The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-05-25
LEADviLLE, COLO.
Convention of Knights of Columbus.


Wyoming convention of the Knights OF
Columbus were entertained by Lead
vile council 6S1 last Monday. Many of
the delegates were accompanied by
their ladies, and in addition to these
there were numerous visiting heights
in the city. They came from every
section of the state and from Cheyenne
and Laramie, the only cities IN Wyo-
ming in which councils of the order
have been organized.
Many of the visitors came IN nn Nom
day evening, the remainder arriving on
| the early trains yesterday morning.
The services were opened by 4 solemn
high mass at the Church of the Annup-
citation, which was attended by the vis-
| iting members of the order as we'll as
local knights, and many of the Cath
olic laity in Leadville.
Father j. J. Gibbons was the celeb
rant priest, being assisted by eight vis-
iting clergymen, who were here for the
purpose of attending the semi annual
conference of the priests of the noun
tain district. They were as follows:
Fathers Doubell of Como, O'13rien
and Bruner of Glenwood, Wolahln of
Salida, Conway and Parri of Grand
Junction, O'Farrell of Montrose, Dilley
of La Junta, Farrari of Ouray, Kipp of
Gunnison, Perse, Gibbons and Berk-
meyer of Leadville, and Father ]. P.
Carrigan of Denver.
The following is the list Of the dele
gates:
John H Reddin Dr. Edward Dele
hanty, Rev. Father j. p. Corrigan
Hugh T. O'Reilly, James j. McFeely Of
Denver, NJ. w. Purcell, j. ]. McTigue
Colorado Springs; Charles Hinkle, Au-
gust link Edward Sullivan, Pueblo;
w. e. Dineen, F. j.. Baun, Cheyenne,
Wyo.; Edward Ryan, Frank Dean,
Grand Junction; Senator John Tobin,
John Sheehan, Montrose; Edward Nc
Mahon, Mr.. Molaire, Trinidad; ]. L.
Hennessey, T. B. McGillicuddy, Canon
City; F. F. Guthrie, Father Dilley, La
Junta: Bernard Featherstone, Mr.
O'Neill, Laramie, Wyo.; c. F. OCon-
nor and Charles T. Clarke, Boulder;
FLp Fallohan and Henry Harris, Cripple ppIi
Creek; James W. Feeney and G. f. Nc
Ginnity, Fort Collins; j. ]. Moynahan
and S. G. Garfield, Leadville.
Father Gibbons delivered the official
address of welcome to the convention
of knights at the mass. He spoke as
follows:
Delegates of the Convention knights
of Columbus, Beloved Brethren:
I'm the name of all the citizens of
Leadville, and the Catholic people of
this parish, l welcome you today in
their behalf. 1 welcome you because
you come to us, representing the vir-
tue, intelligence and Catholicity of the
great state Of Colorado.
You have been chosen especially be-
cause of your fitness for human affairs
and are therefore the best exponents
and the highest ideals which the coun-
ellis of the state could choose to make
laws for the Knights of Columbus. To
reform evils and advocate virtue will
be your work.
Growth and progress both in the
natural order and supernatural are es-
tablished facts. These are as visible
in the minute sensitive plant as in the
development of intellect and will in ra-
tional life.
SO your presence here in the church
this morning is a worthy one. 1t is to
ask our good God, the Father of all,
to direct you in your deliberations at
the convention, which you are about
to open in this city. With all their
hearts your brothers here welcome you.
1t is seldom, indeed, that we have the
pleasure OF a Catholic state convention
In Leadville. It Is nearly twenty years
since the Ancient Order of Hibernians
held their state convention here. 1t
is therefore q time of special Joy for
the council here, as well as for all the
faithful Catholics of this city
I'VE brethren are fully aware that
you were chosen by your councils at
home As their representatives at this
convention on account of your sterling
virtue and positive Catholicity. Surely,
your presence here at the Holy Sacri-
fee of the Mass, this morning before
you open the state convention is a most
significant fact that the great desire
of your souls is to be assisted in your
deliberations by the Holy Spirit. It
should be so. The object of your order
can have no other legitimate aims in
life save the material and spiritual well
fare Of your members.
'+The former in modern times is a
consideration that is being dealt with
from a thousand different points of
view. For who in our day does not be-
long to some kind Of society? A socie-
ty, too, that is bound to better the con-
ditions of it's members. They declare 1t
is better to be united to society than
to be separated from it. The simplest
mind may make the same conclusion.
In unity there is strength, two men
can do more than one, ten dollars will
purchase more than five.
Hence, the grand ideal of your MEM
bers in the natural order, dealing with
facts and things is to make life easier,
better, more kind, charitable, sympa-
thetic and to do this by assisting one
another, materially, socially and that
by the union of hearts and minds and
hands. Success in life is your desire.
To rise to the top round of the ladder
depends on something more than indi-
vidual exertion, something more than
ones own work. The world is united in
societies.
1.-THE thoughts, exertions and actions
of thousands are now fused into one
effort The individual standing alone
cannot compete with united power.
Hence, union of action is the cry Of the
day and union is accomplished by the
various societies which in this age form
network the world over. You have
yours. 1t is most laudable. It's incep-
ton comes down to us from the middle
ages, when the Catholics of the world
formed their Christian guilds which di-
rected the poorest artisan in the land
to better his condition and make life a
success and life as we find it in all its
varied conditions today.
1--WE are all aware Of life's duties
and responsibilities. To know, love and
serve God is more firmly rooted in our
minds today than it was when we
learned 1t from the little Catechism. We
are truly conscious of the fact that life
is two-fold. One here and one beyond
the grave, and that the happiness and
success of life beyond the grave de-