St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-25
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of,
the Installation of
Bishop Grace.
Its Happy and Most Appropriate
Celebration Yes
terday.
High Mass i'll the Morning and a Ser
mon by Bishop Spalding
of Peoria.
- Of Address by the Clergy Of
the Diocese.
Evening Visit of Societies and Addresses of
Congregations and Orphans
of st. Paul.


of st. Paul.
The silver jubilee of the Rt. Rev, Bishop
Grace was auspiciously inaugurated at III
O'Clock yesterday morning At that hour
the spacious cathedral was occupied by at
least 1000 people and the late corners were
pleased to be accommodated with standing
room. 1t may be said indeed, that never
before has the cathedral contained such
large and animated assemblage, and the ex-
ercises were of a profoundly interesting
and enjoyable character. The decorations out
side the sacred ediice and within were profuse
and of particularly beautiful character, as
both time and money had been lavished re-
gardessly on the splendid display, while
many willing hands had been proffered to
perform the work of love. The effect was al
once artistic and elegant. The entrance was
richly and tastefully adorned with colors, the
central figure consisting of a Pavilion gotten
upin the most elaborate and beautiful manner
Within the church the effect was at once
beautiful and impressive. wilderness of
garlands and streamers were bestowed on
the arches and gallery rails and wreaths
were placed at every convenient nook and
corner. The altar was made especially at.
tractive, with profusion of flowers and
plants of rich perfume and almost endless
variety while the charm was augmented by
the brilliant effects of the candelabra.
The clerical procession entered the cathe-
dral at 10 80 O'Clock and proceeded up the
nave to the altar. Over 100 priests were in
the procession, preceded by ocolytes, candle
bearers and book-bearers, Bishop Grace
and the attending prelates being in full
vestments. High mass was celebrated by
Bishop Grace, the Rev. Fathers Stanley and
Oster being masters of the ceremony, Father
Collect, first deacon, and Father Cotter, sub
deacon.
The music of the mass was beautiful and
| impressive in the extreme, the programme
being carried out as heretofore published.
THE SERMON.
The sermon, of which the full text is heres
with given, was preached by Bishop Spald-
ing, of Peoria, H.:
ssOld age is crown of honor when it is found
| in the ways of justice proverbs, XVI. 81.
Ri. Rev. and Revercd Bishop; Rt. Rev.
ana Rev. FaJnerS anu Bretnefen:
Of all the motives which sway the heart
| the sense of dutyi the one which best stands
the test of reason. In pleasure of which
conscience does not approve, there is pain,
and when the pleasure is gone the pain re-
mains. Money is at best doubtful good;
the ruin of many and the salvation of none.
Disinterested friendship, like true love, is so
hat ,x,il hali
himself its OBJECT. The fame of the living
is seldom more than notoriety, and notoriety,
to all but vulgar minds, is an pnmixed evil;
and what men shall think of our lives when
we are dead, is a matter OF indifference.
| How we live is all important, but whether
those who come after us shall know that such
| beings ever lived, is unimportant Popu-
larity is not consistent with independence,
and the crowd neither understands nor loves
a great character. The popular man the
people feel is their creature, and their secret
| contempt is ever ready to break forth
into open abuse. To make cult
walton of mind, the end of life
is a denial of the fundamental truth that man
is born to act rather than to think. To pur-
sue art as chief aim is to look for the flower
in the earth which nourishes the root, and to
seek happiness in any other way than in the
path of duty is to forget that God conspires
with all the laws of nature to make an i'm
moral life wretched life.
! Human conduct therefore should spring
! from the sense of duty as from its first and
highest motive, for to love God Himself
would not be the best if 1t were not moral
act, and consequently dictate of con-
science.
Blessed is the youth who in the morning
glow Of imagination, and in the fervor of
pure heart, listens to his own soul to catch
the echo of the Divine voice which shall speak
to him the sovereign law of duty and to
whom this voice shall sound all the more
heavenly, because it speaks Of self-denial, of
generous devotion to ideal ends, of the con-
secration of all his energies, not to the pur-
suit of pleasure or the accumulation of wealth
but to the service Of God and Of man;
and more blessed is he, who in
obedience to the celestial command, turns
in an unseldsh course of life, from common
aims and vulgar rewards, to the best, care
less alike Of the frowns and the smiles of for
tune, if only he may be true to his high
resolve. 1t shall be well with him. He
shall miss no Joy and looking back over
vanished years shall know but accidental
regrets, as one who throws aside the play
things of childhood, remembers them with a
sweet sadness, made glad by the conscious
ness that they have been. left for nobler
weapons.
or all the ways that open. up before the
eager fes Of the young, / know Of none
which lofty soul should rather choose than
that whcl reads, through the conservation
of one's whole being TO God in the priest
hood, to the service of humanity. The high
est thought the deepest love, the greatest
hope, the strongest faith all center in God.
All the faculties Of our nature lead US to
Him, and the dim consciousness Of his pres
ence everywhere makes all that is not He
vain and illusory. Therefore at the end OF
every career which leads not TO Him, success
becomes failure, wealth, poverty and fame 9
hollow sound, and were it possible for us to
think that He is not, the universe would
cease to be good or ineligible.
He who once, even though but for a mo-
ment, has seen through the forms and shows
of things, and caught glimpse Of the Inf
mite and Eternal Being, who is above all and in
all, IS forever afterward haunted by the beav-
emily vision, andhe feels boundless yearpino
for the divine life. The shadow of time seems
to fall from him, and he comes ont into a
world where truth and justice and righteous
ness never cease to be, and are more real
than all that appears: and where
the earth is but a forecourt of the City of God.
What word, as he stands like young spring.
before whom hill and plain are ready to
burst into bud and flower and fruit; what