St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-27

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tended from excessive reading, but
professor must have some blemish, and
perhaps this is the most professional.
Let US leave him TO his books. The
most light-hearted man in the whole
gathering is the assistant pastor, whose
pocket is as light as his heart. He is
not overworked; he has not too much
responsibility; he dresses we'll, and he
has enough money to pay his paltry
bills.
The late Cardinal Manning used to
say that he gave to his young priests the
two best things he could beStow upon
them, namely, plenty OF work and
plenty Of poverty.
A Many-TOngued Priesthood.
Were the visitor to take walk
through the seminary grounds and
green slopes gliding down towards the
banks of the Mississippi during the two
hours when the clergy are taking some
recreation he should be perfect poly
glet to be able to talk TO them all il,
their own tongues. Not few OF the
priests are mauy-tongued, but what
mean particularly is that most OF the
civilized languages of Europe are ma
lively represented at this retreat. There
are some MeZZofantis in miniature, and
one or Two are we'll yersed in the an
cient tongues of the Orient. At this
unusual assembly might be heard the
exquisite speech of Racine and Cor
nellie; the mellIfluous language of
Dante and Metastasis; the strong
tongue of Heine and humboldt. Helm
rich Conscience could converse i'll his
beloved Flemish did he happen to pass
this way. Even IbSen, tie far-famed
Norseman novelist. would not be utterly
p,,Ir. hnr fnr no /
vite going from Minneapolis to ST.
Paul (Jerusaiem to JeIIcho) stopped to
say word. Could that mythical Celtic
poet, OSsian, materialiZe he would find
here some one with whom he could lisp
in Gaelic nainberS. Shakespeare might
heal the English language spoken with
more purity than obtained in his day,
and / have listened more than
once to the pronunciation which was
in vogue ill the Elizabethan age
of our literature. By way of eXplana-
ton may add that i'll Queen EliZabeth'S
tIlne the word sea was pronounced say.
and that this pronunciation Is still pre-
served in certain parts of provincial
Ireland. | have heard one of even
Geotfrey Chaucer'S cid words pressed
into seryice-one which L thought was
dead beyond all hope OF resurrection
l mean the word aieard. Polish, BO-
hemian, Sciavic, are each and all rep
resented here. But what of the United
States? LongfeilOw and Emerson are
not without their epresentativeS, and
Young America is here in all its vigor-
Gus and electrical youth. Year by year
she continues to grow stronger, and the
day is not far distant when there will
be few to enter into friendly rivalry
with her. The conclusion which all this
forces upon even the most casual OBJ
server is that the spiritual wants of the
Catholics of Minnesota are well sup
piled, no matter in what language they
ask such ninistrations. But names teach
lesson and here is the list:
Most Rev. john Ireland, Most Rev. I.
l.. Grace, Right Rev. A. RavouX, Right
Rev. l.. Caillet, Very Rev. j. T.. Byrne.
rector of the seminary: Rev. Fathers
Andre. Busch, Bajee. Bolaud, Blume,
Burke, Beiuhart, BonnefOHS, CoSgrove,
Chareyere. Christie, Conway. Conry,
Canley, Cleary, Carey. .C0rcoran, ,CeStelli,
Combette, Casey. cunningham, Danehy,
Deustermann, Durant, Dorfmeister,
Darche j., Darche L., Duane, Dolphin,
Egan, EllsnOrst, Fleming, Fitzpatrick,
Fitzgerald j. A., Fitzgerald, b. j., Glib y
bons. Gems, GulllOt, Girimondi, Gardi-
ner, Cotton, Gaughan, Gerhardt, Glea-
SUli, NrOIlCo, l1di liSOii, 11Cd-
chousky, Haas. Heifrcn, Hand, Har-
rington, Hart, Illig, JAEGER, Jajishei,
Jacobs. Jansen. Jung, JOY, Kastigar,
Koeberl, Kane, Keane, Kober, Kennedy.
Kienlen. koering, Kenny, Kenkelinder,
Lee E.. Lee ID. F., Lucey, Lawson. Linn
berg, LAWYER, Mahoney, Moiloy, Magee,
McAvey, Mon, McDevitt. McCarron,
McGolrich, Martin, McCabe. Mcintyre.
McNulty, Moynihan, OF 'Brien T.,O'Brien
NJ, OConnOr j., O'ConnoI p. j.,
O'Rellly j., O'Reilly p, Oguilin, Oster,
O'Neill, Plant. PacholskI, Peters. Pan,
Power. Plat, Pavalin, Pettigrew, Quinn,
Raleigh, Rynda, Raquin, Robert, Roy
name. Rosen, Rhatigan, Rice, Russell,
Sandmeyer, ShultZ. SmoniSh, Sleyin,
Seabert. Schroeder. Schmit. Sullivan,
Swift, Sayey, Stritch, TroDec, TysZhie-
wier, lori, Itchy. Van der Lage, Will
man. Venne, Victor, Windlsh, Zalew-
ski, Zawadski, Zavadon.
,a'he Central Figure.
Notwithstanding that from time to
time new diOceseS have been cut Off
fronfthe metropolitan see of st. Paul.
still the number OF its clergy seems to
| be ever On the increase, and the preach
er Of this year has had at least as many
around him as any or his predecessors.
AS men grow Old they become praiSerS
| of the time that is gone, but | think it is
generally admitted even 10y worshipers
| of the past that the present clergy of
| the diocese of st. Paul show a decided
| evolution upward. The venerable
| father vino conducted the retreat is deep
! in his praises of them. He preached a
retreat for the clergy of the diocese of
| st. Paul twenty-five years ago, so that
| he is i'll position 10 view
| the present in comparison with
the past The Very Rev.JostpnWisseI.
| for this is his name, comes from far off
| Saratoga, n. Y. He Is member of the
| Redempt0riSt community, whose found
er was AlphonsuS Llguori, the tar
famed saint and learned theologian
whose writings received a unique ap-
| probation from Rome. Father WiSSel,
| though we'll ON in years, is of powerful
physique, and still gives evidence OF
| beng able to do an enormous amount of
work. He has been giving missions u
| the people TOR thirty-eight years, and he
| has conducted retreats for the clergy
| for the past quarter of a century. In an
age OF scoffiug scepticism it was a
| picturesque sight TO see him and the
| clergy OF his charge walking round
| little Lake Menith as the shades of
night were fast falling, and it was edi-
flying to listen to them pracficing a de.
| yotion, which. even i'll its very form, is
| as old as the days of st. Dominic
A Remarkable Character.
| There are many remarkable men
among tue clergy of this diocese There
are men so full of profound and con
| fused meditation that it mars the pict
uresQueness of their narrative. And il
is we'll that they are SO varied for il
would BIZ dull world, indeed, if al