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S UrrWuraNp. sUNDAY, JUNM o. t7.
S.DA 01 TIai WElf.
S- e Jel..... J -Or--owd uav after Pet.esOet.
, - o w "rearst of the Ddieats of al the
Sh Je o11-. l ieesl Aostrte.
S Jnoome fo1r-5 4se o. Lo seH Docter of
e .. Juae ls-at.Joh Y aia raer.
- eek Notiorn rowded out this week.
' tl t o'clock thie Sunday morning the
delidem of the perih of 8r. Franoei de Sales
will mak their lret Communion.
e Archbhishop of Avignon bha carried with
A.lm to Rome, for preseontation to His Holiness,
Sgolden buheart containing the Peter'o Peoce of
Tuesday nest.
Nest Sunday evenaing, Jane 17th, the Rev.
J. O. tte, of St. John'e, will deliver an ad
ess in 8t. Peter's church, 3d Districot, under
the asfplees of 8t. Peter's Total Abstinence
Seblety. Admiselon fee.
The contributions from Ireland to the Holy
Pather amounted to $190,000 on the ooasion
of his Jubilee. Most of this, of course, came
oem the poor, although there were a few large
.deations, one Wioklow farmer sending, it is
seM, $6000.
CoruuxnATIows.-Lest Sunday morning His
Grace, the Most Rev. Archbishop of New Or
eans, confirmed 198 persons in 8t. Joseph's
Church, and the same day at 3:30 o'clock in
,N evening he administered the sacrament
t1ie1 persons in the Church of the Immaco
p Cnoeeption. _____
- , : Sunday, the Very Rev. S. Raymond, s
c. 0., celebrated Solemn High Mass in the
' teh of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart,
ClOiborne atreet, Rev. Father Borias, pastor.
The distingulished Dominican, Father Man
ame, delivered an elcquent sermon. The v
-hurch was crowded. ii
ert
Reel reform has commenced in East Carroll o
perish, as will be seen by the following reduc- El
tens In the salariee of offiiole: as
Last 7P1r. r.
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The Sciet.ife American says that there reems re
tobe reason for the hope that the homan voice If
maybe readily transmitted between Europe and th
Amerwio by means of the telephone. The m
Operator expresses the opinion that it may, of
perhaps supersede the Morse system, to asme to
exteet, for private lines and the like, and, po- so
sibly, pay be utilized somewhat in forwarding cp
press rport, but for regular commercial tele
graphing it does not appear to poesse, as it
now stands, any advantages. w
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Last Teesday a very pleasant picnic was re
given in the woods near McComb City, to the to
children of the Sunday school, by Mrs. Brown w
and Miss N. Tobin and Mies. M. Tobin. The l
children, of whom there were about fifty, en- ar
joyed themselves immensely during the day in an
picking blackberries and plmes which grow
rwild in great abundance in the neighborhood a°
and in swinging, dancing, and croquet playing at
ti the shade of fine old oaks. In the evening hi
additional zest was given to the amusement of ti
the little ones by the arrival of their parents jo
and the shades of night were faliling before the th
happy orowd diepersed.
The Congregational Union. of Noew York, c~
wee organized in 1853, for the purpose of col- Ia
eooting funds to disseminate Congregational
dootrinee and build church edifices. With
bitter irony a secular paper remarks that the to
Union "has done a great work." It proceede N
to give the result of its great work thnq: se
'There was collected in 177 for the church tr
building fund of the Society $17 103 67, L
from which deduct $9,770 e0 for salaries, etc. "
used up in collecting it, and we have the not I
very conuederabhie sum of $7,739 71 as the net b
distribution fund. It will be seen that every i
one who gives one dollar nominally towards lb
the church building fend, gives 56 cents of it
for salaries, stationaryeto, and 44 cents to help
pet up bcouse of worbship. ho
bu
Tas ExconRsoN T THU J'rrlg8 NEXT 8UN d.
