Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-20
LAY CORNER STONE.
Prominent People Take Part in Cere-
mony at St. Mary's Hospital.

mOny at SL. Mary,S HOSPITAL
With brief but impressive ceremonie
the corner stone of the new st. Mary
hospital was laid Sunday afternoon il
the presence of several hundred people
There were several visiting priests pres
ent, but Bishop James Schwebach, O
La CrDsse. who was expected, was un
able to be here and Rev. FIR. j. j. Bren
nan represented him. To the lattel
consequently fell the lot of laying tht
stone-a part which had been assigned
the bishop. 1t was about three O'Clock
in the afternoon when Rev. Brennan
with trowel in hand set the stone which
is to mark the beginning of an institu
ton of which all Wausau can be proud
AN institution which will be of great
benefit to the entire community and
surrounding country as well. A mum.
Der OF papers giving data OF the hos
pital, program of the exercises and
names of those who at present are high
up in the councils of the church, were
placed in the receptacle Of the stone.
Following the part executed by Rev. Fr.
Brennan, hymn was sung by Roman
Deutsch. Leo. Largay and Geo. Bor-
owitz.
Then followed addresses.
Mayor Duncan said:
Mr.. Chairman, members of the order
OF the Sisters of the Divine Saviour of
st. Mary's convent, ladies and gentle
men:
We are met today to join with the
members of the order of the Sisters of
the Divine Saviour and their co-workers
in laying the corner stone of ST. Mary's
hospital. While In special and some
what narrow sense this building when
completed will belong to the members
of this order, in another and a larger
and truer seLse this structure will be-
long to the people of this city and of
the Wisconsin river valley. The noble
work which has been carried on by this
sisterhood in this and other parts of
the world will here be localized and
continued.
The members of this order have de-
voted their lives to deeds of mercy and
charity. Their deeds of self-sacrifice
are worthy of emulation, and the ex-
ample which they give to the world, of
devotion to the cause of humanity must
renew in every person sense of obliga-
ton to. the Christian religion.
Actuated by the spirit which moved
the early teachers and apostles of the
Christian religion, they are here carry
ing on the work which was begun by
our blessed Saviour nineteen hundred
years ago. In their efforts to build up
this institution, from which they get
nothing except the opportunity to ad-
minister to the poor and unfortunate, |
bespeak for them the cordial and hearty
support of the people of this city and of
the entire Wisconsin river valley. be-
leve that this institution will grow and
expand and that it will meet in many
ways real need of this community.
In another and in a better sense, the
corner stone of this work has already
been laid by the years of faithful work
which has already been performed in
this community by the sisterhood hav-
ing this work in charge. This is SYM
bolical only; that is real, in that it rep
resents an element of self sacrifice and
unselfish endeavor. The work so we'll
begunpshould be carried on and should
meet with the moral, social and finan-
cial support of the entire community.
To Neal Brown, who is one of the
firm which donated the beautiful site to
the sisters upon condition that they
build upon it, fell the lot of being
selected as orator of the day and he
delivered the following address:
eve are met here to commemorate
with appropriate ceremonies the estab-
lishment of a great institution that shall
stand for all time as monument not
only to the untiring devotion of those
who have planned it but to the humani-
tartan spirit of our age. 1t is sometime
said, with what measure of truth will
not now discuss, that we have made but
little progress in certain of the morali-
ties since the beginning of recorded
history. Men will point to remote
times for illustrations of this and dem
onstrate that the world has not grown
better in all things. 1t may be that in
the struggle for the ideal ofhuman con-
duct we are not in all respects better
than our fathers. 1t may be that we
have stumbled and faltered, and in
some things have drifted far from
standards set for US by nations and
peoples of old times.
The moralities are not always gregar-
ious. The honest man may be harsh
man without mercy or charity. The
virtuous woman may be an unkindly
woman. The humane and merciful
man may be untruthful. The dishonest
man may love little children and home
and family. The complacent Christian
who listens and postufes in his
cushioned pew or who pleads from the
cushioned pulpit, may be vain and
pharisaical, devoid of all humility and
earnest unselishness. The good woman
may be a very bad woman in all but
the conventional moralities and set OBJ
servances of religious and social life.
The good man, so-called, may be BAD
citizen in many ways. In fact more
evil comes from the goodbad people of
this world than from those whom we
ticket and label as bad and whom we
have set apart and cast out from our
fellowship.
But in all these conflicting currents
of our finite nature we may hold stead
fast to one fact as sure and certaip,-
the humane spirit of this age makes it q
finer and better age than any other.
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