The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-04

diocese.
There Is YEA third virtue. mere t,sd,
than honor, more urganl thln RFa,itu,le i
Il alial pisty. The GOOD child eInnot 4,
get IT, father. The tio Uhieh blp5s ~,
together L eue Whieb JeA,h has 10! pous
% sever. A. there exists 10 the boson Z
the tI1e tatheF lore which the son car
not claim from any other living hear. ;
IN the heayt0l tie son there should Z veil
corresponding love which the father eab
not obtain IRON Ruy other child. The
must b 10 each other what they eAnpo
b to any other mortal The child rasy
indeed, come ncIuas othsFs duunR lif
whom may admire and love, but lher
viii be always wanting IN this love, TIA
peculiar element pGytAklng Of proloun,
respect, ready d0eility, strong Affection
and neTOE-iailinE ddelity. Wick conStitu
les dial pisty. Thil sweet relation eTisiI
In yet higher sense between a bishol
and biz people. lie Is their father In God
and this relation Is oil = more EAcfed
nature even than that established through
natural generation. Once more repeat d
hlial plsIy what | have said Of Rrittad,
and Of honor, II even children had IeS
son 70 cherish the memory Of their father
they are the spiritual ehiidreu OF the good
old father who sleeps hh last sleep
beneath the altar OF this chapel,
To the demand Of honor, Of gratitude
and Of dlial piety you have given satsisc.
ton BY raising up this monument 700
felt that you must do something TO Der.
peIuRte the memory oil Blyhop Whslan.
and all the world will agree that you have
done It handsomely. And, since The
thought Y Just NOW uppernost in my
mind, l will make myself the mouthpleee
Of clergy and people, and tender to you,
kL Rev. BiShOP, our common thauks for
having 20 iudiclouSly brought this noble
undertaking to this happy contamination.
Your administration has already given
ample evidence that II il the fitting conlin.
n8tion Of what your pEedeCessOr 20 al.
mirably commenced. | risk not 10 he
mistaken II predict that you also will
possess the love and obedience during
your lie, and remembrance after your de-.
paTtuTe hence, Of q grateful people. Nor
must ! permit this opportunity to pass
without congratulAtiRH the architect who
has done honor TO hia talent by the Aplen.
did manner in which he has given ex.
preston TO your wishes. The best recon-
pense that | can wish him is, tina. when
he will have ended o long career OF use.
iulnesa and distinction, and when his body
will need peaceful resting place, it may
find spot somewhere within the shadow
OF this his noble work, and that the arches
OF thiSlittle shrine many re.echo the voices
Of priest and people making supplication
for the eternal rest Of his soul.
RICHARD VINCENT wHELAX DECEIVED
NoNUNEST.
But now must add that what has been
done is not Overdone; for Richard Yin.
cent WhelRn, by his spirit Of sell.saCriace,
by his zeal and activity, by his high quail.
ties as q man and virtues as 8 Bishop, rich.
ly deserved q monument Let me recall
how 1t was that he first became Bishop OF
Wheeling Il is nov fact OF American
ecclesiastical history that whom thu former
See OF Richmond was divided and Whesl.
ing was erected into an Episcopal See,
Bishop WhelAn was left the option Of re-.
tanning the Sec Of Richmond or accepting
the new one Of Wheeling. That Is, he
was FREQ to retain his See In the opulent
and refined capital Of the as yet unimpoy.
erished Virginia. with goodly cathedral
already completed and paid Tor, with an
efficient clergy, with a territory for do.
ceBe crossed in every direction by good
roads aud lines OF stage coaches, and dot
ted over with number OF well.to-do
cities and towns; or, 70 come TO q Compar-
atively obscure town whose future was as
yet an unsolved problem, where hand
full Of Catholics worshippOd in small
church hardly fit for a seCoud.rats village
with territory for diocese which was
in greater part wilderness without roads
and without bridges, and with at most two
or three, priests, wandering like BedouiRs
in the desert, seeking out the few scatter
ed sheep that composed his new flock.
What another man, with less natural
nerve, and smaller confidence in his high
mission might have done, it Is unnecessary
for me TO attempt TO surmise. The in.
trepid Bishop Whelan, always loyal to his
lofty impulses, unhesitatingly surrendered
the See Of Richmond and accepted the See
Of Wheeling. In this exchange the ad.
yantages all lay on the one side, and the
disadvantages on the other; and Bishop
WheIan preferred the disadvantages. BY
making the generous saCriiiCa he placed
his own interests after those OF the Catho.
lies OF Wheeling. Aud here you must not
fail to observe that maguAnimity was not
alone what was needed to back him up in
this exchange. For, since he was taking
upon himself 70 organize new diocese,
and nottogovern onealrsady organized, his
magnanimlty would have been but fruit.
less heroism, had it not been seconded in
him, as 1t was, by that buoyant courage
and indomitable energy which BIO so am
ply possessed, and which the CirCumstan.
ces so imperativeiy demanded. He was
never vain or a presumptuous man. but
he had modest consciousness OF his
power. lie had tested himself during the
few years Of his priesthood, and it was not
vain conCeit to have acquired rational
confidence in himself. When then Wheel.
ing presented itself before him, he recog.
nized in II a fair field in which a strong
man might wrestle with great difficulties
and obstacles, not to gain renown in the
OF men, but to ADVANCE religion
and gain glory for God,
HOW TO vIkw MATERIAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The greater number OF you remember
that about the time Bishop Whslan had
commenced his labors in the city OF
Wheeling the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company were preparing to pene.
trate though the wilderness which then
interviewed between the western boundary
81 Maryland and the Ohio River, As this
gigantic enterprise has been one OF the
chief occasions OF the rapid growth Of
in the Diocese of Wheeling,
The mention Of it leads me to make re.
mark about this kind OF material improve.
p9nt in general, which you will proba.
bly, md not altogether irrelevant. There
Is short'sighted philosophy which often,
in the name of religion, assumes to de.
nounce the material progress which the
world is making, and to hold this progress
ior the Increasing moral de.
Seneracy among men. nne would almost
believe that they who hold this philoso.
ply are endeavoring 10 revive the heresy
Of the ancient Gnostics, who ascribed the
origlR Of all material things to q principle
Of evil. They almost seem to regard rail-