Hawera

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 5

Hawera

On Sunday (says the ' Hawera Star,' August 10) the sanctuary of St. Joseph's Church was beautifully adorned with flowers, and at Mass and Vespers the choir, under Mr. Highain, sang the •Te Deum. At Vespers the Very Rev. Father Power preached a brief but eloquent discourse, dealing with the new Sovereign Pontiff. • Judging of things sacred by things secular (said the Very Rev. preacher) the press is at pains to account for the election of an obscure Cardinal. But almost all the Popes were more or less obscure until their elevation to the Pontificate ; and those who now suggest that Pius, at the age of 68, is only a makeshift to meet the exigencies of rival parties must suffer us to remind them that they passed a similar judgment upon Leo, who was chosen for the same supreme office at precisely the same age. But the labors with which Leo crowded his quarter of a century of rule have given the Papacy a power and a splendor which it never enjoyed before ; and the humility, piety, learning, prudence, and love for the poor of Pius X. are just the qualities needed to make manifest and resplendent the power of God in this new century. His grace of state and the prayers of the faithful will make him a providential Pope ; a Pope raised up by God to meet the wants of this feverish age. He is beset by difficulties, and has to face problems as grave as those which confronted his predecessor ; but his courage may not falter, for the promise of his triumph

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