truths and natural truths impervious to reason; and in the third, as St. John says, " The glory of God enlighteneth it and the Lamb is the lamp thereof." It is, therefore, only a few of the more natural and plainer truths that man can know by the feeble light of reason. With reason alone we can light only the tiny vestibule of the temple of truth, while the vast edifice beyond is shrouded in darkness. Hence, besides reason, we Catholics claim the necessity of another light, the light of the grace of faith in the revelations of God handed down to us in Holy Writ and the traditions of holy Church. Thus, we receive the Bible because it is the word of God, and we admit the truths taught us by the Church because Christ commissioned her to teach all nations all truth for all time under His infallible guidance, and whether we understand them or not we still accept them with childlike faith, remembering Our Lord's words: " He that believeth shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be condemned."
Brethren, such is the doctrine of the rationalist, such the Catholic doctrine. Now, I propose to show you that rationalism is irrational, unreasonable. Does our rationalist deny the existence of truths too deep for his reason to fathom? He cannot but admit it. He knows that God exists, that He is a being of infinite intelligence, and that the knowing power of every intellect has a proportionate knowableness in its proper object. The truth of God, then, is infinite. But our little rationalist knows all truth. His mind, therefore, is infinite and equal to God's, for other-
