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Show Arehbishop Hiordcin's j : (Tlatehless Oration, j (Reported Specially for the Intel-mountain Catholic.) The sermon of Archbishop Riordan was as follows: "In the name of tho Father, the Son and tho Holy Ghost, amen. Beloved Be-loved brethren of the clergy and the laiety: "'The words of the royal prophet. David, arc appropriate on this solemn occasion. "I rejoiced.' he say$, 'at the things that were said to me. We shall p into the house of the Lord!' These words were spoken by the prophet before be-fore the erection of the temple of Jerusalem. He wished to build it, but tho honor was reserved for his son, the man of peace, not him who was a man of war. But the very thought of the privilege of building a temple to the most high God thrilled his very heart with joy, and as he looked into the future, the glory of the dedication day made him utter these words which 1 have quoted, 'I rejoiced at the things that were said to me. We shall go into the house of the Lord.' , "And a joy, brethren, akin to this is ours today. To us is given the privi lege of placing the corner-stone of a great building which, when completed, Will be the house of God, the temple of prayer, the communicant's shrine beneath whose roof will repose the eternal Son of God, which will be to all you people of Salt Lake what the universal church of Christ is in ( the entire world, the instrument of teaching God's truth and of pouring into the souls of men his divine grace. "To you who have lived here for many years I can very well imagine t he joy if today. When you go bac k only a few years ago and think of the little Hock of only a few people gathered about the altar of an humble church, and then today begin a building which will rank with the great cathedrals of the country, I can weil imagine that your joy must be that if the royal prophet, and you look forward with desire to that still more glorious day when you will enter into the house of the Lord, completed and ornamented and fitted in all its details for the great mission which is given to a cathedral church. "And you may ask me. thos especially who are not of my faith, what does this church stand for? What are its uses? For what purpose was it built? What end will it serve? What does it mean for this city and the people of it? When a building is erected, we know the purpose for which it is intended. When men put up a hall of medicine, we know precisely what the purpose of it in. When a hall of legal science is erected, we are not in doubt as to the things that will be done therein. When a mart of commerce raises its front before the people, we know the object of the building, and you have a right to ask me w hat does church stand for; what does it mean? Why. shuid the people be asked to give their means and make sacrifices for ist ruction, its ornamentation and its maintenance? "First of all. my beloved brethren, for Catholic people the church stands as th ? home of God'. It is the house ofGod. the temple of prayer. "We believe that the divine Savior of the world, when he became a man in the mystery of the incarnation, proposed to remain with the children chil-dren of men until the consummation of the world. He came not to depart. He came to be with them in every age and in every clime, as their father and their friend-He friend-He came as the way, the truth and the life, the nourishment and sustenance suste-nance of their souls. In the mystery of the incarnation he was God. he became be-came man, and the divine person, God and man, remains with us. He finds his place in every tabernacle, there to listen to our prayers, there to be the food and consolation of our souls. And for this reason, above all others, to the Catholic heart the church is dear. We can say with the prophet, 'We love the glorv of the house of God and the place of his habitation.' "Around it the most sacred associations of our lives are grouped. There at its font we are born again of water and the Holy Spirit. We become chil-!'-'--n of God and lake our places as members of the great family of Christ. There in after vears we receive the grace and strength of confirmation. Thre w e bring our sin-stained souls to the good physician and obtain pardon par-don steeped in tears of contrition and of sorrow. There we receive the life-giving life-giving food of the body and blood f Christ. There before its altars we are brought when life has departed to receive for the last time the blessings ot the gi--at historic Church of Christ, and over our remains the last prayers are -aid Therefore, for the Catholic people the Church is the dearest place on .arth lor around it. as I said, are grouped the most tender memories and i ;ss., -iations of our lives. Therefore there are motives why Catholic people should be generous in sustaining them. "But the church stands for more than this. The Church of Christ stands for all the people, not merely Catholics, but those outside the pale of the Catholic church. It stands as a complete exponent of the whole revelation of Christ. There f no other Christian, socalled, denomination in the world that pretends today to teach the original teachings of Christ in all their fullness. "Tho theorv of today is that as the times change, religious truths must h;,nge with them: that religious truth is not above the speculations of the human intellect; that things must be added to and things must d'd -!..Pi the original revelations to suit the requirements of the changed con- i t n of things. The Catholic Church says that in all its essential c ements -v.rv h ng that constitutes the essence of the Christian rehgion, he : -hun-h musf be like her founder, w ho is the same forever. In ,ts essen ,al -nents there can be no change, for this reason, that hnst placed His . -:n n h no amonJ the mutable things of life, but lifted it above i Je JJa-1 JJa-1 .ns of human intellects, because it is to be a guide, unerring and unchang i he things hat belong to the soul, and the most important thing riT after aU is the salvation of the soul and the sign must be so clear, so d t he ret m of " Peculation, the path that leads to. heaven must be flood-: flood-: .i t , 'uch fight that the lowliest and the poorest and the most ignorant Sunders