Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1910-03-12
Admonishes Councils and Mem
bers to Strive For Better
Things.
Suggests Chapel Car and How
IL Might BE Secured at
Once.
REFERS TO CONSOLIDATION IDEA

L. L. Mahan, Supreme Presiden.
of the Young Mems Institute and a
PRESIDENT of Eureka, Cal, has adj
dressed a general letter TO the SUBJ
lordinate officers and members OF
the order. Mr.. Mahan praises the
order for what it has done in the
past, but admonishes the members
not to stand still. Progress is the
watchword, he SAYS. In order to
make progress the order must show
strength; it must have ideal princi-
pies and well defined ideals. Having
these, they must be put into prac-
tice. and it must have the power TO
enforce them. He points out that
the Y. NJ. j. Is a society of Catholics
banded together for mutual aid and
benevolence; that the members are
bound to do all they can for the
moral, social and intellectual benefit
of each other Supreme President
Mahan then quotes the encyclical of
Pope Leo XIII. as follows:
I'VE should study our duty az
Catholic men, we should work to-
gether for a common purpose. we
should according to our capacity
earnestly study Christian doctrine.
and fill our minds as well as we may
with the knowledge of those truths
which contain religion, and can be
by reason alone.
"And having done this we should
as often as occasion demands or
presents itself impart to others
what we have received, and to pro-
fess our faith openly and fearlessly,
either TO instruct or confirm the
faithful or to curb the soothing of
|unbelievers. Each one should strive
with might and main to propagate
Christian truth and to Danish error"
Supreme President Mahan also adj
mOnishes the members of the order
to devote at least one meeting in
each month to the study of Catholic
and educational matters. aud to live
at all times the lives of courageous
Catholic gentlemen. Next he adj
monishes them to advertise. He de-
clares that it is time for members
of the order TO undertake some pro-
iect that will reflect credit upon it;
something that viii cause it to merit
THE esteem, confidence and well
wishes of the public, something in
which every member of the order
would be interested.
He suggests that the Y NJ. I. pur-
chase q chapel car, similar to that
of the Catholic Church Extension
Society. He suggests that each
council recommend that an assess
ment for the purpose be levied upon
each member, and that all who are
disposed be given the opportunity to
make larger donations. He adds:
Probably you may have better
plan in mind by which this fund may
be raised. If so we viii be pleased to
receive the suggestion. But by all
means let us get busy and raise the
fund and furnish the Y. NJ. /. chapel
car and thereby bring glory and sue
cess to our organization. No doubt
most if not all the members are
aware of the alliance between the
Catholic Young Mems National Union
and the Young Mems Institute, which
was brought about through the able
assistance of Supreme First Vice
President p. H. Keefe and Supreme
Director James I. Shelley, the two
delegates appointed to represent the
Y. NJ. l. az the c.. Y. NJ. N. u, conven-
ton in Boston last September.
"This action has done and viii do
much toward making the aims and
objects of the Y. NJ. /. known and to
great extent win place our order
in a position TO which it is justly
entitled in the minds of the Cath
olics of America, and will give it a
lfoothold in new and / trust fruit
full fields, and win cause the clergy
to inquire into and investigate our
order, and having done this are sure
to lend their support to 1t; and
lastly, but by no means least, by this
faction we have won The best wishes,
esteem and support of that grand
tbody of Catholic young men who
have been and are still working along
similar lines as our order is working,
land I feel that when the members
of that body consider the aims, OBJ
jecfs and workings of the Y NJ. i.
mnny of them will be found in cur
ranks, and likewise when our MEM.
bers more fully consider the WORTH v
cause for which the G. YIN. N. q
is laboring they win lend their in
fluence to it and join its ranks, and
las result better work can be ac-
Ico.nplished and sooner or later the
two organizations win become more
firmly cemented together, if not con-
solidated into one grand organiza-
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