The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-11
MONslGNOR CAPEL.
His Lecture Last Night A Blow at
Spiritualism.

The audience at the Opera House last
night, which assembled to listen to the
second lecture of Mgr. Capel, was about
the same in point of numbers and charac-
ter as that of Monday night. The rev
erend gentleman appeared more at
home. both with his subject and hearers
than ON his first introduction to Salt
Lakers.
In treating his subject, "Our Rela-
tons with the Other World" he dis
played his learning in the theology of
the Catholic Church to a very
marked extent, and discoursed easily
and naturally upon the various points
he introduced to illustrate his lecture.
Guardian angels, he maintained, were
powers for good in leading mankind
into the presence of God; they were
without bodies, yet perfect spirits, who
watched every step of mortals and
guided them IN the path which led to
the throne of the Almighty. The Mon
sIgnor believed in personal angels as
well as personal devils and the relative
missions of the one to work good and
the other to commit sin. He referred
to death and the conditions OF the
righteous, Indifferent and bad. The
first, who had been friendly with God
and had fought the good fight, entered
into the presence of the Almighty; the
second, who had lived only $3.50 life,
was set aside, i'll purgatory. and suffered
for his faults for a given period; the
third, who had not worshiped God is
cast out from His presence and doomed
forever to perdition. This last doctrine
was thought terrible one. by many, but
it was advocated by thelecturer, be-
cause men were given their choice on
earth between right and wrong, and
when men deliberately do the latter
they suffer the consequences. All who
died in Gods friendship experience the
glory of heaven. The innocent child,
who dies, acts the part of guardian
angel, and prayed for those on earth.
The work of those behind the veil was
referred to as the commIni of saints
The speaker claimed that there was abb
solutely no forgiveness in the next
world all that was done for the saliva
ton of mankind must be done on earth;
past the barrier of death we can do
nothing for ourselves. In closing
this branch of his lecture, Mgr.
Capel paid high tribute to the
triumphant church-the Catholic, and
admonished all to live SO as to maintain
their relationship with the other world
and enter into the presence of God.
The reverend lecturer next branched
offinto aentlemanly, though caustic
attack on spiritualism, which he credited
with having its origin in America. He
said that those who believed in it
thought they were honest. He gave
some of his experience among spiritual
lists IN the Old World, and in a humor-
Gus manner told of the folly and du-
plicity he had witnessed at several
seances. He ridIculed the idea of at
tributing to supernatural causes natu- !
raj facts, simply because they were not |
understood. He referred to mlnd-read- |
ing and other outgrowths of spiritual |
ism and stated that they belonged |
to the science of biology; but
these he would cast aside and |
ask what good spiritualism has done |
since its introduction among mankind. |
The ism which protested to maintain
communication with the other world /
was fraudulent, and robbed God of His |
prerogative to reveal His mind and |
will.
The lecture was listened to atten-
lively, and was a decided masterpiece |
in every particular.