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Show Is it not a solemn reflection that without universal uni-versal love there can be no salvation ? That the one, in very south, implies and essentially constitutes consti-tutes iho oilier.' : : If " J he fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," is not its happy end and divinely ordained or-dained consummation the love of God and all Ilia rational creation? I Hp h is not devoted to and bound by the ' truth, loves not i ho God of truth, and is therefore an object of pity ami contempt, no matter' how 1 ' fortunate and exalted may seem his lot in life. 1 . -- ; I .in cverincreasing knowledge of and an over- I growing intimacy with the infinitely beautiful God oi one's heart: ibis alone makes life supremely in- I teror-ting-niakes the struggle worth the while. I X -4. . I To loyally submit to the bondage of truth, is j to proclaim ourself truly and nobly free. Virtue !, may imply restraint, but vice exercises a tyranny that is intolerable to the spiritually discerning. j ; Most cordially are the. people to bo congratulated I that Judge Dunne, the. Mayor-elect of Chicago is I 8 staunch and loyal Catholic. The anti-Christian propagandists of revolutionary Socialism will I hardly be disposed to point to his election as a victory for their iniquitous cult. I illas this holy season of Lent, with its sanctifying sanctify-ing practices, served to soften and warm our hearts towards our fellow-men? This is the vital ques- lion: So long as we harbor in uur In -arts one sin-' I pie sentiment of hatred or aversion towards one of God's rational creatures, they are not the fitting abode of the Spirit of Sanctitication. i - I Poultney r.igelow, associated with the Bos- I t'''ii University, is the latest victim of the penchant, "" part of our college professors, to achieve I cheap notoriety by giving vent to outre convictions. ! I Tbi; particular hankerer after'publie scrutiny per- I j pet rated an unjustifiably caustic criticism upon the I j negro students of that institution because of their I ' racial peculiarities. I ! . I "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of 1 living God" was the theme of Father Deueafs il discourse at the Cathedral on last Sunday even ing, and ho recommended the thought, as one salutary salu-tary during ihi holy season of Lent, impressively duelling upon the wisdom of familiarizing oneself with the idea of death, in order that we may not be overwhelmed with its fcarfulness during our last, moments. -f . The railroad magnates of iho country God f ibem' are publicly felicitating themselves I "Pon the fact that our worthy Chief Magistrate has j promised the country "a square deal." If Standard I Oil and the beef trust will now come forward with I 1n ir tribute of praise, the endorsement of Tresi- dent Ro i. stalwart patriotism and devotion I 10 iIh" hl-T-si vdl-being of the great American I" populace Vi; I- practically unanimous. Tuhn Sunday tomorrow is designated by I Holy Church to commemorate, the triumphant 1 entry of Christ Jesus into Jerusalem. How short- I liwl this triumph: how fickle the hearts of the J populace! This thought should impress us with j 1ne vanity of setting our hearts upon the world's I acclaim and should move us to lay our hearts, in dutiful homage, at the feet of the "Man of Sorrow,"' Sor-row,"' who so soon after the event just mentioned, gave up his life that we might enter into everlasting everlast-ing blessedness. Particularly during the ensuing week, observed by the Church as "Holy Week", in cmirnemortt ion of the God Man's passion and I death, should we make unto Him the oblation of a holy life, . . r "A tupid lie"? Who ever, he aid of any other kind if Falsehood or prevarication may sometimes seem adroit and clever, but in the end all liars must be brought to a realization of the fatuous folly of forsaking the God of truth for the father of lies, be it only momentarily and in matters never so trivial. a Our most illustrious Chief Magistrate- after having strenuously ousted a Panama Canal Commission Com-mission not to his taste because of its want of strenuosjty, is now strenuously chasing the bears, wolves and other big game in the jungles of our sister commonwealth. In sooth, our worthy President Presi-dent s nothing, if not strenuous; and he certainly is something an exceedingly ponderous quantity i of the tinest quality.' : , Sincerity is the test of character. Hypocricy is moral suicide. The sincere man may blindly stray from the path of truth and rectitude, but when the light reaches his consciousness, he may bo relied upon to faithfully follow its guidance, I whilst for him who ignobly disdains to conform his conduct to the glimmerings of truth that may be his there is but little hope, that he shall ever lead a Godly or a noble life. : . A perusal of "'Kipper' Legislation," by Clement If, Congdon, in Men and Women for