The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
LIBERTY" HIS TOPIC.
What the Central Lecture
Bureau Is Doing for
Catholics.
SOURCE OF INSTRUCTION
Each Branch of the Institute Must
Give Discourse at Least
Once a Year.

The first lecture to be given under the
auspices of the Central Lecture Bureau of
the Young Mems Institute will be given
In Metropolitan Hall September 8. AS a
hitting beginning of the work anticipated
by the bureau Archbishop Riordan will
deliver this lecture, and it is to be given
under the auspices of Pioneer Council No,
!, the first established branch of the insti-
tute. The subject selected by the Arch
bishop is individual and Political Lib
erty." Past Grand President Frank ].
Kierce will act as presiding officer, and in
addition to the discourse by the distin-
guished speaker there will be mus cal and
literary numbers on this programme.
The third lecture will be given in Mis-
sion Parlor Hall, on Seventeenth street,
under the auspices of Mission Council No.
8, on October 1. The lecturer on this occa-
sion will be the Rev. Peter c. Yorke. and
he Will speak on what Catholics Do Not
Believe" AS this lecture is intended for
people OF the Mission district a hall In
that nelghborhood was chosen.
Father Yorke will deliver the second
lecture OF the series in Vallejo, September
Is, under the auspices of Vallejo Council
No. 13. For this discourse the able lee
turer has taken the subject: 1.-The Pope
and the People"
1t is expected by the bureau that Bishop
Montgomery will come here from Los
Angeles and deliver lectures for the insti-
tute. Besides it is proposed to send speak
ers to Los Angeles, and to have lecturers
change with those in Sacramento, Hum
boldt County, Stockton and San Jose.
The Central Lecture Bureau has been
permanently established, with offices in
the new headquarters of the Young Mems
Institute, in the PARROT building. Ac-
cording to a new article of the constitution
each council OF the institute must give at
least one lecture year under direction of
the bureau, which selects the speaker and
the subject. All these lectures are to be
free, but admission is restricted to those
having tickets issued by mem bers of the
council under which each lecture Is given.
An official bulletin has been issued by the
bureau to the officers and members of
councils. 1t contains the following:
We do not need to inform you of the attacks
which have been made during the past few
years on our faith and on our society. These
attacks have been instigated by malice and
carried on by misrepresentation, calumny and
untruth No matter how ridiculous they may
seem to us, we must remember that many of
our fellow-citiZens are ready to believe them
their reading, makes them prone to swallow
any calumny, no matter how monstrous, which
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calumnies are allowed to go un Unanswered, the
general public will come to believe that we
have no answer to make They judge of us as
they Judge of themselves. Whenever anything
is said derogatory to them their institutions
their characters, their homes, their families
Immediately they spring 10 the front 10 repel
these charges; and no one blames them. If
mans character is worth anything to him, il
is surely worth defending.
The twelfth Grand Council OF the Y. NJ I.
has determined that an organized effort shall
be made by our beloved order to counterfeit
the charges made against Catholicism in gem
eral and against the Y. M. l. in particular.
Therefore plan has been adopted according
to which lectures shall be given under the
auspices of the institute in every council of
the jurisdiction. Means Will be taken to an
swer every calumny as soon as it is uttered
and where it is uttered. Literature will be
distributed both for the instruction of the
members of the institute and for distribution
TO those who may have been eyily affected by
the literature from the other side.
The worthy grand president has appointed
the following as members OF the central lee
ture bureau: Two yeers-Hon. J. +. Sullivan,
Rev. James Mcdonald, +. j. Kieree, John
Lynch. Ole year-Rev. P. c. Yorke, Major
James F. smith, Thomas H. Fallon, ]. C.
O'DOnneu.
These appointments were dated June II,
1896 and on the following Monday the mem
bers named met at the rooms OF the Young
Mems Institute in this City, and organized as
follows: Rev. P. C. Yorke, president; F. J.
Kierce, vice-president; John E. Richards Jr.,
secretary; John O'Donnell, treasurer.
tablish local lecture bureaus in Los Angeles,
in Sacramento and in Virginia City. The ter
ritory distributed to these local bureaus was:
For Los Angeles, the diocese of Los Angeles;
for Sacramento, all of the diocese OF Saera-
mento lying in the State of California, and for
Virginia City, the State of Nevada.
The members of the local bureau of Los
Angeles are the Right Rev. George MOntgom-
cry and l. B. Dockweiler, both of whom are
empowered to select a third member. For the
local bureau of Sacramento the members are
the Right Rev. Thomas Grace and W.
Gormeley. These gentlemen are also en-
powered to select third. For the State of,
Nevada the members of the local bureau are
Rev. Father Tubman and George D. Pyne.
these gentlemen also being empowered to Sc
lect third member
Alter going into details OF the design
and methods of the bureau, the COM
munication closes as follows:
In conclus ion, we ask you to strengthen our
arms TO this great work to which we have been
called. We believe that there is no work so
which win bear such abundant fruit for God
and country. BY COUNSEL by cooperation, by
energy by ZEAL we all can have share OF II.
We ask you knowing that we will receive
response for that counsel, that cooperation,
that energy and that zeal. Now, more than
ever, ii is the duty of every Catholic 10 stand
up for the honor OF his church; and now, more
than ever, it is the duty OF every member OIL
the Young Mems Institute TO work heart and
soul for the good of the institute. Yours SIN
cerely, PETER C. YoRKE. President.
JOHN E. RICHARDS JR., Secretary.