pupils attending I the parochial schools will be virtually turned over to the public school boards, while the Church will I continue to exercise autonomy in the' matter of religious education. The proposition seems to bo I eminently fair and just, and may .form a basis for j an adjustment of the school problem throughout the country in the not remote future. i 1 ! ----- - ' This is at it should be: Archbishop Keanc of Dubuque has forbidden the publication of liquor advertisements in programs issued under the auspices aus-pices of .Catholic societies. T The announcement that Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, has been chosen to occupy the office of Secretary of the Navy, vice Secretary Morton, who will retire on July 1st, calls for felicitations in behalf of the nation rather than of the individual. indi-vidual. -A. The Catholic Standard and Times, in its issue of May 20th, administers a well-merited rebuke to The Literary Digest for the manner in which Catholic Cath-olic topics are treated in that publication. Tis a pity that men who essay the publication of au impartial im-partial review are incapable of rising above the narrow prejudices' of the "common herd' '. Kev. P. C. Gammon, S. ,1. and Father M'-Malion, the. former writing for "The True Voice'' and ihc latter for "The Catholic Universe,' present some cogent arguments against the claim that public-ownership public-ownership mid Socialism arc, in any true sense, identical. They render it clearly manifest that the inauguration of the former must tend to obviate the necessity or desirability of having recourse to the latter for the purpose of curbing nefarious corporate cor-porate greed and oppression. T ' ' What a rank state of affairs is that exhibited by the testimony of one of the malefactors charged with conspiracy to rob the public in connection with the postoffiee department in Washington. "Are we Christians C Is this a Christian nation? In name, perhaps. But, if the fear of God is, indeed, in-deed, a characteristic of Christianity, the nation is evidently sadly impregnated with the virus of agnosticism. ag-nosticism. The Holy Father's call: "Back to Christ,'' has. assuredly, an urgent significance for this great American nation. 'Tis well for the nation's Chief Magistrate that he harbors a tender penchant for tho strenuous life. His cherished strcnuosity is being fondly nurtured by his devoted countrymen in all conditions and pursuits of life. The Livestock Growers' Association is the latest interest to enlist en-list his strenuous co-operation, in the promotion of the foreign trade of its members. He has, according accord-ing to reports, promised to see to it that American bovines are accorded a "square deal" on foreign shores. T Another preliminary victory in the interest of justice, decency and fair play was scored the other day when, in New York, twenty-four members of the Theatrical Managers' Association were held for trial on a charge of conspiracy. ''Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad;" it is hard to conceive of a more virulent symptom of money-madness money-madness than that now so commonly manifested by tho i umberless trusts that permeate our commercial enterprises of all kinds. Men who will combine to ruthlessly kill all competition winch they cannot control are a more dread menace to human society, than are all the ihugs, train robbers and anarchists that ever plied their neiarious vocations in this or any other land. . a , The attitude of the ministers of religion iu Philadelphia in strenuously opposing the fraudulent fraudu-lent gas lease in that city may be doubtless is altogether commendable. But the propriety of ventilating ven-tilating their views from their pulpits, during their regular church services, on any quasi-political or j commercial issue may reasonably be doubted. I Purely civic questions should be considered and dis- j cussed by citizens as citizens. Ministers are just as liable to err iu matters of this character as are others: whilst this fact should not, by any means, debar them from mooting the problems involved,' it is dangerous to invest their individual views concerning such problems with the sanctions of religion. It is in this manner that Christianity often incurs unjust responsibility for the errors of irresponsible advocates. : Does the mental and moral attitude, typified by the world-extolled sentiments of self -esteem real'v dignify and ennoble the man? A little intelligent reflection must serve to convince that, insofar as Ibis sentiment is identical with pride of intellect or the pride of the flesh, its effect is the direct opposite op-posite of that here suggested. Is ther aught less admirable, aught more uu-manly, in the full-grown man. than an exhibition of impotent wrath or sul- j Jen resentment on account of wounded self-esteem? And how avoid the infliction save by maintaining a J spirit of Christian humilty? Is it not, in very deed, the latter spirit which endows a man with true dignity and nobility of character? 'Tis neither a snpirit of abject servitude nor one of arrogant self-assert iveness that typifies the ideal man; but it is the spirit of pious humility, for the love of the divine Exemplar of universal love, sympathy aiuF good will among men, that constitutes the Christian, Chris-tian, and hence the true gentleman. Ergo: the Christian ideal as taught and inculcated by Holy Church, is ever and always the correct criterion for true and noble manhood. In the matter of the acquisition of the control, by the public, of public utilities, the. important factor is not so much as to the precise nature of the control acquired whether by purchase or under un-der lease as it is one of valuation and rate of interestor in-terestor rent. To allow present owners in excess ex-cess of three per cent per annum on a fair valuation valua-tion of actual, tangible property would foist upon the public an unjust burden. The real essence of the contention between wage-earners the great mass of the people and their employers commonly common-ly designated the privileged class is the sequestration, seques-tration, by the latter, of an undue proportion of the wealth produced by the former, as evidenced by the massing of stupendous fortunes by the few, at the expense of the many. Even three per cent per annum (compounded)' on, the collosal fortunes already al-ready in existence,-is sufficient to perpetmdc the control of the wealth of the country in the hands of the comparatively few who now possess it. Some day, perhaps, we will be wise enough to' deny unto capital any compensation in excess of, say, one and one-half per cent per annum;. then, only, will the brawn and brain workers of the land be accorded their just dues. |