DIAT.-The finel arrangements for the excur- w
sao to the Jetties, in aid of St. Vincent'e
Rome have been completed, and now nothing
emainsl to bedone but to sell the limited num
ber of tickete that have been issned. We say
limited be6auose only a certain number of per
_eos can be comfortably accommodated on any O
boat and the gentlemen in charge of this ex
cureion have determined to make it so pleasant so
that the excursioniste will be a·nxious to go tic
agai bonhould another appeal be made. Con- tic
-idering the great importance to us of the to
National work now going on at the month of
the river, and the instruction and pleasure to
be
be'derived from a trip down the lower Miu
aIslppi, there should be no difiloolty in die- o
posing of a suriioient noumber of tioket. to make jn
the bexouorion a financial success. The only br
diMoeulty we can porslbly see is the general He
poverty of our people, bhut even this trouble Au
valehes when the oliet of the excursion is mc
e-naidered. Our people are poor, but they are p,
agttoo poor to give a dollar now and then to
th orphans; and, in reality, every one who ml
gaec this excursion gives alms to the orphan o
g·g di. Vincent's Home, one of the moost
- f car oharitaLble laUtitaon. tr
2!'*. ?"*I· ****s?"R **
er.f Bon. R. W. Thompson.
It appears that the Hon. R. W. Thomp
son, now Seeretary of the Navy, in the
Cabinet of Mr. Hayes, has written a book.
This book was written before Mr Thompson
mt. was appointed Secretary, indeed it was
* published during the campaign of the late
Presidential election. The book has pro
r, bably no merit, because its author has no
force. It was gotten up as a Know-Noth
ing document and published In the interest
of Mr. Hayes. Its title is "The Papacy
and the Civil Powers."
he The work has met its reward and Mr.
Il Thompson is Secretary of the Navy. The
book though in itself worthless affords an
th indication of the affinities of the Republican
0. party. It also gives some clue to Mr
of Hayes' allnities, since he has taken its
author to his bosom. Therefore, though
Mr. Thompson's "Papacy and Civil Power"
IP Is not worth reading, it is sufficiently a
0 historical land mark to be worth knowing
e something about. To know something
about it, and a good deal abouat it, In fact sil
.. about it, one need only peruse a pretty.
I. little brochure written by Rev. Father
tr Weninger S. J. entitled "Reply to Hon. It.
ie W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy" end Q
which may be had of the publisher, P. C
O'Shea, New York.
Comparisons are not popular, and, there
e fore, we shall not say that Father Weninoger
s is superior to all other writers since St.
' Thomas Aquinas ; we merely say that be
is so in our opinion. We do not undertake
to maintain that proposition just here and
now, but we offer in proof of it the tract in
question. Read it, and say what is left of o
Thompson. In fact it is a compendium of s
controversy; it demolishes not only P
Thompson, but all the other small fry of '
anti-Catholic casuists. The only argumeent
against truth is always either error or C
falsehood. So far as misconstruction of
Bible texts goes, that may be charitably
supposed to be only error, but it has ceased
to be much of an elemert in the contro
versy of the present day. All the soph
iams which once had vogue and which
really obscured the ordinary intelligence P
of men in its view of such questions, have
now been so thoroughly exploded that they
are no longer put forward with the confl- i
deuce and good faith which once cLarac
terized their use.
