The Progress., 1898-11-19

face gave permaneuCe auu AonO"H 49,
the Seventh century when he dedl'
Gated the Pantheon Of Jupiter to the
worship Of the true God under the In
vocation of all the saints. So many
churches had been built and dedicated
70 the more notable and illustrious
saints, such as Paul and Peter and
John and. James and Saint Cecelia,
that the pope felt sorry for the thou.
sands who had not been honored, and
he took them all in at once and called
the first day of November "All SAINTS
Day." Subsequently the next day was
chosen as "All Souls Day." when the
mass of requiem is said for the rest
and peace of the dead who have not
gone to heaven, but are in state OF
purgatory. In Germany the people
visit the graveyards on this day and
strew flowers on the graves OF their
friends.
This conservation of the Pantheon
to all the saints was very like Henry
R. Jackson's sympathetic appeal to
our people who were building monu,
ments to. our illustrious heroes all
over the south. "This is we'll, he
said, "but now let US build somewhere
in this conquered land higher and
grander and more beautiful monument
to the memory of the unknown ana
unrecorded dead" The Roman Cath
olics believe that the saints in heaven
have great influence with the Almighty
Father in procuring remission OF sin
and hence it is right and proper that
we should pray to them and venerate
their images in the churches. his
belief was one Of the causes that pro-
voked the Protestant reformation. For
800 years the question was, image or
no image? Sometimes the iconoclasts
were in power and broke up ell the
images in the churches and destroyed
the paintings.
Martin Luther was the great re.
former, but he was no image breaker
and tried to dissuade his followers
from it, but the mob was. wild 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 mankind they
sainted nearly everything else. Ut
course there were thousands OF good
people who deserved to be reverenced
as saints after they died, but thousands
were sainted from policy-to please
their surviving kindred, just like some
funeral sermons now-a days til t lavish
undeserving praise upon undeservine
men, or like the epitaph upon a bac
mans tombstone. But when the
church quit the wholesale saintine
business the people took it up anc
sainted their towns and cities aud riv'
ers and businesses, and even their
race horses and man COWS. Some o
them went so far as to saint themselves
by putting the prefix Of "St." to thei1
, names, although they had no brigh
prospect of keeping it longer than TIL
suDlunary lie.
Even in this protestant country w
have St. Mary's, St. Augustine, st
3 Marks, St. Louis, St: Simons, st. An
8 drews, St. Pauls, and hundreds 9
| others that came down to us throug
: French and Spanish Roman Catholics
And we have St. Anthony's fire an
' St. Vitus dance, which are very di's
y greeable. England has her patro
: saint-St. George, who, it is said
y killed the dragon, alias the devil, an
J. delivered the church from his power
e He was a Christian martyr of th
j. third century, but they said his spir
Y came down in the twelfth centur
a and helped the English in their crr
d sades. and so king Edward chose hi
n as the patron saint Of England. Irt
3 land has St. Patrick, but our natio
IS has no saint yet. New York has on
le and his name is Tammany. He VS.
n an Indian sachem-chief of the Dell
d wares. He was good Indian an
or some Jeffersonian Democrats dedic
r ted hall to him ninety years ago an
b. called it St. Tammsny. His followe
e, have kept up quite commotiol
r. They have increased in numbers al
in power, but degenerated in piety.
q. Saint Cecilia was martyr OF Il
It. Fourth century, blessed woman al
IN worthy of being canonized. She hs
re extraordinary musical gifts. CHAIR
in ed the people with her singing. Mus
n. cal societies to this day claim her
Mt their patron saint, and on the 22d
o. this month will again MOURN her 81
r. death, and pay tribute to her virtue
~ That is Saint Cecelia's day. Fema
Va saints are few in number-few in L
4 annals of the churches-but in ia
as more than men, and from the time
X. the Virgin Mary they have been t