1915 Yearbook
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1915 Yearbook
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The Rt. Rev. Bishop conferred the honors and diplomas and it was noticed
that he gave a kindly word and encouraging hand to the students in whom he
takes a pride. He then in happy fashion congratulated the graduating class on
the completion of the difficult course of study and wished them continued success
in life. He bade the student body be loyal to their Alma Mater and each bring
back at vacation's close three or four new students to fill the college halls. He
briefly reviewed the college history and proudly claimed fifty young students of
the ministry now priests of God, laboring in the diocese of Davenport as proof of
the noble mission of St. Ambrose College.
Father McCabe opened his study of the country's needs by a comparison
which paralleled the history of God's chosen people with the people of this country. Carefully he traced the development of the nations by whose constantly
changing laws and tyrannies, a great unrest among the peoples who craved political and religious liberty, and a missionary zeal which animated the mighty Columbus, sent the latter to America's shores—and Father McCabe scathingly denounced the school of the present which excludes the mention of Isabella, the
Catholic, who should share with the discoverer the glory of early colonization.
Carefully contrasting the attitude of the nations of today towards God, whom
they would exclude from their government, their schools and their homes, with
the deep religious development of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the
speaker said:
"The United States is a mighty nation of 100,000,000 people, but only 35,000,-
000 profess any sort of belief in Good whatever. The fate of the nations, powerful and great, that have risen and fallen because they paid no attention to the
Supreme Being should ever remind us of the danger.
"We should go back to the God that inspired Columbus to cross unknown seas
and find a vast continent; back to the God, believing in whom Queen Isabella, the
Catholic, raised funds for the dangerous expidition by mortgaging her jewels;
back to the God that sent the early missionaries to the then barbaric America, to
civilize and convert its savage people; back to the God that was our trust in the
mighty conflicts so gloriously waged in the past.
"Unless the people of this great country are strong and firm in their allegiance to that God, the future is dark. The lessons of past and nearly forgotten
peoples should be heeded, for above everything and before everything America,
first, needs God."
Thus closed the graduating exercises of St. Ambrose for 1914, and its future,
judged by its past, will be history of greater achievements and wider scope. May
the College continue to direct and guide and educate our young men in the nobler
things of life, winning new laurels for itself and for the fair city of Davenport.
that he gave a kindly word and encouraging hand to the students in whom he
takes a pride. He then in happy fashion congratulated the graduating class on
the completion of the difficult course of study and wished them continued success
in life. He bade the student body be loyal to their Alma Mater and each bring
back at vacation's close three or four new students to fill the college halls. He
briefly reviewed the college history and proudly claimed fifty young students of
the ministry now priests of God, laboring in the diocese of Davenport as proof of
the noble mission of St. Ambrose College.
Father McCabe opened his study of the country's needs by a comparison
which paralleled the history of God's chosen people with the people of this country. Carefully he traced the development of the nations by whose constantly
changing laws and tyrannies, a great unrest among the peoples who craved political and religious liberty, and a missionary zeal which animated the mighty Columbus, sent the latter to America's shores—and Father McCabe scathingly denounced the school of the present which excludes the mention of Isabella, the
Catholic, who should share with the discoverer the glory of early colonization.
Carefully contrasting the attitude of the nations of today towards God, whom
they would exclude from their government, their schools and their homes, with
the deep religious development of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the
speaker said:
"The United States is a mighty nation of 100,000,000 people, but only 35,000,-
000 profess any sort of belief in Good whatever. The fate of the nations, powerful and great, that have risen and fallen because they paid no attention to the
Supreme Being should ever remind us of the danger.
"We should go back to the God that inspired Columbus to cross unknown seas
and find a vast continent; back to the God, believing in whom Queen Isabella, the
Catholic, raised funds for the dangerous expidition by mortgaging her jewels;
back to the God that sent the early missionaries to the then barbaric America, to
civilize and convert its savage people; back to the God that was our trust in the
mighty conflicts so gloriously waged in the past.
"Unless the people of this great country are strong and firm in their allegiance to that God, the future is dark. The lessons of past and nearly forgotten
peoples should be heeded, for above everything and before everything America,
first, needs God."
Thus closed the graduating exercises of St. Ambrose for 1914, and its future,
judged by its past, will be history of greater achievements and wider scope. May
the College continue to direct and guide and educate our young men in the nobler
things of life, winning new laurels for itself and for the fair city of Davenport.
Date
1915
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
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