The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-09-25
Sunday Services.

sunday Services.
Father M. E. Murphy, the catholic chaplain
conducted the services. and delivered an i'm
pressive sermon on the value of the soul. Coo
created man In His own image and likeness; H,
created him for His own service. And to keel
man faithful in this service He has given him
soul-mmortality. How great a thing is the sou
yet how little value we set upon it. We do no
appreciate that we are Gods greatest creation
His masterpiece. God has told us that the sou
is without price. God created nothing more pre-
cous than the soul. If man doubts the word o.
his Creator, to the value of the SOUL let hin
ask Christ his Redeemer. who came to earth
suffered insult and scourging and crucifctior
that souls might be saved. An immortal sou
makes man like God Himself We do not rightly
comprehend what Immortality means, and We
grovel and strive for the pleasures of this shor
life earth forgetful of the eternal life in the
land beyond the grave where our joy sorrow will
depend on the good or bad uses we make of oul
lives here. Men give more attention to the de-
sires of their mortal bodies than they do to thei
immortal souls. st. Ambrose tells of great phi
lOsopher whose house he visited 1t was a SPLEEN
did mansion with gorgeous and magnificent fur
nishings; the floors were of spotless marble and
everything was faultless. But the owner Was
poorly clad and of mean appearance. When St
Ambrose had sufficiently admired the surround
ings he wanted to spit. but seeing no suitable
place anywhere. he spat in the philosophers face
The philosopher was naturally offended and asked
him why he had done SO. st. Ambrose replied
that he had spit where it would do the least harm
And so it is with most men; they spend thei,
time caring for the body and give care to the
off a mm vvhO
dwelling the body is. They strive to keep the
body immaculate but their immortal soul may be
spotted and corrupted and no attention is paid t.
it. I'VE must give more attention to our preciou.
soul and study less how we may preserve oul
bodies for "What availeth it a man if he gain thu
whole world and lose his immortal SOUL"
A Sugar.(Oated Pill.
Editor PRISON MIRROR: l am ashamed
and sorry to be thus behind time with my
subscription. AS a penance and preserv
alive against such sin again I enclose no
two, but three dollars.
The MIRROR has been latterly mucl
freer from something that rather veXed mi
in the earlier numbers. To try to bring
some remedy to this fault. which is, if no
1.-The crying" the whining sin of prison
and indeed too commonly of the unimpris
oned world too. two years ago bought TO
$40 set of Carlyle. expressly to send it t.
the prison. A higher authority-perhap
wisely--Im not so sure-Overruled m,
purpose and the volumes have RENAME,
with me who have had no such urgent u.s.
for them. By the way. they were objected
to as not fit for Saltwater as not bein,
"Catholic"--but lately very distinguishes
priest of London, Eng, in a paper read a
the Catholic Truth Society. gave it GU
boldly that the true Catholic view of tn
great social. aye! and personal. question
and conditions of the day has been mOnOpo
Iized just by Ruskln and Carlyle. CARLYLE
whole soul was the foremost kernal O
Catholicity. What he blaZed at so was Only
decayed blossoms and smut and stubble
But what makes his books such wholesome
reading in prison is his superhuman crush
ing of the self tenderness that is the mair
cause of getting people there. and that they
have such fancy for induIging right along
to the sure hindrance of any chance of re
form. This self tenderness of prisoners wa:
keenly expressed by the master of the St
| Paul Jail about a year ago when he said h,
felt quite uncomfortably ashamed of him.
self, bad man as he felt himself, for havins
| to be and to do with such lot of innOcents
1t asserted itself in a great deal of the writ
| ingS in The MIRROR in the shape of ap
| peas to the world not to be ''hard on us,
and in a more covert way, but very I'M
mistakably in the elaborate discussions anC
suggestions for prison reform, that is. fol
| lightened punishment. The man that is go
ing to be reformed, before God or man. is
but and only, the one that says and feels
I'VE indeed justly suffer for we receive the
due reward of our deeds" Without this
Indignation in ones self, with which goes a