Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-05
GRAND, SOLEMN P0MP.
Conservation of Rt. Rev. John
 Foley Bishop of Detroit.
PROMINENT CATHOLICS PRESENT

The Cardinal, Three Archbishops, Nineteen
 Bishops and About 100 Priests Assist on
 the Occas1on-An Immense Crowd to
 Witness It.
 BALTIMORE, Nov. 5.-The Right Rev. John s. Foley, bishop of Detroit, was con- secrated yesterday at the cathedral. The ceremonies attending the event were charac- terized by all the pomp and splendor usual to such occasions in the Catholic church, and were participated in by the cardinal, three archbishops, nineteen bishops and about 100 priests, twenty-fi five of the latter coming from the Detroit diocese.
 The archbishops present were Ryan, of Philadelphia; Elder, of Cincinnati; O'Brien, of Halifax The bishops were Laughlin, ot Brooklyn; Chatard of Indiana; O'Reilly, of Massachusetts; Phelan, of Pittsburg; O'Hara, of Scranton; Marty, of Dakota; Becker, of Savannah; Ryan, of Buffalo; Con- roy, of New York; Borgess., late bishop of Detroit; Keane, of Richmond; Kain, of Wheeling; Watterson, of Columbus; Wad- ham, of Ogdensburg; Curtis, of Delaware; McGovern, of Harrisburg; Ludden, of Syra- cuse: Rademecher, of Nashville, and Burke, of Cheyenne.
 There were also present a delegation of twenty-five prominent Catholic layman from Detroit. Admission to the church was by card, and an hour before the services began every available seat was occupied. Preceding the services there was a religious procession from the archiepiscopal residence to the church. The services were begun at Il o'clock The officers of the ceremony were: Celebrant of the mass and consecrator, Cardinal Gib- bonS; assistant cOnsecrators, Bishops Lough- lin and Wadham; assistant priest, Very Rev A. Magnien; deacons, Rev. Nj. J. P. Delnp- sey, of Detroit, and Rev. Edward Kelly, of Chicago chaplains to Bishop Foley, Father F. G. Broydrick, of Baltimore, and James F. Mackin, of Washington; master of ceremo- nies, Rev. Edward Duffy. The ritual apper- taining to the conservation of bishop was followed without variation. The apostolic commission appointing Nr. Foley bishop of Detroit was read, and the cardinal admins tered the oath. Bishop Foley was then ex- amined upon questions of faith, after which he prostrated himself upon the altar, and his head was anointed with holy oil The bishop was next presented with the crozier and ring, following which Bishop Foley made his offer ing of two ornamental loaves of bread and two little casks of wine. The last act of the conservation was the placing of the mitre on the bishops head.
 The music was of very high order. The choir numbered eighty voices, the principals being selected from the cathedral choir and that of St. Martins church, of which Bishop Foley has so long been pastor. The mass was Gounod's ''St Cecilia" Whilst the new bishop was approaching the altar the choir sang "Ecce Fadelis Servus ct Prudens," and during the ceremony weras also rendered 'Andante Religueso," "Emitte Spiritumn Alma Virgo and the ''Te Deum," and as the procession left the cathedral Gounod's march chorus 'Viva Leone" was given. The seminarians choir, which was stationed in the sanctuary consisted of sixty voices It chanted the "Introt," "Allelujahn and 'Litany of the Saints"
 The sermon was preached by Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia. He took for his text the Acts of the Apostles, chapter XIX, 18th verse: "Talle heed to yourselves and the whole flock wherein the Holy Ghost has placed you bishops to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood"
 The preacher drew a comparison between earthly and spiritual rulers. The one took 1 cognizance of outward actions only; the ! other was a dominion of the intellect and heart The order of the episcopacy is the | highest in the church of a holy order he said; everything above it was solely of juris- diction In urging the honor and obedience i that are due to the pope as the head of the episcopate, Archbishop Ryan said: 'We | recently versal was the tribute paid to the present great occupant of the chair of Peter by the whole world. Even now, without armies to ] back him, he is honored by the kings of the earth as representing power stronger than that of armies-a power which they cannot, dare not defy. We know the secret of that power but the outside world, not acknowl- edging it as of divine institution, calls it by various names. Thus an English Protestant 1 periodical, The London Standard, speaking 1 of the recent visit of the German emperor to l the pope says: It is not displeasing to see | these great military monarchs, with so many trumpets before and such vast material force behind them, compelled to treat with a power absolutely non-ma- terial, obliged to acknowledge that a sover- eighty may be real, though it is powerless, except for it's sway over the minds and i'm aginations of a section of mankind. The papacy is fighting uncoasciously the battle of all the world'"
 The archbishop went on to argue the divinity of this power of the church. It was a power which seemed intangible, and yet it served to force the great kaiser to the side of the sovereign who had neither armies nor lands, who ruled by the superior right of thought. The outside world recognized the papacy not only great religious power, but great moral power to protect the liber- ties of all men against physical force.
 Bishop Foley will pontificate at St. Martins on next Sunday, and leave for Detroit on Nov. 9.
 Justice Matthews Conva1escing.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Justice Stanley Matthews, who has been ill for many weeks and quite unable to attend to his judicial