The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-29
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on Sunday evening, 26th inst, Rev. J. T
= Sullivan presiding, and J. F. Updegraff
ESQ.,, acting as Secretary. A purse Of
s11OO was handed the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Wbelan. The following address wal
: delivered by T. O'Brien, Esq:
Rt. Reu. and Dear Bishop:
We have understood that You intend
ere long to repair to the Eternal City to
; take part in the General Council. Oar
feelings are not unlike those of children
when their Father is about to leave
} them for some considerable time. Filial
affection prompts them to gather around
him and, in one form or smother, to bid
him loving farewell. -
We come, then, Right Rev. Father, on
this occasion, to give utterance to our
heartfelt feelings Sorrow and rejoicing
are blended together. We sorrow when
We consider that you, our Bishop and
Father, are soon to leave our midst ana
be absent we know not how long. We
rejoice that it is for the purpose OF
taking your place as one of the most
venerable of the great prelates who are
to sit in council, and decide and legs.
late for the ellbeing of the Universal
Church.
We submit more readily to the pain
full separation because we see that your
participation in the forthcoming Ecu
minical Council-the great event OF the
nineteenth century-will impart new
glory to your already glorious Episco-
pate.
Our hearts are full! Many are the
feelings that demand expression!
Words, however, will but family con-
vey them. Some of us can look back
few short years to the time when you
gave up your first See-Richmond and
chose this part of the State as the future
scene and sphere of yeur apostolic Ia
bors. All this vast territory was then
wilderness as far as Catholicity was
concerned. 1t was an ungrateful soil
yielding little fruit in proportion to the
hard work performed. Still it is no
longer a wilderness. You sowed the
mustard seed; the tree has grown up;
its branches are spread out, and the
yield of fruit is consoling to you, to us,
and to the Church. Catholic interests
have been promoted to an extent truly
gratifying.
You have fought the good fight. Your
singleness ofpurpose; your untiring zeal;
your prudent government; your admin
istrative ability; your magnanimons
spirit of self sacrifice; your noble bear
ing in all have effected wonders.
We have, indeed, reason to thank God
whose kind and wise providence led you
| to make a choice which has rebound
ed so signally to our advantage,
and to the glory of the Church, We
have reason also to be grateful to you,
Ri. Rev. Bishop, for the devoted pater-
nal care with which You have always
provided for our most important inter
| ests.
Permit US, then, in the utmost SINGER
ity of feeling, to tender to you the trib-
ute of flial love, heartfelt gratitude
and unfeigped admiration. Permit us
to assure you that whilst you journey
to and from the Capital of the Chris
tian World, and during your stay, our
most fervent prayers will accompany
you. We will daily beseech the Giver
of every good gift that on your return
we may behold you, as it were, rejuven-:
ated, vigorous and prepared to continue
for many years the great work of the
apostolic Bishop.
Our Offering is one of love and graft
tude.
The venerable Bishop deeply affected
at this display of affection on the part
of his congregation, replied as follows:
Accept, gentlemen, my warmest
thanks for the offering you have just
presented. 1t was unexpected; and con-
sidering your numbers and means, and
the many calls recently made upon you,
it is truly liberal and does credit to your
generous hearts. But to me it is doubly
acceptable as tho Indication of your
good will and kind feelings towards me.
The Journey which contemplate is not
one merely of relaxation, but is under
taken for the most sublime of purposes.
/ 90 as a witness of the faith handed
down from the beginning of the Church,
to testify in my name and yours. lgol
with the fullest confidence in the pledges
of our Redeemer to be with those who
are duly assembled in His name, and to
send His Holy Spirit to guide His
Church. / 20, that in mercy to those
who seek the truth, the testimony may
be authoritatively and indisputably
proclaimed, on which all sincere and
reasonable faith is to be grounded. Yoar
offering attests your own abiding conf
dence in these same merciful pledges of
God in behalf Of men of good will. The
occasion calls for an awakening of faith
aud zeal, for earnestness in prayer and
good works on the part of all. For our
Lord has made His great work, the
building of the Church, TO depend some
what on our cooperation by prayer and
deeds of piety. For this reason the
watchful Shepherd, the successor of
Peter, urges the faithful through
the whole world to multiply
their applications and to ap-
pease the wrath of God by works of
penance. Hearken to His invitation,
and zealously perform, each, your part.
Love of God and charity to your neigh
Dor equally demand it. And as in your
kind address you have promised to my
self share IN your suppllcations, l
earnestly entreat you, conscious OF my
; own spiritual needs, to be mindful of
: the promise. Yourselves and families
shall not be forgotten on my part. The
blessing of Christ's Vicar shall be su-
L w o"u sOuA pShah'
) And at such a moment, when, indeed, |
would desire to acknowledge and repay
your generosity, it is comfort to know
that the God whose ministers we are
has declared that He will be liberal to
the liberal. To His holy will it is our
1 duty always cheerfully to submit,
r Should it be His will that we meet no
more on this side of the grave; that amid
r the dangers of a long journey to parts
remote l should be summoned from life,
. His holy will be accomplished. If
He see fit that l return again to friends
!, and home, it will be to labor with you
!, more earnestly, as the evening of life
= draws near, for the promotion of Gods
honor and our neighbors' eternal inter
: ests by the preaching of tho one Lord
one faith, one baptism. God be with us
all, to inspire and direct us.
We understand that our German fell
low citizens of the Catholic church
who like Germans generally never de
things by halves, are at work and ars