The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-24

ataining anything but cruel disappointment
! from that society calling itself liberal, which
flor nearly a century already, during which il
4 has gone on from revolution to revolution, has
4 not ceased to give exactly the reverse of what
lit promised in equality, in fortune and in en-
9joyment, constantly becoming more marked, in
instead of universal brotherhood. wars 81
sdeadly as they are costly and barren, usheriug
lin their wake ut the present time preparations
for d war of extermination. The motto of the
Pope just deceased was as follows: T" Cruz dc
'cruce." The prophecy has been literally full
filled. Heaven grant that we may be allowed
Ito witness the realization of that of the Sover-
Ieign Pontif whose advent the Church impa-
Itiently awaits, and whom the Holy Ghost will
sassuredly grant her speedily, Lumen do Cele.
HON. JOHN ]. FINNEY's ADDRESS.
Your Grace Reverend Clergy, Ladies' and Gensonen
Strange indeed would it be, did not
the timidity which feel in
the sad and solemn task as
3signed me of giving expression to the deep
and heartfelt grief of the multitude which
now surrounds me.
To you, most venerable Archbishop-to
you, reverend clergy, and to such of you,
8my fortunate friends, as have been blessed
/ by the sight of Him whom we now mourn,
and to you, my friends, whose love for our
Holy Father was measured only by your
capacity of loving, this occasion must
bring feelings of awe az we'll as sorrow.
Can you, Monseigneur, recall the scene
when, at the feet of Him whose earthly
frame is now laid away forever, you re,
lceived che sacred insignia of yonr Episco
pacyf Your feelings then none but your
self could know, perhaps none can i'm
agne. When in the beauteous halo which
surrounded the benign Pontiff whom the
world acknowledged good and great, did
not your Grace, and you, my friends, feel
La oh hraQthQH at m
known elsewhere on earth
1t is with pardonable diffidence, then
that in addressing you who hav1 seen and
known him and been the recipients of hie
favors, I, not 30 honored, should attempt
i to say aught to increase your love or aug
sment your grief.
We are told that it is the nature of grief
4 to keep it's object ever before it, to present
lit in it's most pleasing aspects, and to re-
fleet on all the minutest circumstances
that attend it; to dwell upon all it's vir-
tues, and to multiply all~i manifold per
fections.
While each one of us may have chosen
the phase most brilliant in the life of our
beloved Pontiff while each one eulogizes
his glorious deeds, we all, minging our
tears with our words of praise, admire the
past, regret the present, and tremb blingly
await the future.
Partaking of this universal sorrow, i
1udy dAOEu bUHlo COuoOlbIlOu Uy UOiulDR up
and keeping in view a few of the many
great and glorious deeds of the immortal
Dead.
His life the world already knows, and it
were useless task for me to recount it
here. The year 1892 dawned upon a world
shaken to it's centre by most violent po
liticsl conv1lsiOns. The existence of every
Christian country of Europe seemed to be
threatened by the advancing hosts of the
dread army of Infidelity. Thrones, and
those who sat upon them, became the play
|thinRs of mob infuriated and bereft of
reason. Law and justice seemed to have
hidden the world, for a time, at least, fare
we'll. Universal gloom appeared to have
settled upon and enveioped as with pail
Everything recognized as sacred by the
good and virtuous.
On the l3 OF May of that portentous
year, in the City of Sinagaglia, was born
of pareots noble by birth and universally
|esteemed for their many qualities of heart
and mind, Giovanni BAptsta Maria Mastai-
Ferretti. l shall not dwell upon the ten
derness and fond devotion of the nobleI
mother towards her SOD, of the ever con
stant care and anxiety that she might dol
her duty we'll in her sacred character of
mother, and lead her boy to a completed
and grateful knowledge of his God. ThusI
inspired by the teachings of a truly Chris
tian Parent, the son, from the period att
which his mind began to act for itself, de
termined to devote to his God his life and
all that the world erringly believes canI
make life happy. This decision once made
was pioUsly adhered to, and with what
happy results we all know.
Filling every grade in the Church, from
the time he donned the clerical dress to HE
elevation to the Cardinalate, with marked
we find him at the age of fifty
four elected to the Pontifcal throne. His
elevation coming so unexpectedly, seemed
for time to dismay him, and fully con-
scious of the grave responsibilities de-
volving npon him by such election, he
tremblingly entered upon the discharge of
nis solemn and awful duties.
Little was known of the policy by which
the new PontiR would be actuated, but in
e short time be manifested such liberal
ideas in administering the affairs of the
States of the Church that even the radical
Mazzini Landed his course. No ruler in
so devotedly looked after the
of his subjects, or sought more
lovingly for their welfare and the i'm.
provement of their condition. Within
month after his election, in answer to the
Of bia b,a