The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-01
GROUND BROKEN FOR
DENVER CATHEDRAL
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LILO whilst our resources are re-
TO ling From this you can see
cupe re time to be consumed will be
thal - Inv your liberality But that
lliiil.Ssy, moi be kept too long out of
we ZURICH we stand so much in need
ne nropose to erect first the main
Oh -, w. or body of the cathedral
DuI .i-,os off the towers, which are more
lea,,r,erraI than useful. These being
OF inch more massive and weighty
SO ~ he dovetailed into the front
Gu win require heavier foundations
II D5 win settle more in proportion to
~ weight Hence, they will stand
t tn' themselves and be allowed to settle
~ mich as they may, thus preventing
80 .roal, in the walls. They win form
., unbroken front in the grand struc-
I've and with their lofty spires tower
trto the very skies.
> Exempliied the Text.
ON the sixteenth chapter of st. Luke
go read of a steward who became in
,.aI,-a5 in difficulties and found him
.eIf on the point of being discharged.
Hn5 he said within himself: What
eban I do. because my lord taketh
way from me the stewardship? To
5ig ann not able; to beg am
oebamed. When in a moment more
Tou viii watch me putting the spade
INTO the ground, many of you will saw
nat I can act to perfection the first
mart in the steward S predicament: but
Il any of YOU should fancy that I am
ashamed 10 beg, l desire to assure Won
that I ann not, and that / will prove
this to your complete satisfaction
when the time shall come Nor viii ii
he nearly so hard and discouraging a
task now when every dollar is made
10 count as hen we were collecting
to save ourselves from bankruptcy.
Moreover. every one of YOU realizes
that ii is for YOU we are undertaking
This labor Of love. We feel that vo,.,,
heart is i'm the work and that vou~
honor as catholics and your faith as
christians are at stake. and both are
pladged to give an unmiStakab Bile .evi-,
dence of the sincerity of your inten-
tions and the determination of your
purpose
We'll then, my dear friends. here is
your chance. When the Christian Sci
ence people south Of US. the Presby-
terians and the Methodists west of us.
The Episcopalians and the tabernacle
people north of us have been able to
erect noble structures that give a strik-
ing evidence of the faith which is with
in Them who shall say that Catholics.
who the world over have conjured into
existence the grandest monuments of
Christian architecture which form to
this day the wonder and amazement of
the student and all connoisseurs of ar
chitectural beauty; who will say that
the Catholics of Colorado will not emu
late and surpass their non Catholic
brethren even as their faith, in the
splendor of its ceremonial and the time
Of its existence, surpasses all its rivals?
This hope this conviction we have
treasured up in our heart, and we will
not be defrauded in this our ex9ecta-
ton. Eighteen centuries of glory stand
here our guaranty.
we have now over $4,000 sub
scribed; we have $4,000 more in real
estate. This is well-nigh one-half the
sum we want. That the other half will
be forthcoming we have not the least
doubt The Catholics of Denver and of
Colorado win bear us out in this eX-
neot9 tiOn 4"