St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
Noble Record by Bishop Shan
ley in the Cause Of Tenn
peranee.
The Newly Conseepated Bish-
op Presented With a Purse
Of Gold.
Bishop Cotter's and Doctor
Laughlin's Words of Wis
dom and Advice.

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saderS' Temperance association to
Bishop Stanley and the other recently
created bishops. The audience com4
priSed in addition TO the members of
the society, of which Father Stanley
was the founder, many of the most
! prominent Catholics i'll the city, who
had assembled to do honor and see
honor done the man whose popularity
in this city is proyerhial. A musical
programme had been prepared for the
occasion, and was opened with piano
solo by n. Murphy, who, responding to
| an encore, sang a solo. There were on
| the platform at the opening of ceremo-
MES Bishops Stanley, Cotter. Ryan,
Cosgroye; Fathers Gibbons, of st. Paul,
aud Mclaughlin, of Philadelphia.
After several musical selections had
been given. Pr eSident A. W. Guttridge
took the stand, and addressing Bishop
Shanley spoke as follows:
Right Reverend and Dear Sir: The
| members of the Crusaders Total Alb
stinenee Society of st. Paul take this
occasion to acknowledge in small de-
gree our deep sense of Indebtedness TO
measurement of value; and we ask you
to accept the accompanying purse as
slight expression of that feeling.
We trust you will forgive us II we
give way a little to the natural Senti-
ments of our hearts and say, while we
are very proud OF you as having proven
yourself worthy of the high office to
which YOU have been called, while we
know that it will work to the greater
glory of country ana church. while we
have a firm faith that the Intelli-
gence and virtue which have
made you 81 distinguished here
will no become still more prominent:
while we heartily Joined this morning
in the universal te deum that went up
from affairs in every land under the sun
praiSing God because His vicar on
earth has again selected as ruler in
His church one so we'll prepared, yet,
right reverend sir. we are tempted to
forget some of this in the stronger
emotion which possesses US, and to re-
member only that our companion.
friend, brother, father is going away.
The man who brought us into being, he
who nOurished
OUR INFANTILE WEAKNESS,
he who FeiOiced with us in our youth
full hopes, he who encouraged US in
maturity to stand alone, he from whom
We have so often received temporal as
sistance, he who has so frequently
urged us to continue to seek higher
planes of patriotism, usefulness and
virtue, he to whom we have ever
turned for counsel, feeling that that adj
vice would always be for our good; he
who, as pastor, has guarded cur spirit
ual life he is going from us. This
is our weight of care to-day. Our com
pansatiOn for this loss is the knowledge
that an able, skilled, tried, successful.
fearless, aggressive, unyieldlug champ
ION of total abstinence, clad from on
high in still more impenetrable arInOr
welding by divine authority new and
infinitely powerful weapons. with an
ardor refreshed by an infusion of the
most strengthening graces OF the Holy
Ghost, is about to go forth at his mast
er'S command to do battle against the
demon of drink in new and more eX-i
tended arena-One in which 1t seems,
he will soon have numerous assistants.
Your divOtiOn, and that OF your two dis
tlnguiShed brothers, to the eplScODacy
is something for which temperance men
have special reason to thank GOd-aS
another indication that the power of
rum will continue to grow less.
When absent from us, beloved sir, we
trust it will be an agreeable reflection
to YOU to sometimes recall the fact that
| this Society-thiS conception OF yours
is now, we believe, the largest Catholic
| total abstinence society in the United
States, outside of the thirteen original
colonies: that at least eight different
natiOnalitieS are represented IN its MEN,
berShip: that. thanks to seed long since
SoWn by yourself and your associates,
we are at the present growing faster
! than ever before. Last year we more
| than doubled the number Of our MEM
bers-this year looks equally bright.
Believe us, dear bishop, a prayer,
however unworthy, will necessarily
arise from this society for the success
of every future undertaking of yours.
| We hope you will sometimes remember
us in your petitions before the throne
| of grace; and now. thanking you again
| for all YOU have done for us, and hum
bly, asking your blessing, we bid you
| goodbye"
STANLEY REPLIES.
Bishop Stanley was taken good deal
| by surprise by the presentation. as was
| evident in the manner in which his re-
| Spouse was begun. He was somewhat
nonplusSed, he said. There were Oc-
casiOnS in a mans lifetime when he
| wanted to speak most but the words re-
| fused to come. When invited to come
| to the hall and meet his old friends. he
had expected to fall into one of the old
| fashioned temperance rallies of which
! he had attended some hundreds in times
! gone by. He found himself confronted
! with the necessity of making a speech
| that instead of having brought him
| there to make little temperance adj
| dress, the Crusaders had brought him
| there in order to make him rich-hOw
| rich he didn't know as yet, but he was
| going to find out before long. He
| thanked the members of the society for
| the loyalty to him and to the order,
| which they had shown in the past.
| He thanked them for the purse-yet did
not propose to have them think he was
! bishop for revenue only; the money
| would be used for the glory of God and
| His kingdom. The bishop referred with
pride to the fact that it had remained
for st. Paul to rear to its present
strength and dignity one of the strong
est temperance alliances in the country,
and for the Crusaders to have given her
| the power to claim that distinction. The
example,
MORAL AND OTHERWISE,
| set the young men of the state-eyen of
| the continent-in the existence of So
| ciety in prosperity and increasing
| strength. such as the Crusaders of st.
Paul, was most saIutaly one. 1t en-
couraged others to spurn the tempter
and join the ranks of those whose
watchword was temperance and moral
| ity. In conclusion the bishop turned TO
President Guttridge, and said:
"Again, Mr.. President, l thank yon
for the marks of esteem, the words of
| encouragement and congratulation you
have given me. thank you for these,
as you well know, better than / can ex-
press it. At the same time / am prac-
teal mani have had that reputation
while among you'll propose to main
tain i: while remain with you. There
fore, although have thanked you for
the nice things you have said to me,
cannot refrain from thanking you still
more for the nice things you have done
for me-in fact, for furnishing me the
wherewith topurchase bread and butter
for the first few months of my residence
in North Oak ta."
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