The San Francisco call., 1896-02-04
him; But we do not hold him infallible even

MIN; But we 90 not hold him infallible even
in these matters.
But between God and mans conscience
nei.her rope nor priest can come, and the
Cathollc church itself teaches this great truth.
1! our conscience telis'us this line of action is
right, or that line OF action is right though IL
carry us in the fat of the Pope that is the
Catnonc conscience, we are moral towards If
we hesitate.
There are those who would bind us over
hand and foot to the statel What is the state
what is State? Turkey is State, Armenia is
that.
Those men who talk about a state do not
Kii Know what state means. When the state in
turkey goes out into the mountains and
slaughters the Armenians are they Obliged to
bend their necks and receive the blowa No.
According to the Catholic theory of conscience,
tney would betray the reason which God gave
to them If they were to follow out this idea.
The authority of the Pope has nothing to do
with our civil allegiance. We are as .undi-
moebs as any otner class For nearly three
have been endeavoring to find some proofs
against the loyalty of Catholics and
country they, have not found Catholic
traitor. Surely, if what they saw about MS
were true they could at least produce Bene-
dn,. dtc. arnold. one OF our opponents the other
Civil War, and one whose name we cannot
hear without cheering, that if on the
| down the Shenandoah, If a Catholic priest had
put up a. crucifix before him he would have
turned back. Well, happened to be reading
s Menolrs e OF General Sheridan" at the time,
ana found that when he was riding to relieve
the army he met a clergyman on the road
He was not a Catholic clergyman, either. He
was the Rarson who was chaplain to the regi-
ment. The general asked him where he was
gong; but he only cried out "Things will be
all right, General when you get there, and
the parson continued his forced march-to the
rear Laughter and applause.l
II there had been a traitor among us our enc
mics would have found us out
i've II we have We liberty we owe it to- the old
down on civilization and buried it
the Popes went out to meet the
enemy and finally conquered, and they sent
Liberty for which the Popes have not fought
The history. OF the papacy is a glorious one
\, No one can look upon that long procession of
old men, strong and vigorous standing up for
Gods truth for 1900 years, without feeling
his heart throb. Nothing has ever been
seen like it in the world. They had neither
ruled the world. The last of them sits pris-
oner ia the Vatican-the aged and illustrious
Leo XIII. (Great applause.]
They say that with our idea of the Papacy
we can nave no allegiance TO this our coun-
try. Yet Leo XIII has fearlessly said to the
people OF Europe: "Look at the constitution of
the united States. There is your model. fPro-
ionged cheers] They tell us that the Papacy
Is is failing; 1t would seem otherwise
When we look at the condition of the world
to-day, we find those not of the old church
the rock of Peter is firm. For 1000 years it has
remained unshaken by the storms. The empire
OF Rome thought to sweep it away in a torrent
OF blood; Where is the empire to-day? Where
is the church? The barbarians swept down
upon her, but she rose more glorious than be-
fore, and to-day she stands before the world un-
SCARED and unscathed by the storms of centu-
ries.
At the conclusion of Father Yorke's ad-
dress there was prolonged cheering. while
hundreds of excited people gathered about
the platform to shake his hand.
The programme for tomorrow evening
is as follows:
Piano solo. Miss N. E. Coonan; ''The Dolores
Mission" essay. Miss M. Driscou of Cathedral
Circle; vocal solo, Miss Theresa de Bernardo of
Faber Circle; Dion and the sibyls" (essay),
Miss Mary 7. Lorigan of Thomas Aquinas Cir,
Gle; recitation, Frank McGlynn of Montgomery
Circle; Development of English Language
essay, Miss NJ. Kennedy of Archbishop Rior-
dan Circle; vocal solo, Miss Daisy Keane; s.St.
Catherine of Sienna" essay, Miss Christina
Regan of Montgomery Circle; vocal solo, J. ].
Sandy OF Cathedral Circle; "Idealism and Real
ism IN Literature" Miss Julia C. Coffee of
Cathedral Circle