St. Paul daily globe., 1889-03-11

ciated and Father CaiIlet preached the
sermon. Weber'S mass in q was sung
by the choir, and Miss Elsie Shave
sang an 30 SalutariS," by Mrs. Nc
Lachlan, at the offert0ry. Weber's
mass in G is one of his most brilliant
compositions-very florid in style and
contains many wonderfully beautiful
passages. The "Agnes Dea" and "Dona
Nobis" are especially fine, and were
magnifcently sung. The '.Gloria in
EXcelsis" was omitted, according to the
rule during Lent.
Father Caillet preached short but
very Impressive sermon on Hardness
of Heart" He commenced by showing
that what is commonly called hard
heartedneSS is not the religious hard
ness of heart. For instance, he said
that man may be tender hearted in his
attention to the poor; he may be the
first to run for a priest if friend be on
his death-bed; he may be to all appear
ances good man, attentive to his du-
ties, a regular receiver of the blessed
sacrament, and yet be hard hearted.
He may give literally to the church and
yet his heart may not be soft. When
the Holy Spirit of God knocks at the
door of mans heart and asks him to
come in child-like meekness to the feet
OF his Lord Jesus, that is the time when
a man shows his heart to be hard
or soft. If he accepts with humility
the every dictate of God his heart
is soft, but if he goes on callous
and careless he is in precarious
condition. People are often surprised
at Gods long suffering. Trey cannot
make out why He, Who is Almighty, per-
mits the wicked to live. ''Be not de-
ceived, God is not mOcked." He has all
eternity both before and behind Him.
Time is only as a few minutes in His
sight, and if He allows the wicked to
have full scope for few short years
here on earth, we must remember that
He has all eternity before Him in which
to punish them for their wickedness.
God has placed before us means of
grace, and if we do not make full use of
them we are doing wrong. 1t is not
enough to say, II will GO to see this per-
formance at the theater, because thea
ter-gOing is not Wrong"; 1t is not
enough to avoid those things which
are really wrong; it is not enough
to do this or that because it is not
wrong. The good man will do that
which is good, will oppose that which is
wrong, will take an affirmative instead
of negative stand, and will let the
world see that he is doing right. 1t is
impossible to deceive God. He knows
the inmost hearts of all His.people, and
can see whether their motives are right
iii whatever they do or leave undOne.
Every one should be very careful of
his actions, as sit is a terrible thing
to fall into the hands of an irritated
God" When God speaks to a mans
heart, asking him to come to Him, it is
terrible thing to turn deaf ear and
harden OLe'S heart. The call may never
come again, and no one can tell whether
a refusal to listen to the voice of God
may not be the prelude to eternal ruin.
God has commanded them that would
serve Him to fast. to pray, and to hum
ble themselves before Him. This sea-
son of Lent is time for fasting and
prayer. and should be observed by all
i'll accordance with Gods commands.
Before his sermon Father Caillet an
nounced that mass would be celebrated
every morning at Z and s O'Clock; that
yespers, Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament and sermon would take
place every Sunday, Wednesday and
Friday evening. Instructions to chill
dren preparing for their first conl-
munion will take place after the s
O'Clock mass every morning, and con-
fessions will be heard before both the
masses every morning. He also an
nOunced that the collection taken up
yesterday would be devoted to the mis-
sion fund of the church. Half of it
would be sent to Rome. to be devoted
with that of all other churches in the
world to the general foreign missions,
while the other half would be retained
and devoted to home missions. The
Indians and negroes, he said, were in
outer darkness still, and 1.-THE missions
among them were being prosecuted as
urgently as possible. They were poor
and could not build their own churches
and support their own pastors, but we
who were rich, comparatively speaking,
are expected to devote some of our
means to the conversion of these hea-
thens.
st. Mary's church was crowded to its
fullest capacity yesterday, and appar-
emily this is the usual case, as COM
plants have been made that residents
of other parishes are in the habit of
going there. thus crowding the regular
parishioners. The church is not large
and there is almost always great
crush. The reason for this is that the
choir is the best and the organ is the
best in the city. The pastor is one of
| the most universally respected, and
while his sermons have not the ora
torical eloQuence of Archbishop Ire
lands, they are always practical and
plain talks, from which deep lessons are
to be learned. A glance over the con-
gregation showed why the church is so
| rich in its appointments, among them
being twenty or thirty of the wealthieSt
business men in st. Paul. The line of
carriages outside the door also pro-
claimed the fact that this is an aristo-
cratic parish. Bankers. railroad presi-
dents and the largest wholesale mer-
chants in the city compose the con-
gregation of st. Mary's. These, with
their families, occupy almost every
pew, and make the appearance of the
church not nearly so cosmopolitan as
that of the cathedral.