St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-25

we would hardly care 10 O1rend your mod
esty with a recital of how much we are
your debtors. The time seems short,
nay, it is short since first
you came among US st. Paul was then a
frontier settlement, and your extensive tio.
cese was sparsely occupied by poor settlers.
Everything was to be done. Churches were
to be built, schools established, congrega-
lions formed, priests furnished, society to
be organized. Everything has been done.
ST. Paul from a village has become popu-
lous city by growth not only of wonderful
rapidity, but of remarkable strength and
purity The lawless aud vicious characteris-l
tics that too often mark the early years of
| frontier towns never existed here. 1t has
been from its foundation a law. abiding,
Christian city, and no dishonor to its name.
| Its founders were Catholics no less able than
pious, and they had inaugurated both In
civil and ecclesiastical affairs systems far
reaching and progressive, which no ordinary
person could sustain. You came to take
charge of such departments as lay within the
province of your sacred Office.
as much stranger to the people as to the
locality, and of your remarkable success in
your administration we to-day bear witness.
| It was well said by Bishop Spaldng in his
discourse this morning that the diocese over
which YOU preside is a credit to the Catholic
church in this country, one whose influence
is not local merely but whose voice is heard
and example is powerful in every good work.
All this, right reverend sir, we owe under
| the influence of Almighty God to you. The
honorable position occupied by the Catholic
laity must be largely ascribed to the same
source. We would be but Indifferent OBJ
servers if we did not attribute whatever sub
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great measure to the teachings of yourself
and your clergy, that we have
| received through your clerical
ministrations as well as through
the system of Catholic schools established by
you. This system of Catholic secular educa-
ton early attracted your attention, and you
recognized its Importance SO clearly that to-
day the Catholics of your diocese possess one
of the best school systems in this country.
Many who stand in your presence this even
ing have received their education in those
schools and 20 them can trace the best and
most enduring inspirations of their lives.
Your great labor for your people, connected
with SO much sagacity and crowned with
such success would surely be enough to win
their hearts, but these are not the things we
think about so much tonight. 1t is rather
the personal charm which each of US has felt
in YOUR presence. You have been so patient
with us, so strong when we were weak, so
wise when we were foolish. There
is hardly one in this vast
throng who has not come to you with some
burden and gone away lghtened, who has
not appealed to you in some difficulty and
never in vain. For all these things God will
reward you, but we can only pray that you
will be long spared to your people, and that,
we may always be worthy to call you our
bishop.
We have hastily prepared a trifing gift Of
which we beg your acceptance.
Immediately after this presentation Lena
Schouls and Wilhlemina Fronka, two little
girls clad in white and members of st.
Joseph's Orphan asylum, assembled the sane
tuary steps bearing on their outstretched
palms beautiful white silk cushion bord-
cred with white roses on which rested
purse of $3.50, which Lena presented his
grace in the following pretty little speech:
Your Grace: Amidst this joyous throng,
we, your poor little orphans of the German
Catholic asylum, have been allowed the honor
of appearing before your lordship to present
to you this tribute of filial devotion in the
name of the German Catholic societies of the
Assumption church. May the riches of
Gods blessing be plentifully bestowed upon
your lordship, and may His Holy Spirit en-
tighten and strengthen you in your arduous
duties.
RESPONSE OF BISHOP GRACE.
Bishop Grace replied with deep feeling of
gratitude to his people for this remem brance
Of him on the twenty-ffth anniversary of
bic hiobn Ha cold hot fx.,op ~, 1ua
was a long period of time in which to do good
or evil, and whichever good he might have
done to cause JOY hts people had been par
ticipators with him in those works, for bish-
ops, priests and people were united in the
glorify God, and in fidelity to His law
they were as one family in
their hopes and interests and they rejoiced
and sorrowed together. There could be no
diocese without people, and his in st. Paul
had been dutiful, faithful diocese always to
be depended on to uphold their bishop in all
good works. He spoke of this with pride as
this diocese was composed of people of all
nationaities of the old world who had thus
marched forward with him in unfolding their
| religion and the church against every OBJ
stacle. His grace here made an allusion to
the jealousy of the church in regard to secret
organizations as calculated to draw good
Catholics away from the church and to ship
wreck their faith and therefore jeopardizing
their eternal interests.
While he felt the presence of full cathe-
dral on such stormy night to celebrate this
anniversary as a mark of distinguishing
honor to himself, and was thankful for the
gifts presented by his diocese he felt that
Bishop Ireland was more worthy of them
than he who had done so much of the work
in which he on account of advanced years
and bodily infrmities had only been able to
bestow his approval and concurrence. Yet
he felt the deep kindness and appreciated it
| from his people and he loved them, other
citizens of St. Paul without his fold and the
dear city itself, an he hoped that the same
prosperity which had attended.all in the past
would be continued to them in the future.
As he was passing off the stage
and was beginning to feel that be too was
of the past, but he could see great future
for the Catholic church in the West, and all
Catholics should be faithful and cling to the
rock of their church. He con Guided with an
Episcopal benediction praying that God may
bless his diocese in all things, spiritual and
temporal.
BISHOP IRELAND.
Bishop Ireland followed saying that he
could not find words to express his adnira-
ton of the Catholic laity of st. Paul, repre-
senting by thousands on this occasion In the
cathedral to honor Bishop Grace, all its par
ishes and embassies from Saltwater and Min
neapolls on such tempestuous night. He
did not think in the early part of the even
ing that ttey would thus brave the storm,
anu yet he found to his Joy that their faith
and constancy. to their bishop had
| not been sufficiently appreciated
and believed in by him. He gave a short
account of the first appearance of Bishop
! Grace in st. Paul, when, there was but
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