Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-14
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY.

Celebration Of the Fiftieth Anniversary of
the Organization of the straightforward
Address by Bishop Ireland.
The programme of the celebration of the
fftieth anniversary of the st. Vincent de
Paul society, was faithfully carried out as
published in yesterdays GLOBE. The mem
ber5 of the various companies assembled
promptly at G a. NJ, in the basement of
the cathedral, and proceeded in body to
the church, where they assisted at mass,
which was celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Grace. The number attending was very
large, nearly $50 members being present.
III the evening at 1870, a very large con-
gregatIon assembled at the cathedral, to
assist at vespers and listen to the elo-
quent address of Bishop Ireland.
The music was very fine, and the altar
was Respondent with lights and flowers.
After vespers Bishop Ireland mounted the
pulpit and delivered an address, which
was listened to by al present with the
deepest attention. He said that they had
assembled there TO do homer to the names
and memories of naen who, as citizens and
Christians, he'd done honor to the church.
Great ideas and facts always command
praise. These were great in the
ST. Vincent de Paul society, as the
results had proved. 1t was in France, a
country which, with all its faults, is still
one CT noble ideas and great self-denial.
1t was in Paris, the capital of France
which fifty years ago had hardly recovered
from the terrible effects Of the first revo!u-
fion, which banded class against class, that
despised religion and tram pied upon Il.
ut the university OF the gag capita. s.a.5
Of students who were steadfastly faithfG, 0
their faith, united themselves toGether uu-
der the leadership of Frederick Oman for
the purpose of demonstrating to the world
by their acts, what true Christian charity
could accomplish. They met in a small,
unpretentious room, the use of which was
loaned to them by pious person named
Banly.
They said, We are poor, but we have en-
ergy and good will, and in 1888 they Or
gained the association now known as the
st. Vincent de Paul society. Small indeed
was the grain of mustard seed thus sown,
but great have been its fruits. In every
country where the Catholic church has
been established, the members of the So
ciety of st. Vincent de Paul are gathering
during this month of May around the
affairs of Gods church, receiving the holy
communion, to beg for further blessings,
and chanting Ge DeunS Of Thanksgiving for
past favors received.
The wonderful success of the society is
largely due to the zeal of the associate
and TO their admirable rule, which stands
to-day as perfect as when first published,
without line that i'll the name of religion
or charity should be stricken out or
changed. The great feature of the So
ciety IS that it encourages while assisting;
that 1t does not take away the manly pride
CT the recipient of charity, but rather
leads him to renewed eXertions.
The Right Reverend speaker, then re-
ferrad to the dangers of society from com
mU0ism, socialism and internationalisn, of
the warning Of classes. While one man
lived in palace and spent,as was recently
the case, 100000 on a single nights en-
tertainment in the very city where hun
dreds of poor inhabitants were in need or
in prison.
Men endeavor to occupy as much Of this
world as possible forgetting that there is a
better world hereafter. Deprivation of
earthly goods is lookedu upon as the greatest
misery. The condition of civilization with
out the purifying effect of Christianity was
illustrated by the examples OF Rome and
Greece and the marvellous results of the
inroduction of Christianity which had even
deprived woe of many of its horrors.
The members of the society were then
encouraged to persevere in their good work,
and the bishop expressed the wish that
they might continue to show the noble and
generous ambition to do good which char
acterizes the ST. Vincet de Paul Society.
The society proposed, said the bishop,
80 perform some special act of charity on
&his occasion, to establish monument in
The shape of some noble and enduring
work. 1t had been suggested to
them to purchase for the Little Sisters of
the poor, who are soon to establish them
selves in our midst, the house formerly &C.
.cupied by the sisters of the Good Shep-
herd, and the society appealed to its
friends, present there tonight, to help
them raise the funds.
The object of the order of the Little Sis
iers Of the poor was then explained. They
take care Of the aged poor, maintaining
themselves and their wards by begging
from door to door and supplicating the
aims of the charitable.
The bishop closed his remarks by an