The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-05-13
The Return OF the POpc-Te Deum In Sc.
Patrick's Cathedral-Addrcss from the


The Return OF the Pope-Te Deum In 81.
Patrick's Cathedral-Add ress from the
Bishop.
After vespers at ST. Pairck's Cathedral, last eve
ming, the Bishop, Right Rev. DIR. Hughes, address
ed the congre cation the return Of Pope Plus X
to Rome lie preached from the words-"Sing
o daughter of Zion, shout Israel, for the Lord
hath taken away thy Judgments &c. He said
| joyous tdings have reached us. The illustrious
head of the Church of God is in exile no more
The eye of the church has followed him in his
wanderings. She has accompanied him with her
tears and prayers. For if be true that when one
| member of the church SUFFERS all the members
suffer with it, how much greater is the sympathy
| and suffering, when the head suffers, as if by
| conspiracy of the whole world. You may remem
| Der when we Catholics heard, in New York, the
| intelligence of his expulsion, we We're under no
| apprehension, when the false prophets whose
| wish father TO the thought INDUCED
| in false speculatons. You had no dread that the
| the Daughter of Zion would be forsaken, or that
the wicked would prevail, any further than TO prove
| that the Lord God Omnpotent regneth. AT the
same time, il was impossible that we should not
feel, deeply feel, when the last successor of ST.
| Peter, numbering two hundred and fifty, was dri-
ven from the shrine of the Apostles. We all felt
| il, and the church prayed from the rising to the
setting of the sun. Your heart was sad, because
the eyes Of all Catholics throughout the world
were accustomed 10 converge on one spot-Rome,
the seat Of the visible head of the church Let us
now, therefore, rejoice, while we admire the wis
dom of Providence that allowed statesmen and po-
ltcians TO work out their problems, and then re-
stored the Prince of Rome, the Pontiff of the holy
Catholic church The enemies of truth could not
have selected man worse for their purpose. II
had been said in this world of progress and grow
ing IDEAS that the popes were on the side of des-
poiism, and that, for many years, there had
be said of Plus. He voluntarily Invested him.
self, one by one, of privileges that descended
to him of right; and what the result was, is too
well known 10 the world. And, if henceforth they
find in future popes the frmness of Gregory, a
Leon, or innocent the Third, this triumph is
nothing new. The Church has triumphed before,
and will triumph again, over democracy, and
kings, and the people themselves, when they ina
CINE vain things As the prayers of the the Church
were efficacious in restoring 81. Peter, when he
was in prison., SO have they been efiicacious in re-
storing Plus TX. Whereas, in modern times, one
conspiracy has followed another against the Church
of Christ and the Pope is the most conspicuous mark
for the powers ofearh and hell the event has proved
that, in his official capacity, the Pope cannot die,
and will never die, till the contamination of
the world. II the Pope were expelled, it would
not disturb the apostolic succession, though it
IL
order of the church. II has been very popular
cry, (and ! regret to say that Catholics have
joined in it,) that nothing Is expedient as the
separation Of the temporal from the spiritual power
of TIE Pope. II would undoubtedly be a great re-
lief to his believers for though he is prince he is
really slave in the multitude and extent of his la
cost much in the day that of moderate family
in New York. This is the sort Of life spent by the
potentate of Rome. To take away from him the
temporal power, weuld therefore be much Of re-
IAft Tram and ,~Ir Dali
if the Pope were not free from any earthly dom-
Mon, if he were the subject Of any government,
how could he freely speak the truth II is then
sentia that he should be sovereign. II we were |
now to begin anew, perhaps some other sovereign |
power might be exerted but God himself seems to |
have chosen Rome, from the beginning as the |
chair of authority, in the Catholic Church-the |
consecrated spot where the apostles ST. Peter and
81. Paul offered up their lives for the faith. Do |
the States of the Church belong to the usurpers |
who claim them? What right have they to theml |
Do they belong TO the people Seventy-five out of
every one hundred of them would raise their hands
and voices for the restoration Of their beloved |
father TO his inheritance. 90 further, and
say that, in the order of Chrstendom, these |
States belong to us, and are therefore called |
the States of the Church--not diminished by |
encroachment, nor increased by conquest. II |
you take away that position from the Pope, you |
place him under secular prince, who may use |
his influence against the interests of religion |
That experiment was tried over before, and the |
Pope,w was banshed, was, by singular arrange
ment OF Providence, restored through the instru-
mentality Of England, the hater of Pope and |
Popery When the seat Of spiritual dominion was
fixed at Augnon, at one time, things did not seem
TO 90 right IN the church, so that Providence |
seems TO have fixed upon Rome; and If the so |
vereign pontih were removed thence, the star |
would be missing from its place, upon which all |
Catholic eyes have been fixed for 800 years-ihe |
star from which they measured their heights and |
took their distances TO guide them in their voyage
from earth to heaven. II, then, our hearts were |
sad is il not fitting that they should now sing and
rejoice-takng the echoes from 81. Peters |
in the one hymn chaunted by two hun |
bred millions Of hearts-the almost inspired |
composition Of ST. Ambrose-the sublime TIC Dcum! |
Who that has been abroad where il is sung in those
basilcs in which 1900 Of the people congre- |
gated. and all singing il together-hoary old age,
the strength Of manhood the sprghtliness Of youth
and the llsping OF babescan ever forget the gran
deur of the spectacle With them we now re- |
joice in spirit, and by that sympathy which ena-
bles every member OF the church to rejoice to- |
gether, as well as to suier. And IL IL a source of
consolation TO us that even we have done some |
thing 10 soace the Holy Father in his affection. |
We have sent him not only the tribute Of relief,
but the tribute of our affections.
The Bishop having concluded this brief address, |
descended from the pulpit, and the Tt DcigI was |
then sung by full choir. in magnificent style, and
by the whole assembly, Bishop, priests and people !
devotion, and had a very imposing effect
American and Foreign sabbath Union.
Last evening, the Rev. DIR. BErTuNE delivered |
ut unHuhi utrtohlst VI ut AM EoEtlEu j
Sabbath Union at the Church corner Of Fourth and
lafayette streets. Long before the appointed hour,
the sacred edifce was filled in every part.
The speaker, after a heightened and eloquent ex-
ordium, commenced dating upon the circumstances J
under which God set apart the Sabbath, hallowing I
the seventh day a day Of rest from labor. Gle |
made man in His own image; male and female |
created he them, and gave them dominion over I
every living them" he rested ON the seventh day I
from all his works. blessing and sanctifying IT, lie ,
made il as his own, and sealed as his own hence
the commandment which declares, 1.-THE seventh |
day is the Sabbath Of the Lord thy God" This |
was at the very beginning Of mans life. In six I