The Irish standard., 1894-08-04

coming to his home. Sustained in his
best elemen: by kind and sympathetic
people, and when going away would 60
with fresh courage to pursue the work
to which we are pledged"
Bishop Cotter, president Of the Ma
tional g. T. A. union, presented the con-
vention his annual address, as follows:
Brethren in the holy cause OF total alb
stinence, we have profoundest reasons for
oongratulation that in assembling in
this, the capital city of the North Star
state, we have gathered to commemorate
not only one, but twenty.four years OF
labor; years OF glorious litanies, every
innovation of which is believed with
tears Of glsdness and thanksgiving from
the eyes of men, women and children who
have been saved out of the dread bond,
age of intempsrance and pauperism,
every innovation Of which contains q
note of victory, telling OF triumphs over
foe whose sway meant unutterable mis-.
cry for time and eternity
We have reason to glory in that We
commemorate our tnum phs ID the me-.
tropolitan city Of our beloved chieftan--'
in the nome of the living leader OF the
total abstainers Of th1is ags-Archbiah
ireland. Il.
Father Mathew, Cardinal Manning,
Archbishop Ireland! What names SO
potent to thrill the hearts Of men; so ca.
pable of reviving the spirit of hero ism;
so sure IN their sounding to awaken the
slumbering divinity in man, and move it
to It's reclamation and redemption!
Father Mathew, apostle and prophet Of
the new era, thy memory grows with the
years in beauty and power for good in
the hearts OF men, and paints thes ON the
canvass of all good mems admiration and
love, hero OF heroes amongst the great
children Of man.
Cardinal Manning, thy work for Eng
land and the world is, we trust, noble
theme for angelic song. Archbishop Ire
land, twenty five years of knightly serv-
ice in the holy cause Of temperance, the
history of which compels the reverential
admiration Of every soldier, veteran
though he b., Of total abstinence, merit
browning. We hail you our chief! The
comradeship of quarter OF century's
service on the hardest fought moral bat
! tlefie]ds of our common country, assures
| us that the great qualities which mark
you born leader OF men grow under the
assaults Of enemies, aud with yours We,
therefore, anticipate for you greaseFsvic
tories in the battle yet to be. waged for
home, for country, and for God; victories
that shall assure us and millions more of
the human family, q kingdom that shall
b. one with the "kingdom" of the Father,
for which we daily pray. May your
shadow grow with the waning sun Of the
passing-and with the rising sun of the
dawnipg century, and cover with bene-
diction and grace multitudes for whom
you, like the Master, have had compass
sion. This convention will give to us and
to the world g comforting and magniff-
cent retrospect, yet our rejoicing in it
bears not the character of that narrow.
JOY that wastes itself in rhapsodizing
over "reminiscences Of work, however val
liant and holy. This is not convention
of Standardization. We rejoice in the
harvest that is ours, but with the JOY
that awakens ambition to do yet more.
the JOY that enkindles the fame Of
more ardent and hopeful zeal for the res
cuing of the millions Of drink depraved,
no less than Of the greater millions who
suffered through their crimes. And now,
it ever, is apostolic work needed. Oondi-
tions have ripened in. our day for the
alarming industrial crisis now vexing the
brains and hearts Of rich and poor alike
s. "self- denial, Of which our Eldest
Brother was the divine exponent on
earth, is the unchanging and unchange-
able principle Of sound political as Of
sound domestic economy.
It is precisely il the daily application
of this principle chat our Catholic Total
Abstinence associations have been en-.
sabled to work reforms. And TO such q
marvellous degree that since their in
auguration the world has recognized
and proclaimed that the holy cause
means paradise regained' to countless
souls. The good tree Is known and
priced By the world because Of. It's frnits.
Let the work Of this CONVEX ton lead
to the blessed multiplication of these
evangelizing, soul saving societies. The
methods thus far used for their organ
ization have been many and varied. But
the history Of our movement will. bear
me out il the assertion that the apostls-
ship of preaching the. word ain season
and ont &c season, y By earhest, God low
ing men, lovers of Their kind, men con-l
sumed b the desire o recovering their
wayward and wand riinR breeth ION toI