But errors in fact stand on a different
footing. They are, as a general thing, ui
simply falsehoods, knowingly and im of
podently advanced. They are the last as
refuge of bad faith and are most un- in
sparingly resorted to. The reason of re
this is clear. Every man has a Bible ; few so
men have a historical library. Every man
of good sense, after the thorough discussion b
to which every text has by this time been ril
submitted, has a good idea of the dil e
culties of the situation. He had, in each t
instance, but one text to read; the balance of
was rtlection. On the other Land history
is all fact, no argument; all reading, no it
reasoning. It is the field of a man of let- m
ters; biblical discussion is simply the at
work of a man of sense. Thousands of ki
lying assertions against the Catholic Church fr
are set afloat. Reading a verse in the Bible p,
and pondering over it will not illuminate in
any one of such points; history, reading, pi
study alone can do it. But how many
have an opportunity for this. In the mean to
time learned men, eloquent men, men en- al
joying the admiration and confidence of m
the masses ressert certain slanders as facts. O
What can the people do tr
Th(y can read Father Weninger's books, re
commencing with the pamphlet above al- w
lnded to. ti
The Rev. author, in that little tract,
treats of a wonderful number of subjects. bh
Not content with defending the Church, he s
shows up the infamous practices and doc- be
trines of the first Reformers. He refers to B
Luthes's work "'De Servo Arbitrio", T
" Slave Will," as opposed to Free Will. w
He shows how Luther taught that man acts to
by Irresistable impulse only, according as es
God or Satan overpowers his will, und shat
the Ten Commaadmsets are not bvoding on be
Christians. He shows how Melanctb'on br
held that " man can of himself do nothing to
but sin;" how Calvin says: " We call pre- lo
destination the eternal decree of God by Cl
which some are appointed for eternal sal w
vation, others for eternal damnation." tb
When speaking of Henry VIII and Eliza- hi
beth, he merely quotes .the language of Ti
Cobbett, an accepted English, Protestant t
authority. w
The ltv. writer finds space for a band
some notice of Mr. Thompsuon's proposi- th
tion that the Church is inimical to civiliza- it
tion and to Republican Institutions. As of
to civilization, he shows that every nation to
or tribe that has ever been redeemed from be
barbarism received the boon at tihe hand 5p
of the Catholic Church, and hlie defies the
naming of a single one that has ,be iien i
brought to civilization by Protestantisnm. le
He touches on the question of our North wl
American Indians and shows that the an
money squandered by the Government on wl
Protestant missions, and diverted to private th
emolument, would enable the Catholic th
missions to save and civilize the remnants in
of these unfortunate aborigines. He con- to
trasts Copernleaus with Newton, and France
or Belgiums with the retrograde eivilisation wi
-u
charging the Churchb with hostility to Re
publicantsm, how beautiful, bow cogent,
how unanswerable his refutation! Oatho
kic means. "for all,"-people as well
as prince. The Magna Charter was
wrested by Catholic barons and bish
pspa from a King. And the great principles
of the American Constitution are trans
ferred bodily from that noble ianstrument.
America takes its name from a Catholic.
t Catholics peopled America long before the
Pilgrims took shipping. The Revolution
came on and there was no distrust of Catho
lics; it was not Catholics who were known as
Tories. The little Republic of San Marineo
Is thirteen hundred years old; it is Catho
lic; it is in Italy. Venice was a Republic
before Luther was born.
The Popes show no marked predilection
for royalty. Never was tnere a Pope who
was the son of a Prince or Monarch; many
a one was the son of a peasant. From the
beginning the hand of royalty has been
against the Church, and the Church, on her
side, has always strenuously maintained
popular rigbts against usurpation and op
pression. In our own day the Pope has
shown his sympathy with our form of Gov
ernment by creating a Cardinal in this
country.
In fine, says Father Weninger, specify
the place, the time the occasion when the
Church opposed the Democratic form of
Government; point out the Pope, the
Bishop, the Priest, the Catholic layman
who ever wrote a word against our Consti
tution.
The Rev. auther's treatment not only
of this subject but of many others is unano
swerable, and we heartily commend the
purchase and study of this little work to
every one who wishes to have an intelli
gent and accurate mastery of the ordinary
controversial topics of the day.
Menth of the Sacred Heart.
The genius of Christianity embelishes
everything it touches, and transforms the
most trivial details of man's existence into
a permanent and unfailing good. The
poetry of Truth,-in whose practices
worldlings see only mummeries-throws a
charm over even the passing hours of life,
and seizes upon them as they cluster into
days and months so as to form stations, as
it were, of love and piety, along the path
of the revolving years.
