The Irish standard., 1909-08-28
THE HAPPY REPLY OF
ARCHBISHOP FARLEY
His Grace of New York as
Guest of Cardinal Logue
of Ireland is Recipient of
an Address to Which He
Makes a Very Humorous
Response That Elicits the
Laughter of His Hosts in
the City of Armagh.

Laughter OF Ills I1OStS In
the City of Armagh.
Archbishop Farley, of New York, ar
rived in Armagh, Ireland, as the guest
of Cardinal Logue, on Aug. 9, and was
presented on the following day with
an address from the members of the
Chapter of st. Patrick's Cathedral, to
which he replied as follows:
I feel very grateful for the express
sions of kindness and courtesy and
friendship to which your distinguished
spokesman has just given utterance.
take it, however that it is intended
for the whole people of New York,
and especially the Irish race in New
York, to which the Church is so deco
ly indebted, and which is represented
here in my person. I do not take any
of these to myself. There is one source
of regret entering into the elements
that make this occasion a very joyful
one for me, and it is this: that l am
not prepared to give expression to what /
presence as his Eminence and his dis
tinguished Canons; and hardly think
1t is fair to put a poor man like me,
unaccustomed as l am to public speak
ing, to embarrassment in this way.
Now, l feel like an old statesman,
Cosmo di Medici. He was dying, and
on being asked if he forgave everybody
he said Il forgive all my enemIes,
but the Good Book does not tell us
that We are obliged to forgive our
I friends"'- (Laughter.) SO that I with
hold until my good pleasure my abso-
luton from his Emnence for what he
has done to me, especially as 1 have
entered into "a covenant with him
When l proposed to myself the pleas
ure of visit to himself and his beau-
tiful cathedral, the covenant, was that
should dwell in peace and quietness
while abiding beneath his roof iaauen-
ter). But I suppose the peace anu
quietness is reserved for his camp IN
Carlingford, where, 1 understand, the
wicked cease from troubling him III
least Qaughter), and where l hope To
share part of that happy peace. Witt,
regard to what you say, right rev. gen
tlemen, of the diocese of New York,
it is certainly wonderful. If you take
its practical Catholicity, together will,
its numbers, it may be reckoned
amongst the foremost in the Who'll.
Church; and that is due, very largely
to the faith of the people of your race
and mine, reinforced by the sturdy
faith Of the German people and other
races. His Eminence had occasion to
witness last year some evidence of its
marvellous growth, which is unparal-
leled, should say, in the history of
the Church. Beginning with one small;
church hundred years ago, today il
has in the city alone 14O churches and
!. over a million Catholics (applause),
To the blood and the faith of the Irish,
!. people that is very largely due, thank
God. And when another hundred years
come round, l hope their record will
be as great, as bright, and as gloli-
GUS as their record is today both in
! Church and State. With regard to my
self and what you have been so kindly
! pleased to say of ME, to be sure, l an;
an Armagh man, a fellow diocesan of
yours, and therefore an Irishman. AL
though it was a very important event
In my life when I came into this dio-
ally about it, and hence l take no
credit to myself for it. In regard to
whatever have done, however, in my
career, as you have been pleased tn
call it, either as priest or as Vicar
General, or as Bishop or Archbishop,
feel there is, much more to be re-
GREETED by me than to be proud of.
When one looks back at the history of
nearly forty years in the priesthood,
our very rev. Canons, who have given
so much of your lives to the service OF
God, can well understand how much
there is to be desired in the lives OF
all of us. Hence l do not feel that ]
am likely to have. my head. turned
by the very fattering words of your
right rev.. spokesman. / have enough
II to think Of to keep me humble. Blu:
there is one thing of which I do feel
Justly proud, and that. is, that pos
sess the friendship Of the, most dis
tinguished ecclesiastic. in: the Three