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Show -f -f -f -- -f -t--- I BUTTE. I COUNTRY AND RELIGION. Father Murphy's Eloquent Discourse at St. Patrick's Church. Butlc, Mont., July 16. Rev. Father Murphy of Salt Lake delivered an 'interesting 'in-teresting and eloquent discourse on I "Country and Religion" at St. Patrick's con y5:sterday- There was a large conferegat!on in attendance and Father I ;"!'Phy vas listened to with great at-! at-! ten tion. He. said in. part: ,tn ibu an Americai is a most priv-''et-ea honor; an inspiration to noble aeeds, generous self-sacrifices and glo-J glo-J ious hopes. Every American is partly owner of the great republic in which ne jives. a country which stretches from me Atlantic on the east to the Pacific on the west, and from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. Aecordj.-g to his ability, every American has tho light of participation in the government ot his country. He can boast of a lanJ where all men are born equal and endowed en-dowed with equal rights; "where thre is no sovereignty but that of mind and 110 nobility but that, of irenin-" all can dunk at the soul-inspiring fountains foun-tains of liberty, and where man dare not curse what heaven has made glorious. glo-rious. To belong to such a country is indeed an honor and a privilege. It is likewise an inspiration to generous sacrifices sac-rifices and glorious hopes. When we read of the energv, the perseverance, per-severance, the heroism, the grandeur of soul of the early colonists; when the noble figures of Washington, of Adams of Jefferson, of Clay and Calhoun rise up before, us: when we contemplate the , rapid tread of republicanism, of civili- : zation, of Americanism, from a few-scattered few-scattered hamlets on the Atlantic to the golden gate of the west, our souls aro tuned in a higher key and we feel tha4. the motto of Americans shmiM ei-o n0 Excelsior" ever moving upward working- out the base and the ser.SUal in human nature and developing to their utmost the intellectual and suir-Uual. suir-Uual. Again, from the fact that all positions In this country are open to talent perseverance per-severance and good conduct, every noble-minded youth has an incentive to struggle bravely onward and win a place in ' the temple of fame, where "heroes are born not to die." Great then, and inspiring- is your title, Amer- ! K':'n- You have- however, a grander, ' still more imposing1 title, and that is your title of Christian and Catholic. ! ., Father Murphy then launched into! .-I nisiorj or the church, pointing out what it had done for the cause of civ-ilizat-ion and refinement: purifying corrupt cor-rupt and decaying empires; elevating woman and surrounding her with th-peerless th-peerless dignity she now enjovs. The glory and honor of being a Christian, he said, pre-supposed obligations, anr' all these obligations may be summarized summar-ized in the imitation of our Saviour Jesus Je-sus Christ. In his peroration. Father Murphy admonished ad-monished Catholics to imitate Christ in his life on earth and form within themselves them-selves the image of the Savior, which image, as Cardinal Manning remarks "Creates faith and then rewards if" which image fulfills the one great need ot human nature the healer of its wounds, the physician of the soul, the transforming power from spiritual weakness and deformitv tn cnirimoi strength and beauty. Father Murphy intends to remain in Montana until the beginning of the fall term at All Hallows in September. He will visit different points in the state before his return. He says the site of the contemplated new college has been planted with trees in great number, and occupies one of the most prominent lo- j cations in the city of Salt Lake. |