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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1903)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 7 Archbishop Christie at Chemawa., ' Sai,eh, Mar. .23. Moat Reverend Alex ander Christie, Uatholic archbishop of Or egon, made an official visit to t be CUe mawa Indian Training School yes'erday.and delivered nti eloquent sermon, Between 200 tndSOOoftliepupita'of (his school are Cath olics, and one of the largest Catholic Sun day Schools in the state is conducted there every bittiday, over two hundred being' eurullfd The viait of fiich a high church Uiguitaiy was qaite an epoch in the life of the school, and the archbishop ex pressed liiuwelf highly pleased with the condition of the institution and of the children m all respects. Chief Justice F. A. Moore, of the Supreme Court, delivered a lecture here last evening on the Indian question, and the effort is highly spoken tif.-Poriland Telegram. Sermon by Archbishop Christie. We present herewith the sermon de livered before the Chemawa school last Sunday morning by Archbishop Christie, of Portland. "My Deah Children : It is a very great pleasure, for me to be hefe and to see so many bright boys and girla, and I trust Ut.it while you are here at school, you will hi w that you Appreciate all that is being (iniie for tou, and the only way you can Bin.- It is, first of all, to be obedient, tf ynii want, to make your teacher feel that you appreciate thai they are .conferring s .mf jiooa upon you, you must le obedient to ihem We mnst be obedient to author I y placed over us, and that Catholic child ren must know that the Catholic Church iiixtiHn into them that we must respect au thority of teacher, state and church, we niuct respect i(t nd for that reason I would he very much pined, indefd, if ny com pi int should tie sent to me of Htiy Catholic b'tys or girls shtiwing diaobedieuce or giv ing Irouhle to their teachers "I wifh also to say that I appreciate your tinging and thank those wtio have taken charge of it and thank the superintendent for placing at our disposal these rooms and buildings, and hope that Id time we may have a church so that we may come together without disturbing others or breaking the regulations, although I am sure tbe Superintendent is only too pleased to grant us an opportunity of building up the characters and moulding the hearts and minds of these children. "A few years ago, when in Washington, I talked to the President of the .United States and he was exceedingly courteous and kind and said that it was perfectly right that'we should have an opportunity of speaking to our children and teaching them, wherever they are, and I am very glad, indeed, to see these barriers of the past thrown aside, as they should be. "We are all children of this great govern ment of ours and, my dear Catholic child ren, I meet many of your parents when on my travels around the different reserva tions and, while many of them cannot speak to me in their own tongue, they ask me through an interpreter if their child ren are practising their religion, or can it be possible that, after being baptized, they are to be lost. I want to be able to reassure your parents, and they have the right to know what you are doing. God has placed them as your parents, and, as such, they have the parental rights over you children. ' "Now, boys and girls, there are a large number of you who should be studying your religion and are not. You should be hero every Sunday studying your religion. I know some of you and your parents and you have not been studying your religion. Now remember that God will demand of us an account some day of our stewardship, and consequently, if we have been baptized in the great Catholic Church of the living God, we will be judged on that. Therefore, it is a serious matter, that of religion. There is no opinion about it. It is a posi tive law of God. There is no opinion about it, it is a positive living fact. That is religion and it is received by us from the living God who has created us and oon sequently, we should practice our relig- "You have heard this marvel, which the living Jesus performed. To many of your minds porhaps, when I was reading this