St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
In the Afternoon He Inspired
Enthusiasm at a Temper
anee Meeting.
1aboring Men Organizing for
Work in the Coming City
Campaign.
Summary Of the Doings OF
One Day Gathered From
All Sources.
THE SOUL SHOULD RULE.
Bishop Ireland breaches Against


yesterday at the cathedral. He took his
text from the epiStle of the second Sun
day of Lent: For God hath not called
lis To uucleanneSS. but to holiness"
The bishop said: IF there is i'll holy
scripture one vice StigmatiZed more
than another by the divine voice, nd
threatened with fearful penalties in
time and entcrnity, ii is that of uncIean
ness. God has set His face against it.
Blessed before Him are the pure for
they shall see God. He Himself pos
seSsed purity infinite in its brightness,
purity i'll all its PROJECTIONS, and only
they Who have His purity can see Him,
can be admitted into His holy presence.
There i between God and impurity
moral tuuitude. an impossible
chasm. UncleanneSS is the COM
plete denial, in act, of our
own spiritual nature, of our own dig
nifty and condition as rational creatures.
Mans body alone is made of earth; the
soul is the immediate breathing of the
infinite: the soul was modelled by the
Creator to His own image and likeness.
The body. earthly iii its nature, reSem-
bleS things of earth. The soul was
given to the body to command, control
and subject it to the dictates of reason,
and herein lies the marked difference
between man and the animal. The
latter has no perception of moral right
or wrong. 1t is guided by sense. nor
can it refrain from ought that sense i'll
clineS it. Material passion is the rule
of animal life. The peculiar feature in
man is that the soul points out things
morally right or wrong. Though gifted
with free will he is able to refrain from
things acceptable to the sense but OPP
posed TO Gods law. And this is mans
great grandeur. that the soul
WILL HOLD IN CHECK
the body despite manifold temptations.
The soul remains mistress in this union
between itself and the body, thus show
Ing itself far above all things of earth.
This victorious battling between the
soul and the body is spectacle worthy
of the infinite eye of God, and the court
of heaven views it with ecStacy.
Now when man gives himself up to
unclean passions he subjects the soul to
the bOdy-he makes il captive to vile
passions. He blOtS out his true moral
grandeur. He effaceS from his soul the
image and likeness of God, and makes
himSelf the animal. Passion leads him
TO all that is shameful, to all that lowers
him. and makes him vile and cOntempti-
ble. He who is the slave to unclean
passion is the animal. Wherein is he
superior? Is he not led, like the ami
mai, by mere sensual appetite. Where
i'll in him is his soul? The animal, at
least. is not responsible. 1t ObeyS its
nature: il has no immortal soul. Man
has this guilt. that he was in possession
of soul and a spiritual ma
orNfI
Hence the VileneSS of uncleanneSS;
hence Gods special hatred for it. 1t is
marked insult to God in this sense.
that it blots out from the soul Gods Sa-
cred image. Il have made thee to my
image and likeness" The impure man
says: What care | for Gods image
and likeness? | seek the life of the
animal 10 Satiate my vile appetite
But Gods punishment is upon it.
Gods penalty upon this vice is quick
and fearful. The very body itself
which was made to minister to passion
is marked out even as Cain of old. The
longer gives it brilliancy and Spiritu-
ality. Look into the cOuntenance of
the one given to uncleanneSS and you
will see the animal peering out through
his eyes. Gods penalty strikes it, and
misery and disease follow. Gods curse
for this horrible vice lodges in that
body. and the passion grows stronger,
taking upon itself fresh VilepeSS and
ferOcity according as it is INDUCED, and
ii leads from one misery to another. 1t
strives to hide itself, but God will not
allow it. 1t comes out, out
FROM IT'S FOUL DENS
and dismal hiding places to show itself
before its fellow in open day. This
vice is dreadful pestilence, tor it in
wolves the soul in all possible yileness.
The spirit spoken OF in the Bible is
the spirit of uncleanneSS. IT'S dread
full vice. not merely running the Gull
prit'S soul and body, but scattering dis
ease through the whole surroundings.
What misery for the family, made to be
the picture of the holy family of Naz-
ereth? But so soon as the demon of
impurity crosses the threshold there is
woe and destruction, shame and dis
treSS. This vice ruins the whole social
body. The social woes that are break
ing out from time TO time as moral eX-
halatiOns result to a great extent
from this spirit of uncleannesS,
alas, 50 prevalent to-day. 1t is dread
full demon going about providing for
victims and innocence is no longer Sc
cure, nor does the damnatiOn of souls
cause it to pause: it matters not how
many souls are damned if passion is but
ministered to. The cold. callOus demon
never heSitates. There is no being so
vile. dangerous or ferocionS; none more
dreaded by his fellow creature or hated
10y Almighty God than the vile, deSpi-
cable victim of uncleanneSS. Unclean-
ness has peculiar opposition to ChriSt'S
religion. 10 the Christian and the Cath
Ollie. Christ at once made war upon it
and condemned not only overt acts, but
he entered into the very souls of men
and declared that willful thoughts and
desires made men guilty before the
OmnipOtent, and, as solemn and most
emphatic protest against the vice,
he appealed to the more heroic
souls of his followers that
they would so lift themselves up
from earthly appetiteS that they might
refrain even from legitimate unions.
And this, 50 startling to the Jewish and
Pagan world. was most striking proof
of ChriStS consciousness of his divine
mission. 1t will be remarked that not
one of the other religions dare to keep
up the high standard of the Catholic
church, and each
YIELDED UP SOMETHING
TO the carnal passions of the human race.
The Catholic church has through ages
and in the midst of corruption pro-
claimed the law of purity. She has al
ways held out and obtained tens of
thousands to follow her counsels. and
she, as no other religious organization,
threw her sheltering arms around the
family, around the holy sacrament of
matrimony. She hurled her most
dreaded anathemaS against unclean-
ness.
1t is deplorable, indeed, and a sad
commentary OH the boosted civilization
OF the age. that the moral atmosphere
of to-day should be so corrupt. 'Tis the
penalty of the world having strayed
away from Gods church. The world of
to-day cannot be pure without Gods