Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-10-30
Very Neatly Done.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn's Sunday School
Glass Of Presidential Candidates.

The Rev.Dr Edward McGlynn, pastor
of Stephen s Roman Catholic church,
delivered an impromptu address at the
reception of Daniel McSweeney in the
acadt my os music, New York, the 9TH
er evening in the course of which he
said:
81 should like to preach to you thi
evening about some of the old undis-
puted religious and moral truths that
you know well enough, but that some
may unfortunately be too prone to for
get. How will it do to preach to you
little about some of the ten command
ments, those particularly that concern
most closely the political duties of indi-
vidual voters, and still more the duties
of officers elected or appointed by pub
lie trusts How will it do for q text
[Great laughter and applause.l For the
other, Thou shall not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbor.' (Renewed
laughter.) Or shat other, Thou shall
not take the name of God in vain.
Thou shall not swear falsly. Laughter
and applause.) Or that other great and
positive commandment, which in en-
joining reverence, ioYe and obedience to
father and mother, is, in the opinion
of theologianS, doctors and saints, in
tended to enforce also unselfShness, de-
votion and self-sacriicing attachment
to the best interests of our fatherland,
our motherland. Applause.
ut would be, think, very proper
test to which to put the multitudinous
aspirants to the presidential office, to
catechise them as to their opinions ,and,
if you choose their practice, ,as concerns
these fundamental maxims of private
and public morality. Well, then, let us
get up Sunday school class [laughter1
composed of said applicants let us i'm.
agine the seven, or eight or more of
them all sitting like good little boys
and girls upon bench upon this stage.
[Great laughter
'Then we shall have Miss Belva
Lockwood, Mr.. ST. John and one goody-
goody little boy, who meyer goes fishing
on Sunday or does any other naughty
thing, who is we'll known as little Ben
ME Butler-[great laughter and ap-
plause. and we must not forget Mr..
James q. Blaine and Governor Grover
Cleveland LGreat applause.l Do not
be afraid, / am not going to say any
thing partisan. / may have my own
partisan predilections-but L am not
going to tell you what they are, al
though, perhaps, some of you may be
shrewd enough to guess. Loud laugh
ter.
well, let the class commence 1
should say to each aspirant, for in
stance; Sonny, or Sissy as the case
may be, what do you think of the COM
mandment, Thou shalt not steal ? If
another smart boy should answer,
well, should not like to say any
thing in praise of stealing, it would not
sound well, but if you want my real
view the crime is not so much in steal
ing as in beingfoun out Laughter
l should instantly have to say, 80, per-
verse and unregenerate youth, go down
to the foot of the Glass; [Great laugh
ter and applause.] And if another
bright boy should answer: Stealing is
always wrong and cannot, therefore, be
polite and is really stealing in the
higher sense of the commandment to a.
bnse public trust to private ends and
to private gain,' should say to that
little boy Good boy, for you, go up
to the head of the Glass; Laughter
and great applause.] And so L should
put them through all those command
ments that have the 'directest bearing
upon the election to public Office and
the administration of public trust"
{ (Applause.)