The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-14

church on Brar4han avenue. Father q. 6
M. Carroll said the laying OF the corner
stone would tkke place on the second
Sunday III J1he, which is also the TWEEN.
tieth Anniversary of his ordination as a
priest, but fk could not state the time
when work bn the new building would, be
started. Tine plans are still In the hands
Of the arcbatect, Mr. ]. O'Rourke Of New
ark.
pleasant surprise, and has swelled the
building fun above the amount required
to begin the work.
From Everywhere.
Pope Leo is Immensely pleased this year
Everything touched by the Prince of
Peace yields golden results. literally and
figuratively, says the Rochester Her
add"
Two years ago, His Holiness, noting
the nncuitipated spots in the gardens Of
the Vatican, decided to set out grape
vines. He placed an order for a thou
SAND vines with the nurserymen of Italy,
and the roots, on their arrival, were care
fully set out and tenderly nurtured. As
Italy Is a fertile country. they grew and
prospered, and, owing to their good care,
became fun grown vines in a short time.
This year the Pope is more than proud
of the results of his agricultural enter
prise. The wine yields from the young
vines has filled eight ~hogsheads, every
drop of which promises to be the rarest
vintage. The Pope has reserved a small
portion for the use of himself and his
successor. Another small portion he
sent to the churches to be used at COM
munion. The remainder, amounting to
several ~hogsheads, he is selling at good
prices. His Holiness will not dispose of
the wine for trade purposes, but care
fully places it where it will be dealt out
to the sick.
His lagoons in the Vatican have
brought in a large income from the fresh
fish they yield, and now he intends to fill
the Vatican with vines in every available
corner. Years hence Pope Leo's vintage
of '9S' may be among the physicians
prescriptions.
Christian Rome. says the Catholic
World, . must be looked at, despite the
changes upon the surface, as the covering
of a permanent and ndestructible prin-
ciple. Christian Emperors, Goths, ma
raud1ng DarOnS, meuldeVal Interpreters
of pagan ideas, and modern revolution
lists are the foam upon the sea. Flights
to Avignon and Gaeta, i-mprisonments in
F~ontainebleu. are the accidents of the
hour. Christian Rome is immortal be-
cause the embodiment of an eternal
thought. Mr.. Crawford Gave Roma I'm
mortalis, by Marion F. Crawford) has
caught a glimpse of this view, but, it
would seem, only to lose sight of it again.
He looks upon nineteen centuries as a
preparation for the pontifieate of Leo
XIII; but great as Leo is, he is only
one link in the chain from Peter to the
Pope who shall see the blackened sun
and the moon turned to blood, and the
stars falling as figs when the tree is
shaken by a great wind, and who shall
hear the angel swear that time shall be
no longer. He who writes of the Papacy,
ever as the instrument of the Church's
contact with the age, should be a seer
gazing on deafness ideas. The greatest
figure in the long dynasty is dwarfed
amid the forces round him He Yields
a power, but it is not his own. Though
he sends the lightnings, and they go and
return at his will, he does so only, and
they obey him only, as the delegate of a
power given ever to the weakest John as
amply as to the greatest Leo