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Show .J THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 60 Immaculate Conception Ginrdh Provo, Utah Rev. Joseph G.. Delaire, Pastor Sunday Mass 10 A. M. Week-da- y events marking the Escalante At Spanish Fork, on Sunday morning, Sep tember 26th, the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the coming of Father Escalante, the Franciscan explorer, to the shores of Utah Lake was commemorated. Solemn High Mass was celebrated in the public square of the city of Spanish Fork by the Rev. Joseph G. Delaire, Pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church at Provo. Father Delaire was assisted by the Rev. Cornelius F. Reardon, of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, as Deacon and the Rev. Joseph P. Moreton, of the Cathedral, as The music was furnished by the Choir of the Cathedral of the Madeleine. The Very Rev. Monsignor Duane G. Hunt, of Salt Lake City, delivered the sermon. About two thousand people attended the Mass. Though Father Escalante came into Utah bringing the Catholic faith, it is well for all of us 1 6 pay homage to him, Monsignor Father Escalante Hunt said in his sermon. belongs to the entire state of Utah, not to; the people of one faith. There never was a, more worthy cause than that which led Escalante and his priests into the wilderness to help make the Indians Christians. The Mass was celebrated on a spot believed to.be near where Father Escalante and his party camped on the evening of September 23rd, 1776, when they arrived at the shores of Utah Lake. Within a hundred yards of where the altar stood was the monument to Escalante which was erected in 1923 by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the city of Spanish Fork. The Mass at Spanish Fork was one of many Sub-deaco- n. fellow-missionar- Mass 7 :30 A. M. y of Escalantes entrance to Utah. On Thursday evening, September 23rd, an Escalante pageant was presented at Provo by the Utah County Fair Association, which incorporated an Escalante celebration with its county fair this year. Salt Lake City is also to honor the intrepid explorer with Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine on Sunday, October 3rd. sesqui-centenni- 1 TIME SERVERS v After commending the work of a certain Mr. Maginnis and his son, two Catholic journalists of Radford, Va., a town of 7,000 inhabitants, of whom as many as an equal dozen are Catholics, the Managing Editor of The Tablet has this to say of Catholic journalists What a lesson the on the secular press: above is to some of our Catholic journalists on the secular press! Here in our great cities where our numbers are vast, not a few journalists, who are Catholics, are not only cowardly in their fear of printing the truth, but are actual time servers who fear they may be suspected of letting the Pope in the back door if they print a direct exposition or defense of Christian truth and which is, invarThese iably, a staunch American treatice. are words well chosen, and to the point. Catholic Columbian , Columbus , O. - r al . ; Man is like a palace which has fallen in and has been rebuilt with its own ruins. We see there the most sublime and the, most hideous portions intermingled. Chateaubriand . I |