THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1911, Page 101

THE BISHOP OF AUCKLAND

AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES

(From our own correspondent.) Ever since the welcome news of the appointment of the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary to the See of Auckland and his subsequent consecration in historic Wexford in August of last year, the priests and people of his diocese have been eagerly looking forward to the day upon which they would have the opportunity of meeting and greeting him. On the afternoon of last Wednesday, January 11, their long cherished wishes were gratified, and in the most enthusiastic and unmistakable manner was their rejoicing and

their warm-hearted welcome manifested. Both the afternoon and the formal reception and religious ceremonial in the evening were together a magnificent demonstration of Faith and of affection for Auckland’s new chief pastor. It was in the words of Dr. Cleary himself ‘ one of those inspiring things that one was glad to see even once in a lifetime.’ His Lordship was accompanied from. Wellington by his Grace Archbishop Redwood, the Right Rev, Mgr. Mackay,

V.G., Dunedin (representing his Lordship Bishop Verdon), the Very Rev. Father O’Shea, S.M., V.G., and the Rev. Father Hickson, S.M., Adm., Wellington. _ Dr. Cleary, kindly acceding to a request of the reception committee, left the train at Otahuhu, some twenty miles from Auckland, where he was met and welcomed by the Very Rev. Father Buckley, parish priest, and the Very Revs. Dean Hackett and Father Brodie. The remainder of the party who accompanied the Bishop from Wellington came on to the city. Long before 2.30 p.m., the time appointed for the arrival of the train bearing the new Bishop, numbers of carriages and thousands of pedestrians were to be seen arriving at the bottom of Queen street, and a throng of persons of all creeds and, classes were making their way to the Railway Station, where they soon took possession of the various vantage points. The train arrived to time. A green flag flying from the engine soon showed that something unusual „was happening, if, indeed, the immense gathering assembled on the station had not already demonstrated the fact. As his Lordship emerged from his carriage, Mr. W. J. Ralph, chairman of the reception committee, called for three cheers for Bishop Cleary, and the hearty response which was given by the assembled priests and laity reverberated from end to end of the station. There was no mistaking the warmth and the spontaneity of that chger. In addition to the Right Rev. Mgr. Gillan, V.G., a large number of the priests of the diocese and the members of the reception committee, were to be

seen Hon. Sir Maurice O’Rorke, M.L.C. (for many years Speaker of the House of Representatives), Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C. (Crown Solicitor), Hon. W. Beehan, M.L.C., Lieut-Colonel Collins, 1.5.0. (Auditor-General), of Wellington, and many other prominent citizens and visitors to Auckland, and representatives of the Hibernian Society, the staff of the Sacred Heart College, the Marist Brothers, the New Zealand Newman Society, the Sacred Heart College Old Boys’ Association, the Marist Brothers’ Old Boys’ Club, St. Benedict’s Club, and other diocesan clubs and societies. The Bishop was soon surrounded by friends, priests and laymen, all of whom eagerly pressed forward to shake him by the hand and kiss the episcopal ring; ii fact it seemed as though he were returning to his diocesd after a short absence, since he appeared to know so many of those around him. Those members of the reception committee who had not previously met his Lordship were introduced by_ Mr. M. J. Sheahan, secretary of the committee, and his Lordship greeted them with a warm handshake and a pleasant word for each. The preliminary meeting at the station being over the Bishop was accompanied to his carriage by Mr. Ralph ’ and the visitors and local clergy and laity having taken their places, the procession moved off through the dense concourse .who thronged the approaches to the station. It was led by an escort of three mounted policemen in uniform, who rode immediately before the Bishop's carriage to which were harnessed four grey horses decorated in purple and emerald green ribbons significant of the episcopal rank and the nationality of the prelate whom all were honoring on the day. Four mounted Hibernians in full regalia acted as a guard of honor to his Lordship who was accompanied by his Grace the Archbishop and the Right Rev. Mgrs. Gillan and Mackay. Then followed the carnages in order.

