Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-21
TBE HOLY FAMILY
TIE THEME DISCUSSED BY RI. REV. BISHOP
D0NAHUE
At St Jossph's Cathedral Last Night-Importan
Announcement Regarding Holy Week
Ssryices--Faihsr 0'Kans's
Mission.

The congregation which assembled at
the vesper services at ST. Joseph S
Cathedral, last night, completely filed
the church, and many persons were un-
able TO obtain seats. Previous TO the
sermon for the evening, the Rt. Rev.
Bishop announced that the service;
during the week will be conducted a:
in the larger cities. This means thai
the services will be more elaborate than
they have been heretofore. An inter
esting innovation will be the sing ing oil
the TeRebrr.
Next Sunday is the feast of the Holy
Family, and the RI. Bev. Bishops re-
marks were made upon that subject.
After calling attention to the Import
ance of the feast, the speaker thanked
God that whatever are the other con-
ditions of the people OF Wheeling, it is
a community of homes. He referred
10 the crowded tenement districts in
the large cities, where such thing az
privacy is unknown. His comparison
of the condition of life in tenements
and in homes was very interesting.
God has blessed US, aud unto him TO
whom much is given, much is REQ uired.
II is the spirit OF the church, at this
season OF the year, TO contemplate that
great home Of homes, the model OF all
Christian homes, the Home of Maze
reth.
Every Catholic family knows what is
required of it, lie hoped that the
practice OF family prayers in the mora
lug, and before retiring at night,
when even Ihe children whose lips can
not iorma specific prayer, kneel in
token of alteration, is the rule and not
the exception among the Christians OF
this city. The Bishop related recent
conversation with wealthy gentleman,
who had wife of extravagant tastes,
and who, after com planning that he did
not know the comforts Of home life, re-
marked that if the country is ever again
engaged in war, the cry will be: Let
US fight for our flats and our hotels, "
not 'our hearts and our homes.
The members OF the congregation
"SAC oAGOA boN W SouNllAg huoit uOmts.
All were workers, Not only he whose
hands are hardened by labor. but the
professional man, the lawyer who burns
the midnight oil, aud the physician
whose rest is disturbed by urgent calls
which must be answered at the cost Of
physical comfort; and the business man
who moves with the load of one mort
gage after another, with al anxiety re-
garding the means TO meet succession
Of notes, and the fear that he has over
bought or undersold himself. All are
condemned TO toll. 1t is the
primeval curse, but it can
be sanctifed by Christian resignation
and Christian grace. If the example of
the Holy Family is followed, it gives US
strength physically, and infinite
strength morally and spiritually. There
is a beautiful legend in Palestine, that
if one puts his ear to the ground on q
still night. the sound of the hammer
and the loom can still be heard, the
hammer in the hands of Joseph, the
carpenter, and the loom operated by
Mary, the mother. The spirit Of the
hammer and the loom has elevated hu-
manity through all the centuries since
Christ was born, and continues, and will
continue to exert a mighty influence for
good.
Bishop Donahue said he hoped at
some future time to discuss the ques-