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suggested by the occasion, that from the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of this one city, so many ecclesiastics and religious could 

 be assembled, and without withdrawing from a single con- 

 gregation the opportunities of divine service in their own church. 

 Surely such an abundance of labourers promises well for the 

 gathering in of the harvest in this great diocese! God grant 

 it! — say we. 



"The ceremony then proceeded, as described with consider- 

 able minuteness in this paper last week, until the end of the 

 Gospel, where the Preacher of the Consecration Sermon, the 

 Very Rev. John Power, D. D., having given the usual saluta- 

 tion to the Consecrator, ascended the pulpit and commenced 

 his discourse. 



"At Vespers in the evening, the church was almost as 

 densely crowded as in the morning. The discourse was 

 delivered by the Rev. Dr. Pise. Five of the Bishops and most 

 of the clergy were present; and as they sat in the Sanctuary, the 

 Pontificals of the Bishops and the Vestments of the Priests 

 shining in the lights which burned around, the observer recalled 

 involuntarily what the historians of the time tell of the magnifi- 

 cance of the famous "Field of the Cloth of Gold." The Vespers 

 were over at about half past nine, P. M. 



"Thus passed and terminated a day, which, in no spirit of 

 vain words we say, will be not only long memorable in this 

 diocese, but will be remarkable in the annals of Catholicism in 

 the United States; remarkable that it witnessed a ceremony 

 without parallel for splendour and importance in this country, 

 the Consecration of three Bishops, two of them for new Sees ; 

 remarkable, that it assembled more of the worth and dignity 

 of our American Church than has ever before been brought 

 together, except at the grand Councils of thee ntire Province, 

 six Bishops and nearly fifty Priests; remarkable, also, in a 

 higher sense, that it was a day significant of past progress and 

 future promise, speaking to the Catholic heart with silent but 

 thrilling eloquence of great triumphs achieved, and of those still 

 greater, God willing, yet to be accomplished: and recalling to 



