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the State and to all just laws is loyalty to God and is patriot- 

 ism blessed by religion. 



In the natural order of things the Catholic Church is willing 

 to. walk in company with all who work seriously and earnestly 

 for the betterment, purity and right-mindedness of all people. 

 In charity, benevolence and good works of every kind, she 

 will meet all of you with a willing heart and ready hand. But 

 in the teaching of the faith handed down by Jesus Christ, she 

 affirms that she alone has kept the whole deposit of faith in- 

 tact and the continuity and unity of the Church along with it. 

 While she therefore recognizes that others have gone out from 

 her carrying with them the greater truths of revelation and have 

 faithfully persevered in clinging to them, she cannot regard 

 them as safe or trusted teachers, and cannot allow her chil- 

 dren to violate their unity of the faith by joining in worship 

 with those not of the fold. She bids them recognize every 

 noble, good and worthy thing which those who are out of the 

 fold possess — nay, in many instances where they do not con- 

 cern the faith, she bids us imitate and adopt them. And so 

 in the battle against wrong and sin and foulness, and in the 

 desire and yearning to make this the noblest country under 

 the sun, we may join hands with you in effecting results, al- 

 though we may not serve even temporarily under your banner 

 or attend your martial exercises. But we may do something 

 more; we may pray for you and pray with you, although 

 apart from you. In the last analysis the Catholic Church rec- 

 ognizes every baptized person as a member, and nothing but 

 his own act, in wilfully rejecting the light afforded him by 

 the teaching of the Church, and sinning deliberately against 

 the grace of God, can deprive him of the supernatural end 

 which the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His death 

 on the Cross prepared for them that believe in Him. 



I cannot forbear concluding this brief outline of the work 

 and teaching of the Catholic Church with the well-known quo- 

 tation from Lord Macaulay : 'There was not and there is not 

 on this earth a work of human policy so well deserving of 

 examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of 

 that Church joins together the two great ages of human civili- 

 zation. No other institution is left standing which carries the 

 mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from 

 the Pantheon and when the camelopards and tigers bounded 



