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Mother of GodAuthor(s): Jessica PowersSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 78, No. 920 (Feb., 1950), p. 74Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20516121 .

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IRISH MONTHLY

as one of America's greatest national heroes of all time. By order

of the Government, all work was stopped and all schools closed.

The ships in the harbour fired their salute; the mills and factories

sounded their whistles at full blast; the church bells all over the city

rang in harmony with the bells of his beloved Cathedral. Hundreds

of priests and Bishops were there to welcome him home, as were

scores of Protestant ministers. The President, national, State, and

local governments were represented by many of their leading states

men. But it was the common people who warmed the Cardinal's

heart with their tumultuous cheers, as they lined the streets between

the station and the Cathedral by the hundreds of thousands. Every

person there, regardless of creed, colour, or nationality, wore a stick

pin flag fixed to a "

Cardinal "

button; their tribute to a great church man and a great American.

The Knights of Labour held a national mass meeting in gratitude to the courageous, frail little Cardinal. Proudly declared Grand

Master Workman Powderly: "

This Prince of the Church fulfilled his

covenant with us. . . ." America's first Cardinal had tailored the

policy for the rest. He had seen to it that the Church endorsed and

supported organized labour.

(To be continued)

MOTHER OF GOD

Only the Word Who dwells in timelessness

Could choose His Mother,

Seeking her face, touching her gown as the aeons lumbered by. He pondered no alternative; how could He choose another

Who, when He scanned a race unborn, saw one so far, so high ?

This is the reason my soul exults in the prophecy of Carmel,

Ages before her a little cloud walked out of the bitter blue. God did not keep His secret, it said, He spoke to the rapt Elias.

Yea, and He speaks as secret-sharers do

To all who cry aloud in outer morn

At that first sight of her, new Edea bom. I am the Wor4 of God, He says, I always knew.

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