Kentucky Irish American., 1906-07-07
Praises the Enterprise of Our
Public Business AssOcia-
tions and Clubs.
Wants Mackin Council to Enlist
Members in Holy Name
Cause.
THE STATES FAMOUS SONG

A clergyman from the East, who
visited Louisville during homecoming
week. has written the following con-
cerning his trip:
"It is only poetical expression, but
1t has the ring of truth
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said:
This is my own, my native land.
"That Kentucky Is in broad sense
a home coming State nobody would
have any doubt if he stood in any OF
the several depots in Louisville on
June IL and 13 and saw the incoming
trains with thousands Of Kentucky's
sons and daughters responding to the
proclamation of Gov. Beckham. No
State in the Union can claim for its
own such a popular and soul-stirring
song as My Old Kentucky Home. 1t
was indeed a happy thought which
first suggested this home week cele-
bration, and those in charge were, to
say the least, wide awake and
energetic.
"To Kentuckians, who have gone
away from home and engaged in the
active duties of life in distant places,
this return home and meeting with
old friends and getting in touch with
the progress and the spirit of the
place of our youth as it is today is
source of the greatest satisfaction and
enjoyment. 1t was especially crafty
ing to me during my too brief stay
in Kentucky to note how Louisville
is forging on its way to the front
among the most progressive cities of
the Union. AS you enter the city you
will observe everything that indicates
industry and progress. The various
massive buildings now in course Of
construction are an evidence that the
Board of Trade and the Commercial
Club in Louisville are not like those
in many of our Eastern cities.
enterprise is the one word that
should characterize them.
"There were so many features Of
the Queen City of the South that |
am 10th to speak, lest l might over
look anything. Brooklyn is well
styled the City of Churches, and from
observation Louisville might be cali
ed the City of Catholic Churches. The
venerable Bishop, the Right Rev. Will
liam George McCloskey, is deserving
of much praise and his long years of
arduous labor in the episcopate en-
title him to much more than the love
and veneration of his people, the love
and the blessing of God, who, when
life is over, will meet him with the
comforting words: We'll done, thou
good and faithful servant The
Bishop has with him in his Vicar Cen
eral a priest who is loved and re-
spected by rich and poor
1T was my great pleasure to say
mass each morning at the Church Of
the Sacred Heart, and | can say moth
ing too high in praise of its esteemed
pastor, the Rev. Patrick Walsh. The
love and esteem in which he is held,
his piety and learning and his un-
ostentatious manner endear him to all
his people.
"On the evening of my arrival in
Louisville | had the extreme pleasure
of attending a meeting of Mackin
Council, Y. M. /. The meeting was
we'll attended and the members were
very enthusiastic. 1t was made up
largely of German and Irish young
Americans, who are the bone and
sinew of the Catholic church today.
would be glad to make a resume OF
their meeting, as | could not but note
the many brilliant speeches that were
made and the conviction that they
carried to one that there are no races
50 nearly allied as the Irish and Ger
man, no combination of races that will
do more for the Catholic church In
America. This is proven in the grand
work of the Holy Name Society. II
teaches no distinction. II claims all
alike, rich and poor, saint and sinner
Irish and German. In Christ you have
the one unfailing Friend When you
are in trouble and look for the com
fort of a true friend you can go tC
Him who has said: Come to me al
We that labor and are heavily burden
ed and | will refresh you He will
take upon himself all your cares anC
trials, your sorrows and tribulations
and He will send you away rejoicing
and happy. All that He will ask IL
return is love and veneration for his
holy home. When you hear Others
cursing and disappearing, you may sa,
in your hearts: Blessed be God
Blessed be his holy name God will
hear you and his angels will pray fol
you.
MY fervent prayer is that all th'
members of Mackin Council may en-
roll thems elves under the glorious ban
ner of the holy name. and that Presl
dent Charles s. Bailey and Past Presi
dent James T. Shelley may start tai
movement that will soon enlist ever.
member of Mackin Council under th'
hammer of Jesus Christ. 1t Is In hi
cause we will have to fight life's bat
ties, and we hope TO realize at its clos
that there is no other name whereof
We can be saved.
'In conclusion would say a wor