Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-20

Where All tne prlests reported, Mr.. Dawson was
busily engaged making record Of their arrival
| and assigning each to room. Father Clifford.
| who seemed to be perfect encyclopaedia of
| information, was in great demand and answered
every sys. Question R;sSapa. promptly and clearly
his ofice-he didn't have, time to sit
down-and replied to the myriad of inquiries
| that were continually made by chairmen of
various committees. Beside he received all
the visiting dignitaries of the church and the
priests, for all paid their respects to tho GEN.
| tennial president. He seemed to be over
| whelmed with business, vet he never failed to
| understand what was wanted never lost the
calm equability of his temper, nor seemed in
| the least discomposed even when there were
| dozens asking questions at the same time
| AS the hour Of o'clock arrived the activity
was increased and the various bodies of clergy,
| students, cadets, alumni, and those who were
to assist at the celebration of the pontificsl
high mass, repaired to the stations as
signed them for formation. Although it was
announced that the procession would move at
$50 it was after 10 o'clock before the long pro-
cession, headed by a section of the Marine
band. started from the college gate. 1t was
probably the most imposing ecclesiastical pro-
cession ever seen in this country. The car
] dinal, the archbishops and the bishops all wore
| their richest costumes, and the brilliancy of
their attire, the gray uniform of the cadets,
the priests with their white cassocks over their
| long black robes, the students and alumni all
wearing medals commemorative of the occa-
sion, all combined to present picture rarely
witnessed.
The Procession.
! The order of the procession was as follows:
Section /, Marine band; military escort. col
ege cadets, company Al; censer-bearers cross
bearer with acolytes, sanctuary boys, students
in art, students in law, students in medicine,
the alumni, the Xaverian brothers, the brothers
of the Christian schools, the members of the
Carroll family; therev. clergy, in cassock and
surplice the presidents and representatives of
| other colleges
| Section 2, the faculty of law, the faculty of
medicine, the faculty of arts, the acoytes of
the missal and torches; the rev. clergy, in
chasubles; the very rev. dignitaries in cOpes;
the right rev. bishops, attended by their rev.
chaplalns and their train bearers; the rev. SUBJ
deacon of the mass, the rev. deacon of the
mass, the very rev. assistant priest; military
guard of honor, college cadets, company B; the
archlepiscopal cross-bearer, the very rev. dea-
cons of honor, his eminence the cardinal,
mitre and crozier-bearers.
Old Trinity church was crowded when
the procession reached it, and the side
walks were lined with spectators, the men
reverently lifting their hats as the
dignitaries passed. Tickets of admission
had been issued. and those who desired good
seats went early, so that, though every facility
was given the public that the capacity of the
church could afford, there were hundreds who
the direction of Mr.. Harry Sherman, and a
competent orchestra, under the leadership of
Mr.. Bernays, supported the organ, which was
presided over by Mrs. @. A. Pearson. The
musical program was of unusual excellence
and was rendered with superior effect.
The mass sung was Gounod's "St. Cecilia"
and Weigands ''Veni Creator" and Luvale's
''Tu es petrus' were also given. The music of
the Tie Deum was from Rhomberg. The choir
was composed of the following:
SODraQi-MlsSes M. A Byrne. M A LIVING
stOn, Rosa Cottrell. Mamie Masterson. Kate
Thompson, Belle Miller, Mary Moore, Mrs. H.
NJ. Paul, and Mrs. w. d. Mcfarland.
Alti-Mrs. II. G. Sherman. Miss Alice Morse
Mrs. d. Q. Morrison Mrs. j. b. Church, Miss
Louisa Boone, and Miss Anna Tanner.
Tenori-Messrs. w. d. Mcfarland, Davis,
Caulfeld, Collins, Floecker, and Forsythe.
Bassi-Messrs Hickox, Odds, Prof. Emil
Holer, J. j. Brosnan, Felix Mahoney, and NJ. A.
Donnelly.
The POntifical Mass.
Mass was celebrated by Cardinal Gibbons,
assistant priest, Very Rev. A. Magniew, s. S.
d. D., rector st. Mary's seminary, Baltimore;
deacons of honor, Very Rev. P. J. Garrigan,
d. D.. vice-rector of the Catholic university at
Washington, and Very Rev. Edward P. Allen,
d. D., rector of Mt. st. Mary's college, Em-
mittsburg, Nd; deacons of mass Rev. Chas.
Lang, c. p, rector of st. Josephs passionist
retreat, Baltimore, Md; sub-deacon of the
mass, Rev. p. l.. Chapelle, b. D.; professional
cross-bearer, Rev. c. l. Bergan: archiepiscopal
Rev. j. +. Dawson; crosier-bearer, Rev. J.
Brent Matthews; book-bearer, Rev. P. ]. Casey,
candle-bearer, Rev. j. A. German; acolytes,
Revs. w. J. Ennis and J. W. Richey; censor
bearer, Rev. A. J. Z. Mulan. Rev. Jas. A.
Doonan, former president of the college and
an eloquent speaker, was selected to preach.
The Centennial Sermon.
Father -, took his text from Matthew
18th chap. and 18th verse: "Amen, say to you
many prophets and just men have sought to
see the things that you see and have not seen
| them"
| He said: On the summit of Nebo as the
shadows of death were falling athwart the
| closing hours of his life knelt the mighty
prophet and divine law-siver. His strained
| eyes rested with thanksgiving and gaduess
upon the land which bore in its bosom the
promise of national glory, grandeur and power
| for his people. His prophetic vision reaching
beyond the horizon, set for the scene of the eye
of sense, beheld grander destiny yet. 1t
| deserted that land of promise made the oracle
| of the worlds Redeemer, and it followed the
| glimmer of the light of hope, borne by
| fallen man from the lost glory of Eden until it
| should find its bright dawn in the star of Beth
lehem and its fullness of brlliancy in the reful-
| gence of that light which to enlighten
| every man coming into the world. In retro
| spect the glance of Moses went back over the
weary wanderings of his people through the
| walled waters of the parted sea and the water
| drained sands of the desert. With remembrance
| of the Almighty love and the Almighty's power
| he recalled the terrors of Sinai, the fatherly
| bounty that made rich with heavenly mamma
! the desert of sin and sweet the waters of Mara.
Past were the journeys, overthrow were the
| armies that had sought to stay the march of
Gods people; achieved his task, and now from
| Nebo's top his eye rested upon
| THE BLESSED LAND OF PROMISE,
which was never to feel the pressure of his foot,
| though to become the scene of glories whose
approaching splendor lit up the darkening
shades of death.
| closeness of parallelism, which even the
| least imaginative mind will catch and acknowl-
| edge, summonses us to contemplate the event,
| now hundred years agone, whose commence
| ration assemblies us to-day in this temple of the
| High God From the summit of Nebo, which
| his faith and mis- reliance in omnipresent love
and Providence divine had lifted above the
| plane of human vision and hopes, stood John
Carroll, the patriarch Of the church, and saw this
! new land of premise. With the faith of a
| priest of God and the love of fatherland that
| finds Judgment only in the bosom of
| a patriot, this of his age
| looked into the future of his
| country and people with ken, falling little
short of prophetic. Who shall say what high
hopes the glance aroused in his breast? What
glories of national greatness, far-spreading do
| main, intellectual achievement, material pros
perity moral grandeur, and Christian suprem-