New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-15
BALTIMORE.
New Archbishop of Baltimore-His Iu~,
stallatiOn Sunday

| BALTIMORE, October 14.-The Most Rev.
James Roozrelt Bayley, late of Newark'
| who has recently been appointed Arch
| bishop of Baltimore and Primate of tho
! Roman Catholic Church of the United
| States, was installed at the Cathedral i'm
| this city and invested with the pallium
| yesterday.
The event has been anticipated with great
| interest," not only by the Roman Catholics
| of Maryland and Of the whole archiepig-
| cOpal province, but by members of the
| church throughout the country, and the
ceremonies yesterday were of the most inn
posing character.
At eleven o'clock the procession, com-
posed of the new Archbishop, all of tho
| Bishops of the province except Bishop
Whean, of Wheeling, West Virginia, whose
| feeble health prevented him from being
| present, and the Bishop of Charleston, be-
| side Archbishop McCloskey, of New York,
| Bishop Laughlan, of Brooklyn, and Bishop
| McQuade, of Rochester, New York, who
| assisted in the ceremonies as visitors, and
about $50 priests, including all of the
| Roman Catholic clergymen of Baltimore,
and many from Washington and other more
| distant cities moved from the archiepiscopal
residence on Charles street to the Cathes
dral
The bishops were invested in their rich
ecclesiastical robes of purple and gold, and.
the streets through which they passed were
crowded with thousands of people who
were unable to gain admission to the eathe-
dral. The procession passed into the cathe-
| dral and up the main aisle in the following
ORDER Acolytes, priests, bishops, archbish-
ops and the archbishop elect.
At the main door the Archbishop elect,
BayleyI was received by the Very Rev. Ad-
ministrator of the Diocese of Baltimore and
accompanied by the Bishops, passed to the
sanctuary where he took his seat upon the
| archiepisoopal throne, and after the GUS
tomary ceremonies, was saluted by all the
ecclesiastics present.
The altars and the throne were almost
hidden with floral decorations, and the
cathedral, the doors of which had been
thrown open after the entry of the process
sion, was crowded almost to suffocatiOns
Grand high mass was celebrated by Bishop
Wood, of Philadelphia, the music used
being Beethoven's No. | in c. with full or
chestrai accompaniment
After the mars Bishop Wood briefly adj
dressed the new primate before investing
him with the palliuR, expressing his regret
that the senior prelate of the PROVINCE
Bishop Whelan, was prevented from per.
forming this office by his advanced years
and i'll health. He afterward reminded
Archbishop Bayley of the significance of
the emolem and received from him tho
oath of fidelity
The officiating prelate then took the pal
Eum from the altar where it had been laid,
covered with the silk in which it was
brought from Rome, and placed it upon the
shoulders of the new prelate, accompany
ing the action with an appropriate address.
Archbishop Bayley then ascended to the
altar and pronounced his blessing. After
the close of the ceremonies Archbishop
Bayley, standing upon the throne, spoke
substantially as follows:
There are many subjects which naturally
suggest Themselves on such an occasion as
this. might speak of myself, and make
an appeal d-misericordiam, but it would
do no good. Whatever may have been nv
feelings about assuming the new RESPONSE
bilities the matter is settled, and we must
take each other pastor and people, as th8
people do when they get married, for bet
or for worse.
1t would be more pleasant for me to
speak of this venerable see, of the good
name it enjoys throughout the country and
of the great and good men who Lave been
called, in Gods province, to rule over it.
might speak, too, of what these old walls
have seen, OF those early provincial councils
which did so much to advance TeligiOns
Henry, Hughes, Spaulding and many other
good and venerable men who have gone
into the house of God.
After speaking of the feeling of RESPONSE
biiity which had taken possession of his
mind ever since it was made certain that
he was to be primate, and saying that after
thought before this appointment that he
had become accustomed to the tkorns in
side inter
Archbishop Bayley continued at some
length in regard to the mutual RESPONSE
bilities of himself and his people. The
responsibilities of which l now speak, he
said, might be called exterior respOnsibilf.
ties which rest upon us as Catholics living
in these times and this country. We live
in a time of great excitement and great
change-a time when everything is brought
into discussion; when the most sacred and
best recognized truths are questioned;
when the falsest theories in regard to re-
Igion, government, everything, are spread
about on eVeryaside.
We live in a time when the influence OF
the great majority of the periodical press Is
on the side OF natualism instead oi prefer
Daturalism; when journalism has become
the school which dominates over others, and
to which almost everyone now goes fOr In
struction young as well as old. There are
some. I know. who regard these things as
the signs of the millennium, but look upon
them as the signs of the last times.
One thingis certain: These principles are
subyersive of the authority of well rcgu-
lated liberty and dangerous to the safety @
of the Christian family, which is the basis
of all Christian institutions. Against these
influences the Irish Catholics have but one
protection and that is the teachings of their
holy religion. There are scientific men who
speak of the Church as thing of the pasts
which has done great good in times gone By,
but which must now give way to science.
These men may be very wise in soma
things, but they know less of the church
than they do of the stars whose light has
never reached the earth.
The Arch bishop then eXhOrted his hear
ers not to be discouraged, reminding them
that the church had fought many a battle,
and had always been victorious.
In speaking of the power of the Catholic
religion to guide every ignorant man Alright,
the Arehhshop said that Cafholics some.
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