The month of Jane thus stands before
us, consecrated to the glory and worship
of the Sacred Heart, while its burning days
are made typical of that ardent love which
inflames the heart of Jesns, and of the cor
responding tenderness which should con
same the hearts of men.
Pagan antiqnity with all its wonderful
beauties of symrbolism and all its gorgeous
ritual of mysteries, can offer nothing which
equals in grace and grandeur, in simplici
ty and sublimity, this beautiful devotion
of the Sacred Heart !
The lowliest intellect can comprehend
its touching mean:ug, while the profoundest
mind remains in ecstacy before its divine
and ineffable mystery. The lisping child
knows that he can implore all blessings
from a Saviour's open heart; while the
Pontiff of al: Christendom, with the same
nobounded trust, invokes its powerful
protection and confides in its eternal love.
Its very name is sublime, for it
teaches all that man may hope for, and
all that God can give. It recalls the
mystery of Bethlehem and the glory of
Olivet. It is a compendium of the doc
trine of the Incarnation, and of man's
redemption. It draws men's hearts to
wards it by a human title, and secures
their services ty a divine significance.
Sacred Heart ! Could any other name
be found which so entirely expresses the
sympathy between God and man, the union
between the creature and his creatorT
But it is more than a name-it is a reality.
The S cred Heart lives and throbs to-day
with all the tenderness it displayed at the
tomb of Lazarus, with all the yearning it
evinced when questioning Peter's love.
There is indeed a man in the highest
heaven who is our kinsman, friend and
brother, but this man is God-our God,
to whom our hearts appeal with human
love and with divine adoration; for the
Church teaches that "the Sacred Heart
which we adore, is the human Heart that
the Son of God took from the substance of ,
his mother and in taking it,'deified it. St.
Thomas adored the Incarnate Word in the
,anifestation of His Five Sacred Wounds;
we adore Him also in His Sacred Heart."
But apart from the dogmatic aspect of
this devotion-a most important one, as
t is the test of a true faith in the mystery
of tie Incarnation-earnest believers love
to dwell upon its wondrous charm and
beauty, and to reflect how closely it re
sponds to all their hopes and aspirations.
Oar Saviour himself bade us learn from
Him, from hisa Sacred Heart, the great.
lessons of meekness and humility, lessons
which the world, at large, will not learn,
and which it sneers and scoffs at in those
who do. Christians, however, must follow
the teachings of their divine Master, and -
he method He lhas been pleased to adopt
i order to conform the lives of all men to
to His own, is that of the Sacred HearS.
It is in a special manner the Book in
which all who look, mare sore of goldaence.
~!,c~~a~~~.i i~f~~,~~t!
a- foundation for countless forms of un
it, belief.
o The Church is tke living voice of God,
all and as it has interpreted the revelations
as of the Sacred Heart, we have but to turn
h- the pages to see inseribed the lessons of
es humility, charity, love of the cross, con
a- sideration for others, self-abnegation, cam
it. passion, mercy, all the virtues dear to Him
c. who intercedes for ns.
e As the days of June pass on into that ir
in revocable past from which we can not
3- snatch one single moment, let them aeeoa
s mulate words, thoughts and actions so
io agreeable to the Sacred Heart that we may
- ind them all awaiting as within that bless
ic ed Future which is to be one endless June
of worship and of praise.
n
o Reception and Prcfession.
y Though the Order of Mercy has besen
a established in this city only some eight
a years, its progres has been wonderfuL Its
r works have been multiplied on every hand,
d and its ranks have swollen with constant
- accessions of young, active, s alone aspirants
a to the service of God. That a young plant
should strike root-so vigorously and un
r fold its growth so rapidly and luxuriantly
during sueh arid times as have arrested
all general progress for several years back san
be attributed to nothing but the special pro
teotion of Providence.
