The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-10
Delegates Were Present from Many
Indiana Cities, Who Banqueted
with COunci7 No. 437.
FIFTY TOOK THE DEGREES
f. j. M'DERMOTT, OF LOUISVILLE
MADE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS.
Progress of Knowledge Has Removed
False Ideas About Catholicism,
He Said-The Exercises.

The members of Indianapolis Council, No.
43l, knights of Columbus, held their sixth
initiatory exercises yesterday, concluding
with a banquet last night in Tominson
Hall. Extensive preparations had been
made by the members of the Indianapolis
Council for the reception of the fifty-five
new members. Members of other towns In
the State arrived Saturday night and early
yesterday morning TO take part in the ex-
ercises. Terre Haute, Elwood. Muncie, An
derson, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Chicago,
Rushville all sent large delegations.
The exercises began yesterday morning
with the work in the first degree given by
the degree team of the Indianapolis Coun-
Gil. This work occupied several hours. AT
its conclusion the candidates and the men,
bers marched to St. Johns Cathedral to
attend the 1890 o'clock high mass. I'm
mediately after dinner the candidates and
members assembled in the Red Mems Hall
in the Griffith block, where the concluding
degree was given. The work of the second
degree was given by the degree team from
Richmond, Ind. Later the work of the third
degree given. This in charge of
District Deputy Daniel Z. Reagan. of Terre
Haute. accompanied by large staff.
The degree work was not concluded until
S o'clock last night, when a hasty adjourn
ment was made for the banquet awaiting
the members in Tomlinson Hall. The work
of preparing and serving the dinner was in
charge of the ladies of ST. Anthony's Cath
Ollie Church in Haughville. Seven long tables
were placed near the stage. In the center
of the room was the speakers table, made
in the shape of a cross. The tables were
beautifully decorated with cut flowers.
Brass candelabras holding lighted candles
were placed on the tables. The interior of
he hQl IN tod xpifH Ia
| flags and bunting. No women except the
mattresses were allowed on the floor.
| Hundreds Of invitations had been sent to
women friends of the members and the
candidates. AS result the balcony was
| lined with women attired in pretty gowns,
| adding a dainty effect to the more somber
| dress of the men sitting at the tables be-
| low.
ADDRESS BY E. ]. MDERMOTT.
At the conclusion of the degree work, E.
| o. Clancy, of Indianapolis Council acting
| as POSTMASTER, introduced the speaker of
the evening, Edward ]. McDermott, of
Louisville. Mr.. McDermott's topic was
"Papacy and Pope Leo Kill" He said in
part:
During the revolutionary war Catholic
| priest was fined and imprisoned in New
| York for saying mass on board vessel
| in the bay. Now, New York might almost
| be called a Catholic city. Great changes
| have taken place here and in England and
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| inside and out, are being initiated more
| and more every year, and our old, beautiful
| ceremonials and some of our dogmas are
| being adopted, especially by the ritualists
| of the Episcopal Church. The Rev. DIR.
| VIM. Hayes Ward, editor of the New York
| Independent, lately preached sermon in a
on The Roman Catholic Church in Amer
| ica,' and said:
The Roman Catholic Church in this
| country is very strong. The Catholics in
| America religions
| work and set a good example for others. In
the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian
Church the Pope of Rome is characterized
as anti-Christ. This is rudeness, an
impertinence and a universal falsehood.
| and at the last meeting of the Presbyterian
Assembly 1t was voted to remove it. The
| is no doubt that he fully believes in his
divine appointment and prays with earnest
ness that he may perform his duty
| The generous words of this scholarly,
high-minded Protestant minister shows
what a wonderful change has come in this
country. The old bitterness, due to the
| fierce conflicts of the reformation period
and since, is evidently passing away and
is now mainly confined to ignorant or half
educated people This change is due part
| ly to wider knowledge, partly to greater
liberality of thought and partly also to
indifference TO religion. The history, the
aims, the good works and the dogmas of
and approved as never before and even by
men who cannot subscribe to her tenets
WORK OF THE CHURCH.
ut was once thought. or pretended. that
the church was opposed to education and
culture, though she founded all the great
universities of Europe: but sensible men
especially in this country, in England an6
in Germany, have long seen and acknowl
edged the heroic efforts made by the au
thorities of the church and by the poorest
of her people to educate their children, ever
when they must do so at their own expense
and where other schools are free. Fol
more than a hundred years in England
when 1t was customary to charge the
church with desire to keep its people il
ignorance, the law actually imposed a fin,
and imprisonment upon Catholic teacher!
and confiscated the property of Catholi,
fathers who sent their children to Cath
Ollie school. Even in America, under al
Third, the pretended champion of liberty
such law as this was in force to proven
| Catholics from getting education; ant
to-day the anti-Christian politicians o
France are seeking to make it impossible
for Catholic parent to send his child to ;
Ever since the reformation IL has beer
pretended or believed that the Cathol
| Church, which had saved the Bible from
destruction In the earliest ages of tn
church and carefully guarded 1t from ever,
foe in later centuries, hated II and wante'
TO keep the people from reading it; an,
there are some half-educated men VIII
=
ton of the Bible into German until Luthe
did the work, although every scholar know
that there were many excellent transla
, | lions In German before he quit the church
Now, however, when many Christian min
listers here and in England and i'm German
are giving up most important parts of tn
Bible, and some of them high in authorit
in England are saying that much of Ii can
, not be taken literally or even seriously
! the Catholic Church stands out still as tn
frankest boldest and most powerful de
? fender OF the Holy Book. Huxley and Oar
win and their followers, as Huxley said 4
his banquet speech at Liverpool in 1s6.
, regarded the Catholic Church as thei
great antagonist" and the devotees of tn
higher criticism to-day look upon the Cath
Ollie Church the only unyieding cham
pion of the Bible. Cardinal Vaughan, eve
to keep within the fold distinguished
| nan as Sir John Mivart would not give u
me little of the church's teaching or bude
an inch in his defense of Holy Writ
D POPE THE BUGBEAR.
! THE greatest bugbear TO Christians on,
side our fold is the Pope. This dread @
the Pope has been worked into the we
{ md wool OF English and German litera
ture by some writer's who sincerely dis
liked the dogmas of the Catholic Churc
y md by some writer's who were indifferer
or ignorant of its dogmas. but kne,
hat they could not be popular IL they al
rot pander TO religious or national pretu
I | Ices. Now and then. even before tn
n | md politicians, when contending with ea>.
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