Catholic University Bulletin. VARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VOL. V.-No APR 24 1893 APRIL, 1899. WHOLE No. XVIII. CONTENTS. CAMBRIDGE, MASS, ΡΔΟΣ I. ST. PAUL: TEACHER OF THE NATIONS, 139 Thomas J. Shahan. 1 II. THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION, 154 Charles F. Aiken. III THE OLD TESTAMENT "SONG OF HANNAH,” 170 Eneas B. Goodwin. IV. THE PRE-MOSAIC SABBATH-HI, 184 James D. O'Neill. V. THE WORLD-COPY-ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS, VII. THE STUDY OF CHURCH HISTORY-II, 230 Thomas J. Shahan. VIII. MORAL THEOLOGY AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH Scripture: VAN HOONACKER, Nouvelles Etudes sur la Restauration Juice après l'Exile de Babylone; KAULEN, Einleitung in die Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments; DE BROGLIE, Questions Bibliques. Education: Directoire de l'Enseignement Religieux dans les Maisons d' Education; History and Politics: WILSON, Prehistoric Art; EGREMONT, Année de l Eglise; : Theology and Philosophy SASSE, Institutiones Theologicae de Sacramentis XI. THE CHAIR OF AMERICAN HISTORY THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Annual Subscription, $2.00. Single Numbers, 50 cents. [Entered at the Post-office at Washington as second-class matter Catholic University Bulletin. Vol. V. APRIL, 1899. No. 2. "Let there be progress, therefore; a widespread and eager progress in every century and epoch, both of individuals and of the general body, of every Christian and of the whole Church; a progress in intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, but always within their natural limits and without sacrifice of the identity of Catholic teaching, feeling and opinion."-ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, Commonit, c. 6. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, With its own subtle sense of justice the Christian Church has conferred from very remote antiquity the title of doctor or teacher on certain famous bishops like Augustine or Ambrose, Gregory Nazianzen or Chrysostom. She has recognized in these men sanctity of life, depth and purity, vastness and pertinency of doctrine, evident vocation, and large discipleship. And these have sufficed in her eyes to make her single out such men and lift them up on the great cathedrae of authority, whence their very words in all future time become spiritual law and guidance, as once the opinions of an Ulpian or a Papinian sufficed for the citizen of Rome or Antioch. The world has always yearned for instruction. Man is an animal docile, a teachable animal. Whether it be poet, prophet, law-giver, king, judge, philosopher, or historian,man has always admired, sometimes too ardently, those who have loosened the bonds of his ignorance and taught him necessary truths, useful arts, the reasons of things, the mysteries of life and death. Of all the Greek myths that of Prometheus, the teaching-god, is the most human-natural ; he must be cold indeed who can read unmoved the woeful plaint of this bright spirit, riveted by jealous Zeus "with clenching teeth of adamant" to the stony face of Caucasus ! 1 Discourse delivered on the occasion of the Commemoration of the Conversion of St. Paul (Jan. 25), feast of the Faculty of Theology. |