••'- S-'^: i'--i' -i;' V, -^^SL,^ cu mm Hot re Dartic -si DI5CS-9VA5l-5(EmPeia-VlCTV15\/S- Vlve •9\yASl- CRAS-MORlTUieyS; Vol.. L. NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 4. 1916. No. 7.- funeral; another public calamity will soon Age, dim the remembrance of his death in the pubHc - mind," yet to all who love true gireatness of BY ARTHUR HOrE spirit, Spalding's, spirit will be immortal. It is seldom that a country as new as America |-|E was old and bent and tattered and torn, receives a genius so purely intellectual. The - He walked with a jerk, and his head unshorn. stirring times of his youth and early manhood . Bobbed and nodded a sad adieu would seem to have almost forced his talents To the world of to-day,^to me and you. into a circle of public activities. Unsettled as He was crooked and lame, andleaned on a staff. the period was in national affairs, it yet saw The breeze raised his hair as the wind does chaff. greater rehgious turmoil. The long ~ stniggle And the scattered thoughts of his time-worn mind between North and South was just beginning. Fle^v here and there as snow in the wind. When Spalding was seven years old, Webster thundered out his Seventh of March speech:- His voice was shaky, but sweet and soft. it was at Ashland, near Spalding's birth-- Like the tremulo in the organ-loft; ~place that the great Compromiser, Henry Clay, His smile, as soothing as the note that falls sought peace and rest in his attempt to-solve. From the throstle's throat when his nest-mate calls. national difficulties. The same dark years - witnessed a most thorough persecution of Roman . The Life and Works of Archbishop Spalding, CathoUcs through the Emow-Nothing Move­ ment, for those of'Spalding's faith, like their . BY SPEER STRAHAN. ancestors,. had to endure despoliation, robbery, persecution. Rare, indeed, isso meditative. ,a^: NYONE who stood, by the coffin of- , genius produced, when the times seem to crj'^ John Lancaster Spalding and gazed only for the man who can express himself with down into that silent and peaceful swords or pistols. And though firmly wedded to . face, must surely have been struck ancient traditions, he was ready, and eager, with the majesty of the silent dead. There in nevertheless, to make the most of what, the his coffin lay that silent orator, in all the purple present and the future had to offer. With him ., glory of his- office, the amethyst gleaming on there was no mourning for past glories: aU he; one blue-veined hand that in death still clasped asked .was opportunity to contend for futiure;- ' to his breast the chalice which had been his daily honors. This he endeavored with all his niind- : strength. The pale, calm iace was triumphant- and soul to imprint on the minds of his countryr.i; . in death. Upon the forehead was pressed down men. '" ' ;, - .• the mitre, as if to guard in death that brain John Lancaster Spalding , was "descended- that in life had been so wondrously dedicate from an. old English family, - famous in eccle-,(; to God. Those lips that had, been a silver siastic annals from the Middle Ages,^ whenC clarion to" higher hying were now stiUe'd for- Spalding-Abbey was founded'in Lincolnshire,;:' .^e-ver, those eyes whose brightness had struck England. The Spaldings ^ in America 'trace ^ wm fire in countless hesirts were closed not to open -their origin to the. days of Lord Baltimore?:: till the Jjidgment. Day, yet here in the'silence ' Eor more than two hundred years, the numerous of death his spirit seemed to fill the whole,place branches of the family have been conspicuous;; - and brood with holywirigs oyer those who passed in the, develapmeht of. Maryland-and -Kentucky.- ''CSii~M-\ t¥3§» his bier. It is now. already two months since the Among these never-to he forgotten risthe;,nam"e^^|;^|ri|^^^| 9S THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Martin John Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, by only the usual activities of an episcopal and uncle of John Lancaster Spalding. 'career. But the inner light of such a life lends John Lancaster Spalding was born in Lebanon, "grace to every action,- and the inner light of his JKentucky, June 2, .1840. Very early he began • life made him a shining light among men. to show signs of a priestl\' vocation, and accord­ Though Spalding was thirty-one years bishop ingly was sent to St. Mar^-'s, Kentuck}'^, where of Peoria, and during this time volume after he made his preparator}'^ studies. Thence he volume of essays, orations and poetr}'- came from. passed to Mount St. Mar3'''s, Emmitsburg, his facile pen, still in his diocese no charitable and in, turn to Mount St. Mar3^'s, Cincinnati, work Avas CA'-er slighted, schools, churches, and and to Louvain, Belgium, where he was ordained parishes, flourished beneath his care; a strong priest in 1863. The end of the ne.