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POPE LEO'S JUBILEE
ELABORATE CELEBRATION Ar
BALTIMoRE'S CATHEDRAL.
CARDINAL GIBBONS SERMON.
DISCUSSED LIFE AND ENCYCLICALS
OF THE POPE.


Forth, and in Particular the Part
Played by the Present POntiff-His
EncycIienIs ON Marriage, Labor
and Relation of Church to the
state Especially Dwell UpOn-Ple-
nary Indulgence Extended to All
Catholics Present.
Baltimore. April 6.-The silver jubi-
lee of Pope Leo XIII was observed
with solemn and unusually elaborate
services at the Cathedral to-day. The
ceremony was marked by the pres
ence of two cardinals. Cardinal Mar
tineIli, the apostolic delegate, who
came over from Washington last
night to take part in the services,
pontificated, and Cardinal Gibbons
preached the sermon. Notwithstand-
ing the inclemency of the weather a
large congregation was present.
At the conclusion of the pontifical
mass, Rev. Father O'Donovan of
Cardinal Gibbons household read a
papal brief, extending special plenary
Indulgence to all Catholics of the
archdiocese who attended the iridium.
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Gibbons celebrated mass at special
service of the Catholic sodality, at
which 1000 persons received COM
munion and the papal blessing.
Cardinal Gibbons on the Pope.
His Eminence said, in part:
For nearly 1000 years the Bishop of
Rome has been the most conspicuous
figure in the theater. of public life. The
name of the sovereign pontiff is in
delibly marked on the pages of ecclesi-
astical history 1t is intimately aud
inseparably associated with the prog
ress and enlightenment and the Chris
tian civilization of the world. The
Pope ever stands before us as the COM
mander-in-chief of the army of the
Lords of Hosts. You might as well
shut out the light of day or the air of
heaven from your daily walks as ex-
clude the Roman pontiff from his le-
climate and permanent sphere in the
hierarchy of the church. The history
of the United States, with the President
left out would be more ineligible than
the history of the Christian religion,
with the omission of the name of the
Vicar of Christ"
His Eminence then briefly outlined
the personal and ecclesiastical history
his encyclicals, of which he said
The EncyclfcaIs of Leo XIII.
"The first encyclical to which shall
allude is on Christian MARRIAGE which
was published in 1880. The Holy Father
vindicates in strong and earnest lam
guage the unity, the sanCtity and the
indissolubility of the marriage bond. He
tells us that the married couple are
the source of the family, and the fam
lily is the source of society. Social life
cannot be maintained in it's purity and
integrity unless it is sanctified at the
fountain head of the home. For the
stream does not rise above it's source.
THE encyclical on the condition of
workmen was promulgated in 1891 and
is an exhaustive document on the
rights and duties of the laboring
classes. Never did the Redeemer of
mankind confer a greater temporal
blessing on humanity than by emo
bling and sanctifying manual labor and
by rescuing it from the degradation
which had been attached to 1t. Christ
comes into the world not surrounded
by the pomp and splendor of an i'm
perial majesty, but he appears as the
reputed son of an artisan. Is not this
the carpenter, the son of Mary? the
people said to him. He has shed a
halo around the the workshop and
mas llRnIoQeQ In6 WOTkTHdn lOllS ny
assuming the trade of an artisan If
the profession of a soldier, of jurist,
or of prelate can be dignified by the
examples of a Washington, a fancy
and Carroll how much more is the
calling of mechanic ennobled by the
example of Christ?
"A conflict between labor and capt.
tai is as unreasonable as would be
contention between the head and the
The fnfpraGtG nf nqnifal and
labor are correlative. Capital without
labor would be unproductive; labor
without capital would be Improbable.
What would it avail a capitalist to
say, Behold this mountain of coal is
mine if there were no sons Of toll to
extract the coal from it's recesses and
send it to the market? What would
it profit the laborer to exhibit his
brawny arm and his skill if there We're
no capitalist to give him employment?
The Pope and the State.
1.-THE third encyclical to which shall
allude appeared in 1885, and treats of
the Constitution of the Christian
State In this document the Holy
Father clearly demonstrates that the
Catholic Church can adapt itself to
all forms of civil government. When
I was invited to Rome by the Pope
in 1887 to receive the insignia of car
dinal, 1 delivered an address in the
church of Santa Maria in Trastavere,
my titular church, and as / took this
encyclical for the text Of my remarks
cannot do better than to give the
following abstract of the sermon which
was pronounced upon that occasion:
" our holy father, Leo XIII, in his
luminous encyclical on the constitution
of the Christian State declares that
the church is not committed to any
particular form of civil government.
She adapts herself to all. She leavens
all with the sacred leaven of the gos-
pei. She has lived under absolute en-
pires, under constitutional monarchies,
and in free republics, and everywhere
she grows. and expands. She has often,
indeed, been hampered in her divine
mission She has even been forced TO
struggle for existence wherever des-
potism has cast its dark shadow. like
plant shut out from the blessed sun
light of heaven. But in the genial at
mosphere of liberty she blossoms like
the rose. For myself, as a citizen of
the United States and without closing
my eyes to our shortcomings as a ma
ton, say with deep sense of pride
and gratitude that l belong to coun-
try where the civil government holds
over us the aegis of it's protection
without interfering with us in the le-
climate exercise Of our sublime mis-
sion as ministers of the gospel Of
Christ Our country has liberty with
out desDotism. She rears no wall to
exclude the stranger from coming