The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-08-12
CATHOLIC yEMPLARS.
They Hold Their Convention in
New York City.

New York, August Tho formal opening
of tho Catholic Total Abstinence Union Oh
America took place this morning in column
bus hail. which will be the headquarters OF
the convention. When Father j. NJ. Cleary'
who is general president of TINS ofgah4Zd-
ton, called the convention to order at
8 o'clock about six hundred delegates were
on hand.
Father Callahan, OF the Paulish church.
opened the convention with prayer. Then
the committee on credentials was appointed.
j. Monahan was appointed sefseahl-at-
arms and Walter Fitzmaurice, OF Connecti-
cut, and Mafye Doohcrty, OF FlttsDuiS,
were appointed assistant secretaries.
The delegates then marched to the
cathedral, where solemn pontitical mass
was celebrated by Monsgnor Satolli. Arch
bishop Ryan. OF Philadelphia. preaching
tho sermon.
Archbishop Ryan. of Philadelphia. i'll the
course of his sermon. said:
Modern temperance movements have
been OF two Ainds--the purely humanitarian.
having in view only the temporal advant-
ages of body and mind to he attained by
tnt practice of temperance, and using only
human means FOR this purpose. such move
ments have their mission, and Catholics
ought to stand with their fellow citizens
in every effort Tor temporal anelioration.
sometimes. however the poison OF false
principles may ue detected in these orSahl-
I8ticus.
1.-THE second class of Temperance move
,,,..,,t. i. r,,t +, which fine catholic Total
Abstinence Union Of America belongs,
yhicb is AT once humanitarian and re-
iigious.
TO effect great popular moral reforms,
the religious element in men, the coz
science power "i."ii i''i -,
pcalei to. You cannot i'siSlatc him INTO
morality Morality requires sacrifice Of
seIushp.,s ana sacrii..e OF soilishness re-
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h''i'a = - t-, ,,,.,,, .5eei, 10
nl@u the alcIudlc h."tiEH. 10" '''' So ~
strike at The saloon ana urge ihtl ~ P"'o
it KS tae ,i,eas ra "a tne temples ol
,5,.i ,... ,,.iti,.,,tt .Il,.Isir. without speak
a. , ..,-. ,.,.,, ,....,- s,a.t frc
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Which ,,Iil brand aa u:@rlreIut the sHsh1-
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10 nan and the immense auditorium
was allied BY delegates IRON tnt in,i'''
cities represented and persons me '5.'"i