Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-04

collection to be taken would raise the full s1o,ooo aimed for.
 Cornerstone Address.
 Father Delihant delivered the corner stone address, speaking as follows:
 In the midst of the activities that sur- round man, it Is difficult to know just what is worthy of his best endeavor, just what is a fitting object for the ut most labor of his hands and heart, the tribute of his sweat and his tears land his blood. AS we follow the pages of his- tory we see that even nations, with their foundations laid deep in the cen turies. have their day and pass just as the individual. They pass into ob- livion and the sands of the desert sweep over the foundations of their senate chamber and market place. To send down their memory and name through the leg acy of flesh and blood to others-men strive for this. but often your children and great-grandchildren spurn your grave and their lives would bring tears to your eyes, save that they are sightless in the grave. Heap up treasures of earth-why the moth and the rust consume and the robber steals such things. Men strive for honor, but praise from men changes into hate as quickly as the light will die out of that evening sky Men builc great bridges. paint wonderful pictures and carve statues that men will admire Tor centuries. Men go down into the depths of the sea and ID into the heav. ems. but some day, their bridges will sink into the dry bed of the river, and | thesT pictures and their statues and their applca tions of science will be roll. | ed up like a scroll and flung into the | fire to be burned with the passing away of the wind Then men try to build theil | little houses of glass and stone so fal lip out of the way of the waves of the
 sea of time that they think no change | can come: but some day wave tha1
 reaches up higher than the rest blot.
 out the things that their hands hay,
 built. Then they turn away in WearIines l form to things that lhand and grail
 achieve, and they labor and they striv 1 like the little bird building it's nest, [,
 piece together it's home of love, bu oh, the pity of it, that just as the storn 1 and the rain. can tear to pieces the n es
 in the tree-top, so tho storms of passiel
 wreck the love nest, too
 But today you are putting your hand
 to a work that will defy the -ravage c
 time-the rust and the moth can neve
 consume nor the robber steal it's wortf
 You are linking time. as we know i
 that ever changes. with eternity tha
 goes on forever. All the untoward event
 of life, all the unhappy circumstance that steal in and spoil the ripening hal vest. can never touch your field. So
 was in the past that men, weary of a
 the things that change so quickly, sai to themselves, "We will build a greg , tower and We will go u9 into Heave where Gal is where things do s o
 change" But no, man cannot entt
 Heaven until God wills it, so God foi!e
 their work and their tower became tower of Babel, a confusion. But ye are building more surely. You al building here a gate of Heaven by whiC to await Gods good will, good pleasur for that is what Holy Scripture calls u
 Church of God. the gate of heaven, ar
 dwelling here by the gate. you W |. catch a glimpse of the beauties and wo ,, 1 ders within the gate. As you bring vol I little ones here for the waters of ba F i tism, think as they become children Q God and heirs of heaven, you will fe 4 the stir of the angels wings as. God I. servans come out to claim them as H f own and clothe them with the robe a Christ. And when you have. sinned al = you come here with hanging head: al . dragging feet to ask His pardon in t -. sacrament of penance, you will feel tn heaven is very near to you as Chri 5 stoops down and; takes you in His arr and leans His head on your breast a, o whispers to you that it is all forgiven a