The Portland daily press., 1888-08-20
ST. pom,Nlc.s CHURCH.
Ceremonies OF Laying the Corner
stone Yesterday.
A Large Assembly Present at the
Service.

A very large assembly witnessed the lay
ing of the corner stone of st. Economics
church, on State street. yesterday afternoon.
Officers were stationed to prevent the pas
sing Of teams in the vicinity, and long before
1t was time for the ceremonies to begin hum
dreds of people had gathered in the street in
front of the church. At the rear of the par
TALLY erected church, on the second floor. a
temporary platform was erected. and upon
this were seats for the clergy and choir. A
canvass awning kept off the sun, and an or
gan, back Of which the choir sat, was placed
In front Of the platform. A short distance in
front Of the platform temporary pulpit
covered with light awning, was made from
which the speaker addressed the vast and
fence. 1t was twenty five minutes of o'clock
when policeman made way in the audience
Tor the procession of oficiating clergy The
cross bearer was followed by the altar boys.
ana then came the Rt. Rev. Bishop Healy,
Very Rev. Father Murphy, Rev. F. T. Nc
Carthy, S. j., Rev. T. p. Linnehan, and
many others.
The choir. consisting of the united choirs
OF st. Dominic's and the Cathedral, rendered
"Lauda Slon," which was followed by "Veni
Creator" The eloquent Jesuit Rev. f. T.
Mccarthy, then assembled the pulpit and
delivered short, mastery sermon on the
necessity and perpetuity of sacrifice, particu-
larly under the Christian dispensation, the
sacrifice Of the mass, identical with the sac
rifce Of the cross, except that the former
was an unbloody and the latter bloody sac
rifce. The following is an abstract of the
sermon:
Religion began with the angels, but their
worship of God was spiritual. as was their
nature. With man began the double wor-
ship. he alone can offer to the Scripture the
worship of body and spirit. From man came
the worship of the created offered to the
Creator, the reverence given to the author of
being the giyer of present blessings, the
source OF still greater blessings to come To
God was offered obedience, to Him was ad-
dressed prayer. 1t is natural for man to ex-
tern the emotion and passion of his soul.
We see this In every day life. If there is
love in the heart it naturally manifests it.
self outwardly. Religion was enlarged in
the creation Of mankind. When man sinned
then there was another element in religion.
Man showed ingratitude for favors of the
past and was reckless in regard to the fay
ors that he might ask in the future. 1t was
mans nature to expose God, the law and the
benefactor. So sacrifices were made. Sacri-
fees many were made and often, not that
they could take away single sin, but as an
acknowledgment to God. So these sacri-
fees were repeated to keep man face to face
with his God, and do all in his power to sat-
isfy the anger Of God. So one century fol-
lowed another,a thousand years went by and
the insuficiency Of blood became more and
more apparent. The great atonement was
to come. Everywhere, not only in Jeru sa-
lem. great was the name of God AS time
went on there finally appeared a virgin in
the world. She was to become the moth
or of God. Thirty-three yea rs passed and
the child became man, and now we find
him preaching, making enemies by the same
means he made friends, by preaching for the
right. he was doomed to death. Not that
his enemies had any power over him ex cept
from above, but power was given them BE
offered himself up. He had power to Law
himself down. and he had power to take him
self up and he rose on the third day. He
SAID over the bread, This is my body" and
over the wine, This is my blood" Here
f;ce ~ caI,,or, i0O WIN tho sscrl
which IS always TO be offered Aa'o 'a0iinoo
Now you are offering house to God, not
III, .mas ne needs anything from US, but because
Him. And 50 we ofer y; m lnnr t 70 wSDrs4 ah
best we have to offer; we brin our best.
M ht only silver ana gold and pr ecious stones,
art We Sreaiv r = s anu ner isan DOW sister.
and Of leisure that we NAV bnild for G Gody
You have made many sacrifices already; you
w wn shanId niahy more. ~ IS necessary that
an may bear the BURDEN. cod SYg grant t that
this may be your disposition, and that you
f may give, In me assured hope of an hundred
r resa 10 dn rs NE, and knowing that God has
THgSery nie ior you still richer reward. even
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In the exercises which followed, the fol-
lowing clergy assisted. IRE Rev j Risbon
rrn.,. vs. I, ~ n ~. - nos' DisHop
Revs W "a E.e s nss 3 p concord, y, a..
lace Of Lewiston, e. M. O'Callahan of Ports
mouth. A.. ID. Decelle of Socc,ronno ID
German Of Brunswick I O,Rrior af Ron
CIV. Dohertv of Augnsta Row r. Morar
thy OF Boston. Rev Fatbers Hoal,r Ii,,o,a..
O,ro,,a.h. ninonan'
oa.lasnan, DuI anu heard0n OF Portland,
Rev. Fr. Dupont and Rev. FIR. Brady of Bid
deford, and missionary priest from Eovnt
After Fa,har nTaC...s.. p.l'es .iom nsyp@
'o, a.her mccarthy had finished speak
ing cnant was rendered which was follow
ed by the laying of the corner stone by the
RI. Rev. Bishop Healv The Risbon,s Mac
.;,,,, so,,as ~. -A'a ~, Ing Disnops Dies
snug ioiiowed TINS. Inc stone was laid with
aJsiiyer trowel which will be given, as a
special souvenir. to the greatest benafaotor
of the cburch tn psssa a's Douolao'ol
e. en lno BISHOP addressed
ie" words 10 the people in which he well
coined tn the new Ct nor,inio,s t,,o oh;IS-o.
of those who founded and sumner TOD ala g.
nor,iv,,a,s &C.. ~ ouppoi 'cu oiu D.'
Donin'c .. pee now represented, he sa Id,
tne countries are. here are we all, natives
q ~ ire n 49, france. Canada and even Egypt
erected This cbureb ,, SU Uaoch ABOUT 70 pe
God is to be the gathering place of the chill.
dren Of God. offering sacrifices to Cod
cb nne ceremonies closed with music by the
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