Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-07-05
DEDICATE K. OF c. BUILDING
Bishop Rice, Governor Graham,
and Others Make Addresses.
Church. State, Military, and People Join
Hands for imperative Ceremony
Yesterday on the state
Reservation.

as well as the people, were amply TcpTo-
scented at the formal opening yesterday
afternoon Of the new knights OF
Columbus building on a site not far from
the Fanny Allen hospital on the State
camp grounds. Governor Horace f.
Graham, the Rt Rev. Bishop j. ]. Rice.
Brigadier General Joseph T. Dckman and
Adjutant- General Lee s. Tillotson, Colonel
w. c. Rivers of the 18th cavalry, and
Colonel Fred B. Thomas Of the First Ver-
mont Infantry, and the Hon. Felix w.
McGettrick of Boston, former State
deputy of the Knights Of Columbus Of
Vermont made addresses or remarks.
State Deputy Stephen M. Driscoll OF st.
Adams presided and introduced the speak,
ers. Grand Knight Thomas B. Wright OF
this city was master of ceremonies Grand
Knights J. l.. Dempsey Of st. Albana,
J. J. Gallagher Of Hardwick and P. J.
Pendergast Of Bennington. together with
the executive committee of the Vermont
State Soldiers association, the Very Rev.
Joseph F. Gillis. and other priests in and
out Of town and members of the order
had seats upon the platform. The band
of the 18th cavalry played.
About two-thirds Of the seats In the
audience we're taken by members of the
three regiments Of regulars and the First
Vermont Infantry, but there was a plenti-
full mixture of people from this city.
Winooski, ETC., as we'll as from farther
points.
BISHOP BLEssEs BUILDING.
The blessing of the building by Bishop
Rice, assisted by the Rev. J. F. ellis. ETC.,
and his address opened the program OF
the afternoon. Bishop Rice said:
War is a time of hysterical excitement.
time Of determinations and Of recrimina-
tons.
The allies are unanimous in laying at
the Kaisers door full responsibility for
the dreadful carnage which has GRIM
soned Europe with brothers blood
To my mind. the present awful catas-
trophe, which we all deplore SO deeply. is
the harvest time Of seeds sown in bygone
days. but the Kaiser enjoys the unenviable
distinction Of being the reaper of this
whirlwind Of desolation.
For we'll nigh a century German profess
sors have been scattering broadcast the
germs Of atheism, of materialism and of
socialism: no God, no soul, no individual
liberty!
To Germany. year by year. have focked
the picked youths of England, of France
and of the United States, to complete
their education under German professors,
whose false principles. carried to their
logical conclusions, would spell the ruin
Of civilization.
Is 1t surprising that the Kaiser became
inflated with the idea of his own suprem-
acy, when he beheld scholars from the
foremost nations of the globe setting high
er value on the sayings of a Kant,
Heckle or a Marx than on the word of
God. or on the sound principles Of right
reason?
Could his naughty nature remain insen-
| sible to the mighty influence Germany
was welding through those students i'm
bued with materialistic doctrines, who on
returning to their native lands were ac-
credited the leaders Of learning?
Why marvel that the Kaiser. confident
of his grasp on the intellectual world.
| should extend his rapacious hand to con.
fiscate the wealth of mankind?
Then came a rude awakening: nations
willing to do their thinking In terms Of
German pseudo-science were reluctant to
surrender their material goods in which
they had been taught to place their trust.
| When nations turn aside from God and
make god of money and pleasure can
they find reasonable ground for COM
plant If Divine Providence affords them
/ an opportunity of testing the reliability
Of their newly enthroned deity?
In war they shall see their wealth van
fishing in the form Of powder smoke, and
| their pleasures converted into excruciat-
| ing sufferings-then and only then, like
the prodigal. they may see the errors of
their Fathers house.
War indeed Is a terrible scourge. but
we'll worth the sacrifices entailed. il
thereby nation is enabled to break
away from the letters of materialism,
and retrace it's footsteps in the ways
of truth. of honesty and Of Righteousness
To you my dear young soldier friends
what shall say on the 14lst anniversary
of the declaration of Independence?
You have been summoned from your
peaceful avocations to the gruesome tasks
Of slaughter and destruction.
At the sound of the tocsin Of war you
left your ploughs in unfinished burrows
and FASTENED to offer your young lives
on the altar of patriotic devotion.
Love of country means more to yor
than an opportunity to exploit your fell
low beings. 1t means more to you thar
vain glorious talk and idle boasting.
Your presence here to-day vouches fo
your readiness and willingness to die
for this noble land of equal opportunity
where every true American extends the
helping hand to deserving youths
Imagine not my dear young soldier
|
our beloved country has to fear.
An enemy far more deadly is lurkinl
by the wayside to destroy you, body an.
soul. and overthrow your country. Tha
enemy is immortality.
Realizing this danger. we, your olde
brothers. are here assembled to Civ
utterances to our interest in your wei
fare.
The two concluding petitions Of tn
Lords prayer aptly express the purpos
which prompted the erection of thi
building. Lead us not into temptation
but deliver US from evil"
Yes, Divine Lord. lead not into tempta
ton these dear young men. but kee
them from evil and in the not far dis
tant day when tidings of victorious peac
shall gladden. our hearts, return then
unblemished in body and in soul to thei
mothers embrace. Amen.
| GOVERNOR GRAHAM SPEAKS
Governor Graham. who followed. sal
the building had been dedicated to tn
uses of all the soldiers at the fort Tn
Governor took up the keynote sounde
. by State Deputy Driscoll. who had sal
that the building was meant for all tn
, soldiers, regardless of creed. He referee
to Ethan Allen and his "In the name O
the Great Jehovah and the Continents
Congress-" Paul Jones, and the Ne,
, Jersey parson who when wadding CAV
!, out during the Revolution. ordered hi
men to use the leaves of the hymnals 1
, his church nearby. None of them, he sale
had waited for a slogan. The Governo
said the National Guard was his. a
, commander in-chief, "before Uncle Sar
> took you away from me-" and admonishe