The daily sentinel., 1907-06-17

NPPSdls TO the people. | have
seen and talked with several of them
and while they are black. they are
well featured, seem intelligent. NOT
IN the least presumptuous, but rather
KIND, and have felt so much inter
ested in missions when learned that
one million OF over three hundred
million had yet to hear the gospeI-II
might say that India is about as large
as the United states-2 500 miles
east and west and 1000 north and
south.
The people here seem to welcome
the delegates though they are mostly
Catholics. have been to the vatj-
can and hope that may see the PoneI
tomorrow. The Vatican is said toI
be the largest building in the world
1t has four thousand rooms. many
halls and galleries and twenty courts
The walls are covered with works of
finest art by the master hands of
Michael Angelo, Raffaelle and others
and line af ter line of finest statuar,
iron doors at the main entrance are
confronted by Swiss gurds. If your
papers are satisfactory. or your es-
eort known. you enter the building
and line after line of finest statuarv
statuary. The most notable being n
great equestrian statue of Copstan-
tine, Ascending to the first great
hall or chapel, the walls are covered
with fresco work and stucco designs
On the ceiling such paintings as
Creation" "Deluge," "Tbe Fail of
Man" and perhaps the most attrac-
tive The Last Judgment" The muse
um will command an artists time for
many days of close study of works
The library is beyond description.
The pope is a self condemned pris-
oner. He will will not look out on
the world and it would be recognizing
the power of state which he alone
should possess.
st, Peters is the largest church. Is
built on the spot where St. Peter is
said to been martyred in one of Nero's
gardens. 1t was commenced by Con-
stantine and was 175 years in build
ing and cost sixty millions. The
cross on the dome is 455 feet above
the street. It contains many chapels.
much art and simply must be seen to
be appreciated but in all. among
many churches, I can see the hand of
rivalry and an effort for mastery and
renown-in all vanity.
St Johns Lutheran is the most
prominent among the 366 churches
being the Cathedral of the Pontin.
and is one of the oldest churches.
Near the end under a magnlhcently
covered portico is another statue
of Constantine. The interior is diyld-
ed in courts by four great rows of
marble columns, and the ceilings are
beautifully decorated with gold trim
mings. Around the sides are many
inches containing statues of the apos-
ties. Here repose the bodies of St.
John, Timothy, also Clement and
others. There are many beautiful
paintings, the most attractive being
THE Ascension" and just above the
altar of the Holy sacrament is the
very table on which Christ celebrat-
ed his last supper-we are told. In
a cloister are many relies. one being a
stone slab on which we are told the
soldiers cast lots, ETC.. etc. But,
stranger, a ret hat pointed out.
suspended by a short string near the
ceiling. That. we are told, is the hat
of a cardinal of 1926 years ago. As
soon as the string breaks, that mo-
ment his soul viii be released from
purgatory. l visited St Pauls church
out side the walls, also the Manner
tine prison, saw the very stone to
which Peter was chained. went to the
the dungeon through the manhole of
which no one returned alive, was in
the dungeon outside the walls where
Paul was last imprisoned, could not
see the post to which he was chained.
and when l went to the block on
which he was beheaded, saw the three
that sprang into existence