The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-18


mon, in Which He Made Very
Pointed References to Many Exist
ing Evils--Counselled His Hearers
Not to Be Drawn Into Disorder,
and to Observe the Laws of the
Country,
Rt. Rev. NJ. j. Hoban, d. d., bishop
of Scranton, preached a sermon of
much interest and importance at the
service. yesterday, in connection with
the conservation of the altar of st.
Patrick's church, on jackson street.
The bishop spoke substantially as fol-
lows
! take it for granted that most of you are of
Irish birth or Irish extraction. Accepting this
will address you as such. Tie Irish people have
religious mission. II is as true that the Irish
had religious mission as that the Jews had
religious mission. What nation has suffered more
for its faith? Possibly the .trincnans or Poles
have suffered equally with the Irish at the hands
OF prosecutors, but no nation has suffered
much for its faith as the irish. There is no
record Of such awful outrages, such awful ty
ranny as that inflicted the Irish to swcrve
them from the faith. as firmly convinced
that the Irish had religious mission as / en-
that the Jews had one.
Unfortunately, how many of us have failed
to carry out that mission. Many of you have
been models of virtue and propriety But have
we all preached Jesus Christ and His gospel by
our lives?
Unfortunately, my dear Irish friends, we havc
not all realized our mission. If all OF us Lad
done what some have done, would not the his.
tory of the United States have been different?
How many in the city G! Scranton are doing
the things of which the Irish Catholic would
not be proud? Have lives been lives of
briefly, probty, purity and honesty? And vet
We are missionaries.
SHOULD BE MISSIONARIES.
There is not of us hut who should be
missionary for the spread of the light Are we
such? The American people are a practical pco.
pie. They judge men not by their profession of
faith hut by their deeds. They don't accept the
declaration for the decd. Many of the most noted
converts to Catholicism haze become such by
the observations Of the lives of humble Catho-
lies The Irish Catholic servant girl by no
effort other than her pure life has effected many
conversions. How much can the intelligent
Catholic do towards spreading the light?
In the labor forld, in the political world what
can not the intelligent Irish Catholic do?
The average politician is absolutely convinced
ellis or legislative. To the Irishman this sort OF
thing is unnatural and novel The other Ilidn is
used to it and knows how TO cover il "! The
irishnan who sells himself is discovered. The
other sort of man is cute enough to prevent his
offensc from being disclosed.
New York is, in some minds, synonymous of
corruption, in political sense. doubt if it is
as bad as Philadelphia. In New York the cor.
ruptor is exploited In Philadelphia it is not
is RI lkpb
Irishmcn do not sell yourselves. Irishmen do
not put in Office men who will sell their votes.
The sale of vote is bad bargain. It. is YOU
who in the long run must poy the price. The
distillery trust, in testiyng through its presi-
dent before the senate committee, admitted that
there was $i:,OOO,Ooo lost between the dstillcr
and tho consumer. You who are drinking whis
key arc paying for this
WILL BUY A MAN.
Corporations will not hesitate to buy man.
do not want to touch recent local history.
II might awake some unpleasant thoughts
do not want TO dwell upon the recent conduct of
corporal ton which went into common coun
Gil seeking fivors. There is possibility that the
street strike was mixed up in it. 1t is not
impossible that the street cnr strike might
have been settled but for it. To dwell in de-
tail on these things might hc unpleasant for
some OF those who arc here this morning, but
OH this OCCASION the anniversary of st. Patrick,
who was the soul Of charity, ] desist. ] will
content myself with saying do not be at the beck
of any man. Ii you get something out OF it
your fellow citizen, your neghbor, must pay.
You may hear some say "If ! do not take it
some one else WILL That is only the an
swer of the thorough rascal and consun.mate
scoundrcl.
You have been to the theater and paid money
to red.headed, red-whskered, rcd.nosed
irshman making fool of himself. You have
paid money to be msrepresented. I do not go
TO the theater, but if ! did l would feel like
filling my pockets with rotten eggs and eggng
this libel of the stage. 1t has been done before;
it is too bad it is not done again.
1t is regrcttable that the rishCaholc. or
those who should be in practice well pro-
fession lrish-Catholics, are frequenters of the
immoral theater. There is in the same
block as the cathedral. 1t is a vestibulc Of the
house of prostitution. There, lubricity and
downright dirtiness are rampant. How many OF
the patrons of that place are Irish or sons of
Irish? Stand at the cathedral corner and see
for yourselves II the patronage OF lrish'Cath-
olcs was withdrawn from that place it would be
made Improbable.
IT Is REGRETTABLE.
This is made the more regrettablc when we
consider that statistics tell that in the
Catholic parts OF Ireland, the men and women
are the purest on Gods whole earth.
BE honest in politics; be pure in your daily
life; don't he marrow; do not stop at helping
Irishnen Work that We NAV all be better
American men and women. All nationalitics
should unite in striving to upift, This is the
greatest country, the most blessed county, the
most prosperous country in the world.
DO not be drawn into disovder. BE observant
Of the country's laws. Reprehensibe indeed is
that occurrence in Minooka the other night,