The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-07-17
BRISBANE AND CARDINAL GIB-
BONS.

Arthur Brisbane, the noted journal
list, thus wrote of the Catholic Church
1t was during the Republican National
Convention in Chicago:
Beginning of the third DAY. Quarter
past eleven. Nothing started yet, ex-
cept the band Cardinal Gibbons, in
scarlet cap and scarlet cloak, has
walked through the hall to the plat
form. He is reverently applauded by
those of his faith and affectionately
greeted by all that respect venerable
age and noble character.
Mr.. D. F. Kelly, made a knight by
the Cardinal yesterday, and proudly
wearing his decoration, asks your
narrator to climb onto the upper plat
form to be presented to the Cardinal.
The venerable old man rises, says a
few words, with a look of inquiring
benevolence in his keen blue eyes.
A modern reporter is interesting to
him.
His thin face, with every unneces-
sary ounce of solid substance worn
away, reminds you, in it's translucence,
of the face of Pope Leo, as this writer
saw him celebrating his jubilee in St.
| Peters,.
At this moment, 1925, the Cardinal
is led forward by Senator Lodge, and
having swiftly made the sign of the
cross on his breast, is now praying.
1t is a picturesque scene, one to be
long remembered. In the scarlet cap,
scarlet sash, long cloak of bright scar
let hanging from his shoulder to the
ground, you see power, great in the
past and great today, facing the crowd
of 1920 as other princes of his Church
| faced other crowds in the Crusades
and as others that established the
party of Christianity long before,
faced the lions in the arena.
The entire audience is standing,
| concentrated with intense interest on
what is the first and will be the last
touch of romantic color in this I'M
| romantic gathering.
| He reads part of the prayer from a
| manuscript in his hand, for there are
| things he wants surely to say, and
| he will not risk too much to memory
| at his age.
Repeating the Lords Prayer at the
| end of his appeal for Gods guidance
| and retires.
AS the Cardinal walked to his seat
with bent head and look on his face
! that shows pride in the power that has
lasted through centuries, you recall
what Prof. Draper wrote many years
! ago on the constant pickering that has
broken up, scattered and weakened
Professionalism, and the marvellous soil.
| darity, oneness of purpose that has
carried the Catholic Church through
revolutions, political and religious
| Powerful in united action The Re
publican party seems to need it, and
it may profit some of the politicians
that contemplate running away from
Johnson, the chosen leader, to read
over again Diapers admirable words
ut was in the nature of Protestant
ism from it's outset that it was not
| SoAotl uSClfC. OuilhC lIS SISdI oil
tagonists it contained no fundamental
principle that could combine distant
communities and foreign countries to
gether.
''It originated in dissent, and was
embodied by separation. 1t could moi
possess concentrated power mol
recognize one Apostolic man who
might compress it's disputes, harmo
nize its powers. WELD it as mass.
For the attainment of his aims
the Protestant had only wishes, the
Catholic had a will.
| "The Church of England, of Scot
land, or of any other Protestant ma
ton, undoubtedly did discharge its
duty excellently we'll for the com
munity in which it was placed, but a
the most, it was only a purely loca
institution, altogether insignificant il
comparison with the great old Church
hoary and venerable with age, which
had seen every government and every
institution in Europe come into exist
ence, many of them at it's bidding
which had extirpated paganism from
J the Roman Empire, compelled thu
Saesars to obey it's mandates, precipi
} tated the whole white race upon tn,
) Holy Land-that great old Church
once more than imperial sovereign O
Christendom, and of which the mos
respectable national church was onl,
: fragment of fragment"