THE PROCESSION. The following was the order of the procession from the railway station: —No. 1 carriage—His Grace Archbishop Redwood, Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Right Rev. Mgrs. Mackay and Gillan, V.G. No. Very Rev. Father O'Shea. S.M., V.G., Wellington, Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly, V.F., Very Rev. Dean Hackett, Rev. Father Hickson, S.M. No. 3 Very Rev. Fathers Mahoney, Brodie, Nicolas, S.M., and Duclos, S.M. No. 4—Very Rev. Dean Lightheart, Very Rev. Father Buckley, Rev. Fathers Murphy, S.J., Eccleton, S.M. (St. Patrick's College, Wellington). No. 5 Rev. Fathers Darby, Kehoe (2), Van Dyk. No. 6—Rev. Fathers Furlong, McGuinness, Patterson. No. 7 —Rev. Fathers Tormey, Lynch, McMillan, Cahill. No. B—Rev. Fathers O'Hara, Edge, O'Dwyer, Wientjes. No. Rev. Fathers Doyle, Tigar, Brennan, Carran. No. 10 —Rev. Fathers Wright, Ormond, O'Farrell, Finn. No. Rev. Father Holbrook, Messrs. W. J. Ralph (chairman of reception committee), and W. E. Hackett (vice-chairman). No. 12—New Zealand District H.A.C.B. Society officers, Messrs. Bros. Mulholland (district president), P. J. Nerheny (past president), M. J. Sheahan (treasurer), W. Kane (secretary). No. Auckland branch officers H.A.C.B. Society, Bros. W. Wright (president), C. Delahunty (vice-president), D. Flynn (treasurer). Next in order came carriages containing the executive and reception committee, which in turn were followed by a large number of vehicles containing the laity. The total number of carriages in the procession was seventy-one. As this imposing cavalcade turned into Queen street, every place of vantage was filled with interested onlookers; verandahs, balconies, and windows were requisitioned by those eager to see the procession pass. The side-walks of Auckland's leading thoroughfare were each crowded throughout their entire length by great numbers of people. The large numbers who crowded the station yard, the throngs of people in the streets, and the flags displayed along the route were all contributing factors to the success and enthusiastic nature of the reception and procession. It was indeed an imposing spectacle and one of which the Catholics of the city have every reason to be proud. Besides it was a glorious profession of faith and a manifestation of love and esteem for our spiritual guides. The procession, which was marshalled by Messrs. B. Vincent and C. Little, proceeded along Queen street, Upper Queen street, Karangahape road, Ponsonby road, St. Mary's road, and Dublin and New streets to the Bishop's Palace. As the Bishop's carriage entered the grounds to the air of ; Home sweet home,' played by the Bavarian Band, an imposing spectacle met their gaze: an immense gathering, estimated at four thousand, had assembled upon the mitreshaped lawn of the palace. Here, too, were gathered the orphans from the Star of the Sea Orphanage, and they mingled their childish treble with the strains of the band to welcome their new Bishop to his new home. Flags were flying from the tower and strings of bunting decorated the front of the building. Along the verandah were festoons of greenery and over the door the good old Celtic welcome, < cead mile failte.' The scene, as the episcopal party ascended the verandah, was one that should Jong linger in the minds of those before whom it was presented. The afternoon was a glorious one, and, stretching out to where the dim outlines of the Coromandel Ranges and the Great Barrier obscured the meeting of sea and sky, the scintillating waters of the Hauraki Gulf reflected the glories of the summer sun set in a cloudless firmament Nearer still, the rugged crest of Rangitoto peeping over the Worth-snore formed a fitting background for the sparkling A\aitemata framed by the outlines of islands and lulls and the verdant beauty of the suburbs on the harbor's edge. Across the road, St. Mary's Convent was offering its quota of welcome, its windows being occupied by the Sisters of Mercy and over its gateways an arch of welcome had been erected. As the procession drove up the orphans sang Let Erin remember the days of old.' Mr W J Ralph then called for three cheers for the Bishop, and they were lustily given. Three more followed for the Archbishop and the visitors. In response to an unmistakable desire on thejaart of the assembled concourse Dr Ueary stepped forward and made a short speech of thanks tor the welcome that had been accorded to him. He said that at the present moment he saw some photographers taking snapshots of the proceedings; these would be taken on sensitised plates and reproduced at some future date. But all the way from the railway station there had been imprinted on a series of sensitised plates— the tablets of his memory—a number of pictures which would outlast the plates of the photographer. All along the route of the procession he had seen as in a continuous moving picture the magnificent welcome that had been accorded to mm by the devoted people of the city of Auckland. He thanked them very sincerely for their kindness, and concluded by stating that no words of his could express the gratitude and the feelings of admiration and pleasure which animated him at that moment. The conclusion of his Lordships speech was the signal for more cheering, and the gathering then slowly dispersed. & ' AT THE CATHEDRAL-THE EVENING CEREMONIES Although the commencement of the evening's cere! monies was not timed to commence until 7.30 p.m crowds of people began to arrive at the doors- of the Cathedral at about half-past five. Until the later hour a stream

of people entered the Cathedral, and when the ceremony was about to begin there were about two thousand persons in the building. Needless to say, as the evening wore on numbers had to be refused __ admission. The aisles were tastefully decorated with festoons of lycopodium with pleasing effect, but in the sanctuary the decorations were carried out on a more extensive and more artistic scale. The high altar was most beautifully decorated with flowers and candles, the whole of the color scheme being carried out in white and gold and purple. At the corners of the sanctuary large palms raised their graceful foliage, and along the Communion rails and on the pulpit, festoons of holly and lycopodium were interlaced. The decorations, which were favorably commented upon on all sides, were the joint work of Sister Mary Peter and Miss, Gough, who deserve a special word of praise for the excellent effect arrived at by their united efforts. A guard of honor, consisting of the members of the reception committee, the district officers and the members of the Auckland and Onehunga branches of the Hibernian Society in regalia, and the members of the Holy Family Confraternity, formed up outside the Cathedral and received the Bishop at the approaches to the main door. No finer spectacle was seen than this fine body of men. The cheers of the guard of honor told those waiting within that the Bishop had arrived, and shortly afterwards, to

