Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-30

largely owing 70
confusion and disorder on the west side
Of the street, nearly opposite the
speaker, lie said;-
ADORE SIS OF RI. REV. J. T. SULLIVAN.
"MOsT REV. ARCHBISHOP need not as
sure you that conflicting feelings fill the
breasts Of the clergy and laity who are
gathered around you this evening. Glad
ness and sorrow strangely coeXist and
blend. We are all proud and rejoice be-
cause our little diocese, in your beloved
person, has attracted the special attention
Of that portion of the hierarchy OF the
United States upon which devolved the
duty Of providing a cOadiutOr and sue
SCISSOR TO the great Metropolitan
OF ST. Louis. We are proud that your en-
inent qualifications and noted success as
Bishop of this comparatively unimportant
sac lmpelled the Very Reverend and Rev
ereud Clergy Of the great diocese OF st.
Louis TO urge the Sovereign Pontih 10 APP
point your Grace their Archbishop. We
rejoice because IL pleased the Holy See TO
look favOrably on the most earnest suppl
cations of all those whose hearts and souls
were set on having Your Grace as the CO.
adiutOr Of most Rev DR.. kenrick.
In our gladness, we most reverently
thank the Ilustrious Sovereign POntitf
Leo XIII. for the selection and consequent
honor TO the Diocese OF Wheeling as well
as 20 yourself, Most Rev. Archbishop. We
thank the Most Rev. Archbishop and
clergy who recommended you 10 the Holy
See as the entirely fitted successor TO the
great Dean of the American hierarchy, DR..
Kenrick. Most devoutly we thank the
Holy Spirit who influenced the Sovereign
POntif and prelates and priests to
make choice which we conf
IDENTIFY anticipate will rebound to
the advantage of st. Louis, TO the honor
our blessed religion and ultimately 70 the
glory of God. These and similar con-
sideratiOns warrant our gladness. We
congratulate you, Most Rev Archbishop,
most warmly on your well-merlted promo
ton.
But sorrow has accompanied our glad
ness from the day on which 1t was an
nounced that the Rt. Rev. Bishop Of
Wheeling was appointed coadiutor TO Most
Rev. DR.. Kenriek 1t could not be
otherwise. During the eighteen years OF
your episCOpate you were thoroughly the
Bishop and Father OF the clergy and laity
OF the diocese Of Wheeling. Year after
year your Grace's rule endeared you more
and more 70 the priests Of this diocese.
Year after year the worthy laity grew IN
affection and love for their Bishop. Your
great abilities and eminent attainments
challenged the admiration of all-Catholic
and none Catholic. Your great heart re-
sponded, and your paternal and Episcopal
love went out TO all and was noticed and
appreciated. No wonder sorrow goes
along with cur gladness. No won
der that your devoted clergy and faith
full laity gather here tonight TO honor you
to solicit your last blessing as their chief
pastor and TO bid you farewell
in the name Of the Diocese of Wheel
ing-as its administrator, l bid Your
Grace q loving farewell In my official
capacity, thank the Very Rev clergy
Of st. Louis, who are here tonight 10
honor you on this occasion and to escort
YOU 10 your new and wider and higher
held Of labor in the cause of religion and Of
God.
"Very Rev. and Rev. Fathers of the
Archdiocese Of St. Louis, our loss is your
gain and hence whilst you heartily wei
come your new Chief Pastor-C Oadjutor for
a while. but ultimately metropolitan, we
We sadly and rOwfully-tnOugh sub
missive 10 what the Holly See has or
daiued-bid our Bishop heartfelt, loving
farewell, assuring him that we will ever
cherish most pleasant recOlleciOnS OF his
Chief PastOrShip here, ana ever follow his
Grace with our most fOrvent prayers"
REMARKS OF HON. t. 5. RILEY.
At the conclusion Of Rt. Rev. Sulli-
vans address, Mr.. Riley came to the
front of the portico and said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-I know full
well thai you are not here TO listen TO
any extended remarks from myself. You
came here to see and 10 hear and to bid
farewell 10 the one around whom this
occasion centres. A little more than
two years ago, on this same spot, we
met with you on the occasion Of the cell
ebratiOn OF your silver jubilee, to
rejoice with you over your sue
ceSsful ministration Of eighteen
years in this diocese. On that occa-
sion every heart was gladdened and ev-
cry face lit up with smile when you
announced that you were prepared 10
remain here during the remainder OF
your life. You were sincere in this, and
we rejOiced az that evidence OF your az
lection. But those higher in authority
those who have the interests OF the
whole Catholic world in keeping, and
who realize that big men must be as
signed 70 big places-realiZed that the
diocese of West Virginis was too small
10 longer hold one OF the brightest
minds of the American Church, and now
one Of the highest places ia that church
awaits you, Oh! but il is nard for US
10 take this comprehensive view
of II. but ltsmust be so. Our attach
ments TO you are not founded on your
attachments, but spring from admira-
ton OF your great big heart, and your
fatherly care and the manner in which
YOU have presided over the affairs Of
this Diocese which has endeared you 20
Us and united you to US in a bond
which may be severed only by death.
But there is no use in talking about
that now. The separation must take
place, and we can only congratulate the
people Of 81. Louis, and promise them
sbat they will feel toward you as we
aud also congratulate the venerable
bishop Eendrick that his work is
into the hands Of so able man.
n only say farewell, and God
5ou. and may you gather around