Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-03
ATTHE CATHEDRAL.
Palm SundSy-The Bishops Fifth Len
ten Lecture.

At the 10 4. " services ut the Cathedral,
the Palm was blessed by Bishop kain, and
then distributed. the Bishop pretaCing the
ceremony by a few remarks on the entrance
of the Savior into Jerusalem five days be-
fore His passion, and the moral lessons
which should be drawn from that solemn
event.
At the vcsper services the Bishop con-
Guided his Lenten discourses. The passage
from Holy Writ selected by him for his
text was the parable of the supper, as
mentioned in At Luke, xiv. chap
ter. Referring to his previous
lectures. he reminded his hearers how
many are hindered from embracing the
doctrines of the Catholic church by attach
ment to the dieting pleasures and shallow
frivOlities of the world and an unwilling
ness TO practice the severe preeeptS OF the
Gospel ~ inculCated Ivy the church. These
and worldly minded Catholics will not
heed the Divine Savlor'S warning that the
path to heaven is straight and the gate
leading TO eternal life is narrow, whereas
wide is the gate and broad the way that
leadeth to destruction and many there are
who 20 in thereat. We may not be sur
prised that those who love the world and its
yanities, turn with loathing from church,
which breaches modification, humility,
purity; for no man can serve two masters,
whose interests are Numerically opposed
Here is one great cause why men do not
become Catholics; they will not accept
salvation on 50 severe terms.
But the human reason - well rs the
human will revoltS against restraint and
sets authority at defiance Christ declares
faith necessary to salvation. HE that
helieyeth not shall he condemned but
faith means believing firmly all the
doctrines revealed by God and taught by
His church. As sensuality encourage, re-
bellion against the morality of the
gospel, so does pride foster revolt against
its doctrines Men want to do rs they
please and to thnk rs they please. Having
exposed the danger to salvation arising
from these two causes, | trust. continued
the Bishop, that God will hold me blame.
less for the loss of any whom the spirit OF
the world or the spirit Of here,y may lead
TO ruin. Allowing that many hesd not the
gracious calls of our Divine Lord tO the
banquet which lie has prepared in
His Holy Church, yet are our
hearts consolcd, added the Bishop
BY the large numbers who, every year,
and despite the gravest obstacles, find their
way into the pale of the Holy Catholic
church. Many uf the brightest ornaments
OF the clergy, both in the United States and
in England are converts from the ministry
of various Protestant denominations One
only motive can prompt men TO abandon
all that is most dear to them on earth and
bring them into church prosecuted,
deSpScd, illuminated, as was her Divine
Founder, the crucilied Galilean. The
Bishop then drew picture of the struggle
of a soul. battling against prejudice, and led
on step by step from the most intense hatred
to the most tender and childlike love for
the old Church vi Rome. Such, he said,
was the history OF many 4 soul that now
basks in the sunlight OF Catholic faith and
rejoCeS in the sweet peace OF shield of
God and His church
The Bishop concluded by an earnest eX-
hortation To all Catholics Ia make their
lives always accord with the teachings of
their holy faith and thus secure for them
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