The Irish standard., 1908-05-16
Nothing in the History of the Country to
Compare With This Demonstration
of Catholic Laymen.
Cardinal Logue, Pleased With Visit, Receives
Magnificent Welcome in the
Great Metropolis.

When the historian seeks to record
in lasting memory the events of this
current year, Catholic history will be
made interesting by the story Of the
New York Centenary, says the Boston
Republic of May 8.
There is a lasting effect, a lasting
teaching to all great movements, but
seldom has there been more ample
material for lasting impressions than
the observance Of New York's Catholic
growth provides.
The mere story of who was there
and of where the ceremonies were
held is interesting; it locates for us
definitely and it tells us something
with personal flavor to it. But the
measure for the Catholic Church to
take is not found in any small. single,
isolated detail but in the gigantic les
son which the observance taught, not
New York alone, but all of America; f;
that the Catholic Church, sublime and
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rized to be. has still grander asset.
tile asset of abiding strength bottomed
on a faith that reaches to God Him
self and which reflects it's Divine fea-
lures in the grasp with which it takes
hold of honest men and women of the
world and brings them together, wor-
shipping and praying, with Heaven
born piety. Well might Cardinal
1.ogue say after witnessing the dis
play of strength and the manifesto
ton of fervent faith. that the future of
the Church rested with the Catholics
CT America. Yea, indeed, the the future
of America rests with the Church.
Nothing else will save it from the
Influences which gnaw now at it's very
vitals. Nothing else will buffet the
storms of atheism and of modernism,
reeked aid stained with frightful
frequency by divorce and hopelessness.
1t took no Roosevelt to make thinking
men believe that the strength Of the
ration rests in the last analysis with
the Catholic Church, because that ma
tion which is irreligious is impotent
and in this land the religious prepon-
derance is among Catholics.
So that. beyond the small detail
which focuses attention, the great
lesson of the New York celebration
was it's predictions for America. Do
you imagine that any other demon
stration in this country Of ours ever
equalled that of last Saturday when
seventy thousands Of Catholic laymen
marched before the dignitares of the
Church.
It. would be hard to say which cele-
bration in New York made the great
est impression. Surely the observance
upon which Archbishop Farley set his
heart, that of the children, seven thou =
sands Of them. of whom like "is the
kingdom Of God.'' not only paid pres
ent homage to the bounteous Lord who
had given them such diocese to wor-
ship in and such a Church to live in
but offered the truest measure of the
lasting strength Of the Church. When
the generation which observed last
week will have passed away their
children, born to the most sacred of
trusts, and trained as faithful are
trained and train themselves. will be
fit successors to carry on. lay and
clerical, the work Of the Catholic
Church in the greatest Catholic do
cese in the world.
Cardinal Logue was we'll repaid for
his visit. Seldom has prelate received
the honor which the Irish in New York
paid to him. and never before did an
Irish American audience have Just
that experience of welcoming a prince
of the Church from the old country tc
witness how f1ourished the Church OF
his people in this country.
At Carnegie hall he said:
But there is a greater pleasure still