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Revd. François Marcel Richard qui a fait le sermon français, le jour
du Centenaire, dont nous donnons le
RESUME DE SON SERMON
Le Père Richard prit pour texte : ‘“Heureux le peuple dont le Sei- gneur est son Dieu”
Dans son exorde l’éloquent pré- dicateur fit des allusions délicates au comité d'organisation, au digne curé de la paroisse, à Sa Grandeur, Mgr l’évêque, au clergé présent t à l'auditoire, les remerciant au
nom de l’église et de l’A- cadie, pour leur bienveillante sympathie. Il déclara que s’il a
accepté l'invitation d'adresser la parole en cette circonstance ce n’a
été que parcequ'il s’agit d’honorer:
une classe de citoyens générale- ment trop ignorée, laquelle, cepen- dant, est tout à fait digne de res- pect et de reconnaissance.
I1 appliqua aux huit familles qui fondèrent la paroisse de Tignish ces paroles de nos saints livres : ‘Je voué ai choisi et je vous ai placé a- fin que vous alliez et que vous pro- duisiez des fruits et que ces fruits demeurent.’ A l'appui de cet avan- cé, ikmentionna l'érection de la magnifique église, du couvent et des bâtisses curiales qui sont les. fruits de la mission que le Seigneur | avait confiée aux vaillants, coura- geux et religieux colons qui je- tèrent les bases et les assises de cette grande et magnifique pa- roisse.
Le Revd. prédicateur passa en- suite aux divisions de son remar- quable discours qui fut sur la reli- gion.
Il developpa dans son premier point que c’est SAGESSE de s’atta- cher à la religion qui civilise, sou- tient et récompense l'individu, la famille et la société. Il ajouta que les premiers colons qui fondèrent Tignish avaient montré beaucoup de sagesse, car ainsi ils avaient lais- sé une mémoire éternelle à leurs descendants qui jouissent aujourd'- hui des avantages de la religion dans ce beau pays.
Dans son deuxième point, le pré- dicateur expliqua avec éloquence que c’est GRANDEUR que d’être fi- dèle à la religion et de la défendre. 11 démontra la grandeur de l’homme et il ajouta que son titre le plus illustre, le plus noble et le plus honorable est celui de servi- teur de Jésus-Christ. Il parla da pape et de la Ste. Vierge dont il fit un brillant éloge, lesquels se procla- ment :‘‘SERVUS SERVORUM DEI'"— ‘“SERVITEUR DES SERVITEURS DE Dreu’’, et ‘‘ANCILLA DOMINI’”
CL A SERVANTE DU | SEIGNEUR" “
paroisse de T "Pres bent de GRANDS HOMMES dans le vrai sens du mot.
Dans son troisième point, le père Richard démontra que c’est s'assu- rer le bonheur que de vivre selon les
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dictées de la religion et les héros!
dont on célèbre la mémoire au-|!
jourd'hui nous en rendent un té-|!
moignage éclatant.
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Dans sa péroraison, le curé Ri-|
chard fut très touchant et très élo-
quent, et l'auditoire était profon- |
dement ému Lou s'adressant à la patronne de l'Acadie, il lui de-
Résumé ci-dessous.
f . . manda de lui conserver la foi ; d’y
affermir la paix et de mettre en fuite tous ses ennemis. Mais lors- qu’il interpella l’ancien pasteur de Tignish,—le vénérable et regretté évêque Mclntyre—et qu'il le pria de bénir ses enfants Acadiens du haut du ciel, ce fut un élan ora- toire difhcile à surpasser.
Il est admis que ce sermon fut un succès complet. Aussi, l'après l'office, l'évêque, le clergé et les principaux citoyens réunis, félici- tèrent-ils chaleureusement l’élo- quent prédicateur pour cet effort tout à fait remarquable dans l’art oratoire.
Cramps and Lolic
Always relieved promptly by Dr. Fowler’s Ext. of Wild Strawberry.
When you are seized with an attack of Cramps or doubled up with Colic, you want a remedy you are sure will give you
relief and give it quickly, too.
You don't want an untried something ;
{ that May help you. You want Dr. Fowler's Extract of V Wid Strawberry, which every one knows will positively cure Cramps and Colic quickly. Just a dose or two and you have ease.
