The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-12
HALF MILLION VIEWED RELIC
loUs PAGEANT CLOSING EU-
+ cHARisTic CONGRESS.
CARD. GIBBONS PREACHED
Took Pageant Four and Half Hours
To Pass City Hall--knights of
Columbus Were $4,000
Strong.


lligious pageant closed today the
twenty-first international Eucharistit
Congress held this year for the first
time In the Dominion of Canada.
The procession marched for miles
through the city streets, to Mount
Royal, above the city. Modest esti'
mates is that there were 100000 in
line and that half a million viewed
It where best they could. The city
is SO crowded tonight that 10000 are
sleeping on the slopes of Mount Royal
in Dominian Square and in other city
parks.
1t took the file four and a lalf hours
to pass the city hall, and though
ii began to move at noon from Notre
Dame it was seven O'Clock when
Papal Legate Cardinal Vincent Van
nutelli placed the host housed in a
golden monstrance ON the altar.
The state, church and the army,
were represented. Proceeding the
sixty-flfth infantry reached the
Knights of Columbus. $1,000 strong
the Catholic Club of New York and
squads of Greeks, Poles, Hungarians,
n Lithuanians, Syrians, Ruthenians,
Cinnamon Indians from the Iroquois
reservation, then long file of re-
ligious congregations and Carme.
n lites, Jesuits and Benedictines, Re
demptories, Fathers of the Blesse
Sacrament, Paulists Eudists, mem.
bers of the Holy Cross and group
&of fifty monks Behind these came
900 parish priests and missioner
4 les in white supplies and behind them
N another / 900 vested as If for mass.
MThen came seventy bishops and fifty
srehbishops, and their chaplains, in
black.
Cardinal Gibbons Sermon.
Cardinal Gibbons. of Baltimore, adj
\ dressing the congress today. spoke in
#part as follows
y "The Word was made flesh and
#dwet among us'--John |.
M 1t is related in the life OF the
#Patriarch st. Anthony that on Ger.
#tain occasion he received a letter full
fsof filal homage and affection from
Constantine the Great. And the letter
&was signed not only by the Emperor,
&but also by his two sons, Constantius
'Eand Constans.
The disciples OF Anthony, learning
& that their father was honored by a
Especial epistle from the Emperor
were naturally elated and filled with
Mcomplacency, and the venerable
#Patriarch, observing Gle exultation
y lepicted on their faces, remarked to
M hem; You rejoice. my sons, be-
%canse the Emperor mas written to
%sne But should II not be a cause Of
Ksyreater astonishment and delight to
NJ You that our Eternal Father, Teze Ts'rg
v bf kings and Emperor of emperors,
K has written to us by His beloved Son.
8#nd has made us partakers of the
#iivine nature?'
VII 1t is customary for king on the
#Dccasion of his coronation to bestow
ome titles and distinctions on a num-
#ber of his most conspicuous and de-.
Moted subjects. During these past
Nays you have crowned Christ the
ord as your king, as well as your
@Iigh Priest You have always ac-
Enowledged and proclaimed His
Xpiritual sovereignty over you. He
eigns now over your intellect and
Reasoning powers. over your heart
Ind affections. over your imagination
Ind memory. and over the whole en-
lire OF your soul And need not tell
You, enlightened Christians, that the
homage you pay to your heavenly
Eing, far from lessening, rather
Etrengthens and purifies, ennobles
Nnd consecrates, your allegiance to
Hour temporal rulers.
IA And what does Christ give you In
Eeturn for your loyalty to Him? All,
Liz Brethren, no early monarch can
Reward his subjects as bounthully as
Ghe King OF Heaven rewards Ills SER
Wants. We know from history how
Uncertain and capricious are the
mles and promises of temporal
ilers No man ever served his SOW
rign with more answering fealtJ
Man Cardinal Wolsey served Henry
Mlu. But when he lost the Kings
Mayor well could he exclaim in the
anguish of his soul Hal ! served my
Mol with half the zeal have served
INV king, he would not in mine old
Ne have left me naked to nine enc
Mes" 1F3W fHA1
n WHAT title then does Christ Confer
you for your allegiance to Him.
creates you the adopted children
nd heirs of His Eternal Father.
st. Augustin in his immortal work.