The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-09-05

great festivals the regal pomp of the
Church, SO far as circumstances al
lowed On Christmas and on Easter
it was always filled to oyer-flowing:
sanctuary and choir gallery aimed to
do their best: SO impressive the cere-
monial, that when all was over hun
dreds fingered to taste yet longer the
sweetness of what had been seen and
heard. The Cathedral had it's ordina-
tions of priests, it's CONSIDERATIONS of
bishops, it's visits of illustrious pre-
lates and priests. Famed preachers
| honored it's pulpit: notable occur
rences in Church and in State brought
forth memorable solemnities. The
record of it's observances is that of all
notable occurrences, religious and
civil, during half century. Yes, dear
old building, simple thou vast in out
ward attire, austere, unattractiye: yet
in glorious things seen and heard be-
meath thy roof, few the Cathedrals in
America to which thou needest cede
| the palm.
During all this time-since mass
was first celebrated within it's sane
tuary how much was done by the old
! Cathedral for the uplift of souls to
| Heaven, for the drawing down of
Heavens graces upon loWly earth !!
Here, indeed, the Lord has been.
This is no other but the house of
God, and the gate of Heaven" Thrice
sacred it's every nook and corner.
Masses upon it's altars-the descent
thereon of the Eucharistic Lord-the
hundred thousand times-the giving of
His body in mystic food the million
times-the word of sacramento par
don spoken the million times in yon-
der confessionals! The multitudes
here regenerated beneath the stream
of baptismal grace-the .multitudes
come hither to implore Gods benedic-
tions upon their plighted matrimonial
troth-the multitudes carried hence
for a last smile of the Master on their
journey to Calvary-the multitudes of
visitors to the tabernacles of the ever
living Christ, one by one, in silent
prayer, in rapturous embrace of the
divine love. Here, the million times,
souls, inebriated with the charms OF
the skies, rose up, renewed in the
youth of their spiritual conservation,
: to go again into the worlds battle.
f field, there to live as the purified chill
dren of Heaven, despite all tempta-
ton, in the assured hope of the never
fading crown of Gods rewarding
hand How sacred in it's touches with
the skies, in it's gifts of Gods precious
favors, they may tell-the angels, who
peered into hearts here throbbing in
prayer and counted the streamings Of
grace sent in response, the legions OF
, souls now in Heaven, because of the
: solace and supernal courage, received
l within the Cathedral. They are tell
ing it this morning, as their voices
mingle with ours in bidding farewell
:, to the dear old Cathedral.
. The Farewell to the Old Cathedral
!, Beloved brethren, fellow-children OF
the old Cathedral, the moment is nigh
D when speak we must the word-fare
[ we'll Look we'll around: for the last
), time see what so long you have loved
1 to see: call back in memory the years
1 gone by, all that those years do NEAR
to you Here knelt your fathers anC
3 mothers, your sons, daughters an6
: friends-hence they were borne to the
a cemetery. Here you were baptized
e received your first communion, were
:. married. Here, so often, you heal
r mass and prayed. Here, you listened
to the word of God preached from the
= pulpit. Here, you sought in the Sacra
e ment of Penance the remission of your
e sins, in the Sacrament of the Eucha
f rist the food of divine life. Here, you
= prayed and heard the voice of Coo
r bidding you be of good cheer amid
il trials and suffering, bidding you bt
S strong against temptation and sin
h here, so often, in anticipation you
S tasted the joys of Heaven, and in thu
|, depth of your souls sensibly felt thu
e bosom of the Almighty God. Trul.
: the Cathedral has been for you 9TH,
3 house of God, the gate of Heaven.
X Could you but have loved it? Coult
If you but be thrilled with emotion a.
n your lips open to say, farewell?
e May I be personal in addressing tn,
p old Cathedral? To me it has been 81
e much--much more than to any othe
c, of it's surviving children. have beel
n it's contemporary along it's who'll
n career. l saw with my own eyes tn
II first Cathedral saw the second, an
D there knelt before its altar, togethe
l. with Thomas O'Gorman, today tn
o celebrant of the Mass, while the frs
t. Bishop of st. Paul, with up1ifted hand
d blessed, what he was pleased to call
k the first fruits of the Seminary of 81
d, Paul. l did not see the laying il
E. place of the cornerstone of the thirt
IL Cathedral Together with the Bishop
r. of Sioux Falls, was in my studies il
If distant land. But l was back il
e St.. Paul in 1S61-and in thy sane
tuary, dear old Cathedral, in the De
e cember of that year, l was ordaine,
If to the holy priesthood, and there sal
e my first mass. From this pulpit
n preached my first sermon. Here
r, knelt in prayer, few moments be
% fore l went as chaplain in the Civi
v War. Here for fourteen years min
e istered as priest; here in 1875 wa
IS consecrated "a bishop. For so lone