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Show DEDICATION OF ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL The Dedication of St. Clary's Cathedral, tomorrow, tomor-row, will mark an epoch in the history of the Catn-olic Catn-olic Church in Utah and the intermountain rtg;.oji. On Sunday morning our venerable Prelate will witness wit-ness the fulfillment of his dreams of twenty years ago. the consummation of his nearer hopes, and the consecration of a contract entered upon nine years ago. This great Catholic temple, overlooking from its commanding site, the expanding city, the fascinating fasci-nating valley and its. wondrous salted sea, imparts u tone of dignity and quiet grandeur to its immediate immedi-ate neighborhood. It is an architectural achievement achieve-ment worthy of the Ages of Faith, a dream of plastic art materialised in stone, and an enduring monument to the faith of Bishop Scanlan and the generosity of the men and women that made it possible. pos-sible. The Dedication tomorrow will be an event in the history of Utah and in the annals of our city, the importance of which can hardly be overated. Sunday, Sun-day, the 15th of August, will be a memorable day, not alone in the history of the Catholic Church in our own state, but also in that of the entire region lying west of the Missouri river. To the Catholics of the state of Utah, and of Salt Lake City in par- Incumr, ice upenmg oi our great Cathedral for Divine Service will be a subject of religious consolation conso-lation and patriotic joy. To Catholics everywhere in America it is a consolation con-solation and a motive for honorable pride that the I zeal, the energy and the patriotism of our bishops aad priests, strengthened by the generous co-operation of our laity, have raised all over our great continent con-tinent magnificent temples to God, built universities, universi-ties, colleges and academies for the education of our youth, and opened everywhere splendid homes, I orphanages and hospitals, for the care of the help- 1 less and the assuagement of physical pain. The growth and expansion of the Catholic church in our country, the -multiplication and structural splendor of her churches, educational and charitable institutions, and the steady and irresistible irresist-ible increase of her membership excite the wonder, if not the admiration, of thoughtful minds outside the fold-There fold-There is a striking and dramatic scene in "Athelie" when the veil of the Temple is drawn tpart by invisible hands, and the voluptuous and terrified Athalia beholds her victim Joas whom she thought to be dead standing in his glory and his strength, surrounded by his warriors wearing their war-bonnets, and with 6words and shields uplifted, up-lifted, impatient for the charge. Even so is the Catholic Church today revealed to the old men of our land, who, fifty years ago, thought her form was bent with age and her forehead wrinkled by time, her gait halting and feeble, her 6teps trembling tremb-ling with decrepitude and her garments moth eaten. As she was, to all appearances, entering upon her sgony of death, it was safe to extend to her the I charity of silence and watch her staggering to her grave, old and unlamented. They said she dared not to trust herself to advancing civilization and free institutions, but must cling to the mouldering fashions of an ago that was past, to sleep for evermore ever-more with dynasties dethroned and sepulchred. But these old men this morning look, as did Athalia Ath-alia on Joas, with wonder and awe on the resurrection resurrec-tion of the dead. The step "with which she moves forward is elastic with triumph vera incessu patnit dea her face is radiant, her brow erect and starlit, her garments, as those of Sheba's queen, fragrant with the odor of spices. And the old men look upon her with staring eyes, marvelling how, like the fabled phenix, she got back her youth. 0, beloved of God, in thy beauty and thy comeliness go forth, move forward .prosperously- and reign for all time intende, prospere procede et regna. This providential Church has now survived for close on two thousand years, or nearly twice as long as the most venerable commonwealth in history. She appears to the world today in unimpaired vigor, with her constitution, laws and government un-I un-I changed. So far from betraying any signs of ad- tf vancing age or decay, she is instinct with life and enthusiasm, displaying on the morning of the twentieth twen-tieth century the same missionary spirit and the same Apostolic zeal that possessed her when she carried the gospel into France in the fifth century and into England in the sixth. When our own magnificent Cathedral will open tomorrow, the splendor and glory of Catholic rite and ceremony will be seen in all its sacred inpres-siveness, inpres-siveness, the solemn music, in language and notes which have come down through the ages, will be heard, "and the Adorable Sacrifice, at which the Apostles the companions of our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ, assisted will be offered to God for the Living and the Dead. , All will be displayed and enacted for the spiritual spirit-ual edification of those present; the hearts of our Catholic people will experience anew the sense of religious obligation and their souls will be filled with sentiments of zealous and ardent devotion. Here, too, for unnumbered years to come the majesty of God will be proclaimed his omnipotence omnipo-tence and his glory the solemn and tremendous sacrifice will be continued, the Sacraments administered admin-istered and the impressive prayers recited by which the Divine Law is fenced around and the wisdom of the Church accredited. Henceforth this splendid fane will be for the Catholics of all Utah a citadel of their faith. Here, the attributes of the Deity, their transcendent operations, op-erations, the creation of man and his unhappy fall, the promise of a Redeemer, the law of Sinai, the Incarnation of Christ, His Crucifixion and Resurrection Resur-rection will be developed, expounded and insisted upon. We will all be led to a better understanding of the mysteries and merciful plan of Redemption the establishment of the Church the marks by which it is to be known the rewards of the good, the punishments of the wicked those supernatural aids extended by divine goodness to support our weakness the laws of God and of His Church in short the nature, the necessity and conditions of the intimate and spiritual intercourse which ought to exist between man and his Creator, God. The glorious Cathedral, to all outward seeming, is as imperishable as the granite rocks which support sup-port it, and, from its material and the solidity of its structure, is destined to last, like the Egyptian pyramids, 'till the end of time or the earth falls from under it. It is for us in this magnificent valley of Salt Lake the materialization of the vision of the prophet. '"Behold the tabernacle of God is with men ; and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them." To his Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, who is here to do honor to our own beloved be-loved Bishop and to grace by his presence tomor-I tomor-I row's ceremony, the citizens of Salt Lake extend a most cordial greeting. To the patriarchal Primate of San Francisco, to the eloquent Archbishop of St. Louis, to all the visiting prelates and pastors, this city waving for the time all denominational and political lines rises in its hospitality and bids you welcome. |