But now a word of proof to back up these assertions, and we @ have it from Mr. John Hawke, Coldwater, Ont., who writes: “Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberryis a wonderful cure for Diarrhœa, Cramps and pains in the stomach. I was a great sufferer until I gave it a trial, but now] bave perfect comfort.”
FALL GOODS Fall Goods
We have now the most of our fail goods which we sell, as usual, at greatly reduced prices
We are prepared to buy Oats and other farm produce. Prices good.
Our line of fall and winter overcoats and ulsters is complete
Prices just right.
Dress good, Cloth for capss and mantles, Top shirts, Klan- nel, Sweaters, Caps. etc., etc.
Boots and Shoes
Our line of Groceries is woll
| stocked.
The whole stock 18 better and solid at lower price than ever before.
J, F. Chaisson & Co.
J'aime le
PIN ROUGE
du SUD du DR HARVEY
Il m'a sauvé la vie.
25c. LA BOUTEILLE.
CIE DE MEDECINE HARVEY, Mfrs, Montréal,
Jef
Tignish,
Bernard Bros NEW GOODS
NEW GOODS
We have just imported a ge- neral stock of some of the finest goods ever shown in Tignish, consisting of
Boots and Shoes Hats & Caps Ready Made Clothing “for men and boys”
Cotton, Prints, Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, Gotton Warps etc.
Also an extra fine stock of Groceries.
The Best Tea in the County we retai: tor 23 cents cash.
We have a fine stock of Tin Ware and Hraniteware.
The price of the Graniteware is lower than uséual and we jin- tend 10 lead iu this line.
Hardware, Stores, Holloware
a large assortment
Prices always the lowest
We have a large stock of cleth which we wish to exchange for wooi
We sell our goods low at li- ving prices, but wo wish te have it understood that we de- sire the ready pay system. Still we are anxious to see our far- mer sucoeed and will de every effort to keep them. We do not wish to impose on the people. We do not intend to take mer- gages on the farmers, giving only half value, we waut te live and let live.
AL county produce taken in exchange for goods
Fishermen will be benefñted if they giveus their fish—We will do what is just with them.
Our stock most complete Prices low
BERNARD BROS.
P. E. I. JOB PRINTING
Not necessary to pay high prices for Job printing when you can get good work done at this office for less, Any- thing very fine that we can't do we tell you where you can getthe best Bargain.—
LIMPARTIAL OFFICE.
BARGAINS
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BOOTS & SHOES TIGNISH FOR EVER!
Come and leave your order for a pair of good Fishing-boots, Winter boots, Fine shoes.
An opportunity to get just what you want at reasonable price.
Have vou got old Rubber shoes which are out of use ? Bring them over and 1 will make them as good as new.
Have you got any Boots to patch ? Come and see me; 1 wiil mend them to your satis- faction.
ANTOINE & AUDIN.
Tignish Sept. 15th 1898.
Store of J. À. Brennan.
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| Rev. P. Doyle's Sermon
‘Non fecit taliter omni nationi et judicia sus non manifestavit eis." He hath not done so to every nation
manifest to them-Psalm 147 v.9.
In speaking to you to-day,/Dearly
and eircumstances which laid deeply
, and well, one hundred years ago, the
foundations of this parish, and opened the way to the devreiopment of this beloved western land, I am constrain- ed to have recourse to the words of the Hebrew Psalmist ‘in cheering the hearts of hi: sadly afflicted people who still possessel, however, that blessing beyond all others the world can give, the friendship and protec- tion 2f Almighty God. By a special providence he watched over the Isrne- lites and by the most wonderful mira- cles directed them to the impletion of thoir destiny. ‘‘Non fecit taliter omni nationi.” God hath them in his spccial predilection and God with them, who should be against them.
Beautifuily in another language bas the history of the Acadian people been portrayed here to-day. The sad page on whieh it is written reminds us, of the sorrows the Psalmist so patheti- cally records. They were a persecuted, abandoned people in the new world, far from the homes of their fathers and destitute of means or friends. The bardships and difficulties they had to face were enough to dishearten any nation not strong in the faith. Still buoyed up by the strength of their Holy Religion, to which they were never for a moment recreant, and by the exercise of that Fortitude which is a work of God’s special predilection, they withstood war and persecution and the dangers of the sea, and altho; at one time, reduced to the grenatest extremes of poverty and decimation in numbers to a handful, they mexited that vindication of divine Justice, that the day should eome when, a new and vigorous people, they should take possession of their own lands and occupy a proud place in all the walks of life in the land of which they were the first possessors. Verily bave they been vindicated by the Lord whom they served.