April, affords additional enlightenment as to the enormity of the evil resulting from a combination combina-tion of mercenary politicians and unscrupulous predatory financiers. The, alliance is a natural, but an unholy, one; a dobaucher of American , manhood, a menace to American society and institutions, in-stitutions, and a subverter of Christian ideals and principles. That was a scathing rebuke administered by the Rev. Dr. Xewoll Dwight Hillis, in Plymouth church, Xew York, to young Rockefeller, because' of the heartless utterances of the latter in essaying to justify the demolition 'of 009 smaller concerns in order that "Standard Oil" might be made to blossom blos-som like unto the American Beauty rose. "The saddest sad-dest words spoken in this generation," was the Reverend Doctor's comment, and it was not one jot too severe. f- The attitude of the Holy Sec towards the political po-litical movement in Italy known as the Autonomous Christian Democracy, might serve as a warning to the advocates of a Catholic party in America. To many devoted Catholics such a movement seems not only utterly unwarranted, but fraught, with much positive mischief. The. status of the Church in this country leaves but. little to hc desired, save that her spiritual influence may be increasingly positive pos-itive and pronounced. ' Authority is lovable because it. is divine. That which renders itself justly hateful and repugnent must be spurious. We Catholics revere and love the tic that binds, the yoke that, restrains, because we know it to bo, in very truth, divine and lovable. If, at times, it becomes galling and irksome, the faithful Catholic piously ascribes this condition to the inherent perversity of his human nature, and dutifully and humbly strives to bring himself into harmony with the Jaws of Eternal Truth. : If it. were, indeed, impossible to love and esteem es-teem our fellow-man even the vilest, most loathsome loath-some and most detestable among God's rational creatures-such love would assuredly not have been i enjoined upon us, under the pain of damnation, by an infinitely just and merciful Creator. If this heroic sentiment be absolutely repugnant to fallen nature, then how assiduously should we sock that supernatural grace that renders it not only possible, possi-ble, but, most grateful and surpassingly sweet to the hearts of mankind. . " "Sharn is shame" is one of Bishop Spalding's terse and incisive epigrams. Simplicity is the. essence es-sence of noble manhood and womanhood. The slightest conscious departure from the straight line of exact rectitude must eventually react, upon the guilty one, just as surely as a missile hurled into space must return to terra firma, "He who lives by. the sword shall perish by the sword," and he who is guilty of sham must, sooner or later, experience ex-perience the pangs of shame. The sad news that Bishop Spalding of Peoria has had a serious relapse will strike the hearts of the people wjth intense grief. If, however, the grim angel of death should now end the earthly career of this illustrious and universally beloved and esteemed es-teemed prelate, it will be a source of much consola-lion consola-lion to feel assured that his benign influence will survive him; that generations yet tinhorn, will be inspired with an impulse to nobler effort by his undying un-dying words of Godly counsel and encouragement. : '. The article on our first page, taken, from the Catholic World for April, merits the prayerful perusal of all persons who would piously aspire to be true followers of the Son of God, who dwelt among the children of men in order to vouchsafe salvation to the race, by means of his divine pre- eepts and example. Not only does this surpassingly beautiful treatise merit most thoughtful perusal, but it might, with inestimable profit, be repeatedly read- and earnestly pondered in mind and heart, until its sublime truths become vitally incorporated incorpor-ated into ones mental and moral being. Thus might we realize, in very truth, the sublime charaeterof Christian man and womanhood. . -A. Tor an idyllic gem in prose we would commend to our readers the. contribution, "A March Day" from tho pen of Miss Daisy Maginnis, a pupil of Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden, which appeared in our last week's issue. -Has it, by the way ever occurred to the readers of the Catholic to compare com-pare the superb compositions, which we print from time to lime, of the. pupils of our several Catholic institutions of this section, with like efforts on the part of pupils of the most renowned secular educational edu-cational institutions of the land T ' Comparisons are said to be odious; such as we here suggest must prove extremely gratifying to the , friends of the different Catholic academies of -.Utah. The specimens speci-mens of English composition alluded to assuredly rcfleet great credit upon the worthy Sisters in charge. . |