The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-04-25
PROBLEMS OF EXISTENCE.
Rev. Joseph SASHA Lectures i'm ST.
Francis Church.
An Infders Catechism-hn Agnostie's PRAYER.
Christianity Answers Questions That
Puzzle the Atheist.

Rev. Father Joseph SASHA delivered lee
ture in St Francis Church last night for
the benefit Of the Society of st. Vincent de
Paul.
The distinguished orators theme was
THE Problem of Life" and he calculated
it to the satisfaction of his hearers.
ST. Gregory the Great, he declared. had
shown that all the wonders scattered
through the realm CT creation by God's
munifcent hand are focused in man. He
shares sensibiliiy with animals and immor-
tally with God.
This being, so noble. so lofty, so won
derful, as the experience OF sixty centuries
teaches. soon disappears from the theater of
the world to return no more.
''Haye We a destiny beyond the grave"
asked the preacher. "or must we utterly
perish? Is man United TO tile narrow heri-
Zon Of the present life. or has he the shore
less eternity?
Man possess es heart which desires in
finite good. W hat then shall be its end?
'To answer this question Is TO solve the
problems of life.
IVY It'll all the boosted progress Of civiiza-
ton what should we know for certain of
our origin and destiny? What should we
know of them without God and without his
light. which, like a beacon, dspelS the
clouds Of error and deception?
Amid all tile distractions of the world
the great question which must always occu-
py the mind Of man is the great problem of
human life. Whence do | come? Whether
am l going? Why did God Almighty place
NE here? What will do and what Will be
my destiny?
Science, literature politics and CON-
meTce dNinQle into nothing when set side
by side With these momentOus questions.
They are tile questions that interest infidel
and believer. Catholic and Protestant
throughout life. Whittier am l going?
These inquiries must be answered. Po-
straHgrr-lhe inidei. How do they answer
these questions? Some say we care not
what becomes of man in the next life 80
long as be enjoys himself in this. The soul
has an existence commensurate with God
himself and no one can afford to trifie With
theSe questions
Yet what do the infidels say about this
life of ours, this islumus between Two
oceans? The Boston Investigator says:
We expect that in the next world We shall
have more comprehensive view Of the
mysteries of this
In the next world we shall learn all
about this. Alasi that We cannot afford TO
walt until eternity for our knowledge.
An American intidel sweeps out the
whole authority of Christian revelation, the
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path for himself. He says that the human
soul Is an aerOnaut which is maying toward
the sun, the paradise of the just. The souls
of the wicked are forced to remain on this
globe aud are given a second trial in the
bodies # other men. The souls of children
dying al A certain age pass into the bodies
OF other children aud begin new life.
'As for proof of these speculatiOns." said
Father Sasa. You look in vain from cover
10 cover Of the book"
The speaker then dissected the theories
Of James X. Nichols the infide, who wrote
Whence? What? Where?" The theory
of this author lie held was very unsaiis-
factory. and gave cold comfort to poor
human nature. An infdel caIechlsm, he
said, might lie written as follows:
Who made your"
81 don't know?"
did auyuue make yUu2"
81 don't know"
us there anything beside matter 10 you p"
al don't know?"
''How do you pray?"
80. Lord God. if there is God, save my
soul. If | have soul"
The true answers to the great questions
which man is asked are given by the church,
so Father SASHA held This world Is but a
preparation for the next, ana the grave
leads to the heavenly Jerusalem.