‘Non fecit taliter omni nationi.”
. The History of the Acadian people is an example to the world of the va- lue of Religion to the life of man.
Religion is a high sense of moral obii- gation and spirit of reverence or wor- ship which affect the heart of man with respeot to the Deity.
Fortitude is that strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to en- counter danger with coolness and cou rage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring.
But who were those sturdy pioneers who laid so deeply and so well the foundations of Tignish parish ? Their names are familiar to even those who know nothing ef their herole exertions, for they are perpetuated in « long line of virtuous descendants. ;
In the [Cautumn of 1799-just one hundred years ago—quitting their un- seoure homes on Richmond Bay, near Malpeo, Joseph Desroches, Joseph Ri- chard, Jacques Chaisson, Pierre Arse- nault, Pierre Poirier, Basile Poirier, Germain Desroehes and Gregoire Ber- nard together with their families and whatever little wordly goods they could get together, entrusted them- selves to the frail bonts they used in fishing and invoking the blessing of Providence, set out along the North Const, to reach a place where, some of them at least, bad been before hunt- ing and fishing and where they felt sure they would be seoure for many years, fr>m the encroachments of the English, who had once already strip- p:d them of their homes and firesides and menaced them time and again with a repetition of the outrage. These men were all of Acadian descent and refugees from the dersstating torch of Colonel Rollo, who had been com- missioned at the fall of Louiskourg, in 1758, to drive the French from St, John's Island, and raze to the ground their cnmrches, stores and dwellings.
They had returned to the desr scemes of those happy days of Frenoh possession after a time spent in the wilds of New- Brunswick and resolred to quit them no more, {f, the English authorities would receive their allegiance and protect them in their conseience and property. Although they were permit-
lousy and greed of the English colo- nish registered no complaint, still they were treated as strangers and settlers on sufferance and whenever occasion presented were menaced and unjust}y dealt with, if not by the suthorities, at least by those who seemed to enjoy
and his judgments he hath not made
Beloved Brethern, on the personages |
ted to live and labor where the jea-;
&s Rev. Patrick Doyle, D. D.,
Centenary Festival.
ignorant and domineering, as an ex- | cuse for any unjust action : ‘‘Oh he’s only a Frenchman !” And if in late! years how much more so were such | shameful sentiments common a cen-| tury ago. Is it strange then that the! Richard, the Poirier, the Arsenault, the Bernard, place of comparative safety where | they could live secure from the vio-| lence or their inconsiderate conque- | rors and practise the arts of peace which had such a charm for their! quiet natures ? Silently they stole a | way from the scene of their misfor-! tunes, seeking the far away land of security over the waters whose sur-! face up to then had only been disturb- | ed by the Mic-mac’s padde and which ! by them was called Taguineck—From | this Indian word the new country came to be called by the Pioneer Aca- dians Taguniche and later Tig the English speaking settlers. It is not necessary to narrats, even if tradition furnished us with-the jin-
the Chaisson, the DesRoches and
nish by
cidents what took place on that peri- lous voyage made in cauoes or frail boats along the wild north coast and
through the islets of Cascumpec bay, | where the night was passed on the|
island now called Savas Island |
where many Indians were wathered | before going further east to Lennox| Island and Malpec into winter quar ters. They were received by the friend: | ly Mic-macs with every show of plea. sure and provided with the abundant
materials at han:! to refresh tired ua-
ture. Next day another stage was!
made and nightfall saw them gsafely| landed on the wooded shores of the lagoon which seemed to their judg-i
ments to promise an abundance of
fodder for their prospective flocks and | herds. This landing place is known as the ‘‘old burving Ground.” Having | sincérely thanked God for a safe exit |
to their perilous journev, they resolu-| tely set to work to make provision for the rigors of the fast approaching
winter. It was impossible to build houses then, so huts were construct- ed of timber and clay, and in the fol- lowing spring were erected eomforta- ble log homes, which not a few among us still remember. and the cellars of whioh are still visible.
