St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-16
THREE new CHURCHES
Formally Dedicated in One
Day in the Midway
District.
A Catholic Edifiee Impressive
ly Blessed at Merriam
Park.
st. Matthew'S, the New EpiS-
eopal House Of Worship,
Dedicated.
The Last Child Of Plymouth
Congregational Formal
ly Opened.

the midway dlStricb IS St. MARX Catt-
Ollie church at Merriam Park. which was
dedicated yesterday morning with APP
pr0priate exercises. The church is
situated in The southern part of Mer-
ram Park. near St. Thomas seminary,
whose professors and students have
been largely instrumental in the erec-
ton of this new sanctuary. The local
Ity is an exceedingly good one as 1t will
accommodate this seminary and the
scattered Catholic population of these
midway parks. With such inducements
as the church and seminary there will
probably be a great increase of the
Catholic population in this district.
Archbishop Ireland. Archbishop Grace,
Rev. Father j. J. keane. rector of st.
Thomas seminary; Hon. d. NJ. Sullivan.
alderman. and Edward Hamilton are
the IncorporatOrS. The church is
frame structure and is situated on Day
ton avenue and Monroe street. Its cost
is about $4,000. The inside of the
structure is very attractive, The audi
ence room. which is 10aX43 feet, is free
from pillars and has an ellIptical ceiling.
uC SCdlttlS NGHdCitN VI ttitn iOOtii 10 WV
The sanctuary and SacriSty are of good
size. The pews are of polished oak, and
the interior woodwork and the altar are
of a mahogany finish, Father Keane,Of
the Seminary, is expected 10 Ot1iciate at
this church for the present. The dedi-
catOry services were commenced yester-
day at 1920 a. IN. I be first exercises
were very imposing, and consisted in
the blessing of the church by Arch
bishop Grace. The procession which
marched about the church was headed
by twenty-four theological students.
Following them were Archbishop
Grace and Fathers Keane, Welch.
Jacobs and Fitzgerald in their clerical
robes. Upon entering the church, which
was filed to the doors, the litany of the
saints was sung. This was followed by
high mass. Father Keane officiating.
The choir was composed mostly
OF st. Paul parties. They were
j. Ii. Donahue, director; Mrs.
J. H. DOnahue. oTgaHiSt; Mrs. j. r.
King, soprano; Miss Emily Haggarty.
alto: E. J. DOnehue, tenor; j. z. Chris
t0pher and A. }. Nelson, baritone, and
j. F. Gehan, baSSO. The first plumber
of the musical programme sung was
Farmers mass. Other numbers were
"Veoni Creatore," Willard; offertOry.
''Salye Mundi Domino" KarSt, solo
sung by Mr.. Gehan.
The sermon was preached by Father
O'GOrman, professor Of Theology i'll the
St. Thomas seminary, and man who is
considered one of tine greatest Catholic
orators of this state. His sermon was
partly historic, and was very appropri-
ale for this OCCASION. The speaker is
liberal man, and he touched upon some
of the Interesting subjects of the day.
In his discourse he said:
FATHER o'GoRMAN'S SERMON.
This church dedicated this morning
to the service of God, under the iny0ca-
ton of the Evangelist ST. Mark is the
nineteenth Catholic church within the
limits Of the city of ST. Paul. If we
count the eleven churches in the city of
Minneapolis--Ou midway position en-
titles us to be considered as the central
point in which the twain are male one
this IS the thirtieth Catholic church
within the Twin Cities. Now the time
is not beyond the memory of some of us,
when within these same limits there
was only one building doing service as
a church. and not doing exclusively
such service, the old brick school house
OH Wabasha street. now gone. And it
was the only building used for that
purpose from the Mississippi to the
Rocky mountains, from the town line to
the international boundary line north
of US. Within that vast territory less
than forty years ago, there was one
church, one bishop, three or four
priests and small flock OF Catholics.
A few days hence there will be
very solemn ceremony in the cathedral,
and there you will see the Outgrowth
t,of ahnrola fhaf INigh f,r1
those few priests; the growth is summed
up and realized before our. eyes more
wildly than statistics could tell in the
presence of metropolitan and five suf-
fragan bishops. And those who were at
the beginning of those things are but in
middle aye to-day. A month ago in the
city of Baltimore there was exhibited to
the country a spectacle that made it
pause q moment in Its pursuit after
earthly interests, and gave it matter for
thought, nay for absolute establishment.
What was it? 1t was an exhibition of
the growth of the Catholic church in
the United States during the past CEN
fury, its first century of organized eX-
istence on this soil. My dear brethren,
look at our local progress here i'm this
marvellous dual city, look at our terrific
rial progress in the Northwest. look at
our national progress in the United
States and tell me whether we can be
too thankful for the past. and too san
guine of the future. whether the real
lied facts behind us do not justify the
highest hopes before US.
GROWTH OF THE CHURCH.
Considerations suen as these have at
tracted the attention of thinking men.
and in some few eases ha awakened
the prejudiees Of unthinking men. The
thinking man is he who from effects rises
to the cause and from phenomena goes to
the inner substance and force. In the
presence of the vitality and progress of
the Catholic church, under conditions
new to her in her life of 1000 years.
serious men ask themselves the why
and wheTefOre-what may be the cause
OF this striking phenomenon. They
agree very readily to assign as the
cause our splendid organization. Parish,
diOceses. Rome; priests, bishops, p0ne.
All. yes, there it is; graduated subordi-
nation, perfect in every detail, mighty
in the bond. Nothing succeeds without
organization; the more thorough the
organization the surer, the greater the
success. Do we not know it inStinc-
lively, we, republican people, used to
all the contrivances by which govern
ment is carried on and large masses are
managed? BeholdIng, then, the success
of the church, naturally they account
for it by organization.
Now, to a certain extent, they are
right. Organization is one of the ele-
ments of our success. We do not, can
not deny it. But while admitting this
we say that the whole account of the
matter is not in that one word 'i0rgani-
zation." Other religions are organized,
vet they do NOT nYcltp Nnndpr o. We do