and it and walk therein without fear of going astray. We I.: - X,T to g- asttav in the things of life: we can afford to make 4 LL i,. he things that belong to human science, because a day will .. .intake i" tin ,nd me tho problems of science will have no interest. .n'i'hHs'lovLVInt and me wSi an infinite love and is anxious that you ' '"T fXtiZn KcStondUions is unchang 1., every '"'ne tl se f-sa .stands everywhere, saying to the people ,,and the c'hSch Stand, in every place, for the complete nca- privileged classes all cnt sam father, brothers of the same upon the same footing, children , of the eJaj;i lification 0f the Jesus Christ, our Lord. This, then, j. wy OTTOr The rich and f of compete erhod JS "jSAm highborn, the giftd and those wno th Mld of the peasant Msrfe - Subject prostrate on the -mep-ement ,h All brothers of the same Lot a go there ,s of necessity a dis--mg like it in the world. Kvery othei " Aeaven-S first law and there- th.-tion. Som are greater than others This Jeefs ("hrst lhere is the i..re ue must conform to this law; -.nut in in cchiden a adeemed by the .bernacle. there is the Lord ami mast . r destined for the same home -ame blood are asking for the same n-, a.-:d all spiritualized by the same .savins in uen . from thJg comp,ete "And therefore for thi bl,h00Tl t comes to be the most popular f x. inpliti. ation of the brotherhood of nvin. it co, ,ason it the most democratic institution ot VJality of man and equal i-a.-lws more than anything else in ourcounirj. .--ivil..gPS to all classes of our cllli', ven what did he do? He came down When our blessed Lord eUom heaven w n ai mun,ty. the r,ch and ;.:id touched with a saving hand all 1 h b and those of ti- intelligent, the educated and the ignorant ine . under pagan !- birth, and going down to those wno classes known as slaves, i-w as men. but as things, he went " a'vne8a!di -Come with me,' and id putting his hand upon the head or a . ia . s jftpd the s'hackles of his slavery fe 1 ttherh.d of the young church, felt up by the influence of Christ into the h, master, close by the at once that there was a throne foi him. as thmne of the Son of God in heaen , rder that in the things of "And this feeling of equably m he it ua Urns to the soul God and in the life to come and tha; t !" unU1 at Jast the idea of all men are equal, this thought I sa n iteie leaverr the entire so- e.pial c ivil rights and equal '''V J Sing its growth and full flower in -iety, until in a few years we find it ")"1"''fethe neCessity of constitutional the mediaeval laws which recognized I at or e nation's power, so government, and made the people e repositoij them that all government was of the people and for tftera To this doctrine the historic church or wm most down to our days. The Catholic element of our ' great a Continued oa Page 4.) v . .1 I. -' " Jlnbbisbop Hiordan's Oration. (Continued from page 1.) loyaj to this democratic principle founded upon the life of ou7blessed Lord and upon the utterances of his apostles. Neither Jew nor Gentile says St. Paul neither Greek nor Roman, neither bond nor free, but all ? axe one in Christ Jesus. ' "And so. brethren, it stands for that, and because it stands for that it l-foM l-foM ofenthS Ih r-T'y 1 Ca,ho' rPle. but to all who are outside th-bunrlf th-bunrlf 'my dfar people, this new building of yours, when completed, will stand first for our own neor.Ie as the house of God as the shrine of prayer, as the temple of the soul the dwei -fnf PnC,l f V01? eternal in the P""son of Divine Son t wifl stand Chrfi thTe, re-n Kf Ve0le, 35 a com exponent of tho enf ire e elatfon of rEr ft be embodiment of the doctrine that we an all brothers in Christ, members of Christ's family with our Father who is in he;lVen and t w-ill stand as a most potent factor by its influence, leavening with popu-eYtendJ popu-eYtendJ democratic Principles the entire society over which iu inn S"e ":nd- therefore, I say to you. let stone be placed on stone- Jet tone he fvl10 St,Se: l6t itS a"S S UP' and when from the topmost fini'al of its tower the golden cross shall be placed, it will throw over your city from ts - wllh us a?d SO,emn bIpsi"s: over this good ci of ,, 4! with its homes of domestic peace and joy, its temples of learning its marr of commerce with the busy hum of traffic and of industry ?n lis stTeets ?in ar Sk ' )Yu thM be"utif"l valley, framed by these eternal moun no heflt,ymb?1 1 the C?Urch that aftr Vears is no mere antiqu- " I 2m f 1th6 past' not a stone fl-om ancient buildings long fallen into ruin and decay, but after 1900 years stands here today in the pre.-Tence of thi, energetic, live people as strong, as vigorous, as full of life as on thJ dav Si7tldZ.?m Chamber f J'"n-and began its , "What is there in the world that can be compared with if Look around ' you and g.ve me an answer. Here it stands today, with ts PontYffs Bishop, and Priests and its 200,000.000 of members, and the feeling ha.s gone abroad wminbe VS .a,?tSi,?e fld at af ter a" the 0lder church' e first church j wr, , , JaSt cbu,.rch: an,J the church that can keep tts doctrines intact for 1900 years has a right to live: and the church that carries in its bosom nine- teen centuries of life is not going to die. wi'tJ therefore it stands, I say, for undecayingr spiritual life and I hope and pray that ts cross will shed a blessing on this city and or, this I valley; tht it will teach you and all men as you move about and look at j it r v a CStaS 0Ur redemption bought; that it was on the cross I tha the church of Christ was born. Asthe sun comes up from the morn- j ins in the ast and its first rays gild it, and as the last rays of the same sun sink m the west and give it a parting glow, it will say to you in all - ofGorlTndi ?? f?-d ab0? aH tMnss the J'ustice of the kingdom of God and all the other things, the inferior things, in the way of eatin-and eatin-and dnnkine and the arhevemfh a ...l 7, , eaiin0 w v. v incac L-UIjults win De sTlVel! I VE'J ucl1 abundance, at least in sufficiency. But seek first the JS111 of ,?d and Justce and all things else will be given unto you I This will be its lesson. May it sink deep into your hearts my beloved ft 1 Ttha,?k vo what you have done here in making n posTible -to - ffy mfy lefonYT k Unt" the jy the |