The last addition to the membership of tbis
beautiful Order was made on Saturday, June
the 2nd, when Miss Anna Woolfolk, (Sister
Mary Raphael), and Miss Elis, O'Brien, (Sister
Mary Bernard), made their final vows of pro
fesmion, while Miss Rose O'Rorke, (Sister Mary
Elisabeth,) and Miss Mary Heffernan, (Sister
Mary Juliana,) were received as postulants.
Rev. Father Faivre, C SS.R., cfioiated in
the religious ceremonial, assisted by Rev.
Father Meagher, O.C.C., of Padnuah, and Rev.
Father Weldon. Father Meagher addressed
the young lady candidates in language which
must have forcibly impressed, not only them,
but the numerous friends and invited guests
who bad assembled to witness the ceremony.
His text from 2nd, Cor., was happily chosen:
"Wherefore come out from among them and
be ye separate, saith the Lord " and I
will receive you."
There can be no doubt. said the Rev.
speaker, that there is a religious vocation, that
is, a call to a life of perfection. An instance
in point is found in the case of the young man
whom our Lord advised to sell his property
and distribute the proceeds among the poor,
giving him at the same time an invitation to
come and follow him. This young man had
always lived in comformity to the command
ments, but he was told that there was some
thing still more perfect than the command
ments, something that he was merely advised
to do. He was even invited to follow Christ
aud devote himself to his special service.
This was a vocation and one which, unfortu.
nately for its recipient, was rejected.
Another distinct invitation of the same sort
was that given to Mary, sister of Martha. Hap
pily that vocation was responded to, and the
Master himself congratulated Mary on having
chosen the better part, which should not be
taken away from her.
Father Meagher in elcquent words spoke of
the sacrifice of natural ties and aspirations
entailed by accepting this glorious invitation
of Jesus Christ. Its sacritice is complete but
its fruits are most joyful even for this life.
Still it is but a phase of human life. It is a
world whose atmosphere is not less charged
with lightning and tempest than that which
has been abandoned. The true soul must be
tried, the well-beloved child chastened.
The beautiful sentiment of the address, the
exquisite taste of the altar, the solemnity of
the ceremonial, the tenderness of the music
and the rapt interest of attendant spectators
conspired to work an impression which time
will hardly erase from the minds of those who
were present.
The Golden Jubilee of the Holy Father in the
Fourth District.
The third of Jane, 1'77, the semi-centen
nial anniversary of the Holy Father's Episco
pal consecration, was indeed a day of joy and
jubilee, of grace and benediction for our deve
ted fellow-Catholics of the Fourth District.
Perhaps no where in America or certainly in
no other parish of the ci y and diocese, did the f
venerable Head of the Church receive more to- J
kens of loving devotion and boundless entha- I
siasm. s
The festive day, the like of which the Churchb
and world have never witnessed, was preceded t
by a Papal triduum, during which crowded t
services were held morning and evening in I
the three Redemptoriqtob churches. Frommorn
ing till night the worthy Fathers were in the
confessionals, in order to satisfy the thon- t
sands of fervent penitents who wished to offer t
up a Holy Communion for their beloved spirit- I
nal Father, Pope Pins the Ninth. That all I
might be done in proper order and without I
confusion, separate days and hours were ap. t
pointed for the general Communion of each
sex. The women approached the Holy Table
on Saturday, and the men on Sunday, each I
sex appearing in a body. It was edifying to
observe that the men by far ontnumbered the t
women at these general Communions. His '1
Holiness himself, could he have seen the long, a
serried ranks of stalwart men that approached r
the holy sacraments in bis behalf, would have v
owned that he has no where more devoted I
and fearless champions of his august person 7
and rights than in the Fourth District of our
Crescent City. Indeed, the old faith has not 5
yet died out in our land, thanks be to God! I
The solemn To Deum and Benediction or-.
