The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1900, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 82 ~ s come together and |'ve | seemed to be ended forever. To-day her | wisest of those who are outside recognizs | pressive services at St. Mary’s Cathedral, | from him who controls all things. God I8 good. Let us not write them in the sand. awakening as tha: of | walls are lifted up in beauty. = She re- | that we alone have a religion big enough | Van Ness avenue and O'Farrell street, | the source of life and the whole creation. | Write them deeper. Engrave them on ponking sounds with the voice of gladness. Her | for a big country. last night. There were vespers and the | Time—so perishable and yet so precious— | our souls. Do not put off until to-mor= children throng round the altar and the| “Therefore we have reason to rejoice | benediction, with the speclal feature of |is the gift of our Lord and Father. The | row what you should do to-day, and what rifice is offered up from the riging of | and be glad, not for selfish or personal |the “Te Deum.” Rev. Father Prendergast |good that it is o us can be measured by | you do, do well" sun to the going down of the same, | reasons, but because we believe that God | preached a sermon appropriate to the cc- on, the spiritual benefit we take | he century saw 'is | for the Lord hath promised the gates of | has established his church for the bene- | casion. saw the dry bo was there sucl the churct nd the moral exuitation we re-| FATHER WYMAN aT ero of religious - " hell shall not prevail. fit of mankind, and that it s to the ad- | Nearly every pew in the big cathedral | es of the Immensity of | y in aking lands. He 's| “If the resurrection of the church in the | vantage of all men to belang to that | was occupled. The music was superb, es- | eternity. | ST. MARY’'S CHURCH the one leader who took it as his text|old world has been wondrous, not less | church. ‘I would to Ged,’ sald the | pecially the salos. Father Prendergast “Why do men rejoice and exchange con- | gratulations on New Year’s day? Is it be- | and made it his life work. He succeede |, | wondrous has been its planting and its | apostle, ‘that both in a liitle and in ‘dwel[ in his sermon upon the perishability the tremendous growth of tne|growth here fn this new republic. A | much, not only thou but also all that|of time, and sought to impress upon the l‘ause another year has rolled by and that | The Paulist -Fat Church in Ireland and Great Britain, i» | hundred years ago we were nothing in |hear me this day should become |congregation the importance and the duty | their allotted portion of time has been | Church made a spec! « and Australia is the result the domaip covered by the UnitedStates— | such as 1 also am, except these bands.’ | of taking advantage of the precious gfit | shortened to that extent? Do those who | usual vesper servi Daniel O'Connell’s agitation, some 80,000 of Irish and Emglish descent ‘ That i our prayer for our fellow citizens, | of God. He said in part; cheer and congratulate stop to think? No | close of the benedi choral “Te De was sung by the ch composed of sopranos, Miss Higgins and Miss J ——— rm of praise. TH 1s a to such weak cre s as we | IMPRESSIVE MUSIC AT ST. IGNATIUS THE GLORY OF A CENTURY NOW DEAD ¢ v LESSONS THE OLD ¢ YEAR TEACHES Us { At | *-AtSt. Francis Church. Va cet and | Montgomery aver e : | observed at ervice v Father McMa i rr | He saia: “My | together at - We all rej received . ask for a . future. Tt that we are « . It is certain t > all S 1 we ’ | shall then be judged for d and bad e deeds. It is appointed that we must die ° The patriarchs lived for over a hundred | years, but even they were mortal. So s | will all the future ge e 1 : " ¢ | church bell tolls for ¢ S wha - i v ~ s | can tell how soon v 11 toll _ S LS : i » ‘ for us. God h — the time when rs : . A 2 | The man who laugh e s ¢ . $] 1 . F drink INSPIRING SCENE IN ST. MARY’S P8 Py L e, e . ¥ We may ask ours hall I go while i s f : : | e street? Shall I receive P leon recognized | to his s w . v 4 . . o Fia Deomutest ”(‘1:: i to his metliods we owe the|in Maryland and Pennsylvania, a few|The hope of that consummation tinges | *“As we are about to pass over the|one knows how much further the weary in févor of religious | French missionaries with the Indians in se brought back the | liberty embert in | the Wi the ruined pueblos of the France ar Germany. | southwest and the chain of. missions The result of these campaigns was to|along the Californian o prove to the” world | But § pllgrimage may go or when the soul may | Do b Wil pass to the master. Our joy should not | and find out permit us to lose sight of our spiritual | eve of the elfare or to forget to look back and from | new resol the lessons and mistakes of may not know our prayers and our thanksgivings. The | threshold of another year and into a new | shepherd stands upon’ the mountains and | century it behooves us to look back and numbers his sheep. May he grant that |see what use we have made of the time ast. In a hundred | before the new century ends his prophecy | that has gone, and from what we find nt | years we have not only kept pace with | shall be fulfilled and there shall be one | form strong resolutions for our better § church had, like the cagle, cwed the growth of population, but we have | fold and one shepherd.” }mm during the year to come. Another|pare ourselves for the future b | who is . ope | youth. ~Her children were as devoted as | outstripped it. We have met prefudice | - year has passed and another is now be- | literates. many things. The deeds of our | YOU b he | ever, her In s potent, her doc- |aid persecution, but they fought against| SOLEMN SERV[CES fore us. Whether it will be for or | greatest heroes are forgotten, and there | *Uig theb: Na- | .tsine a8 % Compare the con-|us in vain. Ir beginning we were against us, for weal or for woe, is for you | are but few true hear e g Semon that beat re-| dictlon, a sc > Peum w " s S b g i g g - In the | despised and hated, then we were feared AT THE CATHEDRHL to determine. Another year is coming on, | sponsive to their names. Their memory | the choir. The choir was -y year 1 ndition now, on the | and hated; now mea wonder at us, but during. which, maybe, there are some | has perished with the day. To us all that | Sopranos, Miss Ina Coll s gome forever, but the church | threshold of the year 190, Then she lay, | hate us none the less. The Catholic has among us who are doomed to destruction. | remains of the past is our accountability | IS8 Paullissen and Miss ¥ a ere. - like the temple, desolate. The Gentiles|his position in American life too secure| The closing of the century was com- | Time.ls the gift of God. Every minute, | for sin and our reward for our sacrifices, | Miss M. Foley and Miss L. V. Lautin ot since the time when the prophet| trod her ruined courts and. the sacrifico ] to be. ever serlously menaced, and the | memorated by. the most solemn and im. | every hour, every day, every year comes | ~This is the iime for resolutions for | ey W A Sehmidl. and basso, se who make war | dition of the church in Euror