\t ygar, spent priestly body was formed under his direction, in Rome, found him full}' equipped for his and united so closely under his able leadership, life work. In 1865 he took up priestl}'' duties at. that the priests of his diocese solemnly declared the Cathedral of Louisville, but even at this on the occasion of his episcopal sih^er jubilee time his scholarlj'- attainments attracted such that 'not once in the tAA'-enty-fiA'-e years had an notice that he was chosen theologian to Arch­ appeal been made against his judgment.' bishop Blanchet of Oregon at the second Spalding's AA'^ork is AA^ritten large in the books plenar}- council of Baltimore in rS66. With of Church and State, but literature is greatest Father Hecker, the Pauhst, and Father Ryan, in his debt. It is of this I AAJ-OUW particularly later Archbishop Ryan, he was chosen for the speak,—of his distinctiA'-e contribution to Ameri­ rare honor of preaching at the council. After can thought and consciousness through the his return-to Kentucky, he labored by his own medium of the essa}''. Of all the many books choice in a parish of neglected negroes, which he produced, four in particular, "Education after three years he left in a flourishing state. and the Higher Life," "Things of the Mind," Ln 1872, upon the invitation of Father Hecker, "Opportunity and Other Essays," and Jie went to New York and, taking up residence "Thoughts and Theories of Education," merit at the Paulist Scholasticate, began work on a high place in contemporar}'- literature. In the life of his deceased uncle, the Archbishop these, slim volumes is contained his gospel. nf Rcilfimnrp Of fliic nf^i-iorl nf .*>5na1rIinnr'o life _ ot ItroT* />o n +-P,. ^l-i + r + V r\ -XTr^^ r\i^ THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC 99 highest possible living, the deepest, clearest thought, who know how to appreciate all truth, "possible thinking ^was - his gospel. To be, is all beauty, all goodness. , And to this-wide nobler than to have, was the thought he would culture, they must join the earnestness, the burn upon his countrymen's hearts. And this confidence, the: charity and purity of motive made him a veritable voice in the v/ilderness which Christian fciith inspires. We. need scholars preaching to a materialistic civilization that who are saints and saints who are scholars." _ put, its faith -in steam and electricity, rather Yet before culture can. be . expected in a than in self. Not that he would haA'-e the mind nation, it must first be realized in the individ­ sufficient in itself, but that if the kingship of ual. -St. Teresa gathered her nuns about her the intellect were acknowledged, mechanical and urged them onward with the encourage­ inventions would sink to their true impor­ ment, "The Kingdom of God is within you": tance.^ "We must understand and feel," he Spalding repeated the same words to all who says, "that the visible is but the shadow of would become cultured. The soul is indeed tHe invisible, that the soul has its roots in God, a spiritual castle, and the ^cultiured intellect Ayhose kingdom is within us." can as svurely see the king in his glory afar off, Culture is the universal means for the reali­ as the higher and spiritual faculty can thrill zation of the riches of the intellect. Culture, with ecstacy at that sight. To make men realize not for its own sake, he preached, but for- the the royal purple of the intellect was Spalding's good-it can do us. "The lovers of culture should labor. be the first," he says, "to perceive that intel­ "It is the imagination and not the reason," lectual good is empty, illusory, unless there he argues, "that is overwhelmed by the idea be added to it the good of the heart, the good of unending" space and time. To the intellect, of conscience." Culture must be, "Avedded to eternity is not more mysterious than the present religious faith- without Avhich, though the in­ moment, and the distance -which separates us tellectual view is broadened, the will is weakened from the remotest stars is not more incompre­ in acting.'* "It is indeed of inestimable value hensible than a hand's breadth." The function to be cultured, to have this faculty of'being of the mind in the noblest of all human actions, able to see this thing \)n man}^ sides, to have a belief, is stated scarcely 'less strikingly. wide svmpathy and a power of generous "Mind is Heaven's pioneer making wa)'' for 100 'TI-IE^ NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC Priesthood," delivered at the silver jubilee of the surrounded, and who often appear to us alto Salesianum at Mihyaukee, the Catholic bod}"" gether commonplace.