The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-28
BISHOP KELLEY
SCORES FRANCE
IN COURSE OF HIS ADDRESS
AT PUBLIC RECEPTION TENDERED
HIM BY HIS DIOCESE.

Catholic Library Hall Prettily Dec
orated-Gathering of Clergy and
Laity to Greet Distinguished
Church Dignitary-Presehte With
Purse Containing $1,OOO-ScOred
France as n Country Whose Gov
eminent Was the Worst Tyranny
in Civilized World.
With the warmest greeting Of the
clergy of Georgia and the laity OF
Savannah. Rt Rev. Benjamin Joseph
Kelley, Bishop of Savannah, was last
night formally welcomed back to his
diocese, after four months visit ito
points Of interest in Europe.
The public reception was held in the
Catholic Library Hall. The rooms had
been beautifully decorated by the
Ladies' Aid Society. The entrance to
the reception hall was a mass of palms
and the balustrades of the stairways
were twined with holly and smilax
Just within the doorway was a large
arch formed of palms, the whole SEEM
ing to be bound together with twin
ing streamers of greenery and the in
tervening spaces filled with smaller
potted plants.
Directly opposite on the stage rose
a pyramid of greenery the wide DanK
of potted plants and mosses' hanked
with palms, tapering to point anu
crowned with a large cluster of bright
red roses. The background was formed
of palms and other greenery, and back
of them was placed Rosenfeld's or
chestra, which furnished the music.
Long dropping streamers of smilax
were twined about the chandeliers ana
stretched in festoons of green from one
end of the hall to the other.
On the stage with Bishop Kelley
were Rev. Father L. Balm of Atlanta,
vicar general of the diocese; Rev. Dr.
Gum and Rev. Father Jackson OF Al
lanta; Rev. Father Mcmahon of Au-
gusta; Rev. Father Schonhardt OF
Milledgeville: Rev. Fathers Aloysius,
Bernard, Jerome and Anthony of the
Sacred Heart Church: Rev. Father
Gregory of st. Benedict church; Rev.
Fathers Kennedy, Boyd and OHara
OF the Cathedral, and Rev. Fathers
Mccarthy and Quinlan of st. Patricks
Church.
Presented with Purse.
After the Bishop had entered the
hall and taken his place on the stage
Mr.. John F. Harty, chairman, on be-
half of the diocese. welcomed the dis
tinguished churchman back to SaVan-
nah and the diocese, and in closing
presented him with purse, containing
$1,000, in ten-dollar gold pieces.
When the Bishop stepped forward TO
acknowledge the gift, and to respond
70 the welcome, he was greeted with
burst of applause from the audience,
which was a large one. In few briet
and appropriate words he thanked the
diocese. through it's representatives., Tor
the generous gift, and then expressed
his delight at being again in Savan-
nah, saying that the four months alb
sence had seemed to him like forty
In a short talk, lasting less than
half an hour he briefly reviewed his
trip abroad. He spoke Of the visit TO
his holiness, Pope Plus X, and OF the
interest shown by the Pontif In Amer
lea and the church here.
Ireland and the Irish.
He briefly sketched his itinerary
through Italy and ireland. and to the
latter and its people he paid a hign
tribute, stating that when he waved
Rood-by TO the Emerald Isle, despite
the Joy of the homecoming, there were
tears that he must leave this most de-
hghtful OF countries. In speaking OF
the Irish people, Bishop Kelley said
i would not question the power OF
the Creator. nor any OF His attributes
and / believe, II He desired, that lie
could make a better people than the
Irish, but-well, he has never done H.
The Tyranny OF Frame.
In speaking OF France the church
dignitnry did not inince matters ana
- government was rOundiy scored. IN
touching on this subject Bishop Kelley |
SAID, among other things.
France ~ presumably fepuphe.
but in fact n Ia ihe most deEpicable ~
ivfannles. in no country "a there |
fuch tyranny 40 ln France ana beside |
q Russia "a celestial paradise. The /
Prime Minister hse abE0lute powers in |
certain regards end BE- Hleldr them |
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