The Vety Rev. Father Mahoney, accompanied by Rev. Father Holbrook, then proceeded to read the Papal Brief appointing Dr. Cleary to the See of Auckland. His Grace Archbishop Redwood now ascended the pulpit and addressed the assembled clergy and laity before formally enthroning the new prelate. His Grace said: ‘lt has been my lot for a number of years to associate with the Catholics of Auckland in their 'sorrows. Not quite twelve months ago I shared deeply in your sorrow. You were in tears and in mourning; you were stricken by the sudden death of one who had made himself beloved, and who had been for many years a great example of solid virtues to you ; but now the scene is changed, and the diocese of Auckland has put away its weeds of mourning and assumed the part of joy to receive its new Bishop sent to them to convey the mission of Christ. You elected your new Bishop unanimously, and now he comes to you with all the authority of Christ, which comes from the Apostolic See. To-day, my dear brethren, when I witnessed that magnificent reception you gave in so striking and public a manner, in spite of the fact that the day was a working day, I shared fully and lovingly in your joy. Now I am here as the immediate representative of the Holy Father himself to preside at the enthronement of your Bishop, whom you have already loved so well and whom you have chosen, the one you wished to have, and the one who was elected by

the strains of ‘ Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ’ sung by the choir, the procession entered the church. Led by the crossbearer and a number of acolytes in red and purple cassocks, there followed a large number of the priests of the diocese, visiting priests, and the Monsignori. Then, together, came his Lordship Bishop Cleary in cappa mag no. and ermine and his Grace the Archbishop. As they approached the brass tablet which marks the last restingplace of the late lamented and beloved Dr. Lenihan, the Bishops knelt and said a prayer for the happy repose of his soul, in which priests and people joined. Then, before proceeding to the sanctuary, they paid a visit to the Lady Chapel, where the Blessed Sacrament was reserved. The priests having taken their places in and around the sanctuary, the Bishops ascended the sanctuary steps. A throne had been erected on the Epistle side of the altar for his Grace the Archbishop, facing the throne of the Bishop of Auckland. His Grace was attended at the throne by Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay, V.G. (Dunedin), and Very Rev. Father O’Shea, S.M., V.G. (Wellington). His Lordship Bishop Cleary, attended by Monsignori O’Reilly and Lilian, occupied a seat on the Gospel side of the altar. The choir, conducted by Mr. P. F. Hiscocks, then sang Zingarelli’s ‘ Laudate Pueri Dominum.’ The tenor solo parts were taken and excellently rendered by Mr. J. H. Egan.

the clergy of this diocese, the one who was recommended, and the one who was appointed by the Holy Father to be your Bishop. You hail him with delight, with joy, and with great hopes that, with the grace of God, he will be preserved long amongst you in good health to work for the salvation of souls, for the benefit of his fellow-men, and to work for the glory and happiness of this great diocese of Auckland. I need not say anything laudable about him in his presence. It would be useless on my part, for he is known well throughout the length and breadth of this Dominion by the power of his mind and the might of his pen. He is the successor of the Apostles, for that is the position a Catholic Bishop holds. Our divine Lord appointed twelve Apostles to preach the Gospel to mankind, and He gave those first Apostles power to make others, who would follow them as their successors, and in their turn to expound the Scriptures, defend them, and reveal their truth to the children of men, to bestow upon them the great boon of the Cross of God, to sanctify their souls as well as enlighten their minds. All Catholic priests are successors of the Apostles, and it is as suqcessor to the Apostles that your new Bishop sits on that throne. May his prayers be heard, and may he reign in your midst until a ripe old age, and then go with the other great prelates that have ruled this diocese and share with them an eternity of happiness in Jesus Christ.'

