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Show TNOUSANOS ill RECEPTION OF THEJiDlL Every Creed Was Represented in Great Throng That Kissed Seal Ring. EVENT MARKS AN EPOCH IN HISTORY OF CHURCH JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS EXTENDS EX-TENDS BLESSING TO PROTESTANTS PROTEST-ANTS AND CATHOLICS ALIKE. More than 3.000 persons of every creed and of no creed knelt last Saturday before be-fore James Cardinal Gibbons, the ranking rank-ing Roman Catholic prelate of the western - hemisphere, and the only American member of the college of cardinals, and pressed their lips to the great seal ring, the insignia of hi J priestly office, on the occasion of hi? formal public reception at the residence resi-dence of Right Rev. Laurence Scanlan, bishop of Salt Lake. The affair marks an epoch in the history his-tory of the west, as well as an epoch m the history of the Roman Catholic history of the world. For the first time aJ?man Catholic cardinal has paid an official visit to the west. For many of those, in fact for nearlv all, it was the first time they had ever seen a Roman Catholic cardinal. To be presented pre-sented officially to a member of the college of cardinals was the privilege of a lifetime, and thousands eagerly embraced em-braced the opoortiinitv From 4 o'clock until 6 Saturday afternoon aft-ernoon Cardinal Gibbons received an apparently endless stream of people borne of these were communicants of the Roman Catholic church in . the Lmted States. Others, perhaps, came out of curiosity. But more attended 2fJieCCPtl2n bwaus it gave them the prhilege of meeting a man whoe religious re-ligious influence is extended over one of the largest churches of the world a man whose vote he!ps to select the prelate pre-late who occupies the throne of St P OJue' the pope' the absolute head of all the Catholics in the world and Rho exercises a power m!ltr v, To yhoCldWned kjnS h3S CVer attmPted Before the hour set for the formal reception re-ception carriages and automobiles had brought to Bishop Scanlan's residence hundreds of people waiting to b pre! sented to the cardinal. Shortly after 4 o clock these people were ushered into htUerXUn rm a dZen Pretty The austere dignity of the plainness in furnishings and decorations that Js always to be found in the residence of a Roman Catholic prelate was pleasant-flags pleasant-flags af bVeft00ns of American flags and great clusters of beautiful flowers. Back of the cardinal'a throne tne green and cold -ui, ... ' l"ron Erin, was entwined with the-flags o stai let the coat of arms of the cardinal was displayed at his throne. ardlnal As the people entered the recention room they were met by Joseph She pan and by him presented to Right Rev rTnnZvTn' bishop'of i2 incn uh were presented to his emi rience. James Cardinal Gibbon" arch bishop of Baltimore. Aftw mwtlnt m cardinal the guests w, Z7o n?ed in" turn to Right Rev. Dennis J. 6?Conne ? RfUtpChbJrh,P f San FraCnXo; hi , A1P'"insus J. Glorlenv !wh" c!bSpH;; M". Frank U.VTS- |