Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-22
ADDRESS TO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Rev. w. A. keefe State Lecturer Speaks Eloquenty Upon Catholic Ideals Before Open Meeting of White Cross CounciEOrder Engaged in Educatve Programme.
Skilled Workmen.

Skilled Workmen.
 It was the Catholic monk in the Catholic cloisier who guarded and transcribed and taught to the world all that we have of the Bible as well as the masterpieces of ancient profane history and literature. In order to in spire men with love of Christian virtue, Catholic artists and architects have given to the world all cur great mas terpieces of Christian art and areh1- lecture, making the very stones and precious metals and choicest wood and porcelain show forth the Christian ideal Catholic influences covered Eu- rope with those wonderful sermons in stone and filled them with models of superior workmanship. The sacred yes sels and vestments. the gorgeously H. luminated books the stained glass windows, the melodious bells, even the iron railings and gates. the hinges and Iatches on the doors all tell the story of the progressive influence of the Catholic ideal all stand as the best models of the best workmen of our own time.
 Learned in Many Branches.
 Papal decrees and favors were essen tial features in the establishment and development of most of the greatest European universities. Loyal sons of the church, rising to the very highest places in the various departments of
 
 striking way the foolish statement, so often repeated, that the Catholic church Is an enemy of science. Guy de Chau- lie, father of surgery, was a papal chamberlain and professor at Mont pelier; Vesalius, father of anatomy, and Schwamn, father of the cell sys- tenn, taught at Louvain; Margagin, father of pathology, taught at Bologna and rejoiced in the fact that one son became Jesuit and several daughters became nuns; Claude Bernard, the re- noWned physioIogist, and PaSteur fa- ther of preventive medicine, were loyal Catholics; Linacre, founder of the Royal College of Physicians of Eng land, spent his latter years as a Cath Olic priest; Stenson, father of geology, became a bishop; Basil Valentine, fa- ther of modern chemistry and Mendel, the renowned biologist, were both Catholic priests, as were the Jesuits who first taught Europe the use of quinine and other drugs which they found in South America.
 On the Battlefield.
 As in the laboratory and studio, so also on the battlefield Catholic ideals have guided and inspired many of the greatest champions of civilized prog ress. John Sobieski served mass just before the historic victory that saved Europe from Mohammedan invasion; William Tell, William Wallace, Robert Bruce, St. Louis of France, Andreas Hope and the Catholic barons at Runy- mede fought and bled for the honor of church and country.
 Christopher Columbus, fortified by the sacraments of the church, aided entirely by Catholic money and in spired only by Catholic ideals, opened this new world to the great treasure houses of European progress. Cath olic missionaries and educators, Cath olic soldiers and statesmen have never faltered and never will falter in their zeal for all that is best and glorious in every department of American ad- Vancement
 Growth in Connecticut.
 From a small band of despsed i'm migrants, the Catholics of Connecticut have rapidly grown in a single genera ton to a mighty army of over 100000. Today they and their children play a most important part in every depart ment of our political. educational in dustrial and religious life. What is true of Connecticut is true of every state in the union. Who shall say that our church and our ideals are a menace to human progress? Who shall say that the educator and founder and civ ilizer of the nation is unworthy of our loyalty and respect amid the battles and trials of today? The church of the ages calls upon her sons and daughters to fight for God and coun- try with the constancy of her greatest missionaries, the heroism of her brav- est martyrs and the purity of her noblest children. Love one another, Peace on earth, Goodwill to men, Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, were the principles by which all civil ized progress has been accomplished These principles of the Catholic ideal are the only foundations upon Which cur individual and national progress can be built. Twenty millions of Cath ollie Americans are taught these prin- ciples daily; ore and one-half million little pupils of Catholic schools are learning the same lessons in every sec ton of our country: an army of Americas nobIest daughters in one great chain of hospitals and charitable institutions are living monuments to the same lesson.
 Catholic knights, four hundred thou sand strong, inspired by all these glo- rious examples and reflections, let us, like the crusaders of old, live and la bor and sacrifice, everywhere and aI- ways for the honor and glory of the highest ideals of Catholic American manhood.