Times-promoter., 1898-11-26

IN our illustrious heroes all over the
south. "This is wei" he sald' pu'
now let us build somewhere IN tnis
conquered land higher and grander
and more beautiful monument to the
memory of the unknown and unre-
corded dead The Roman Catholcs
belieye that the saints in Heaven have
great influence with the Almighty "a
tber in procuring remission of sln'
and hence it is right and proper that
we should pray to them and venerate
their images in the churches. This be-
lief was one of the causes that pro-
yoked the Protestant reformation. for
300 years the question was, image OF
no image? Sometimes the iconoclasts
were in power and broke up all the
images in the churches and destroyed
the paintings. Martin Luther was the
great reformer, but he was no image
breaker and tried to dissuade his fol-
lowers from it, but the mob was wlld
and could not be controlled. In the
twelfth century the making OF new
saints was pretty much abolished, but
if they could no longer saint man
kind they sainted nearly everything
else. Of course there were thousands
of good people who deserved to be rev.
erenced as saints after they died, but
| thousands were sainted from policy
| to please their surviving kindred, just
like some funeral sermons nowadays
that lavish undeserving praise upon un-
deserving men. or like the epitaph upon
q bad mans tombstone But when the
church quit the wholesale salntinS
business the people took it up ana
! sainted their, towns and cities and rlv-
ers and businesses, and even their race
horses and man cows. Some of them
went so far as to saint themselves by
putting the prefix of "St." to their
names, although they had no bright
prospect of keeping it longer than this
sublunary life.
Even in this Protestant country we
have St. Mary's, st. Augustine, st.
Marks, St. Louis, st. Simons, st. An
drews. St. Pauls, and hundreds of 9TH
ers that came down to us through
French and Roman Catholics. And we
have st. Anthonys fire and st. Nltus'
dance. which are very disagreeable.
England has her patron saint-St.
George. who, it is said, killed the
dragon alias the devil and delivered
the church from his power. He was
Christian martyr of the third century,
but they said his spirit came down in
the twelfth century and helped the
English in their crusades, and so King
Edward chose him as the patron saint
of England Ireland has st. Patrick.
but our nation has no saint yet New
York has one, and his name is Tam
many. He was an Indian sachem-
chief of the Delawares. He was good
Indian and some Jeffersonian demo-
Gratis dedicated hall to him 90 years
ago and called it St. Tammany. His
followers have kept up quite COM
motion. They have increased in num-
bers and in power, but degenerated in
piety.
I, st. Cecilia was martyr of the fourth
century, blessed woman and worthy
of being canonized. She had extraor-
, binary musical gifts and charmed the
, people with her singing. Musical so
. cieties to this day claim her as their
patron saint, and on the 22d of this
month will again mourn her sad death
and pay tribute to her virtues. That
is St. Cecilias day. Female saints are
. few in number-few in the annals of
= the churches-but in fact more than
! men, and from the time of the Virgin
Mary they have been the mothers of all
! who were great and good. Some good
men are saints, but all good mothers
y are.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.