The Bishop having vested in his episcopal robes, with his mitre on his head and pastoral staff in hand, was then led to the throne by his Grace the Archbishop, and a moment afterwards the Right Rev. Henry William Cleary, sixth Bishop of Auckland, took his place upon the episcopal throne of his diocese, and received the homage of his clergy, who, approaching in procession, knelt and kissed his ring. PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES. Rev. Father Mahoney (Onelmnga), the first native of New Zealand to be ordained priest, accompanied by Very Rev. Dean Hackett (Paeroa) and the Very Rev. Father Brodie (Waihi), proceeded to the foot of the throne and read the following address from the priests of the diocese: ' May it please your Lordship,— the priests of the diocese of Auckland, desire to extend a most hearty welcome to your Lordship upon your arrival amongst us as our chief pastor. We feel honored in the appointment by the Holy See of your Lordship to this the mother diocese of New Zealand, for your scholarly attainments are well known to us all, as also your strenuous advocacy of the dual cause of Faith and Fatherland ever since your life has been passed under the Southern Cross ' Your reputation as a journalist is world-wide, and we consider that the most fitting climax to the noble career which you have led in defending and explaining our Holy Faith not only in the pulpit, but more particularly in the press, has been reached in your elevation to the Episcopate, and we promise that in the life of labor and anxiety upon which you are now entering in your diocese you can always depend upon the whole-hearted and loyal support of those who beg to subscribe themselves your devoted servants in J.C., the priests of the diocese of Auckland. G. H. Gillan, Diocesan Adm. P. O'Reilly, V.F. J. J. Hackett W. H. Mahoney M. J. Brodie F. Buckley A. LIGHTHEART.' Having read and presented the address, Father Mahoney then handed his Lordship a purse of sovereigns from the priests of the diocese. Mr. W. J. Ralph (president of the reception committee), supported by Messrs. W. E. Hackett (vice-chairman), M. J. Sheahan, J.P. (secretary), and Mr. P. J. Nerheny, J. P. (treasurer), entered the sanctuary. Mr. Ralph briefly welcomed his Lordship, and on behalf of the laity of the diocese wished him a long, Jiappy, and successful reign. He said the sentiments of the laity were contained in the following address, which he then proceeded to read: ' Right Reverend Henry William Cleary, D.D., Bishop of Auckland. —May it please your Lordship,We, the Catholic laity of the diocese of Auckland, greet you most heartily upon your arrival amongst us. Though it was not our privilege to participate in the solemn ceremonies of that memorable occasion, yet we were present in spirit and " joined with the many loving Irish hearts that gathered around you on your consecration day," on that hallowed soil where deeds were achieved which are indelibly inscribed on the minds of your countrymen. As a defender of our Holy Faith you are known to us. It was therefore with unbounded joy and pride that we learned that the choice of our devoted priests had been ratified by our Holy Father Pope Pius X. in your appointment to the See of Auckland. _ We hail your advent to this diocese, in which your illustrious predecessors— Pompallier, Croke, Steins, Luck, and particularly our late revered prelate, Dr. Lenihanlabored with such signal success, and feel confident that under your wise and prudent care, your wisdom, erudition, and wide experience you will carry on triumphantly the many works of religion already so auspiciously begun in this, the oldest See of New Zealand. With our prelate and our priests the people are inseparably united by the strongest bonds of faith and fatherland. With the prayer that Divine Providence may spare you for many years to guide and labor amongst us, we couple with our welcome to your Lordship the wish of the Happiest of New Years, and subscribe ourselves on behalf of the Catholic laity of your diocese, who ask you to accept the accompanying purse as an indication of their affection. W. J. Ralph (chairman), W. E. Hackett (vice-chairman), P. J. Nerheny (hon. treasurer), M. J. Sheahan (hon. secretary), J. T. Boylan, M. Browne, T. Carty, E. Dervan, J. H. Egan, D. Flynn, P. Kavanagh, W. 'Kane, J. Larkin, C. Little, E. Mahony, C. Mahon, J. J. O'Brien, J. McKenna, J. Patterson, G. J. O'Shaughnessy, W. Clarke, H. Duffin, A. J. Woodley, St. Patrick's; J. O'Sullivan, D. Cremen, A. Tempest, Parnell; G. Little, J. Duggan, C. C. Plunket, St. Benedict's; P. B. Darby, P. McNamee, J. T. O'Brien, Ponsonby; P. McLaughlin, D. McCartan, J. J. Shaldrick, Onehunga; T. Mulvaney, W. J. Napier, J. Wright, Devonport; G. Wilkinson, J. R. Murphy, F. Macmenamin, Ellerslie; T. O'Connell, T. Goodwin, J. Gillies, Otahuhu.' Mr. P. J. Nerheny (treasurer), in a few felicitous sentences, addressed his Lordship, and then presented him with a purse of sovereigns. The united gift of priests and people amounted to six hundred sovereigns.

