Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-26

una gi&QsOK1o r0trelh Bn1cR came as
sweet balm to ths sad and desolate heart
and hens, and made glad the places
by the vayside-the glad song Of she
Christmas tide as potent now
as whom sung over the mssgsr at Beth
lsun; 1t brought Christ nearer to Us, and
| thAus ht the glad tidings of REDEEM ption
both TO the rick hsae and humble kovel.
The ceremony concluded with an eloquent
and beautiful peroratIon.
The Cathedral.
The cathedral was thoroughly filed at
an carly hour yesterday forenoon, and late
eomers, of which there wsrs quite Aae-
Der, were unable to procure other than
standing room. The service consisted of
ponti1eal high MAS, conducted by Bishop
Ireland, very Interesting discourse on
the Babe of Bethlehem by Father Stanley,
and most exquisite Christmas music by the
choir accompanied by Seibert's orchestra
sad Miss Lyons on the harp and Mrs. Win
fred Mitchell, Miss Annie Schonarth in soIo,
and Nessrs. Mclaughlin, Schads and Ker-
ker in chorus in Gounod's Mass and other
impressive and beautiful selections. The
decorations on the occasion were very sim-
pie, consisting of festoops of evergreen
encircling the altar and platform on
three sides. Father Stanley preludsd
his remarks with the history of ths ehild
Jesus from his birth in the stable maugsr
of Bethlehem to the time He presented
hinself before the Jews, poor Nazarins
carpenter, as the Messiah, and was rejected
of them, although in the fruition of the
Old Testament prophecies they had long
been waiting for q Messiah who would 70,
sto,s man to the original condition BE-
fore the fall.
The speaker spoke of the advance of
OR age in science and arts, tho strides
mankind had made in the triumph of
mind over matter and the Harvesting Of
the elements 20 their triunphal car. in
connection with the miracles which
Jssas wrought and by which He
proved beyond all contradiction fos
all time t1at He was shs son of
GoI. Because Of mans power and knowl-
edge In vieldisg ths materials of earth of
which God designed him to be king, he
vas too prone to be skeptical IS to the mir
asles wrought by Jesus, and of which He
said eff ye DO nos believe In me, believe
in my works"
Where mans power came TO dead halt
and an Rpsssable barrier, these miracles
of Jesus showed Hin TO be of God and
svsa infnity itself. Il was not In the
power Of nan to exercise one Jet or title
Of authority over physical creation and 4
single atom Of physical matter was his
eonQueror for OF this creative
power, which is sspsrla-
lively Of God, the Creator,
the sole master OF all of 1t has written,
"Thus far shalt thsa come and no farther"
The prophets had worked miracles BY In
voking the assistance of the Almighty, but
Jesus, the master of physical creation, COM
nanaed of Himself that she water at the
Gsllilean Feast be turned into wine, and al
the tonb Of Lazarus cried "Cone forth"
and at that tomb iAausaratsa the cradle of
4 new life. Therefore, by the public dis
play of this power wsick was Of God, and
was God, no man can doubt that Jesus was
the Messiah.
But the babe of Bethlehem worked
greater change and proof Of his omnipo-
tsnse than by the miracle He wrought.
Coming into q world depravsd by vice and
stepped in the sin of worship of matter
and immortality, and establishing school
of poor fishermen, who 'becsms fishers of
men," although deaths, blows and perse-
cusion were to be their known lot, with
these He established the peaceful empire
of she gospel of Christ which has led the
hearts Of msn into captivity through all
times and through all ages.
| The speaker spoke at length of Jesus
going among the poor and the lowly to
found the church of which the hesitating,
weak and indignant Peter was the corner
stone, instead of going to the powerful
Caesars for their aid and coun-
tenance. Even with such rapid
isy did this faith thus planted
spread, watered by the blood of the old
martyrs, that before the death of St. Paul
he said that the faith Of the Romans was
spoken of in the entire world, and from
those days to these, His church has with
stood, by Gods help, all the assaults which
have been hurled against it, and bears the
signal and unnistakable impress of His
! hand.
| The speaker concluded his remark. with
some very eloquent passages in reference
to the Observance of day which had been
growing in sancsity and reverence for a
period of nearly 1000 years, and closed
with the gloria of the shepherds of Bethle-
hem's plain who, whom they beheld the
place where the infant Redeemer was laid
cried out, "Glory to Ged in the highert."
| The Church of the Assumption
| This church, one of the finest in the city.
as it is the largest, was threnged by its
congregation of devout German Roman
Catholics from early mass at five O'clock
until the close of the last servics. The
church is magnificent one, and its grand
pillars and lofty ceilings strike the be-
holder with reverence and awe. The deco
rations were few but choice. Four fes-
toons OF evergreens left 8 point from the
selling in front of the altar and were at
tsched to the pillars at either angle. Va
risgated rosstses were interspersed tbs
length of the festoons. The flowers on
the altar and st either side Wera the hssf