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AN ARCH IN HIS HONOR.
MANY BUSINESS PLACES DECOR
ATED AND HUNDREDS OF
PEOPLE ON HAND.
PRELATE FORMALLY INSTALLED
An Address by Archbishop ireland
Feature of the Exercises-
Speeches of Welcome.


cese Of st. Cloud, was today given a
splendid reception by the people among
whom he will make his home The
city was decorated in honor of the
occasion, and procession more than
mile long was a feature Of the day.
All the nearby towns in the
diocese were represented by So
cieties and bands. A delega-
tion of leading Catholics of this
city accompanied Bishop Trobec to st.
Cloud. With them were Archbishop
Ireland and many distinguished pre-
lates. At the station he was welcomed
on behalf of the city by Justice L. W.
Celnis, and Mgr Bauer, administer of
the diocese of St. Cloud, greeted him
at the doors of the cathedral. He was
installed by the archbishop and wei
coined by Father Gregory, on part
of the clergy; by ii. c. Waite, on the
part of the English laity and by b.
Reinhard, on the part of the German
laity. Archbishop Ireland made fore
ible address in installing the new pre-
late. He said:
A thought which suggests itself this morn
ing | am sure to many minds is that of the
unity of sentiment prevailing among the Cath
olicS of the diocese of st. Cloud, despite many
apparent and superficial differences. There
is unity of faith. Clergy and people have
come to Minnesota from many and distant
lands. There is scarcely a country of the
older civilizations which is not represented
in the diocese of St. Cloud. There is scarce
ly a land the language of which has not been
lisped in childhood by some one or other
of the priests and people of st. Cloud; and
yet in faith they are all absolutely one. They
look to the same altar. to the same cross,
they speak forth from the abundance of love
and faith the same Credo.
We are Catholics; the profession of faith
made by the children of the Catholic church
beneath the dome of st. Peters at Rome, in
the cathedrals of ancient civilization. the hut
chapel Of the African is our creed and we are
one in allegiance to the same chieftain.
The name of Leo tie Thirteenth was pro
neunced a few moments ago as that of him
Cloud. Leo the Thirteenth How absolutely
one we are in loyalty to him because Leo the
Thirteenth is the successor of Peter the vicar
of the Incarnate God. Surely this oneness
of faith so manifest today is a spectacle
that we must admire; a spectacle that reveals
the presence Of Christ within the church.
ONE IN NATIONALITY.
And we are one, too, in nationality. I spoke
the spiritual kingdom established by Christ
whose chieftain presides on the Vatican hill
whose honored citizens we are. That is our
heavenly nation Then there is for or, ts
protection of their earthly interests. The
earthly nation of bishops, priests and people
here assembled is America. And to America
is fullest allegiance by all given. To her is
the most generous love offered; to her life
and prosperity our lives are ready to be
sacrificed. From many countries OF the world
have we come-the nation of all, the home
of all-the country of all is America There
was a time in history when narrow ideas of
nationality prevaileG-When men were bound
to the soil, and each enc was supposed to
no W. a citizen
he was BORN These narrow ideas have long
ago disappeared. Man today is master of him
self, he gives his civil allegiance where ne
chooses and civil allegiance once given to
a country he is bocnd by human honor and
divine law to be faithful TO it. Today ones
country, ones nation. is the land where one
has cast his lot for veal or woe, the land
whose flag protects life and property, the land
into whose keeping one has placed his own
hopes and the hopes and ambitions OF his
children. America We all have chosen, We
are one in nationality.
This morning there are here no English
men, no Irishmen there are here no Ger
all Americans, by every fiber of the heart
and every thought OF the mind. The
spectacle of our national unity, all things
considered, is wonderful, second in wonder
only to the magnifcance OF our oneness in
faith.
Does the fact of our American nationality
forbid us to have loving memories of other
lands once the nations of our fathers? Not
at all. The heart of man Is large enough
to be devoted in fullest loyalty to America
and yet to throb at times in memory of
other countries. Loving memory of the past
is not only permitted, it is laudable. 1t it
forbidden to say that we have brought from
one land or from another element of truth
and goodness, which may be of service to the
new nation, America? Far be this from US.
On the contrary let US grasp what we can
from the older civilizations whether from the
isles of Western Europe from the banks of
the Danube and the Rhine or from the Seine
0fcor al
therefrem of good and noble upon the altar
of America; let vie with one another in
presenting elements of grandeur to our
American nation and living out in our
selves the blessedness and the glory of those
past traditions which We admire
Is it forbidden to use the language which
our fathers spoke in other countries? Far
be this from US. The more languages We
know the better. And it were unnatural to
believe that we could at once forget the
music of other languages and that our
tongues should not lisp their words. All
such things America permits. She is the
land of liberty, and the land of common
sense. But meanwhile America is our ceun-
try; her honor and her life are to be always
preferred and memories of other lands are 10
swell up within our bosoms only when no
harm from them can come to America. and
only on condition that America is always
supreme. We have vowed to America love,
and We have promised to her our allegiance
and she is today and is to be tomorrow
our nation. our country.
We remember the past and admire it, but
we do not forget that our lots at present are
cast with America-that it is as Americans
that we are tc build up our temporal for
tunes; that 1T is as Americans that are
called upon as Catholics to assist in the
building up of Christs church. America must
be supreme end thencustoms, memories, love
of other countries may live in so long
as good comes from them and so long as
they in no way impede our glorious Ameri-
can citizenship.
LOYALTY, GODS WILL.
And what says the Catholic church regard
ing these memories and customs that men
bring to us from other lands? What says
the church of our love for America? Ma
tons are OF divine appointment and it is
Gods will that We be loyal to our nation.
Americanism-take the word in its true
sense-n1eans unstinted loyalty to America
and to the institutions of America anc con-
sequently Am3ricanism is for Americans, a
Catholic virtue blessed and protected by the
Catholic church. But the church certainly
will be freedom-l0ving and as freedom
giving as America herself, and no one in the
Catholic church will say or has the right
to say that children of the church or citizens
of America must not remember with pleas
ure older traditions and must not lisp with
joy whenever they so choose, accents and
languages of other civilizations.
1t has sometimes been said that there is
among the Catholics of America a diversity
of opinion as to the use within the Catholic
church of foreign languages. There is no di-
veTsity of opinion. Americans and Catholics
will, before this altar of truth, believe and
assert that men are free to speak what Ian
guage they will, to retain what memories
they will provided that, always and ever,
America and American institutions and the
language of America obtain their best loyalty.
Catholics in America may kneel before their
God and pray in the language that may best
express their emotions; in the language which
spoken IN the fuliness OF their souls viii,
with deeper meaning, reach the throne Of
Almighty God. They are Tree to pray, to re-
ceive the sacrament in the German, in the
French in the Scandinavian, in whatever
language the will, and no man has the right
to say to them, stop. They are free to pray