St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-08

in the GLOBE yesterday morning. AS each
delegate responded to his name he was pre-
sented with beautiful badge, printed on red
satin with gold fringe and silk rosette of
red and white. This closed the morning
proceedings at Market hall, when the assem-
blage adjourned and repaired to the Church
of the Assumption to attend the religions
exercises.
AT THE CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION.
AT 10 a. m. pontifical high mass was cele-
brated at the Church of the Assumption, by
the Right Reverend Bishop Ireland, assisted
by large number of the clergy. The audi
torium was tastily decorated with evergreens
and around the sanctuary was a profusion
of plants and flowers. The large edifice was
densely packed and hundreds were on the
outside unable to obtain admittance even
within the outer doors, The services were
ola unusually solemn and impressive char
acter. All the delegates to the convention
and most of the visiting societies were pres
ent in addition to the regular congregation.
BISHOP IRELAND's ADDRESS,
At the end of mass the bishop divested him
self of his pontifcal robes and advancing towards
the sanctuary rail, accompanied by the deacons
Of honor, he addressed the delegates He said:
Gentlemen-I beg to extend to you in the name
OF Gods church cordial welcome and TO assure
you that her prayers and her benedictions will be
invoked upon you and your counses during
your sojourning in this fair city of St. Paul.
You have proved yourselves deserving of her ia
vors by your loyal piety which has prompted you
to begin the work Of the convention by assisting
all together at the holy sacrifice of the mass
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ren Of the church, and recognizing as the sure
and eXhaustless founts OF noble inspirations the
affairs OF the living God. l congratulate you on
this public and unmistakable manifestation of
Catholic faith. The obvious characteristic in
deed, of your association has always been
strong attachment to the principles of religion
and jealous desire to foster in the hearts of
individual members q similar feeling.
Ny observation of your works in
past years, my reading of your rules and
your deliberations have led me to this conviction,
to which am glad this morning to be able to
give expression This characteristic has endeared
you to all Catholics in the land, and has been the
cause that the whole hierarchy in America take
deep and abiding interest in the workings of your
association, and view it as one of the most hope
full factors in the building up among US OF the
great church of the future.
Your strong faith, more even than ties of blood
and of language, links you into a sacred brother
who for more than decade OF years in private
life ard in legislative halls have unflinchingly
confronted despotic laws, conceived and executed
with the fell design TO destroy the church in Ger
many, and are to-day receiving the fruits of their
well fought battle, in seeing the imperial parlia-
ment compelled TO recede from its ungenerous and
iliDeral position, and to give back her rights to
the church. We in America live beneath fredoms
nag and our combat for truth and justice is not Of
the same nature as 1t has been in Germany. But
the combat remains, and the same spiritual arms
are needed. Our surroundings are often laden
with the poisoned air OF unbelief: public opinion
at times frowns upon US human respect tempts
the weaklings to pass, coward band, from the
ranks of loyal Catholics to those OF irregion and
of doubt; temporal advantages may even be held
out to wean US from the faith and the promises
OF our baptism. The salvation of Catholics amid
those dangers, is a strong, unyielding faith, and
an unbending temper in giving, as need may be,
public expression to our principles.
Much help is received in our battlings for relig-
ion from associations such those you represent.
In union there Is strength. 1t is an age of asso-
Citations, and men feel to-day that they do not
move or act with effect except in bodies. Error
has its associations, and it rewards membership
with temporal prizes Truth should not be
inactive, and while having as its own
exclusive inheritance, the rewards of eternal
life, why would it not for the strengthening OF
the weaker ones, offer its temporal rewards!
Such, understand, is the purpose OF your socie-
ties, which IN addition to the maintenance OF cor
rect principles ana the fostering of pety promise
prompt succor to the sick and to the bereated
families OF deceased members. l can but praise
your labors and pray that success may ever at
tend them,
You have come to a city and state where it
will be your qualification to find your fellow
Catholics, in large numbers, prosperous in the
fortunes Of the world, esteemed by citizens of
all creeds, and thoroughly loyal to the church.
Minnesota is in the annals of American Catholic
ity classic ground. The discoverer OF the fertile
fields lining the upper Mississippi, two hundred
years ago, was Catholic priest Father Henne-
PIN. The first geographical name at
tGched to a point in the northwest
was given by him to the falls hard
by and it was name borrowed from Catholic
saint-St. Anthony of Padua When civilization
in the early half of this century directed its
march toward Minnesota, Catholic missionaries
were in the vanguard, and the city of which YOU
are at present the honored guests, was christened
consecrated then his log chapel and the
city which he foresaw should grow
up around it, to the apostle of the gen
tiles, st. Paul. Both city and state have
had marvellous development. which strangers
can hardly realize. The church has kept pace
with this development, and her future
is as bright as ogg hearts could desire. Our non
Catholic fellow citizens generous and liberal
in their bearing towards her. There is in Min
nesota no bigotry, no unfair discrimination. 1t
is a Minnesota legislature that first placed on
the statute book, a liberty of conscience
bill, which honors beyond all words the North
Star state. and puts her in the front ranks of
freedom-loving and freedom-giying. common
wealths.
The field is open to the church; it remains
with her children to cultivate it. And here arises
for the lay man mission no less than for the
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must be the soldier and the apostle He will be
all this by his noble and pure life, bK his exam
pie of ali the virtues which the church COM
mends in her teachings and her precepts Let
the Catholic layman be ever the best citizen
Let him be most loyal to the institutions of the
country, always law-abiding. always honorable
in his relations with others. special duty de-
wolves upon us in America. The principles of
the Catholic church are those that
will save and sustain society, build
up and guard the Republic. We are
misrepresenting the church when we do not in
our individual conduct exemplify those princi-
pies. Be model men, model citizens, and when
questioned to the reason OF your noble life,
point with pride to the altar of your faith. This
is the mission of the Catholic laymen.
Again, bid you welcome, and pray that the
spirit OF light may direct your deliberations and
make them fruitful Of good for yourselves, your
country and your church
Bishop Ireland's sermon was followed by
one from the Rt. Rev. Bishop Seideubush,
of st. Cloud, who spoke from the text:
''Seek first the Kingdom Of God and its JUS
tice, and Other Things shall be Granted unto
You" The following is a synopsis of the
Bishops remarks
Rt. rev. prelates, dear clergy. beloved del
egates of the Catholic German Central So
ciety-This is the age of societies and unions
Everywhere people approach each other, one
learns from the other and aids the other.
There are good, bad and indifferent societies
We leave bad and Indifferent societies aside
,i.,o- III IL