. The two addresses of priests and laity were printed on satin, the former in purple and the latter in green. In accordance with the expressed wish of his Lordship, they were unilluminated. They were completed in scroll fashion, with polished rollers at each end. A photograph of the Cathedral and a border of shamrocks and fern entwined were the only features of the addresses. They were very handsome, though plain, in appearance, and were the work of the Brett Printing Company. Monsignor Mack ay, V.G. (diocese of Dunedin), then read the following address from the priests of the diocese which the new prelate had just left, after many years of faithful work: ‘May it please your Lordship,— the priests of the diocese of Dunedin, desire to associate ourselves with your own priests and people in welcoming you back to New Zealand as Bishop of Auckland. We beg to offer you our heartiest congratulations, to express our best wishes, and to assure you of our prayers. In no ordinary sense of the words do we say that Auckland’s gain is Dunedin’s loss. Others, like ourselves, have justly admired on numberless occasions your valiant and triumphant vindication of our fair name, as well as your able and exhaustive exposition of our sacred cause in the Tablet and secular press; but we, your brother priests and fellow-workers in Dunedin, were specially privileged to have a share in your charming companionship and to enjoy your valued friendship: “We saw you as you moved, how modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise.” Your modesty would bid us leave your praises unexpressed, but we cannot refrain from saying that your presence amongst us was a source of joy, your tireless industry an inspiration to work, and your life a bright example of every priestly virtue. ‘We ask your Lordship to accept the accompanying chalice, bearing with it our grateful thanks for the valuable help you so often and so readily gave us in the sacred ministry, and our sincere wishes for every blessing in your new and responsible sphere of labor. May it remind you also to think of us in prayer, where we would most desire to be remembered. _ ‘ Signed on behalf of the clergy of the diocese of Dunedin, John Monsignor Mackay, Y.G. Patrick Monsignor O’Leary, V.F.

James Coffey, Hon. Secretary.’

With the address, which was handsomely bound in book form in red morocco leather, with the printing on white satin, the Monsignor presented a magnificent and costly chalice in a handsome case covered with red morocco gilt. His Lordship ascended the pulpit and delivered the following

Eloquent Replies to the Various Addresses: Right Reverend, Very Reverend, and Reverend Clergy of the Diocese of Auckland,—lt has been said that kind words are as apples of gold on beds of silver. These jewels of the heart have been spread before me in a wealth of bright array in the address that has just been read. But especially precious to me is the central thought that is set as a sparkling gem in the midst of your expressions of gracious greeting and kindly commendation—namely, your pledge of loyal and whole-hearted co-operation in the good work which God has called upon us, each in His own sphere, to do within the domain committed, in things spiritual, to our care. One grand aim actuates us all the noblest to which we, in this passing life, can be called : namely, to promote the glory of God in every way that lies within our capacities and opportunities, especially by our labors for the salvation of souls. In this central work and purpose of our lives, we have a bond of brotherlv affection stronger than bars of brass and triple steel. Heiein, too, singleness of aim, unity of heart, and earnestness of endeavor furnish us with a potent motive energy which is blessed by Him Who renders fruitful the prayer and work of even two or three who are gathered together in His name. Much more is this spiritual motive force manifested and blessed in the triple alliance of bishop priests, and people in all good things. It provides an everready power of mobilisation and concentration in evil days • it protects the faith in advance; and it overcomes many of the difficulties, and solves many of the problems, of religious life and work before the shock of their onset has actually to be encountered. May this grand alliance be, with us knit ever and ever more closely, and may the dear Redeemer of the world be with us on our way as He went down with the disciples to Emmaus, to cheer us in the hour of despondency, to warm our hearts with the fire of His love; and, as day by day, we cast our nets for souls, IT ) a y,He bless our labors, as He long ago blessed the fishing of St. Peter on the Sea of Galilee. Dear lay friends of the Diocese of Auckland,—l welcome with deep joy the great equivalent act of faith in a divinely constituted authority, which is contained in your address. It is refreshing to the soul, in an age marked by one of those recurring and transient phases of waning belief in authority, whether in Church or State, and when from sundry sources, there is a menace even to the foundations of social order. But an even higher note has been struck in your address; for not alone have you manifested a lively faith in the sacred office of your chief pastor which I bear, but you take me into the arms of your

hearts, you load my hands with precious gifts, you greet my ears with words of caressing affection, which move my soul to its depths. Thank God for the things He has written upon the fleshly tablets of your heartsfor this love of your spiritual chiefs, for these signs of things enduring in the midst of instability, for this evidence of things based on the rock foundation against which the gates of hell shall not prevail! Nor is your loving and dutiful devotion for spiritual authority confined to him who to-day bears the crozier of the oldest New Zealand See; but, following the apostolic injunction, your grateful Catholic hearts recall the labors of former chief pastors, who have spoken to you the word of life—Drs. Pompallier, Croke, Steins, Luck, and, finally, that gentle friend of yours and mine whose great heart, now stilled in death, lies near you within these cathedral walls. The ministrations of my zealous predecessors, and of a devoted clergy, have, under God, served to store up in the souls of the laity of this diocese great reserves of energising self-sacrifice. This has manifested itself by the severest of all testsprolonged and well-sustained endurance. "Who shall measure the sacrifices which, with little of this world’s goods, have been made throughout this See in the cause of religion, education, and charity? With the true Catholic instinct you and your fathers in the faith here have ever felt that mere instruction is nob ethical ; that a man may be ‘ gorged with knowledge,’ and yet be really uneducated; that the child must

