The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-21

Bishop Shalan was in tears when he
told of the Cardinals goodness to the
Catholic University, his gifts this year
alone totalliry $4,000. OF which $4,000
was the jubilee gift from the Diocese Of
Baltimore. Cardinal Begin paid a trib-
ute from the ancient see OF Quebec.
Cardinal O'Connell declared his confrere
was Giving bond between the vanishing
pioneer and the working out of his glo-
rious dream in the wonderful reality of
to-day" and Archbishop Mundelein said
His EAninences epitaph should be simply
SO God and country" because his life
work had been devoted to both.
Friends OF Cardinal Gibbons said he
never looked better. He sang the mass
in a clear. resonant voice. his step was
elastic and a happy smile and twinkling
eye lighted his face throughout the day.
In his speech he said:
when a man like myself becomes an
octogenarian he is disposed to be ,remi-
niscent and to praise times passed away
He has the temptation to ernbelish his
| narratives because his audience. who are
his juniors, have no means of contradict
ing him. He has the whole field to him
self But I assure you that I have no
disposition to yield 10 the temptation
my self.
+ AT the close OF the Third Plenary
Council. over which 1 had the honor
to preside. addressed the assembled
prelates. and referring to the words
which st. Paul wrote to Timothy, I
thanked them because they did not
, despise my youth If your predeces-
sors In the episcopate were so patient
| and forbearng TO me in my youthful
| experience. you have always been kind
and considerable TO me in my declining
years,
II am to-day the sole survivor OF
the nearly 1000 bishops who attended
the vatican council, and by a notable
circumstance the oldest prelate at the
time OF the council was a bishop from
| South America.
what is still moro noteworthy, am
| actually the only survivor OF the eighty
prelates who attended the Third Plenary
| Council OF 1854.
| The last to descend below the hori-
| ION Of the tomb was the venerable
patriarch of the West, the great apostle
of temperance, the patriot whom his
fellow citizens loved to honor, without
distinction of race or religion, the Lion
of the Fold OF Judah refer 10 John
ireland. Archbishop Of ST. Paul
The Pope in War Time.
"I thank God that we are assembled
to-day, when the war is over, and the
blessed sun OF peace has dawned upon
us. During that tremendous conflict
| there was one majestic figure that tow
cred over all others. I refer to our Holy
Father, Benedict XIV. behold him
now IN imagination standing like Moses
1cl e~,ountartI ~.elp~ Lr-t. ted hands.
praying for his spiritual children shed
ding fratrcidal blood
THE Holy Father was unjustly critl-
clsed IN those days He was blamed by
the Allies because he did not side with
them. He was blamed by the Central
Powers because he did not espouse their
cause But the Holy Father could not
be partisan. He was too exalted a Der
sonage for that But though not a par
tisan he was not an indifferent spectator
of the horrors he Witnessed lie fire.
quently protested against the outrages
perpetrated in Belgium and France; and
he was habitually exercised in the
benevolent work of effecting a change OF
prisoners; and in many other ways miti-
eating the horrors OF war
Papacy Lives Forever.
1.-THE sovereign Pontiff stands out TO-
day the most exalted parsonage In Chris
tendon. Kings will die, emperors VIII
die, even popes will die. but the papacv
lives forever.
1.-THE popes have seen the rise and de-
velopment OF all the Governments of ru-
rope. II Is not improbable they will wit
ness the death of some of them and
chant their requiem.
They have seen Kingdoms changed 10
republics and republics changed To mon
arches, They have looked OH while the
Cloths, the Nandals and Nislgoths IN
vaded the fairest portions OF Europe up.
setting thrones All this they have seen.
while the divine constitution o. the
church Of which they n-e cle FIardtAus
has rcg,alIed uu,haHEe {, w may aoriy
to her the words ot lEc Apostle: These
. shall perish, bar thD1 -"malr"s:. and an Of
them shall gov o'd as n garmcrt Bat
thou, - memorial church. arr always tho
s4iut, anc u! years shall never fam