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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 31 schools. "They builded here a culture, Western in nature, rough in its outline, solid in its substance, and men not of their faith who sympathized and understood their motives helped them build. Then came the pilgrim Joseph Glass and opened the doors of an old world culture that its refinement of spiritual symbolism might flux our souls to a livelier appreciation of things beautiful. Today we stand before an outstanding American leader, a Prince of the Church who had crossed a continent to present to us a new Shepherd, and from the four corners have come eminent Churchmen to help us receive him. Your Lordship, you, too, are a pioneer, for the work has but begun and the foundation upon which you will build is not to be found in those piles of stone which are the monuments to those who have gone. They left a far greater heritage in the Christian valor of their children, in the Catholic manhood and womanhood of this, our beloved West. I know them all, Your Eminence, and I can say to you that they will walk with him to that day when the last sun of their generation shall have passed the purple portals of the West to leave emblazoned still upon their escutcheons that device which was the inspiration and the guide to their fathers labors Pro Deo, Pro Patrit, For God and for Country. - s The Very Reverend Monsignor Hunt was next on the program, speaking in behalf of the Clergy of the Diocese: . i. DR. GALLIGAN : A man severe he was and stern to view. I would like to call the attention of the assembled guests to the fact that my line from the immortal Goldsmith reads stem to view. If you will search your memories for the remainder of the description, you will have a picture of my friend and yours. And still 4we gaze, and still the wonder grows That one small head can carry all he knows! The little, great cleric of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the one to whom we go in pur adviser, spiritual doubts, in our philosophical disputes our choir leader, our the close, loyal friend of our late Bishop, and we may say prophetically the earnest support of the new leader! Who is' better able to present the heart-fel- t wishes of the Clergy of the Diocese than the Very Reverend Monsignor Hunt? MONSIGNOR HUNT: Mr. Toastmaster, Your Eminence, Your Grace, Your Lordship, Right Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Diocese of Salt Lake, which is my subject, is a very large subject, quite too large for the small head with which the toastmaster has just credited me. The Diocese of Salt Lake is the largest Diocese in the country; and from its place in the mountains it intends to throw a light which may be seen in all parts of this country. It is fitting that the largest Diocese in the country should require a Bishop from the largest city in the world. It is my privilege, as a representative of the Clergy of this Diocese,' to say a few words of welcome to our Bishop. I should like to say a few words to him about his priests. In saying them, however, I really believe that I am thinking more of you than of him. Some of of the priests who are now working in this f you may be surprised to know that Diocese came from across the Atlantic. Of this number nine came from Ireland, two from Holland, one from France, one from Germany and, I believe, one from Italy. Of the priests from this country seven are from New England, four from New York, and three of us must admit that we came from that great part of this country which I once heard a priest of San Francisco characterize as the intellectual Sahara of America, the Middle West. For this statement I do not know that the Archbishop is to be blamed. You will have noticed that I did not mention one priest from this Diocese. It is a fact, unfortunately, that there is not now working in this Diocese one priest who was born and raised here. I well recall my own ordination, at which many of you, I believe, were present, when Bishop Glass said Jo you in the Cathedral: ,Here is our first native priest. Now that wav true in a very qualified sense only. I had been here, as you know, as a citizen and layman for three years. With that reservation in mind the Bishop said that I was the first native priest. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss the reasons why we have no native clergy, but I believe it is a proper time and place to call the fact to your attention. I recall that Bishop Glass asked me to offer up my first High Mass in the Cathedral as a prayer to God for vocations from this Diocese, and I know: that he made the same request of the other priests whom he ordained. The event which we were privileged to witness this morning in the Cathedral, by its very nature, made history. And each of us considered it a privilege to be present. I trust that we shall all have the opportunity, before many years, to be present at another event which likewise will make history; and I believe that our Bishop, after he has ordained the first boy from this Diocese, will say to us jhat that ordination is an event which ranks in importance with the greatest events in the history of the Diocese. I hope that I have the privilege of being present; and I trust that some of you people here will see some of your sons, some of your own boys, ordained in that Cathedral. It must be a wonderful and incomparable joy to parents to see their own son, for the clear-heade- d : one-hal- i ; 4 ? ( |