penitent poured her precious ointment on the feet of her Redeemer. None true to Him will grudge the precious gifts which you have so lavishly poured out for the souls of Christ’s little ones. Your munificence will meet its ample reward at the hands of Him Who is prodigal with the priceless gift of His love, and with Whom there is not alone redemption, but plentiful redemption. May His gentle smile be ever upon your lives, and may His fruitful blessing rest upon the work, which, together, we, the Bishop, priests, and people of this See may do for His glory, in our brief day, till we, too, pass to Him and the eternal years. Right Reverend Monsignore and clergy of the Diocese of Dunedin, —My last reply this evening is, on many grounds, the most difficult. , In the case of the other addresses there was the mental buoyancy of meeting and greeting new and many friends; with you, and those whom you represent this evening, there is the pain of parting. We, so long brothers in spiritual arms, brothers in toil, brothers in the most sacred brotherly love, part here at the foot of this —part to pursue our separate paths till the shadows lengthen and the evening falls and our work is done. We of the Catholic priesthood are a class * taken apart,’ ‘ separated ’ from the rest of the faithful, leaving father and mother and domestic ties to serve our fellowmen in the things that are of God. But, apart from the precious promise to which we look in the hereafter, we have

be treated, in any true educational process, not alone as an intelligent, but likewise as a moral, being; that the school life of the Christian child should not be something apart from his life as a Christian ; that he should be taught to find God in the school as well as in the home and in the church and in the vast universe, and in Him to live and move and have his being; that his moral and intellectual faculties are not, so to speak, watertight compartments; that religion is something more than religious instruction (although it supposes the latter); that .education and religion are not incompatibles, like oil and water, which refuse to mingle, or as conflicting medicines that must be taken at times well apart; that the eternal side of life is of far too serious import for training in material absorption during its brief present phase; and that (in Humboldt’s words) ‘ whatever we wish to see introduced into the life of a nation must be first introduced into its schools.’ Some time ago I stood on the great levees or artificial banks which protect the city of New Orleans from the onrush of the floods of the ‘ father of waters,’ the mighty Mississippi. In our system of religious education your sacrifices, and the labors of devoted clergy and religious, have raised up such protecting works to guard the souls of children, as far as may be, from the onset of the flood of indifferentism and irreligion, which is sweeping so many to spiritual death in our day. It was a traitor to his God who cried out, Why this waste when the generous

even in this life consolations that constitute a hundredfold recompense for the earthly things that we have flung behind us. Not the least of these consolations is an intimate unity of heart and soul and aim, and a deep, intense, and holy mutual affection such as, I think, is hardly to be met with in any other state of life —with God’s love illumining it all, and through it all, and in it all. With a little army animated, in another direction, with such an intensity of conviction and esprit de corps, though with no motive beyond a wordly one, a great military leader declared that he could cleave his way through an armed and hostile Europe. And the heaven-blessed unity and glorified mutual affection that I refer to furnish in part the secret of the influence and, so to speak, of the penetrative force of the Catholic priesthood in the lands where these qualities are seen at their best. In the order of Providence they serve, like the sacred love of the family circle, as a serene joy to life, as an inspiration to work, as a strengthening tonic in weakness and _ temptation, as a consolation- in despondency, as a principle sweetly and gently alluring to higher spiritual planes. Nowhere in these lands has this brotherhood of unity and affection been more intimately manifested than in that happy southern See. As for me, its prelate and priests have pursued me with a pressing kindness which shall remain till the close of my days one of the brightest jewels in the casket of my memory. Happily, to us of the old faith, partings are only till the night

is past and the morrow dawns. One of the brightest consolations of our faith is in that dogma by which we sustain, in prayer, our holiest and most affectionate and helpful relations, not alone with those who are separated from us in the world’s short day, by land or ocean, but likewise with those who have passed for a time from our sight and ken through one or other of the thousand doors of death. And thus, in God our Father, we know and love each other without pause or break. Thus also, at the altar, with this chalice in my hands, when nearest to God in the most sublime and solemn moment of our worship, my heart will often turn to those, both living and dead, whose love and example were to me one of the most precious blessings of life.

