The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-29

Haven will be placed within at the final
| sealing of the stone.
Father DOwnes' Address.
Immediately after finishing reading
| the list Father Downes began his ad-
| dress. 1t was as follows;
With the sacred ceremony of holy
church the corner stone of our new
hospital is now laid. Under the pat
ronage of st. Raphael this benefcent
institution commences it's history.
To-day's ceremony with it's splendid
| significance recalls to mind centuries
and centuries of sweetest charity. 1t
reveals to us one of the brightest feat
ures of that marvellous organism which
the God of charity instituted. Hospitals
institutions for the reception and care
of the sick, the wounded and the infirm
are the fruits of catholic charity.
| They are the creatures of the Catholic
| church. With the history of the church
the history of hospitals is closely blend
ed
Compassion for the sick and the SUI
fering, compassion for afflicted human
| ity, was predominant characteristic
of the founder of the church. His life
was a continued exercise of this touch
ing attribute. Sympathy for the suf-
fering and aid to the sick were the
gifts which flowed from His tender
heart. In the designs of the Father,
suffering was the portion of the Son.
Truely, then, He could appreciate the
bitterness Of suffering that afflicted
the Fathers children. Truly, then, the
Iwork Of alienation and the exercise of
tenderest charity sparkled on every
page Of His wondrous life
The church was founded to continue
His mission. She was instituted to per-
4 petuate His work He inspired her with
His own sublime spirit. He prepared
and fortified her for the execution of
His divine designs Endowed with the
charity of her founder, enriched with
the compassion of God, the church
n commenced her existence.
The early centuries of persecution
! those centuries Of hate and fury
: against the church of God-restrlcted
the exercise Of her wondrous powers
and restrained the vigor of her godlS
faculties. 1t was a struggle for exist
ence. 1t was the fight of the few
against the many. 1t was the conques
Of the youthful church against the
wrath and power of the mighty Roman
empire The church was triumphant
I, The gates Of hell-the powers Of th'
world, the flesh and the devil-did no
| 1sllp1
With the restrictions of slavery cas-
! aside, the church began to NANTES
: more fully her spirit of wondrous char
: ity and sustaining compassion, From
> then until now the, hospital has been
channl-a coplous channel-througl
which her charity and compassion hay
! been diffused.
} Previous to her institutions hospital
; | were unknown. The smoke of battl
had scarcely passed away when thei
construction was commenced. The frs
, hospital which history records wa
: founded in the fourth century and wa
surely a Catholic hospital About tn
l same time St. Chrysostom founded
hospital in Constantinople and Fabiola
: friend of st. Jerome, erected one
4 Rene. The Hotel Dieu of Lyons date
: it's origin from the sixth century. In
Hotel Dieu of Parasitic largest an
perhaps the finest hospital in the worl
to-day-waa founded by a Catholi
bishop in the seventh century. In tn
X ninth century Rome-the home OF tn
q pope--possessed twenty-four hospitals
n Archbishop LanTranck built hospitI
n in Canterbury in 1910. ST. Bartholt
news of London was founded In ITO
r st. Thomas In 1918 and Bedlam hospit
h al in 1247. The religious disturbances {
n the sixteenth century and the confisca
, tons that followed Numbered the be
!. nevolent work of the church In tl
: countries where the dissensions prevail
ed her progress along these lines wa
, checked, yet she did not desist frol
!. her Masters work. For centuries q
It the monasteries had their adjoinin
: hospitals In these institutions thes
sick and the suffering found tendere
care. Thus from the very day of hi
o Acknowledgement the church has eve
1 displayed her effected sollcitude an
: her maternal compassion for the sic
Ii From Caesarea to New Haven tn
channel of her benevolence has been ur
interrupted. From the hospital of Gao
: sarea to our new st, Raphaers the flo
d of charity has never ceased.
" History truly shows the church II
institutor, the patroness, the protect
y ress Of hospitals, the unfailing execu
IS tive of the Masters will.
Pity, thrice pity it is that owing
gross omission and crosses misinterprt
u tation, the real story of her activity
A. seldom told. Facts are concealed. Fac
u are juggled. Into the minds Of the ri!
g. ing generation the poison of columny
= instilled. Tell the truth-the who
truth and nothing but the truth-ar
b the real character and the real splendt
y of Gods church will ever be reveale
e Read history with impartial eyes an
= the true significance of the oeremon
which the bishop has just performe
81 win be manifested.
The same church that centuries az
blessed the hospital of Caesare
4 through our own dear bishop, blesst
"A the foundation stone of st. Raphael
g to-day. 1t is another evidence of II
fidelity to her founder. 1t is anoth,
proof of her perpetuation of her Ma
ter's works. 1t is another manifest;
U ton Of her unfailing compassion fl
4 afflicted humanity.
On this happy occasion, under the
suspicious NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. da