The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-28
KNIGHTS INITIATE
 MANY CANDIDATES Birmingham Council No, 635
 Has a Busy Day ATTEND MASS IN A BODY Rev. Father o'erady Makes an Flo. quent Address In Nature of Fami- fly Talk-Forty-Three Can.
 didates in Class.
ATTEND MASS IN A BODY

Yesterday was Knights of Columbus day in Birmingham. Birmingham Council No. 6S5 initiated its tenth class of can dictates. There were forty-three men in the class
 While many of the candidates were from Birmingham and vicinity quite a number came from various towns in North Ala bama. Visiting Knights from Mobilef Montgomery Nashville and other south ern cities were present.
 At 745 the Knights and the candidates assembled at St. Falls hall and proceeded in a body to St. Paul's church, where they attended mass and listened to an ad- dress by the Rev. Father O'Grady. A large choir of men sang Onward Chris tian Soldier as the procession entered the church, and during the services other appropriate hymns were sung
 Father O'Grady said mass and at its conclusion spoke for twenty or twenty five minutes. The eloquent priest is an ardent Knight of Columbus, and his dis course was in the nature of practical family talk, rather than sermon. He alluded to the order of Knights of Co., lumbus as the most remarkable society within the Catholic church. It was, he said unlike all other Catholic organza- tions inasmuch as it was the only so- ciety in which the clergy and laity came together on a common plane as brothers. The founder, a poor priest in Connecticut, had done a grand work for the church in conceiving and setting in operation this order The priests and the Catholic laity were brought closer together in the order. They learned to know each other better and great good would result from this brotherly cooperation.
 Charity and Truth.
 Father O'Grady told of the lesson of charity incucated by the Knights of Co., lumbus-charity not only for those of the household but for the whole world without regard to race or condition. And above all, the Knights of Columbus, ac- ccrding to the speaker, had a great mis- sion in upholdng Catholic truth.
 Father O'Grady told of the handsome property owned by the Knights in many western cities he had visited, and he ex- pressed the hope that the day would soon come when Birmingham council would possess it's own home.
 From the church the Knights marched to their hall on First avenue and Twen- tieth street, and at 10 o'cIocK the degree ceremonial was begun. During the day I the first, second and third degrees were conferred on the following candidates:
 The New Knights. w. H. Rogers. Francis Maloney, Thomas Cooney. W. P. Lother, H. K. Palmer, c. Maloney, J. T. Vaughn. E. J. Tanner, Joseph Coley, J. M. Gaudn, P. J. Boggan, J. E. Toumie, J. F. Flynn, Conrad Fury, J. w. Morgan, Frank Westerman, G. B. Read. F. M. Greiner. James Finnegan, D.. L. Brennan, Abdallah Joseph, M. R. Null lane William Tex. J. T. eMcKeever. Stephen Moree. B. j. Ryan, s. J. Bailey, E. T. Harris, N. S. Shahid, J. J. Powers s. N. Sutton, Leo l.. Mattingly, J. H. Dellekant T. P. German, K. A. ShaiSra, J. H. Semmes, C. J. Abercombie, F. J.. Fitzpatrick. J. B. Wolff. w. P. German, w. G. Brabazon, George Joseph l.. A. Newman.