St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-29
SAINT PAUL.
HoNoRs WE'LL BESTOWED.
St. Paul Catholics Testify to Their
Appreciat:on of Father Nugent.

St. Paul Catholics Testify to Their
Appreciation of Father Nugent.
Cretin hall did not begin TO hold the
crowds which flocked thither last night
to do honor to the famous evangelist
from England, Father Nugent. On the
stage were seated Archbishop Ireland.
Bishop BlOndel and BishOp-elect Shan
lev, Fathers Rawley, Cosgrove, Hebron.
Bvrne. Fleming and LAWYER, J. f. Nc
gUire, IL. J. Mcguire, of Chicago, and
John w. Willis. John w. Willis opened
proceedings in a neat speech, and pre-
scented to Father Nugent an address
deliberately illuminated, which he read,
as follows:
Very Reverend Father: The Catholics OF
ST. Paul welcome you 10 our 1ty. we wei
come You as one linked by many tie TO our
affections and esteem. Your persona! worm
calls forth orr admiration and our voice can
be but an echo of the common eulogy sent
out both in the old world and the new. Inc
cause. whose ardent champion you are, Is
common one with Us all: 1ouf noDle DCast
Is. that as a priest of God, true TO the
charity of ChTlst. you have enlisted IN the
service of your fellow men the lotuest IN
btincts of your noble soul. To the Door, the
lOWlV and the unfortunate you have peon'
and are. q wise counselor and a good father.
But with Christian philanthropy you nave
toined the far-seeing wisdom OF pAllos-
Opber. Not content to relieve the wants,
assuage the miseries and smooth down the
TngEei maths of the poor and thriftless. you
have pushed on farther and have
gone TO the roots Of many evils. You
have seen, as all must sac, tnat
many OF the dire things that torture men and
degrade them are not without nope ot OF
remedy. Your work in the cause OF totai
abstinence has not been Spasmodlc, put
rather long, well sustained. praeucal eIort
In one of the greatest social reforms OF tne
age You began that work at time when II
was neither fashionable nor easy 10 advocate
such a reform. You have peTseVered in II
with an intelligence and an energy
which call forth the plaUdlts OF all
thoughtful minds. You have conferred
countless benefits upon society by resculhg
the fallen and by preventing the recruiting o1
the criminal classes; you have taken nun
dreds of children from degradation; you
have put them in positions where success IN
life is assured to them. Your generosity 10
the poor, Gods chosen ones, has long since
become pIoverbial. Your condensed and
matured wisdom, and, above all. your purse.
have been ever at the command OF the needy.
The orphan child in its bereavement
the poor working girl N u. her nar, oa ny
drunkard in his misery, the outcaSt
in shame have never yet appealed 10 you III
vain. You have secured happy homes ana
independence for thousands who were IN
distress You have advanced the cauSe OF
Catholic education by establishing and sus-
tanning an institute which has given prac-
teal and well-trained hands TO all the honor
able walks Of life. You have been the means
of bringing Catholic literature 10 homes
whore otherwise ray OF intellectual llehs
might never have shown. Hou have raised
the standard of Catholic journalism to point
hitherto unequaled among English-speaklng
people. You have shown what power for
good such journalism may be. We nave
read in your life new modes, new aims, new
powers, new lights piercing the depths and
soaring TO the heights. In paying this little
tribute of respectful gratitude we may be
permitted TO express hope that that voice
which for 50 many years has been raised III
words of wisdom and OF peace may long DC
left to bless mankind. We wish you old bless
ings renewed and we wish you new blessings
with the old.
Father Nugent then arose and was re-
ceived with loud applause. He pro-
ceeded to give an outline of the way IN
which he came to take up temperance
as his life work. Being chaplain of
Bootle Jail at Liverpool, he gradually
discovered that almost all OF the crlml-
nails had become such more through
force of circumstances than through
innate viciOuSneSS. Drunkenness he
found Law al the root of the evil. Tens
selves ND on the streets of the big cities
of England ignorant OF everything, save
that 1t was hard work to keep from star
Walton. Most of these children were
sons and daughters of drunkards. by
whom they had been left TO fight the
world alone. OF God they have no
knowledse. except to take his name in
vain. Of good and evil they are utterly
ignorant. From these children are the
criminal classes recruited. lie deS-
cribed in vivid language the difficulty of
the temperance work in England, where
the liquor traffic is a power in politics
and even in religion. He described his
first trip 70 this country and what had
led him to send so many immigrants 10
Mime sofa, paying a high tribute TO
Archbishop Ireland and his work. He
then told what the League of the Cross
was. in mnch the same language that
was used in an interview with nm III
the GLOBE. TO his hearers he then
anppalPd in the name o. Christ and
His cross to give up liquor, not so much
on their own account as on that of 9th
erS. The example they would be setting
in denying themselves, that other
weaker MORALS might be strengthened,
WAS fOrcibly brought out by the elO-
quent speaker.
John W. Willis, in a brief but mas
terIy speech. welcomed Father Nugent
to ST. Paul, his closing words being,
"His worth well warrants our wei
come"
Archbishop ireland eulogized his
his reverend and hOnOred guest, and
spoke a few well-choSen words to his
hearers. He said religion consisted not
only in prayers. but i'll loving Christ
and His poorest creatures. He eXhOrted
them to do something for that Christ
who went about doing good. and who
gave His life for them There was no
better way of working for Him than by
denying themselves. so that Others
might profit 10y their example
During the evening several gentle
men sang, and an orchestra played a
number of selections. All the speakers
were loudly applauded, the audience
being apparently in thorough SYM
patty.