dared by our Most Rev. Archbishop, were
chanted in the most impressive style after the
main service of the day, amid the joyous peals v
of organ and bells from every choir and tower.
loguDat anad impaeoed eulogies were prn
a- Pontifling, by the Rev. Fathers Glmae ,
Lamy, Neithart, and Lelmgrober. It was easy
d,to see that every word came fresh and straight
from the lnmost heart of thesw pathetle
r orators, and awakened correspondlng emotions
of of faith and love in the devoted heart of every
listener. Many eonfeased that they bad neve
before heard from mortae lips each "thoughlt
n that breathe and words that burn."
SThus the enthasiasm of the sealone pastora
commonicated itself to their devoted looks,
r- and the latter were not slow to exhibit the
ot ardent faith that burned within them. In
- faot, they even surpassed the elergy in out
ward demonstrations of undying love and
fidelity to the Holy Father. Already on
Saturday evening hundreds of houses were
gaily dsoorated with pioturee and tranepa
renoiee of the Pope, with wreaths and gar
lands of evergreen, with mottoes and in
seriptions suited to the occasion, and with in
numerable Papal flags, intermixed with United
r Stoates flag, Irish flags, French ags, German
t flags, and fags of almost every country under
ts the snn, to show that allnations are but one in
1, Christ ead His boly ~hureh under the inftslli
It ble guidance of His divinely commiamioned
s Vioar, Pope Pins the Ninth.
,t But the great event of the day war the
t. grand illumination ,and display of fire-works
y in the evening, for which a special permit
d was gracionsly accorded by his Honor, Mayor
a Pillsbry. At 8 o'clock in the evening, as the
h. congregatiouns issued from the obhurches where
they had assisted at the solemn To Deem and
a Benediction, their astonished gazes were fairly t
e dazzled by the enchanting scene that greeted
r them on all ides. As far as the eye coueld
r reach, nearly every window and gallery was a
,. laza with rows or pyramida of lighted
y candles, Chinese lanterns, Papal transparen
r oies, and other luminones devices. Conspicuous
among the long rows of illuminated buildings e
a were the Convent of Mercy, the 8t. Joseph's r
Asylum, the Brothers' Convent, St. Mary's
BoJ e' School, St. Mary's Girls' School, and the
residences of Messrs. Antoni, French, Garoi,
B Rioge, Molitor, Connolly, Joyce, and of Mes.
dames Williamson, Murphy, Mattaxa, 8aner
a wald, Constant, and others too numoronus to
mention. The residences of Mr. Philip Antoni
and Mrs. Williamson were decorated and illumi
nated without regard to labor or expense, and
attracted the concentrated attention of thou
sands who lingered for hours before them. To
Mr. Antoni's praise be it said that he was h
evidently the central figuye of the evening,
and, as in former years, the acknowledged a
head and front of the entire Papal celebration.
He had worked for months like a beaver, and
was determined to yield to no one the palm of
devotion to the Holy Father. That he sue
ceeded, need hardly be stated. Yet, although d
his triumph was complete and his heart over.
flowed with hbappiness, be bore his honors with
becoming Christian meekness.
However, the illumination was but a part
of the general programme. During two hours i
night seaed turned into day. Fire rockete,
fire wheels, Bengal fire, Roman candles, and
every description of fire-works were incessantly a
discharged from the streets, from the
towers and from the tope of houses. r
Messrs. Schaefer, Jochum, Ranch, Antoni, b
Schutten, Poelman, Voelker, and others
conducted this part of the programme ti
with such skill and effect that all were ti
delighted and no one was hurt. The
surging throng in the streets around the
churches numbered at least ten thousend who h
gave cheer upon cheer for the Holy Father.
