Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Corporate Re-union. 241
from it, one of the most remarkable character
istics of Christianity,
as foretold by the Royal
Progenitor of the
" Son of David," was. that it
O
should be "
circumdata varietate," as worded in
the venerable version of the Vulgate. Revela
tion does not annul the freedom of the human
as law
mind, it regulates it and conserves it,
regulates and upholds
the exercise of civil
liberty. Atheism is no more the genuine fruit
of free thought than anarchy and plunder are
the legitimate offspring of social freedom. The
proofs and the evidences are different, but the
force of religious argument is as strong and as
convincing within the limits of its own sphere
as the inductions of science in establishing the
grand facts elucidated by scientific research.
Is it a mark of a free and intelligent o mind at
the present day to reject the Copernican Theory?
Religious conviction is not elaborated by the
same method, as the definitions of science, but
it is no less sure nor less cogent, when the mind
of man will give it a fair and legitimate con
sideration. The Christian Church has never
asked for more, though it is a necessary charac
teristic of her message to mankind, that they
and they only are to benefit by it, who will listen
to it and profit by it.
Another objection that is sometimes urged
against our efforts for Corporate Re-union
and it is an objection not devoid of force, is that