The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13
A PATRIOTIC LECTURE
Father MacCorry's Eloqeunt Ad-
dress on Individuality"
FULL OF NOBLE SENTIMENT
Grand Opera House Was Packed to
Hear the Brilliant Orator-An Inter-
esting Musical Programme-Ap-
plause Was Deafening.

mission in Butte and Walkerville for
seven weeks, lectured to an audience
last night that filled every seat in the
Grand opera house. The audience was
made UP of the best citizens Of the
city, members Of all the churches and
many pastors. Fathers Callahan and
Blazer occupied the right center box,
and the lower right was occupied by
Mrs P. A. Largey and six Sisters of
the parish. The left center was oc-
cupied by Mrs. Ignatius Donnely and
Mrs. Rooney. On the stage which
was tastefully arranged in parlor set
ting, with piano and palms, were seat
ed, besides the speaker of the evening,
Mayor Mccarthy Messrs, P. J. Brophy,
Justin Butler, president of che Y. M.
liz under whose auspices the lecture
was given; ]. J. Mediation, J. P. Hen
bricks, T. F. Courtney, F. A. Leamy
and 81 A. Canty.
Justin Butler acted as chairman, and
said that it afforded the Y. M. /. great
pleasure to be able to introduce SO
brilliant a speaker, adding, however,
that Father McCorry needed no intro
duction at his hands, as his name was
already a household word in Butte.
} Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly sang a beau
tiful selection, accompanied by Mrs.
Rooney at the piano. Then Miss Ha-
mann entertained the audience with a
violin solo, "Suwanee River" with va
riations.
Mr.. Butler then introduced Father
MacCorry, who remarked that it ap-
peared to him that Mr. Butler was
just little bit prejudiced on bis side
when he alluded to his name as
household word in Butte However"
SAID ne, Il trust that should 1 fail to
meet your expectations you will ex-
.cuse me- He at once entered upon
MS discourse, which was a mastery
presentation of the subject, "Individ-
uality.' Not for a moment did the
interest lag; not once did there appear
a sign of fatigue in the vast audience
Every word was drunk with supreme
relish, and when the eloquence roured
out some beautiful sentiment the ap-
plause was deafening. AS if behold
ing some grand, strange sight or mag
nihcent evolution the audience, in al
| most breathless silence. looked upon
the speaker, and eagerly caught every
word so clearly and distinctly uttered
II was a most patriotic address,
oeautlful weaving of noble sentiment,
an inspiring outpouring of rhetorical
fragrance. Such treat has seldom
peen enjoyed in this city. A brief sum
| follows:
AS individuals in this world we are
fragments; God makes the human race
in atoms and then with a master hand
gradually fits them all together until
they constitute, as it were. 4 sinyle
unit, wonderfully harmonious and
amazingly made. Our deficits and sur-
pulses OF character are the caswheeis
IN the great social mechanism VIVA.
l lack you make up. What Won Iacl.
| l. perhaps, in a modest way su;.1l1-
one man has the patience, another the
courage, another the tranquility. a
iourth the zeal. That which is lacking
| IN one is made up by another or elsa
made up by all
Each, too, has his work TO do. his
uuty TO perform; and each N his own
peculiar way. I have no more right
70 blame a man for being different
from me or for doing things in another
way than mine than a drivi,r wbsol
mas the right to blame the axle tina.
Keeps 1t to the center Just because the
axle Is Inherently made. Moreover,
can never accomplish your work nor
can you do mine. An axle can never
be driving wheel nor driving wheel
an axle. You can ou other work or
slillliar work or better work but You
cannot do my work. If I leave mine
undone it must remain undone forever
Neither can l do work In your way
nor you In mine. The difficulty is, we
are never quite satisfied with the sre-
clal work which God has given us TO
90. In pathetic little. way we strive
to defeat His plans. The water wheel
wants to get inside the mill and grfad
the gr1st. and the hopper that brushes
the corn wants to get out and dabble
In the water. We are all SO ant 10
busy ourselves with other peoples bust
ness. Perhaps you think you could
lecture much more entertainingly than
l. were you on this platform. Perhaps
thlnk l could listen mora attentivaiy
than you, were I in your chairs. Each
one negiectful of his own; each forge
ful that his usefulness and The veal { {
the commonwealth depaad upon his
staying just where God has placed him
and doing that work ia his own way
which God has given him to do.
$50 much for the atom the r,opas-
she individual man. But for more conf
paetness and for greater useful,.a SIS
God has gathered those units into cir
cles or. groups, or families, if vou will,
but the same infinite variety being
ever preserved. If a husband be all
impulse, then his wife must be all pru-
dence. If one brother be aggressive,
the other must be retiring II one sis
ter be calm, the other must be enthu-
slastic That is how God balances So
ciety. Mary and Martha are essentials.
There will be no dinner for Christ if
there be no Martha There will be no
audience for Tosus if there be no Mary.
stitutes what to me is Gods choicest
gift to mantle home circle, the fam
lily, the cornerstone of the republic
I maintain that it is duty to God
and man that we develop to the utter
most the possibilities that are in us.
You see it is such a magnificent thing
to be a unit; to feel that you are one;
a personality, an individual. To be
something of an investigator; some
thing of a reasoner for yourself, To
feel that the census of this big world
would not be complete unless you were
| counted in.
And If all this is glorious, how hui
initiating Is its contrary. To feel that
in all your life you did not conceive a
single thought that was not borrowed
a single conviction that was your own.
How notifying to wake up and find
yourself just a fragment of a mental
mob: a sheep that plods blindly on
wards just because other sheep are
plodding in the same direction. To
feel that you were simply a voice OF
rather the echo of a voice that cries