Prof. Froeba's excellent braes band-all prac
tical Catholics-enlivened the scene still
forther by the most stirring martial airs. The
intervals were filled up with most lovely songs
by the boys of St. Mary's High School, under H
the able leadership of Brothers Heitz, Joseph, i
and Henry, of the Society of Mary. Between
the band of lively musicians and the chorus of ml
well-trained songsters, it was hard to decide
which of the two evoked the greater enthusi- ea
aem ou the part of the charmed listeners. The di
result was that the playing and singing, the
firing and cheering, lasted without intermis
sion till 10 o'clock, when all went home, sat- at
isfied that the 31 of June, 1877, was one of the ra
happicat days of their lives. m
Society Notes.
ps
S. AiLPoNaos' TrAL ABsTINENCE SOCIETY. di
The members of this Society, as also those of sa:
other parochial organizations, received Holy fo
Communion in St. Alphoneus' Church last th
Sunday, in celebration of the Holy Father's fal
Jabilee. In the evening the Society held its
regular monthly meeting, which was well ad
attended notwithetanding the heat and namer. ey
one out-door attractions. After the transac- pr:
tion of the usual business, several new members pr
were admitted, and our popular friend, Mr. so
Frank McElroy, was elected Finanoial Seore- tou
tary, which office he will fill with his accus
tomed promptitude and fidelity. Father Giesen, wi
the Spiritual Director of the Soclety, stated ha
that he had determined to disncus briefly but feo
fully the question of intemperance, dividing of
bim subject under the following heads: lst, The He
Drunkard, as the enemy of his body; 2d, as he
the enemy of hie soul; 3d, as the enemy of his joi
family; 4th, as the enemy of his God, and 5th, he:
as the enemy of the Commonwealth. The Rev. he
Father then delivered a most instructive ad- ma
dress on the drunkard as the enemy of his body, I
treating the subject in a scientifoic manner. all
The four other branches will be taken up con- the
secutively in the order named at the fnour next mc
monthly meetings ef the Society. Gentlemen, cou
whether members of the society or of St. Al- mi
phonsues congregation or not, are invited to be to'
present at these meetings.
The New Orleans Catholic Total Abstinence ral
Society meets this evening in the Morning Star pri
Hall, and St. Theresa's Sooiety in its Hall on dou
Erato etreet. res
The attendance at the Communion of St. the
Joseph's Total Abstinence Society last Sunday,
was very large. en
In Wyoming women igible to offes and nu
.de't  femta e
S A AWEz' BrziiZ
tht In 8t. Stephen's Pash, there was. i,
Tuesday a beautiful manlrastation of love
devotion on the pat of the padreioas .
wards the revim nd Pastora ev. A
4 who, after many labeIeoue earsf apir
ministry, was about to tske his depsure tr
Europe. Under the muaagement of Mrj,&.
Foamier, the sleader i every pea i
enterprise uadertakem la ea. L the
gregation of 8. 8tephean i .th ' A
Sfriends of the sealos pr e aemha '
8tephen's Hall on the eveales of Jane 5th
make the last hors of their father's
N among them a festival e loeve sad a mmesia
of devotion. It was the 89m i g10
a father and his family, of a Slue t sat
a
flook, of a friend and his belpe m.
where every heart reoegnsd in him
they honored, this triple title to theit
respect and veneration.
The Evening's-etertainmest was marrr dg
to consist of ohole l uae seleetiou veesJ
Iand instrumental, and a few raeltatlous.
The perforeas were nrly el membessaed
d the parish, and every sost en their partwas.
a labor of love, as grateful to themelvers it
Swas gratifying to- their past .
The opening feature of this festival as a
piano-solo, by a little lady a te yeasm osbag
whose childish grace eaptivated the pasteek
s heart, while hea menai shi woe the adedm
ration of all the larg assembly. This was
a specisilyp-mtaing part of the evesing s ea
tertainment, for in the wreath of loving
hearts that esdreled theebriahed father, this
ld ittle blossom Was asong its fa·rstt oraamelts,
and appealed most wiaaisgly to him, who,
d walking in his master'sfootateps, loved always
to have the "little children" near him.
