Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-10-25
Bell Conservation at Plymouth Rock

De4A S0nSeCIauOn at Plym0utn K0cl
Plymouth Rock, Ia, Oct. %, 1907.
Following is report of the consecra
ton of the new bell and the result O.
the voting contest for sponsors; eacl
vote to cost 10 cents.
Father Loosebrock, of Cresco, wa
delegated by the Archbishop to perform
the solemn ceremony; the cross bearer
was Francis Kelly; acolytes were
Emmett Knox and Frank Snider; anc
Will Gaul was thurifer. Mr.. and Mrs
William Mullaney were sponsors, the
value of the Mullaney votes being
$422.27; Thomas H. Whalen returned
the magnificent sum of $250.8O from
the contest; and Francis Kelly, not
over ayear known here, returned $31. 10
While Messrs. Pust and Swenson &
Co. were hosting the bell into the
tower for all the people to ring, Father
Loosebrock preached in a faultless
manner an eloquent discourse from the
words in St. Matthew that are inscribed
on the bell: "He That Heareth You
Heareth Me-. /" No man is a church il
himself or can go to God independently
and alone, for Christ has commanded
the association of His followers into
some form of eternal society. 1t is ir
this society that we become children Of
God, and parents should not consider
their offspring as fully born until it is
born in Christ and His church ii
baptism. "Unless a man be borr
again of water and the Holy Ghost, he
cannot enter into heaven" Parents
should remember furthermore that the
nurture, training and education of theil
children has for its principal aim, mo-
merely earthly comforts and honors
that perish, but more especially the
engagement of the child and it's super.
natural sanctification, and so essentia
is headship in religion that without il
there could be no Catholic church
Therefore, Christ appointed Pete,
visible head of the church, and we have
Plus the Tenth the successor of Pete,
and Vicar of Christ. The power of the
Pope does not come from those who
elect him, but directly from Jesus
Christ Whose Vicar he is, and the juris.
diction of a Bishop does not depend
upon the priests and people over whom
he presides; nor is the authority of 6
priest in his administration of the
spirituals and temporals of a parish
proceed from his Pensioners, but is
derived from his Bishop in union with
the Holy Ghost. To say otherwise is
opposed to the very constitution of the
Catholic church, which proclaims that
her authority is Divine.
We owe obedience to our ecclesiastic.
al superior "for conscience sake" not
for his personal superiority but or
account of his official superiority. The
superior is to be obeyed on this account,
that he holds the place and exercises
the authority of Christ who has said
che that heareth you, heareth me. -
And it is the same spirit of Divine
Love which quickens the pope, the
vicar of Christ, the bishops, priests and
all Christians. 1t ia the same vita
spark of the spirit Of Christ which
warns them all. 1t is the fire of one
and the same Divine charity which
burns in all it's intensity and ardor in
Christ, which truly but perhaps feebly
burns in Christians, for this fire is
kindled and famed by the inspiration
of One Single Spirit.
From youth to age, the sound of the
bell will float with sweet melody above
our quiet fields. 1t will be the voice of
rejoicing at festivals and marriages,
and of mourning at the departure OF
the soul. From our graveyard it will
summon the faithful of hill and valley
to the house of God, and when life is
ended most of us shall sleep in the
same graveyard within the deep sound
Of the bell. Com.