The San Francisco call., 1896-08-08
MANY HISTORICAL EVENTS.
A Large Audience Was Gathered in
metropolitan Temple to Hear
the Address.

ing desk, other American flags were upon
the front of the organ, which also was
adorned with bannerets bearing the SYM
bols of the League of the Cross, and bunt-
ing was looped over the front of the gall
leries. Company D was present in uni
form. The officers Of the organization
are: Captain, James T. Mcbride; first
lieutenant, Ignatius D. Dwyer; second
lieutenant, Harry McGuerren.
In addition to the lecture quite pro-
gramme had been provided. Alarge num-
Der of Catholic clergymen were present
and occupied seats on the platform, where
also the members of Company D were
seated.
The exercises were opened with an organ
number by Miss Marie Giorgiani. Some
preliminary remarks were made by
Colonel William C. Mahoney, who intro
duced Colonel James T. Smith as the
president of the evening.
Colonel Smith spoke briefly. He said:
This is the era of organization. There are
organizations within organizations, having
for their purpose objects from the building of
a railroad to the election of President I
am glad to say that there is only one organiza-
ton in this country which is opposed to
churches. Such organizations as the one to
which 1 allude cannot be relied upon to
establish more firmly the Republic. Organiza-
tions for only material advancement may pro-
mote wealth, but they do not necessarily make
better men. Society cannot be pure and good
unless the families that compose it are SO.
Society cannot be good unless it's individuals
are good. The League of the Cross is organized
to perform good work, to make good citizens,
to make them worthy to march under that
flag which they always carry and which they
always will carry while this Republic lasts.
Colonel Smith closed his address by an
nouncing that next Sunday afternoon at
o'clock rally of the Junior League of
the Cross will be held in the Mechanics
Pavilion. at that time competition for
the Arch bishops medal, it was announced.
will take place and an address will be
made by the Archbishop.
NJ Grennan followed with cornet solos.
Miss Isabelle Rogers sang a contralto solo.
G. It. Graeber and David Torres performed
banjo duet. The audience then rose
and sang "My Country, IT'S of Thee"
Miss Giorgiani accompanying.
Rev. Arthur M. Clark then began his
lecture. The speaker was very warmly
received He said that the father of
modern liberty has been the subject of
much speculation. He has been variousIy
named, from George Washington down.
lie had fonnd only one person who had
guessed whom he had in mind. He would
leave the audience in suspense little
longer. He spoke in brief as follows:
1 once saw two Englishmen, just arrived,
who were strewing the streets with his that
they had dropped, and they were speaking of
liberty. This was q country, they thought,
in which they were free to get drunk. Libertyl
Whetisi 1t? Liberty to write and say what you
please; to shoot people if you have the money
to buy Judge and jury; to steal. Is that
liberty? No, that is license.
Lam not opposed to the freedom of the press.
but wish that the press would sometimes
muzzle itself on some subjects. License and
liberty are very little alike. Only the man
who thinks and acts and speaks according to
the rules laid down by human reason is free.
Liberty means slavery and freedom means SER
vice in sense.
The man who is under the sway of his pas
sions has no freedom. The murderer, if Just
ice was done, would lose his life. He has lost
his freedom. He is bondsman to the civil
authorities. Not only is there bound to free
dom OF action, there is q bound to freedom. OF
thought. Nothing is more under laws than
thought. man may possibly imagine mon
ster of nondescript shape; thought rests on
facts.
Aman may teach his children that there is
no God and call that free thought, and they
grow up without any sense of responsibility.
If such teachers were put down there would
be an outcry all over the world that free
thought had been interfered with, but that is
not free thought.
There have been many false religions In
the first ages Christianity was assailed by a
power that gave federation to every other form
of religion. That lasted 300 years, but the
Christian religion was not crushed. When
Constantine became Catholic he did not put
down pagan worship. The temples were closed
after a time, but were not torn down. Some
of them were standing as late as the eleventh
century
After the invasion OF the tribes of Asia, So
ciety began to settle down. There were en-
perors who assumed the right to name bish-
ops and finally reached the conclusion that
bishops should not be invest ted except by
them. They made bad work of playing at
church. They made me think of Darius Green
and his flying machine he tried to fly on a
Fourth of July. He fell Just the same way
with emperors and civil rulers when they at
tempt to regulate the church. They have al
ways failed and always will.
Henry ", an Emperor guilty of every crime
who stopped at nothing, who had the power,
the soldiers and many unscrupulous people
took everything he could lay his hands
upon into his own Golfers. Time after time
the people rose against him. Time after time
the father of modern liberty sent delegates to
pacify the people.
Henry the Fourth was finally excommuni-
Gated and he was summoned to Rome to give
an account OF himself. The Pontiff Alexander
the Second died while he was on the way and
he did not go.
After the funeral OF the Pontiff was
over the Cardinals were assembled. A
cry arose, "Let Hildebrand be Pope"
The Cardinals approved. So ne was
elected the Pope, Gregory the Sevent ,
and he merits the title which he has since