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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 3 July 1902, Page 15

A few Sundays ago the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn, blessed and opened a new church at Galong. Hia Lordship, in the coarse of his sermon on the occasion, said : ' A ohurch has tc-day been blessed and opened without any appeal, direot or indirect, to the people for whose benefit it has been ereoted. To-day we take over, in the name of the Church, a beautiful site of two and a half acres of land with a churoh built thereon, a joint gift, without any lien or enoumbrance whatsoever, to religion and to the Catholic people of this neighborhood, from Mr Edmond Ryan and his sister, Miss Anastatia Ryan, present occupants of the name and house of Galong. And this churoh, which has juat been blessed and on whose altar the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass has just been offered for the first time, is Buoh a thing of beauty ! In architectural design, in solidity of material and perfection of workmanship, in elegance within and without, in Bupply of sacred furniture, it has, for its dimensions and as a church for public worship, hardly anytbing equal to it— certainly nothing superior— in the diooese of Goulburn, perhaps in the whole State of New South Wales. Every requirement, so far as immediate wants are concerned, has been anticipated. Nothing is wanting. It is complete in every detailsanctuary, sacristy, altar, etained-glasß windows, Stations of the Cross, vestments of all colors required by the Rubric, Benediction service ; the provision made for lighting and ventilation ; those splendid statues of the Sacred Heart and of Our Blessed Lady } those handsome and comfortable pews, the confessional, the sanotuary lamp — all are supplied, solid and precious, as to material, exquisite in finish. Rich yet chaste, ornate without being gaudy, a refined and delicate taste guided both artist and workman in conceiving the plan and in executing every minutest detail in stainedglass windows, in altar, in each separate article of adornment or of uee. And as no cost waß spared to realise the ideal of the generous donors, so the expenses will reach, we have been told, when everything has been taken in, a grand total of not much less than £2000. This splendid donation is in keeping with the noblest examples of generosity and faith bequeathed to us by the pioneer days and, thank God, we have very noble examples, even in this diocese, of generosity and faith, and a regard for man's supreme interest, his spiritual and immortal destiny— handed down to us from the fine Catholic men and women of the pioneer days.'