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Briir lant Aciaress hy Dr. Rumiote A splendid attendance, presided over by archbishop Mannix, marked the annual meeting of the Catholic Truth society, N.vnicn took place in Melbourne on the 11th. inst. Supporting His urace on the platiorm with Rev. Dr. Rumble, M.S.C., S.T.D., were Rev. Francis Moyninan, B.A., Dip.Ed., honorary secretary of the society; Rev. Albert Power, S.J.; Mr. J. S. Meagher, clerical and lay members of the Executive of the A.C.T.S., and a large number of the clergy. The interesting report of the year's activities showed that the organisation was in a condition at once souna and healthy, and that initiative and achievement had characterised its progressive management. His Grace ,Dr. Mannix introduced Rev. Dr. Rumble in a few graceful sentences, and after the speaker had concluded, Rev. Father A. Power, S.J., moved the vote of thanks, paying high tribute to the valuThe vote was able radio work conducted by Dr. Rumble. seconded by Mr. J. S. Meagher, and the meeting concluded with an eloquent address by Most Rev. Dr. Mannix. MOST REV. DR. MANNIX. Rev. Dr. Rumble, who was received with applause, said: "I appreciate very much the Invitation to come from Sydney in order to address you this evening, and that for many reasons:. It is the first time that I have spoken publicly in Melbourne, and whilst I cannot flatter myself into believing that M elbourne thinks it worth having lived one hundred years for the sheer joy of hearing me. I am conscious at least of the honour which is mine when invited to Speak in the heart of Sydney's most formidable rival from every Point of view, save that of a harbour and bridge. Those two exceptions, of course, will not disturb you. They have no particular significance. Sydney did not make the harbour' and the bridge does not make Sydney. "Again, an honour is the more appreciated, the more it is unexpected. And so unexpected was this particular honour that Ihave not yet recovered from the shock. ilut I will not dwell upon this Point. If I suggest a reason for my having been invited to address you, I m yself. On would be deceiving the other hand, if stiZgest that there was no rea'son. I cast . anity of a reflection upon The those who issued the i nvitatipn. From this dilemtifi can find assertion no escape, despite the listeners of one of my Sydney thatt T would manage to wrig gle out of gaol with a boot'ace. 4But, thirdly, and chiely, I appreciate the invitation because the work of the Catholic Truth Socie ty is one so dear to -my heart, o wn and one with which my labours have so much in Nilimon. Our mutual cause is tfile diffusion of Catholic Truth: asking the multitudes to hear
it; you, asking the multitudes to read it. "For these reasons, 1 am grateful for the opportunity which has been afforded me. But to accept with appreciation and enthusiasm an invitation to address you is One has to Say not enough. are very diffiBoth omething. s In my efforts to find cult. something to say, I have learned a new and deep sympathy with the poor fishermen of the Gospel, who laboured all the night and And even when took nothing. I believed that I had found the something, the prospect of saying it proved to be a very nightmare. It is one thing to blush unseen behind a microphone in far-off Sydney. It is quite another to be seen blushing on a platform here in Melbourne. "However, miracles still happen. Having let down the net, like the Apostles, in the same old place in which I had hitherto taken nothing, I hauled up the astonisliing thought that I was to address the Catholic Truth SoAnd that meant, in realciety. ity, three fish which strained the net to breaking-point. I could say something Catholic; something about the Truth ; and something of social significance. For, if we could make Australia Catholic, give all its inhabitants the divinely -revealed Truth, and bind all together in that greatest of all social bonds—Christian charity— we would not only be fulfilling the will of God, but also rendering our country the greatest possible s ervice. And the Catholic Truth Society exists precisely for these three great objects. "Its aim, of course, is to make people .Catholic. Now, this aim is bound to be unpopular so long as the majority of the people of Australia are not Catholics. That I know only too well from the
candid communications I receive from unsympathetic listeners to • REV. DR. RUMBLE, M.S.C., S.T.D. my radio sessions. However, national aspirations. The formthis is to be expected. Such un- er have at least discerned somepopularity is bound to arise trom thing of the true character of the the very nature of Catholicism, Church. The latter are subject as well as from the prejudices of to a blindness due to sheer prethe ill-informed. judice. "There has long been a tradi"Take first the very nature sz4 Catholicism. The Catholic reL tion amongst hosts of non-Catholigion is essentially universal. it lics that the Catholic Church, far r ises above all merely national from being outside and above all c onsiderations. Never can it bs nations, is trying to get a political a national Church. And no grip an each particular country Church that is national could be where it happens to be. Those inthe true Church of that Christ' fected by this tradition accuse who died for the salvation of all the Church, not of inability to mankind. He did not est.ablish harmonise with. the State, but of a Church for the Germans, an- wanting to devour it. Victorian other for the English, still an- England dreaded the Catholic other for the French, and separate Church as one might be expected Churches for every other separ- to dread the proverbial octopus. ate nation. He brought out the Bismarck laboured to break her fact that His religion -would be influence in Germany. America independent of all national con- rejected the candidature of Al siderations when He said, 'Ren- Smith for the Presidency solely der to Caesar the things that are from spurious fears that Rome Caesar's, and to God the things might get a strangle hold on the Even here in that are God's.' Therefpre it is entire country. that those who would naake the Australia, Protestant dread of CaState their all find themselves tholicism from this political point compelled to denounce the Ca- of view has served the cause of tholic Church. It cannot be political parties over and over One wonders when the made subservient to the State, be- again. coming, as it were, a branch of prejudice will 'die! Is it not surthe civil service. Ardent Totali- prising that, even in these entarians sense this; and they cry lightened days I am still asked out, even as Christ, but in an op- by wireless listeners why ,Rome posite way, 'He that is not with had Mr. Lyons transferred from me is against me.' I say, then, the Labour Party to the U.A.P., that as national and temporal and Mr. Beasley t-) Federal polic onsiderations begin to usurp the tics? Was it not that these two, ulace of universal and eternal together with Mr. Scullin, might ideals, Opposition to the Catholic hold the key postions in each of Church is almost bound to arise. the thrfe Federal gioups ? Was But not only does the very nature it not in order to further the of the Catholic Chu rch breed sus- Pope's ambition to conquer AusOf course, the Pope picion in those wh o practically tralia? make the State Omit- god. If would be the most surprised man these people declar e that the Ca- in the world to learn that he ever tholic Church can knot he made possessed such an ambition. If national in its outlook, others ac- Catholics are elected to represent (Continued on Page 12.) cuse her of being eaten up with
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