The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14

eucharlstic congress.
church of America to the Church of
England.
MOTHER CHURCH IN AMERICA
Maryland the, mother church of the
United States, was founded by English
Catholics.
This colony Of British Catholics was
the first to establish on American soil
the blessings of civil and religious lib
erty. While the Puritans of New Eng
land prosecuted other Christians, and
while the Episcopalians of Virginia
prosecuted Puritans. Catholic Maryland
gave freedorn and hospitality TO Puri-
tans and Episcopalans alike.
viii add one more link to the chain
OF haliewed associations between the
Catholic church in England and Amer
lea The first bishop of the United
States was consecrated in England by
an English prelate- John Carroll. the
first archbishop OF Baltimore and the
consecrated in 1890 in the chapel at
Lulworth castle. Qorsetshire.
DAUGHTER OUTSKIRTS MOTHER
Rev Charles Plowden of the Society
of Jesus and an intimate friend OF DR..
Carroll. preached the conservation ser
vision the future growth and develop
ment of the American church
He asserted that the daughter would
one DAY outstrip the mother in the null
IllOQc OF Her spiritual GQliOItIl Hc
prophecy has indeed been fulfilled. The
daughter eXcels the mother in the
wealth of her institutions and in the
number of her bishops, clergy and
laity-
But. my brother while claiming this
pre- -eminence. we acknowledge with
hlisl reverence Sthat the mother has
higher prerogatives. to which the
daughter must joyfully yield
RED LETTER DAY IN ENGLAND
On this red letter day, which marks a
new epoch in the history Of the Catholic
church in England, it would be interest
ing and instructive, If l had the time,
to form a comparison between the pres
ent condition of the English church and
her situation at the beginning OF the
nineteenth century.
We see today a hierarchy composed
of an archbishop with Is suffragans,
5000 priests ministering TO a Catholic
population of 1900. 00e-
This consoling result is due, under
God to the zeal of the bishops and
clergy and to the generous cooperation
of the laity.
1 may also add that if the Catholic
church is viewed with so much respect
and benevolence by the people of Eng
land this circumstance may be ascrlbed
in no small measure to the fact that
the Catholic hierarchy, and especially
the three cardinals who have ruled the
diocese of Westminster, have not only
deported themselves as devoted church
men, but that they have taken per-
sonaI loyal, vital interest in every
measure that contributed to the moral,
social and economic welfare of their
beloved country.
NEWMAN VOICED CHURCH HOPES
Over so years ago, after the re-estab-
lishment of the English Catholic hier-
sarchy at the synod or Oscott, the illus
trious Dr. Newman preached a sermon
ON the Second SPRING in which, In his
own matchleSs style and SilVery voice,
he spoke of the hopes and prospects of
the church in England after the winter
of her tribulationS had passed away.
Had God spared him to our day with
what eloQuence could he portray to you
how the spring had bloomed and rip
ened into summer, and as proof OF
this development he could point to this
mystical tree of life under whose state
ly arches we are all assembled. spread
ing its branches far and wide. so that
from henoeforth thousands may be shel-
tered beneath its ample shade and be
nourished by its perennial fruit of grace
and sanctification.
All honor to the Catholic nobility,
gentry and commonalty ef Great Brit
ain and ireland, who. amid trials and
prosecutions, have preserved their faith
unsullied who regarded the name OF
Catholic more precious than any earthly
civic title
ExHORTATIONS TO PEOPLE
Walk, my brethren. in the footsteps
of your pious ancestors. Let it be your
aim in life that the church's heavenly
mission of giving light to them that sit
in darkness and of comforting the
broken hearted may increase day by
day until England's future achieve
mentS for God and country may equal
If not surpass her former records, even
as Jerusalen6s new temple eXcelled the
old.
Take loyal, personal interest in all
that concerns the temporal and spir-
itual welfare of your cherished country
No one should be drone in the social
hive
Above all, take an abiding and vital
interest in all that affects the welfare
of your holy religion,
And now. my dear archbishop, I beg
to assure your grace that l am not
using any conventional phrase when ]
offer you my hearty congratulations on
the consummation of your cherished
wishes after the many months of anx-
ious thought to which you have been
subjected.
May this spiritual banquet of the
eucharist of which we partake increase
tion for Jesus Christ our savior, and
us ALL bishops, priests and people, more
closely in the bonds of Christian fellow
ship and brotherhood; and may this
love feast be an earnest and foretaste
of the heavenly banquet at which we
shall recline with Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob in the kingdom of heaven to be
forever inebriated with the plenty OF
Gods house and to drink Of the tor
rent of delights"