The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-04

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Dsatnry on the utility. o. rather, III
iunlily Of monuments raised 10 H.
great Bat there y elAsa o
monuments which do rot fall o
their purpose, and this chapel be
long5 TO this class Besides being : nlSnu
meut, IL i also 4 church where prayer ans
sacrifice will b. offered up i9r the souls o
Bishup Nhelan and Of the other deA
ones whose remains Tie barred In ;his epnl
stery. Ourholy faith teaches that beside
heaven where the Just are. and bell IL,
abode Of the fepgubSir, there is midll,
state ia the other Norli which Is designat
ed by the name Of PurgLioTy, PurgA;oTy
means a place Of puhheaiiOu. To this
place such souls are Condemned aileI
death IS either are not ea,irrly free from
vealSl sins, or have not fully undergone
the temporal punishment which remains
TO Be endured after the guilt and the eler.
nal Punishment Of the grieyous siGs have
been RENTED.
Like all the other dcgmas Of faith, the
existence Of purgatory isppVed by sacred
Scripture; by the authority OF the Holy
Fathers, and even by thai much.yauutt,i
authority Of the age which Is generally
deemed opposed to what Is taught by
faith = human reason Yes, my dear
friends, IL stands to reason that, since
nothing dehled can enter heaven, because
the eysS Of God are 70 pure that He can.
not look upon iniquity nor suffer Il in
His presence luAb. l-l3l, and out OF hell
there Is no redemption, tho divine justice
must, nevertheless, discriminate bet
WeeE the man guilty OF only an idle
word, or the child that has uttered an un.
truth, and those adulterers, ioruica.ors,
murderers and blIsphemers, whose enor.
taous inl9ulty dAmns them justly TO the
flames Of hell. II stands to reason that IL
our human tribunals mete out punishment,
In proportion 10 the gravity Of the crime
committed, the justice OF God should be
al least ~ fair IS that OF men. Reason is
always strikingly in accord with the teach,
ings Of faith.
Did all souls 90 directly either to heaven
or 70 he'll, then 1t would he useless to pray
Tor them. The blessed in heaven do not
need our prayers; the repTobate in he!
cannot profit BY them. They, therefore,
who deny the existence Of purgatory arc
consistent in refusing to pray for the dead,
though 1t Is \ sad consistency for the hu.
man heart, But the same faith which
calls upon US TO believe in purga,ory also
teaches US that the souls who are theruI
detained arc suCcored by our prayers and
Eo9d works, and especially by the holy
sacrifice OF the mass. AS am not preach.
ing doCtrinal sermon, must not bO OK.
pected to prove by argument the correct.
ness OF the practice Of praying for the
dead, which Is Q oorOllary OF the belief in
Moreover, it would take a
longer time than It would be right for mo
10 uespass upon your attention; vet |
must make you observe that prayer
for the dead is the only solace the human
heart can find in its griei over It's
loss. God has given US sen.
tent heart. The noblsst, the most
enduring, the most precious faculty OF this
heart Is It's power OF loving. So univers.
ally is this understood, that to say heart
is 70 say .lovo, The highest exercise OF
this faculty Is, OF course, the love OF the
heart for its own Creator. But there are
also creatures, similar to itself, whom il is
the duty OF the heart to love, though the
fulfilling OF that duty at the same time
constitutes the hearts most exquisite de. |
light There y o series Of different rela.
tons in which human beings stand to one
another in this world, each one OF which
claims from the heart measure Of its
love, and tho heart, being under neces.
sity Of loving, accords that measure ioy-
fully. Thus the heart OF the parent be.
slows its love on the child, the heart Of
the child in turn bestows It's love on
father and mother. The heart Of tho nus.
band bestows Its peCuliR, love on the
wife; the heaFt Of the wife returns
it In kind. The friend loves
his friend, and. is loved nv |
him in return. confess myself unable to |
give an accurate analysis Of the process
which COOS on In the human heart when |
us faculty OF loving is in action. The |
bosom OF man, like the bosom OF the
earth, hides mysteries, the evidences of |
which 1t is easy enough to perceive, hut
tho nature Of which Il is not equally as
easy to explain or describe. should saw |
that the heart in loving, as it were, winds |
fbres Of It's own substance about the Oh, |
leCt OF Its tenderness, enlaCing and Oniold. |
Ing It, so as to make it, es nearly as it Oan |
be done, one With itseli. The more ten. |
der the sentiment, the denser and strong.
Or Is this network OF the hearts weaving, |
AS the plant drawsits sustenance from liz
earth around which it has woven It's root
lets, so the heart Coems TO draw It's life |
pnergy from the dear object around
which it has thrown the tilaments Of i,s
feeling.
Time and some other Causes can cradu. |
ally and gently relax the meshes by which
il holds the object fits love but |
aud relentless death tears them abruptlv
and violently asunder. Then, what re.
mains here for the poor heart, but 10 |
bleed? Then, what becomes OF its rag. |
ged tbres? They can only culver with mn
exquisite agony which knows no mar.
AIlel. Where then is solace to be found
BY that torn hearth Who has skill In the
Kind OF surgery that such q wound 70.
luires2 Man docs not possess it. Cold
language cannot reach the seat OF pain,
when the heart, like the bride in the Can.
icle, mourns "They have taken away nv
owe" The heart still yearns 10 love the
lear ore, but death has carried his shirt
beyond the grave What must it do9
Here faith answers in its soft, tender tones
pray for him. That word, like a SMELL |
'oothes the suffering heart.
Oh what heaven.born doctrine which
BY one act relieves the pang Of Inc
bosom, and brings solace TO the
Imprisoned spiritdfthe lost one whose de-. |
larture has caused the pGHg! 'To know
hat our love is not altogether oxtlnvnish. |
ID in the darkness OF the grave; to know
;hatwe can still extOnd helping hand tn |
hose for whom We would have sacrificed |
oHr lives, Is conviction which soothes !
n the agony caused by the loss we sustain |
BY their departure. and dries up at least n
portion OF the, otherwise unavailing tears |
Shlch friendship sheds. over their moul. |
lering remains '-(Smarius.)
In sight Of their graves, the heart prays
Il VnuNlV Hphnn u