ic solidarity_.
For in the growing youth we see the Country and the Church, with whose
future welfare it is necessarily united. A true Catholic must have his
vision of what the Church ought to be in his Country and must work to
make that vision come true.

Through a Catholic University, and through it only, will the Church give
its full _contribution to the national life of Western Canada_ by
creating as we said, Catholic leadership. We have as Catholics, ideas to
give to the nation, to its up-building, and to its prosperity. The sun
of Canadian liberty is shining for our doctrines as it does for other
ideals. And, strange to say, the most subversive theories seem to take
the greatest and most frequent advantage of this freedom. We have no
apology to make for our ideas. They stand on their own merit and have
been vindicated by the acid-test of time. To bring our message to the
country, to spread its beneficial influence is the mission of our
Catholic leaders. Only a large number of truly educated Catholic men are
able to make their influence felt on the life and thought of a country.

This identification of a Catholic university with our Western Provinces
will be an asset to our public life and beneficial to the people at
large, notwithstanding their aloofness and unreasoned opposition to our
principles and methods. The evils of the times are the direct result of
the secularization of education. Catholic higher education is the only
antidote and remedy to this evil. Its principles are a vigorous protest
against materialistic philosophy. We believe in the mastery of ideas and
in the final victory of truth.

_The Church also for her own benefit needs true Catholic leaders_.
Leaders in a Catholic Community, who are not thoroughly Catholic in their
training, who have false notions, warped views, biassed conceptions of
vital questions, are most detrimental to the cause of Catholicity.
Distorted and confused ideas, in religious matters particularly, always
lead to a compromise. After school days they fail to find their Catholic
faith correlated with the _problems_ and _experiences_ which never
troubled them before, and which now, lack of higher education will not
allow them to solve and to face. Have we not indeed in Western Canada to
guard ourselves against latitudinarianism in our Catholic life? Material
prosperity, success in business or in farming, associations with men and
women who have practically no b