St. Paul daily globe., 1889-04-01

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do him honor, showing that man can
| rise, however low he may have sfallen.
"A man should take pledge and try to
raise the drunkard and the fallen. I
ask all present to take the pledge, and
may God grant you keep it for ever"
Hon. G. ID. O'Brien said he was not in
shape to address a crowd of ladies.
Ladies do not sit on juries, and he had
supposed he would just have to talk to
the crusaders, to body of young men
for whom his subject was deep. The
crusaders organization, which is only
of recent birth, has grown to a size
(which is astonishing, and the work
(which they are doing is higher than the
mere virtue of temperance. Temperance
us only one of the virtues practised by
these young men. If there are any men
whose work will live after them, those
men are RevS. Father Shadley and Cos
grove. The world is growing no worse,
and very little better, but it is growing
larger. AS the world developes in
wealth, ease. comfort, temptations in
crease rapidly. The crusaders teach
the lesson of self-denial and all virtues
follow that. The audience was composed
OF young men accompanied by their
parents and those most dear to
them, there were no attractions to the
eye. The meeting was simply rally
of earnest temperance workers. These
young men from all poSit ions in life
had come together as true knights of
God, religion and virtue. They had
kept their original innosence, and are
clean and yirtuOus men in the sight of
God and man. 81 know them," con-
tinued Mr.. O'Brien; 81 know the work
they are doing, and thank the reverend
gentlemen who have started the move
m nrTf do, flr,
regulation of our holy church. Even
now, man of the world in my own
small way as am, have learned that
there is no happiness outside of relig-
ious fear and love of God. So far has
the good work being done by these
young men gone that the day is not far
distant when an Irish Catholic will
have to belong to the Crusaders to get
into anything like good society, so
called. The fact of membership in the
Crusaders is enough to recommend any
man for
ANY POSITION OF TRUST
j. j. Gleason told some of the adyan-
tages of joining the Crusaders society.
They have nice assembly hall, piano,
pool table, card tables, cigars and soft
drinks and the current papers of the
day. They are going to put in gym
. uasium. May l is the seventh ami
versary, and he knew no young man
who ever left the ranks who was glad
he had done so, while many cursed the
day they left. He asked any young
man to join the ranks, saying the
society was cosmopolitan, taking in all
walks of life. All members are equal,
and would extend cordial welcome to
anyone who desired to join.
Rev. Father Stanley said the Cru
saders society was one of his pets, as he
felt sort of fatherly interest in it. He
told the story of the original society
doubling its numbers after mission;
how the new members soon ran the
whole machine, with the result that the
society went to pieces. Then the
Cathedral guards were organized and
became a semi-military company. but
went to pieces on the subject of ''sword
or muskeJ?' but formed the nucleus of
the Emmett Light artillery. He then
of Of the he present @ t. Crusaders. Cru ss'N"slD and
welcomed them all to the large
hall, which, he said, seated 1000
with ease, and not 500 as stated in one
OF the papers on st. Patrick's day. Six
months ago Archbishop Ireland prom
Used to donate gold medal to the mem
Der who would secure the most new
members, and Tim Mccarthy made the
same offer for the second largest num-
Der. The first goes to Tim Mccarthy
land the second to ]. L. Twohy. Father
{Shanley gave the medals to the win
nerS.
Misses O'Connell and Naughton,
Messrs. Fallihee, j. j.. .Doherty. A.
Nunan, Crumland, j. J. Conroy and
Carey sang number of songs, played
iviOlins, pianos and cornets, and con-
Itfibuted to the general entertainment
by recitatiOns and other pleasant fea-
lures.