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Show ECHOES. OF THE DEDICATION. The venerable editor of Goodwin's Weekly gives a pen picture of the thoughts which should fill the mind of Bishop Scanlan on the day of the dedication dedica-tion of his great Cathedral. He tells also of the heroic work of the early Christians. He writes: "The ceremonies at the Catholic Cathedral were most impressive. The princes of the Church in their vestments, the 'frozen music' of the structure itself, the organ, the choir, the incense, the solemn mass and all the strong features which the experience expe-rience of the centuries has caused to be woven into the austere ceremonies cannot fail to make the occasion oc-casion as impressive as it will be interesting. "But to one deeply read in the lore of mother church, it will not be strange if the thoughts that will fill his mind, will cause him to forget the surroundings sur-roundings and for the hour to be living over the tremendous past, from the time the creed was started, and coming down through the centuries with it. and noting its ebb and flow. "He will think of the early, humbl beginnings, how strong the faith must have been of those who went out against a pagan world, to bid the people forget their gods, to beseech them to turn to the one living God: how in the first two hundred and. thirty years of its existence out of twenty-six of those who were chiefs of the church during those years, nineteen were martyred and others banished; liow in the ferocity of that age, the faithful were crucified, flung to the wild beasts, burner I at the stake, beheade'd. but they kept the faith. Then how the church held its way and took on new ceremonials: ceremo-nials: how later the most eminent architects exhausted ex-hausted their art to give new splei.dors to their houses of God. and how every master ef composition composi-tion wove his glories into its musiek up to the time when its chief servants became more powerful than kings; how. under its burners, knights and princes fought; how, under those same banners, the now world was discovered and dedicated; how its priests on foot went out against the savages, not to slay, but to call them to a new life, and how those priests have been the same whether in the wilderness, or in the royal purple of power, calling, calling, calling to mankind to come under the wings of holy mother church. those wings broad enough to brood a world. "Tn our land we honor the pioneer who hewed the first, paths and lifted up the first rude station to mark that the boundaries of civilization had been extended. But in nearly every case, a close searcher will find a dim trail over which, before his coming, some lone priest haL walked anxiously to announce his mission," and brave enough to die. if need be, for his cause. A generation ago a priest came here, came out of the shadows of the desert and "founded a little church. As the culminating point, in his work the great Cathedral awaits dedication dedi-cation tomorrow. The dream that his soul nursed when he wandered alone in the desert has materialized material-ized and his work stands a magnificent object lesson les-son of what a man who puts his own longings aside and devotes his life to a holy purpose, may accomplish." |