The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-13
RECEPTION In HONOR
or BISHOP HOBAN
rendered by the Members Of the
Catholic Historical Society and
Newman Magazine Club.

Upwards of three hundred of the rep
rcsentative Catholic men and women of
this city paid their respects to Rt Rev.
Bishop NJ. j. Hoban last night at a re-
ception rendered him by the Catholic
Historical society at the knights Of
Columbus club house.
A. formal programme was carried out
the principal features of which outside
the bishops address was the singing pf
the recently organized Catholic Choral
club under the leadership of Professor
John ". Watkins. The singing of the
club, considering the few rehearsalS
held, was remarkably effective, the Sc
lections being rendered with a fuency
and breadth of style seldom heard eX-
cept in large choruses having had long
practice. The solo parts We're taken ef-
fectively by Miss Nellie Beamish, Miss
katherine Mongan and William \. Ly-
mott
Miss Mary INLAND. a teacher in the
High school. read a scholarly paper on
the lifa of Cardinal John Henry New
man. including also a brief account of
the oxford monument. Attorney John
j. Murphy. second vice president of the
club. was expected to have delivered an
address but he was unable to attend
and Bishop Hoban was introduced by
his brother, Attorney Thomas =. Ho-
ban.
The bishops address was purely eX-
temporaneous. He referred in passing
to Cardinal Newman's influence on
modern English thought. an influence
which will still be a direct influence
Il hundred years hence, he said. He re-
ferred to the large number of cultivat-
ed English men and women, more par
ticularly writer's. who have lately be-
come converts to Catholicism. Among
these he mentioned Henry Harland,
author of "The Cardinals Snuff Box"
and THE Lady Paramount; Mrs.
Cragie IJohn Oliver Hobbs) and Lu-
cas- Malet, Il grand-niece of Charles
Kingsley, one of Newman's greatest
antagonists.
The bishop spoke of the "absurd no.
tions' held regarding Catholic doctrine
by the majority of Protestants. Take
ten Protestants of fairly good educa-
tion and apparent culture" said he,
land l venture the assertion that nine
of them--I'd say nine and q half if
could,-have absolutely no conception
infallabilty or the Immaculate con-
ception.'
He said that other people in Scranton
besides the pastor OF the First Presby-
terrain church have the "absurd notion"
that the Catholic church has taught
that the end iustifies the means. The
desire to know the truth about his re-
ligion should be foremost in the mind
of every Catholic, he said.
1--WE are told OF the cruelties of the
Spanish Catholics in the Dutch wars"
said he, but we must remember that
Catholic Dutchmen We're arrayed
against Alba and his countrymen. We
must remember also that Alba in his
day was no more cruel than Kitchener is
to-day in South Africa and than some
of our own military leaders in the Phil
ippne Islands,
.Macaulay and Froude are too often
taken as standard English historians by
Catholics, he said. Their alleged state
bedrock are generally found to be what
Father tom" Burke, the great Do
preacher, picturesquely re-
ferred to as "thumping English lies"
the bishop said. Read the Catholic
side and read the Protestant side" said
he that You may know all the truth"
Following the programme the bishop
conducted an informal levee and shook
hands with nearly every person present.