His Lordship concluded by expressing his thanks to his Grace the Archbishop lor presiding at the function on that evening, and to the visiting clergy, and expressed his pleasure and gratitude to the Catholic people of "Auckland for their magnificent welcome in the afternoon. While his Lordship was robing for Benediction the congregation, led by the choir, sang the hymn ' Faith of Our Fathers.' Prior to Benediction his" Lordship imparted the Papal Blessing upon the congregation. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament then took place. His Lordship Dr. Cleary officiated, and Monsignori O'Reilly and Gillan assisted as deacon and subdeacon respectively. The rendering of ' 0 Salutaris Hostia ' (H. Hiscocks) by Mr. F. Bourke is deserving of mention, his rich baritone voice being heard to great advantage. Then followed Lemberg's 'Te Deum' by the choir. A Gregorian ' Tantum Ergo' was sung by choir and congregation. After Benediction had been given, Hiscocks's tastefully composed Divine praises' and ' Adoremus r brought the ceremonies to a close. Before the Bishops and clergy left the sanctuary a magnificent rendering of ' The Hallelujah chorus ' (from Handel's 'Messiah') was given by the full choir of forty voices, and was a fitting conclusion to the excellent music, which was one of the chief features of the evening's ceremonies. The Rev. Father Holbrook, Adm., was master of ceremonies throughout the evening. The procession of priests and Bishops then re-formed, and thus the ceremonies of an historic day concluded, and they will long live in the memories of those who were privileged to witness them. By a happv and unintended coincidence, the entry of the new Bishop to his See took place on the twenty-sixth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. LATER PROCEEDINGS. On Thursday his Lordship and the Archbishop and the visiting and diocesan clergy were entertained by the bisters of Mercy, Ponsonby, who presented him with an address and a purse of sovereigns. The address, which was beautifully illuminated, the work of the Sisters, save a history of the Order in the diocese of Auckland, and promised his Lordship their hearty co-operation . His Lordship suitably replied, stating, among other things, that on that day twenty-six years ago he was ordained priest in a chapel of the Sisters of Mercy in Enniscorthy On the same day the newly-arrived Bishop entertained the Archbishop and visiting and diocesan clergy at dinner in the episcopal residence. A motor excursion arranged by the reception committee, was also a pleasant feature or the day's proceedings. On the same evening his Grace the Archbishop and the visiting clergy from Wellington returned to the capital by the 'night "express. J hey received a parting ovation as the train steamed out of the station. On Friday Bishop Cleary was accorded a glowing welcome at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Mother Aubert's Home, and at the magnificent property of the Sacred Heart nuns, on which a palatial boarding school 13 r ? PP^ aChlnS completion. Here his Lordship was piesentcd with a magnificent monstrance.

THE GARDEN PARTY. (By telegraph from our own correspondent.) ffrnl ,S l J B ft\? art -7 J( < 1d last Saturday afternoon in the I'iS nl U S ' Mar -X s Convent, under the auspices of the H e i c .y and the reception committee, in honor of of i;,,,] 6 '' D r - m lpar w was certainly the finest function of the kind ever held in Auckland. The primary object of the promoters was to afford his Lordship an opportunity ot meeting his people and the representative citizens of the city and suburbs. Beyond all expectations was this neanJp w,f, CCSSfU y aCille Y ed - Ifc . is estimated that 6000 people AAue present, and every circumstance combined to ensure success. Hie spacious grounds of St. Mary’s, beautiful in their summer dressing of green foliage and still eerier lawns, dotted over with gaily-decked flower-beds in pleasant contrast, were filled with groups of guests. The many-colored dresses of the ladies contrasted with the more sombrely attired gentlemen, while here and there one caught a glimpse of the purple robes of a dignitary of the Church or of members of the various religious commnriities in their distinctive habits through the trees One’ its” almost d umi ffl fl d glin^ ses fl of , the sparkling Waitemata, its almost unruffled surface flecked with the innumerable white wings of sailing craft and framed with its surrounding aid-clad lulls The afternoon was a perfect one 1 Everywhere was the well-clad, good-humored, and mighty throng bent upon showing their new Bishop how welcome he