Then commenced the catting down of the forest, the burning of dead- wood, the olearing of enough land to permit of the growth of suficient orops to sustain life with. And, of course the deep sea teemed with fish| and the Pioneers were expert fisher- men. No time was lost—the ring of the axe was almost constantly heard from the moruing when youns Pierre Chaisson felled the first tree, till great gaps were made ïin the and the country began to be made | ready for the plow. |
The toil, self-sacrifice, aud far-see- ing prudence of those pioneers, is the) admiration of everybody who ee mines their work. And the gr were their worthy
forest
helpmates : thei
love and tender solicitude for all ob needs making the rude life bearable in the lonely forest. And God abun-| dantly blessed their labors. A té ( so after, they were. joined by hers Stephen Gaudet, Charles Doucet, Jo-! seph Gaudet and Joseph Doucet cam: in 1805, and the vears after saw a! fresh influx.
In 1801, two years after the first ar- | rivals, their spirit Of piety engaged | them to build a chureh in which to worship God according to their belief.
: | should long for some |
| Father
who preached the English sermon at the
3 æ their protection. Even in our day}lt was of course, only a log chapel, might it be heard, on all sides by the |
but # was large enough and as well fufnished as they could at all afford, being 30 ft.x 25 with a shingied roof and a door and two rude windows, The difliculty they had of getting nails may be easily understood when for many years, the forge at Darnley
owned by George Warren or that of | e ! | John Baker, Bedeque, had to be reach-
ed, before anything in iron could be procured, and should a grist be re- quired from a flour mill a jaunt of 50 miles to Bedeque or Malpec had to be undertaken. And except for the short time the Abbé De Calonne was resi- dent at Malpec, a mariage or christen- ing often necessitated a journey to Rustico where a priest was stationel. When Bishop Denaut, the first Bishop to visit this Island, came here in 180:, and even in 1812, when Bishop Plessis came, the Tigwnish candidates for con- firmation had all to go down to Mal- pee to receive the Sacrâment at their hands.
The Abbé Picard was their first Pas- tor who offered up the Holy Sacrifice in their new chapel. } vas charged with the care of the missions of Rus- tico, Malpec, Tignish and the new mission Of Cascumpec which in 1803 had à population of 65 souls.
Shortly after completing the church in 1801 those self-sacrificing pioneers erected an humble but Re pres- bytery, where the visiting lived. The
: clergyman church and br stood near Tignish Run on the Tho-
| mas Châiseson farm. Now the diffioul-
ties of early settlement begau to disap-
| pear, and the new settlers prospered.
They were joined by many more Aca- dians and in 1812 came the first Irish
| settlers. in 18526 the ol: 4 church be- |coming too small and lequate to the purposes which in ruder times it | had to serve, a new frame building- now the EE Grammar School-was erected. It was 60x15 ft. This was in
. afterwards Bishop McDonald's time. Father McDonald had succeeded the Abbé Beaubien and the Abbé Ce-
cile in the service of the French (Ca tholics of the west. The new churcl was situated a short distance to the
westward of the first and {o it were now made a number of ronds This church and the beautiful site on which it stood, must still be remem- bered by many of you here present to- day. The mention of it conjures up in my mind many fond recollections of my boyhood’s d 1Y5s when I served mass in it for the late Bishop Moln- tyre and in which Î attended cate- chism class and made my first com- munion in 1854, and aromnd which 1 received the rudiments of my educa- tion from the late Mr Bellings and My Gilbert Buote, the present editor of L'IMPARTIAL.
In 1828, the Revorend Sylvain E- phraim Perry was ordained and sent to take charge of the western Aca- dians. Sixteen years after Father Me- Intyre was pla:ed in charge and Father Perry was appointed lastor of Egmont Bay, Fifteen Point and Mis- couche.
Father McIntyre labored with great zeal and success until he was conse- crated Bishop in 1860. The present magnificent church in which we are now assembled was commenced in 1859. The late Bishop McKinnon of Ari- chat laid the corner stone and in 1860, | in tbe month of August only about 15
| months after_—it v as sole mnly conse-
T'crated and « ledic atid to divine wor- | ship by Arc!
bishop Connollv of Hali- fax, nipleteli finished and free from | debt. This is one of the most remark-
able facts in our chuich bilaise his-
| tory —antd a matter to the eternal cre-
dit of Pastor and people. In 1$68 the convent was built and rpened by the
good Sisters of the congreration of Notre Dame and in 1872 the present P: ‘sb; tery was built by the present Pastor, the Revd Dugald McDonald
», with the exception of G years— from 61 to 67—has served the Parish
Of Tignish since 160,