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Show -f 4 ; COLORADO NEWS : f 4- -f -t DENVER. Office of The Intel-mountain and Colorado Col-orado Catholic, 409 Charles Block, Curtis and Fifteenth Streets. Correspondence Cor-respondence for Rev. T. H. Malone should be addressed P. O. Box 1556, Denver, Colo. DENVER'S NEW CATHEDRAL. Denver, Colo., May 8. 1300. La.st Sunday at all ths Masses at St. Mary's Cathedral ami Logan Avenue chapel. Rev. Father Callanan made the liiipt official announcement to his rar-ifhoners. rar-ifhoners. that the church property had been enld. He also made known hte plans for the future, lmnvpdi'ate steps will be taken to find a temporary place of worship for the members of the Cathedral Ca-thedral parish, who live down town. On lu-xt Saturday, May 12, at 9 o'clock, Solemn Requiem Mass? will be said for the ouls of all who have been burled from the old Cathedral. Among these are Rip'ht Hev. Bishop Machebeuf, and many priests who had made Denver their field of labor. The following- day the last services will be held in the Cathedral. Ca-thedral. There wil Ibe Solemn. Pontifical Ponti-fical High JIa?s at 11 o'clock. Knowing how dear the old church is to all the Catholics in Denver, we think we may pafely predict that it wil lnot accomzmo-date accomzmo-date "one-third of thoe Aho will seek admittance on that occasion. The ale of the property netted $145,- 000, which, when all debts are paid, leaves a surplus of $28,000 as a nucleus for the new Cathedral fund. Jn part. Rev. Father Callanan said: "We have thus at the present moment." mo-ment." he continued, "a spiendid school building- clear of debt: S2S.O00 in cash; sixteen pood residence lot6 to be put on the market at once, end a magnificent new church site, virtually free from encumbrance. Thus do we emerge from the effects" of a panic which has prostrate! pros-trate! pome of the most successful business firms in this city, and to whose terrific violence financial giants have succumbed. "This is no time for a retrospect. We will let ths dead past burv its dead. Mistakes no doubt have been made, but they were mistakes of the head rather than of the heart, and mistakes which unlike many others of the kind, have been practically redeemed. In justtce to Bishop Matz it must be stated that he traveled far and wide to collect funds for the redemption of the prop--ertv in its hour of peril, having collected collect-ed in all some $17,000 or $18,000. "So much for the past, but what are our aim and objects for the future? This is the burning question that meets us this morning. YVe have emerged from the slough of despond, but we nvjist descend into the valley of humiliation humil-iation to hold many a sharp encounter with Mr. YVorlylly-wlfe-man, Mr. Save-all. Save-all. Mr. Foult lnder. Mr. Mistrust and Mr. HohJ-the-wovld before the delectable delecta-ble mountains coiSi within our view. "We must, in more ?nses. than one, tnke up our cross daily before the em-Mem em-Mem of salvation tope the graceful spires that will announce to the world ihe completion of our work. 'The labor tmit we delight in. however, physios our pain.' We will have much to endure, ; but much also to sustain us in the en terprise. We will feel that we are removing re-moving from our fair city a standing reproach its lack of a representative Catholic church. , "The Catholic? of this cits' and state might hitherto point with pride to the ' majniifioent academies and colleges. their superb hospital-, their sanitariums, sanitari-ums, and their asylum but when it ramp to their churches they were forced to bow their beads in shame and to exclaim to the 'astonished visitor from the Bast. 'Oh. tell it not in Oabalon! Tell it not in Oath!' "The fault, however, my dear friends, was not w holly in our etars. We were unserve? somewhat accountable for this state of things. On more than one occasion we have remembered the lack of Interest where church interests were concerned, and we hare progressed k far in the fare f no little indifference. There sfaouid be an end to all this, my dear brethren. 'It is now the hour for us to arise from pleep.' We should ail get together and put our shoulders to the wh-el. We should vow with David not to give "sleep to our eyes nor plumber plum-ber to our eyelids nor rest to our temple tem-ple until we find our place for the I.'-rd, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.' Ja-cob.' "A ft or securing a temporary place of worship for the down-town portion of ,,ur congregation, it i.a our intention to form at once a church corporation as well a a building committee to look after the interests of our parishioners. The church to be erected should not. in my opinion, cost less than $200,000. Mere country towns in the East have rierted nlaces of -worship almost as costly, and shall a city of nearly 200.000 Inhabitants, including some of the wealthiest Catholics in the Weft, pale before the energy of an eastern village? Tt wil Inot: It cannot, if the Catholics of this city and state, and especially of this parish, w iil do their duty. Let only a generous ear for the glory of God's t' ' house be manifested, and Denver will In the near future be possessed of an odifico that wil lb? an ornament to our beautiful city and a telling object les-ynn les-ynn i:f ihe vivifying influence of Christianity Chris-tianity in "ur midst." |