St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-23
He Receives a Gold Medal
Struck i'm Honor Of the
Centennial.
In Return the President Ex-
presses His Friendship for
the Institution.
Cardinal Gibbons Pays Trib-
ute to Archbishop Car
rolls Memory.
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afternoon with solemn academic SEES
sion in CASTOR memorial hall, at which
the honorary degrees were conferred.
The occasion was made the more nota-
bic by the presence of President Cleve-
land, who arrived at the college soon
after 8 o'clock. Immediately after his
arrival he and Cardinal Gibbons, arm in
arm, were escorted to the platform, fol-
lowed by Secretary Bayard, the justices
of the supreme court, members OF the
diplomatic corps, and many clerical O.
tables. The exercises included Latin
address by Rev. E. H. Welsh, S. D.,
the chancellor of the university; adj
dresses on THE Law and the People,
by A. Clay Rogers. post graduate OF
the law departments; ''Graduation," by
Ewing W. Day, a graduate of the medi-
cal department. class of 80, and
Liberal Education" by d. J. Geary. of
the class of 80, of the classical depart
ment. At the close of the addresses the
degrees were conferred. The diplomas
were presented by the president.
Among these received the degrees were:
Doctor of laws, Hon. Thomas F. Bay
ard, secretary of state; Hon. Honore
Mercier, prime minister of Quebec;
Hon. Augustus Ii. Garland, at
torney-general; Hon. Emilio de
Muruaga. E. E. and M. P. of
Spain: Hon. John Lee Carroll;
Hon. Nathan Golf, Gen. W. S. Rosen-
Grams, Hon. Zachariah Montgomery,
John Culinary Shea, LII. D., John L.
DOYLE, California; George E. Hamilton,
Alexander II. Laughborough,. Cali
fornia: John B. Hamilton, nj. d.,
Thomas Dwight. John Boyle OReilly,
II Nf, - INV
Rev. P. Dillon, ID. D., John Brisben
Walker, John G. Agar, Eugene S. Ives.
Three gold medals were struck in honor
of the centennial celebration, which
were awarded as follows: One to
John Culinary Shea, LII. D.,
the historian of the Catholic
church in America, for his work, 1.-THE
Lite and Times of Archbishop CARROLL"
a gold medal, struck by the Alumni as
ISOLATION, presented to his eminence
James Cardinal Gibbons. for the
archiepiscopal see of Baltimore, and
gold medal, like the preceding, to the
president, Grover Cleveland, for the
government of the United States.
following address:
CARDINAL GIBBONS ADDRESS.
II is IN ACCORDANCE with the economy
of Divine Providence that whenever
God has any great work to accomplish
in the civil social, or moral order, be
employs the agency OF suitable men to
effect its execution. When he designed
TO found a great and moral empire in
this Western world, he raised up men
who laid the foundations of our repub-
lie so deep, so broad and so strong that
1t might continue for succeeding gener-
ations to be the sanctuary of freedom
and the home of the OPP
pressed. He gave to the eoun-
try Washington, whose valOr and
military genius in war, were equaled
only by his wisdom and craftsmanship
I'm the government of the nation. He
gave it jefferson, who was the con-
trolling mind in the framing Of the i'm
mortal Declaration Of Independence.
He raised up at the time a number OF
great men whose ardent love of liberty
never degenerated into license, but was
always tempered by reverence for law
and legitimate authority. And in like
manner when it pleased Almighty God
to lay the foundations of the Catholic
religion in this country on solid and
permanent basis, by the establishment
of the hierarchy, he chose a man ac-
cording to his own heart. He chose
John Carroll to be the
FIRST BISHOP OF BALTIMORE.
"There was a man sent from God
whose name was John. He was not the
light, but was to testify concerning the
hight" Archbishop Carroll combined
in his person the two-fold character of a
devoted Christian priest and an ardent
patriot. He was man of marvellous
foresight, of deep penetration, cOnsunl-
mate wisdom and sterling, piety. He
was intimately acquainted with the
genius of our political constitution. and
was therefore eminently fitted for the
delicate task of adapting the dis
cipline of the church to the require
ment of our civil government. The
truths of religion are eternal and i'm
mutable, bnt the discipline of the church
is changeable. just as man himself is
always the same in his essential charac-
teristics. while his dress varies accord
ing to the fashion of the times. Not
only did Archbishop Carroll exhibit eX-
traordinary tact in adjusting the disci-
pline of the church to the peculiar wants
of our new republic, but his broad, gen.
erous and benevolent heart brought him
with his non-Catholic brethren.
both among the clergy and the
laity, without compromising his
position as Catholic prelate. | have
often heard some old citizens of Balti-
more speak in terms of praise and adj
miration of the close and intimate terms
of friendship which bound him to the
Protestant clergy of his day. Had
Archbishop Carroll been a man of con-
tracted mind and narrow views, he
would have seriously
HAMPERED AND EMBARRASSED
his successors in the exercise of their
ministry; bat happily for all of us. he
was prelate of broad and c0mprehen-
sive ideas. cannot pay higher tIib-
ute to the wisdom of John Carroll than
by declaring that he never did utter
public sentiment of which we would be
principle which we had ever occasion to
retract. No matter how high we build
the edifice of faith, we find the fOunda-
lions of Carroll broad and deep enough
to sustain the building. No matter
what work we undertake in the
cause of charity and religion, we
find our policy outlined by the far
reaching mind of our American patri-
arch. One hundred years ago, short
time before his Episcopal conservation.
Georgetown college was founded by
Rev. John Carroll. Like all great and
beneficent undertakings the work met
Will StIlOuS lOSioIdNCc' rdtuCi Val
roll was confronted by poverty, by in
difference, and even by the active op-
position of his own brethren. Rev.
Leonard Neale, afterwards Archbishop
Carroll's successor to the see of
Baltimore, opposed the enterprise on
the plea of insufficient means. But
to all these timid counsels John
Carroll replied: 81 will consecrate my
time. my energies and my talents to the
prosecution of this work in the cause of
Christian education, and with the bless
inc of Cod II shall cuocand - And ppD-