was amongst them. Long before three o’clock large numbers of motor cars and carriages, following one another in quick succession, conveyed the guests to the convent gates in New street, where an arch of, welcome, tastefully decora("ri with foliage and bunting and bearing the greeting, Lead mile failte,’ had been erected. Punctually at three 0 clock his Lordship the Bishop, accompanied by Monsignori Mack ay and O’Reilly and escorted by the executive members of the reception committee, left the Palace for the convent grounds. They were met at the gates by the full complement of the reception committee, and, after a brief welcome, were conducted, to the air of a festival march by the combined bands, to the doors of the convent, where they were received by the Rev. Mother and community of the bisters of _ Mercy thence the party passed through the enthusiastic arid dense crowd of guests to a dais which had been erected under the cool and leafy shade of one of the histone trees planted on Mt. St. Mary by Auckland’s first Bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Pompallier, in the early days of the Dominion’s history. Around his Lordship were grouped members of the clergy and the executive and meinbers ot the reception committee. The children of the Star or the Sea and Takapuna Orphanages then sang with excellent effect several choruses, including Let Erin remembor the days of old,’ ‘ The harp that once,’ and a verse of Faith of our Fathers.’ • Mr. W. J. Ralph, chairman of the reception committee, in the course of a short speech of welcome, expressed to his Lordship the feelings of pleasure and pride which animated the Catholics of Auckland in being privileged to welcome as their new Bishop a prelate who was already known to them as a devoted priest, an able champion of Catholicity, and a gifted and successful journalist. He welcomed his Lordship that afternoon on behalf of the laige concourse who had gathered to do him honor. 1 • His Lordship, who was greeted with prolonged cheers briefly replied, and stated that words failed him to express his feelings of delight and of thanks to the Catholics of Auckland for the magnificent series of demonstrations in his honor with which they had welcomed him to his new diocese. Tin ce. cheeis were then called for his Lordship and were , lustily responded to by the assembled throng. The “embers of the committee formed a passage way in front , 1 da l s ’ ai,d aon S this avenue the large assemblage slowly filed to shake hands and welcome his Lordship who had a pleasant word for each. Amongst those present in addition to all the local clergy and the reception committee may be mentioned his Worship the Mayor of Auckland (Mr. L. J. Bag 11 all) and the Town Clerk (Mr. H. W. Wilson) and the members of the City Council, Hon. Sir G. M. O’Rorke, Ml. LL.D., M.L.C. (chairman of the Auckland University College Council), Mr. C. J. Parr (chairman of the Auckland Education Board), Mr. P. Mackay (chairman of the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board) Messrs. A. M. Myers, M.P. (City East), A. E. Glover M P (City Central) C. H. Poole, M:P. (City West) fr. R. Phillips, M.P. (M aitemata), J. Bollard, M.P. (Eden) and Hons W. Beehan and T. Thompson, M’s.L.C., Messrs! C. C. Kettle and E. C. Cutten, S.M’s., the various foreign consuls, including Herr Carl Seegner (Germany), Langgutli Austria) Messrs. W. A. Prickitt (U.S.A.), S. J. N. Sawn (Norway), and P. Marcus ranee); the suburban Mayors, moulding Mr. Wm. Handley (Devonport), chairman of Load Boards and County Councils; Mr. T. Gresham (City Coroner), Lieut-Colonel Allen Bell (chairman Farmers’ Liuon)’ Mr. W. A. Beddo (Canadian Trade Commissioner), ;V T r - L W. Leys (editor of the Auckland Star), Mr. G. F Warren (Public Trust Office), Mr. J. Shanaghan (Labor Department), Rev. R. J. Hall (Unitarian), and a large number of otner professional, commercial, and mercantile gentlemen; Doctors Murphy, Stopford, Brockway, Pabst Bernardi, Darby, and Bedford. ’ ’ Altogether the garden party was in every way a brilliant success, and the efforts of the committee are deserving of unstinted praise in the magnificence of the function, whether it be treated as a social event, a manifestation of affection and loyalty to Bishop Cleary or a demonstration of the faith of the Catholics of the city During the afternoon the Sisters of Mercy, assisted by an untiring and enthusiastic band of young ladies from the several churches, attended to the wants of the guests bearing to every corner of the grounds trays of the’indispensable afternoon tea and the conventional cakes and sandwiches. An excellent feature of the gathering was the setting apart of a large playing area for the little ones v ho were thus freed from the irksome formality of the adults way of enjoying themselves. Here some eight, bundled nappy youngsters participated in running contests presided over by Rev. Brothers George. HippoHte, Phelan' L ergus, and Clement in lolly scrambles, and the’hundred and one picnic delights of the younger generation. They too were well treated with afternoon tea, and seemed to rrrj having a truly delightful and avell-conducted picnic -I be elders in large numbers, looking on, shared their +io a i!l+f’ and tl, I Bisll0 1 p and visiting‘priests moved among the little ones with a pleasant word and a cheery greeting tor all. It was an excellent idea to ‘ collect ’ the children as tnev entered the grounds and assemble them away from the mam body of the guests None enjoyed the experience as much as the youngsters themselves. About 5 o’clock the assemblage slowly and reluctantly dispersed, a special car

service to all the suburbs being hardly able to cater for the large numbers bound homeward. After the garden party his Lordship the Bishop, the visiting priests, and the local clergy were entertained to tea by the Rev. Mother and Sisters of Mercy. During the afternoon the Bavarian Orchestra and the Newton Concert Band discoursed musical selections under the shade of the trees. His Lordship the Bishop entertained the reception committee, to the number of fifty odd, at dinner at the Bishop’s Palace on Sunday. He thanked them heartily for the great success achieved in all the great functions pertaining to his reception and welcome. Mr. Ralph (chairman) proposed the toast of his Lordship, which was enthusiastically honored.