The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-10-29

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To make an application of the ldea ad1
5vanced, i INTERESTINGLY say that every
good and practical Catholic ii by force
Of that very fact good citizen. And And
the converse is equally true, that every
bad Catholic is apt to be poor kind OF
citizen. And to the extent that the
Catholic Church has succeeded in draw
ing within the influence of her teaching
the mon OF this, OF any other nation, she
is the greatest conservator OF law and
morals the world can ever know.
Show me practical Christian God
fearing nan; whatever his creed, and /
will show you man who as rule obeys
the law, respects his -neighbor and re-
spects himself. T do not believe in milk
and water men. I respect the puritan,
though he mercilessly prosecuted my
kindred and faith. His was harsh
creed, but he acted according to his light
and in the spirit of his age. There was no
milk and water in his theology. AS to
other beverages am not go sure. Oliver
| Wendell Holmes ought to be an author
ity In his ode to an ancient punch
bowl be tells how Captain Miles Stand
ish poured in the fiery Holland and
stirred the posset with his sword. And
then how he and his sturdy
! 'Musketeers-the men who fought and prayed,
| All drank as 'twere their mothers milk, and
] not man afraid"
AS the Columbus Club has wisely
made statute of limitation on speeches
tonight ! will limit my subject with
your permission to that part of the New
World known as the United States and
Canada.
The traveller who passes to California
by one of the present southern roads
may see in summer time on the eastern
slopes OF the mountains strange vision.
Away up beyond the eagles nesting
places, on the face of the bare cliff, ap-
pears the figure of silver cross colos-
sal in size-shining in the sunlight lumi-
nous as star, perfect in form. By what
convulsion of Nature, or when it first ap-
peared, no chronicle tells But there 1t
hangs brilliant in the sunshine, darkened
in the shadow, Cross in that vast soil
tude. And there it will remain until the
granite foundations of those mighty
mountains shall be lifted and Nature IN
her last convulsive throes shall close the
sign which Nature made. Taking this
as my inspiration and as Natures prop
hecy, I shall endeavor to show you to-
night how that cross Of Christ, held
hand high by Catholic pioneers-priest
and layman- often with mar
| tyr's blood, the most sublime act of
fsith-radiant always with hope and
Christian charity has moved steadily
across the continent from the moment
Columbus first planted it on the Holy
Saviour's southern isle; and how it was
and Is the herald of civilization which
will never fail. sS...
Mr.. Kelly then went into an exhaus-
tive narrative of the work of discovery
by Catholics in America and pursued it
from the foundation Of San Augustine
in 1865 to the opening of the west hun
dreds of years later. He continued:
Franciscan, Jesuit, Dominican, Recol-
lect-coming from rival and ofttimes
hostile nations, they knew but one mas
ter, the Lord Christ; they followed but
one banner, His Holy Cross; they labored
for but one end, good to humankind. No
higher heroism has ever been displayed
in the worlds history, not even by the
apostles themselves. The chosen twelve
with the glow OF the fiery tongue Of Pen
tecost upon each brow, and the touch Of
the living hand of Jesus still thrilling
each heart, went forth into an unbeliev-
ing world. But before them Rome and
Greece had conquered and to some ex-
tent had civilized the nations. The
earth they knew and sought to conquer
was not in primeval darkness. It's
fields were indeed fallow, but the plow-
shares of an inferior civilization had
erstwhile stirred them. They met men
speaking their own language, formed
into governments, having laws and viii
lagos and cities. They followed the beaten
ways of commerce. On the other hand,
the evangels of the New World COPIED
with dense barbaric paganism. They
found a savage people, divided in war
ring tribes, speaking each different
tongue, and living by the chase. They
mastered their different languages. They
cut their way through dense forests,