The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-23
NEW ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
DEDICATED YESTERDAY WITH IMPOSING CEREMONIES.

AAe ChuEchs hOEA nnu DuAS S
 Crying Evils of Craft, Divorce, Ag-
 nosticism, Anarchy A Address by
 Bishop Tierney-Fine Music-Rev. 1 Father DaIy-Many Priests Present. 1 One more Catholic church has been added to New Ravens already large number of churches of that denomina-
 tion. The new church is St. Joseph's, which was formally opened and dedica- ted yesterday, attended with all the i'm pressive ceremonies which the church Iprovidas for such occasions. The
 church is on Edwards street and is un- der the care of the Rev. M. J. Daly.
 Immense congregations were present.
 The Right Reverend Bishop Tierney
 officiated at the dedication of the
 church, and he was assisted by as
 many of the priests of the diocese as ! could~ absent themselves from their charges. Solemn high mass was cele-
 brated at 10:30 clock by the Rev. NJ. J. Driscoll of the diocese of Erie. whose pOS 4AppA NttS oHCiIl III IiAS NlGlilllS C4
 the site uf the new church, and who is
 the son of Police Sergeant John Dris-
 coll, who has been one of Father Daly's
 most efficient aids in the buildig of this
 grand church. The sermon at the mass
 was by the Right Rev. Vicar-General
 M. J. Lavelle rector of St. Patrck' $
 Cathedral New York city. Vespcrs were
 held at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, with
 a sermon by the Rev. N. P. Coleman of
 Danbury, Conn. another former New
 Haven boy.
 The opening sermon by the Right 1 Rev. Vicar-General M. J. Lavclle was a
 powerful and eloquent one and inn pressed his hearers greatly. l. was
 based on the opening verses of the
 tWenty-first chapter of the Apocalypse.
 The preacher in opening said that it gave him great pleasure to appear be- fore this people and voice the senti- ments which were in their hearts. His New York people, he said held the bish- op of this diocese in high Iesteem, and the priests of his diocese thought of
 themselves as brothers of the priests of this diocese. He was proud to help dedicate this new tabernacle which was
 destined to perform the work of saving mems souls. He gloried in the zeal dis
 played. The task had been one to
 frighten a parish of far greater re- 1 sources and therefore was the more commendable. The whole Catholic church declared the speaker, rejoces l with you.
 Continuing he said: The great bless 1 ing of the Catholic church lies in the 1 fact that it is the dwelling of Christ on earth, The Scripture text, Behold I am with you alway even to the end of 1 the earth" is to be taken literally, He 1 is just as truly walking among His peo- pie now as He walked in the earth 1 nineteen years ago. This is the glory of the Catholic church and the source 1 of all it's blessings. "All day long and ] in the night watches will I be with : thee.'' said Christ. He is in the lowliest 1 shed on earth in which mass is said. 1 Here is God and His angels, invisible, but in loving adoration.
 How happy We would have been could we have lived when Christ lived and witnessed his miracles and the i founding of the sacraments. Yet every true Catholic is as blessed as if he lived in those days, because this is His home just as mech as then. Here day by day ! work will be granted to the penitent, There is no grace which came at the Incarnation which is not yours to re- ceive in this church, not once only, but as many times as you ask it. No won der your hearts are glad of the part you have taken in this church-this bride of Christ. May the blessings of work so well begun.
 Yet the blessings enjoyed by Catho- 1 lies are not only spiritual blessings. 1 There are temporal blessings as well, although these latter shrink into insig- nificance beside those former There is legend that an African found him. self alone in the great desert once. His eyes were arcing and his heart faint, 1 He looked through the bags on his camel's back once more in hopes of l finding relief. He found one bag which 1 had escaped him before, and he opened 1 it eagerly, only to throw it down with 8 muttered oath. "They are only pearls" | he cried, and yet every one was fit to be the ransom of a king. And thus it is with spiritual blessings as compared with temporal. But the times are out Of joint. Our civil institutions are be- 1 ing attacked by enemies of great strength and resource, and human sal ! vation would be in vain but for work of Christ's church on earth. These evils are steriIity and divorce. And the Cath olic church is the only church which has fast rules for the aIleviation of these evils. The position of the Catho- | lie church is for what God has joined l together let no man put asunder. If the Catholic church was doing nothing else but alleviate these evils, we would
 know her as the greatest friend of mankind.
 1 Not only in social life are evils ram
 pant, but also in national life absolu-
 tism is regarded as authority. Social ism and anarchy are preached on the
 street corners and defended by those
 who claim to be friends of mankind 1 There is nothing but the voice of the Catholic church which speaks against these evils All power is from God and
 people and officials will be held to &C., count.
 All relations of man to man are char acterized by lack of conscience. This has been well illustrated in my own