The colored people too were allotted a
place in this family oircle, for to them the
r verthd pastor had ever been a true sposte,
gathering them beneath the wings of mother
church, add teaching them in what eomnu"t
true of liberty long before the Radicals of the
land had discovered their political importunes.
As the evening wore on, Col. E..Waggamas,
whose voice has often stirred our people's
hearts by its patriotic eloquence, came fer
ward in the name of all, to speak to Fth
Mandine their farewell words and lovisng
wishes. He pictured in glowing terms the,
labors of this devoted priest, the naselhfs
0 of this true pastor, who gave all that lif
holds best and brightest, to the aouse of reli
gion and humanity. He told how genies was
allied to lowlinesa, and how the saiplea
cassock concealed talents whioh might have
won the highest honors in the feld of hmboas
ambition, but which were all devoted to the
glory of God and the salvation of souls. He
described the love and veneration that bad
followed his ministry in St. Stephen's parish,
where through one unbroken term of wear
years he had toiled and prayed and waiel,
meek in patience, strong in hope, and sublime
in charity. He anticipated him in his pises
pilgrimages, first to his native land, that nel
France, who, achieving strength ander d
and wealth amid oppression, has aston
the world by the greatness of her physcal
resources and the grandeur of her moral in
fluence; then to that seat of power, that'
throne of love upon which the. illustriousPee
tiff, Pins IX. rules theChriatian world. There
the guardian of a part, lays his burden down
before the master of the entire vineyard, caly
to resume it again with more zeal, vigor, Asd-'
holiness. And though the Pontiff of the
world, to-day, is no longer King of Rome,
I having been shorn of his temporalities by.
robber hands, though he lacks the supportof
the civil power which, wielded by Pope Gre
gory VII., brought the haughty Emperor
Henry IV. to his knees at Canoesa, and whiob.
in the hands of St. Ambrose, humbled Tseodo
sins at the portals of the cathedral of Milan,
still he wields a spiritual power which no
earthly arm can deprive him of, and which
draws around him the loftiest and the low
liest, the prince and the peasant, the rich and
the poor, all nations and tribes and tongues,
and which holds together in bonds of insepa
rable love the head and the members of God's
militant church so that the gates of Hell cas
not prevail against them.
From the sacred feet of God's Vioar, the
pastor of St. Stephen's will return with bens
diotions for his people and privileges for him
self, which will aid both in the brightening
future which the Master, we trust, reserves for
those who do His work on earth so well sad
faithfully.
This is the mere outline of Col. Waggsmas'
address, and while he spoke e confess our
eyes wore more with him, the pale and humble
priest who listened meekly to these words of
praise, than were our ears with him whoknew
so well how to delineate the virtues of the pea
tor and the devotion of the hook.
At the olose of the address, a small purae
with the love-offering of the congregation was
handed to Father Mandine, who then made s
few remarks to the people present. He spoke
of hlmself as belonging to St. Stephen's parish.
Here he bad made his theologioal stndies, hebar
he had been ordained a priest, bhere be bad
joined the Order of the Priests of the Mission,
here he had been made pastor and, finally, her
he had received, on this night of June 5tht, ibO
most agreeable surprise of his whole life
He thanked his friends and parishleoasfer
all their love and reneration, and enoomrat
them to hope that he would return in a sW
months with renewed strength and vigor to
oontinue his work among le ews, in whbo
midst he thought it would be permitted hil
to spend the rest of his days.
Thus closed this memorable evening-memo
rable for the first parting from a heroli, noble
priest, whose life had been so hidden inbhis
duties that it was only this partIng hour which
revealed to many the treasure they posseed,
the glory that was all their own.
May St. Stephen's parish long be permitted 5*
enshrine this jewel of the priesthood, whon
lustre serves to reflst in o 5l ..,"
"King lea hs baty," w