The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-09-28
CHURCH BELL
CONSRCRATED
Sol,mn and Interesting Services
al New CaSlIa.
MEMORIAL 70 J. !. BRADY
Interesting Sermon on the Mean,
ing Of the Different Acts of
Conservation and the
lee ~ fhe Rell

NEW CASTLE, September %, 1898.

presence of LOCO people. The handsome
fewer recently erected was decorated with
: American flags and the bell was decorate
ed with bunting, American and Irish
flags.
St. Peters Church WAS unable to hold
one half Of those present to witness the
Interesting ceremonies
st. Peters T. A. B. Society turned out
in body, wearing their handsome badges
and acted as guard of honor The Nom.
bers of Div. No. 3. a o. H., were also
present In u body aud acted as special
escort.
The bell has already been described
in the REPUBLICAN. Mrs. Alice Brady
and James b. Brady acted as sponsors
and the bell was chrIstenel John in mem
DRY OF John I. Brady in whose memory
the bell was presented to St. Peters
church by his mother and brother Mt =
cost of 5000.
The sermon delivered by Rcv, John
Shahan of the Catholic University at
Washington was mastery piece OF elo-
quence. Among the priests who assisted
Bishop Curtis were Very Rev. John A.
Lyons, V. G Rev. J. d, Carey, Rev. D.J.
Flynn and Rev, h. l., Brady.
THE SERMON.
Right Reverend Bishop, Rev. Fathers
dear beloved Brcthrrn Tho ceremonies
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poetic and clearing, but replete also with
serious meaning, for they are tho external
forms full of dignity and grace, under
which she performs before God tho grave
acts of religion, Religion Itself is, indeed,
thing Of the soul, n spiritual creation,
coeval with man in the Eternal Mind, the
first pure and holy link between the spirit
of man and his Creator.
In itself and from the view point of Its
celestial origin it is like unto the gohhrad
FIRST. born daughter of heaven. But man,
who offers to God "thc reasonable service"
of religion, is not n mere spirit or mere
matter. He Is compound Of both, in
which neither loses its nature nor its nat
nral expression, tendencies and operation
1t follows therefore, that the public
acts Of religion as performed by man
must necessarily be double in character,
on the ono hand they must be directed to
God in spirit and in truth according to
His manifest will, with view solely to
His glory, with gratitude for His goodness
and alteration for his infinite perfection.
On 1.-THE other hand the great acts of re-
ligion must be performed before men by
men and for the interest Of men, |, Q. they
must necessarily take on a public charao-
ter and be surrounded with all that tends
to fix the attention Of the worshippar and
to express his purpose.
H. They must also emphasize tho corporate
and official character Of the forms, under
(which man acknowledges his relation to
God, relations Of the thing created to the
Creator OF the dependent, Inferior and
weak to the supreme omnipJlent cause of
the beneficiary to The dis1gpsel of al good
gifts of The captive TO his libelator, Of tho
adopted child to his eternal father.
This is why everywhere and among all
men religion has been symbolic in out
ward character, Religious symbolism, or
the worship of God under material en-
blems and forms, Is one OF these natural
outgrOwths of human circumstances that
are proved true aud necessary by their
very universally that Expresses these con.
victions of the general human mind
which have never wavered, and therefore,
may well be taken as remnants Of the
knowledge which the first man received
direct from God, as faint but precious
relics OF the original justice, un4uench-
able sparks in the gloom that Went ga Il.
ering for ages AROUND the Lyman mind,
The most degraded, as we'll as the most
polished of peoples, have always manifest.
cd their hopes, duties, petitions, fears 10
the Supreme Being or to what seemed to
them as such, under symbolic forms. To
quote single example, you may Sue this
illustrated in the history of the Greek
people during the 1000 yeay5 1t took to
reach the acme Of human culture and in
which it bodied forth its ideals Of tho Di-
vinity in thousand forms, from the rude
post or slab of s@anltc through every kind
of vague or grotesque sculpture, until the
perfect Towering of thor convictions
came in the ipilnitable creations Off Phe-
dias or 0 PraxIteles
The QlQ Testament the direct and full
expression Of Gods will to His choscn
people, is full of symbolism, varied and
beautiful, aud the minutest rilCs OF its
religion arc believed by jews and Chris
tians to have been directly inspired by
God Himself Jcsus Christ, who came to
fulfill the promises to perfect the nnln
ished work Of the restoration Of the
human race, employed symbolic forms,
not only in his speech, but IN HIS action
He annolEted with 5pittle the ears Of tho
deaf man ana healed with clay the Dyes uf
the blind man. He wrote uron the
ground for the confusion Of tho pharsees
He was gloritcd by the Father and tho
Holy Spirit under the sylnbo! of dow
descending upon Him from heaven. And
when He would complete His work
He sent the Holy Spirit upon His apostles
under the visible and expressive form Of
tongues Of fire, "a though to UNANIMOUSLY
show that the work of His Church in tho
world was one of consumption of the stub
bic and the hay, Of enlightenment Of the
dark places, Of cleansing Of tho impure and
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USES largely me SSHPo,!c H.ei'leht IN her
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2sasihs rom tlt merits ol Chflst ~ ,pie
Redeemer' Atohef' Ihi'rceS"Er, anu Hish
Ft r,f forever
cn ho IS only carrying Oh INC WORK OF
Cnrlst aluoi8 men accounting 10 no IA
ture OIL man, Whlch th0 graCes OF heaven
are Eot meant 70 ahoiith, but TO restore
anu perfect. 9he Is only recognizing an
lndestrlctDle element OF tn" original
revelation as seen IN tho symbolic s'ufi-
nces9i Gam aEu ADol. Shl Is only prov.
ing that SIZE recognizes the dual nature Of
man, ana eau never make tho grave error
OF insisting too strongly and too cxclu-
eveIy either on me spiritual oron the ma.
terini element IN MN, As the true and
authehtle administrators Oh Tho religious
estate OF hupah'ty' she walks IN the
neVertading fulness OF light from above,
dlvine!y conscious not only OF hor mission