Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-06-28
TIME, ETERNITY
Eloquent Sermon by Father McGill
at the Catholic Church at
the Mission Service.
AN EARNEST EXPLOITATION
Saloons. Gambling Houees. and Worse
IleilS R0undly Condemned --
Study Church Doctrines.

and several Protestant cl"rgymen.
Father Bloom"r gave short insruc-
ton and announced that, beginning To-
day, confessions would br heard between
the . a. m. and $ IL. m. masses, after III"
latter mass, and from 3 to Gp. IN. Hbe
Devotion OF the Rosary was then rrcitrd
and Father l}loomcr then announced
that hereafter there would be short in
the Devotion OF tn" Rosary.
Father McGi!I then preached s"r-
mon ON "Iim" and Etcrnity,' speaking
III substance as follows
Time and eternity arc two of the most
interesting subjects for human r,ntonl-
paton. as they are among the lnpst
powerful springs of influence. Within
their influence are found all ibfIys,
Time is limited: eternity is GRAND and
houndl"ss. We may wonder at the mar
vcls of time: we may lose sight Of ctcrn-
| itv. But time comprchents all thouahtq,
words and actions. We cannot transmit
a simple account Of ourselves without
time. All nature is it's indexes and
monitors. The streams. the winds. lee
ture on time: they are all tongues that
speak. fingers that point.
No subject is of greater Importance
Like everything, it is in the hands of
God. Here He is abbreviatinp lives,
here prolonging them. Yet, there is
nothing we consider so much our OWN.
| But how far is it really ours? Part of it
is past: it ia no more ours than if il
never had been, We have no claim on
it, no power over it, But the future-is it
ours? We promise and transfer it. But
we are dealing with something not our
own. We cans.y that it may be our
but that is all. Who can promise him
| cole ,uh,t ,,,o COIL +on,orro,, or o,,a,, @ho
l-g
iieA' houI.
What Is ours: The present. but one
single moment, Scarcely have you got
! # ur+;l +be fut,ro ,er-ne ;,e ,,l,co E,t
- ~
io" iiiinuloe aso Was tanning VI 'ie
past; the time spent Is as far beyond
our reach as the years before the deluge;
mn nower c.n draw, II h.o,x II il IL.
.,,,
iotlle'ap'y 'os''
Whue l am speaking, observe the
present-seize it, If you Gil arlest is
Aight No il is oone r,,,.r IN ,Atnrn
-.
oo ldp'" 10 IL III 'i'A'lt' 7o "'''''C" Ill eA
| tent, that we should be prompted to USE
| it well. All the wealth in the world
shnuld naver tennt us +, n,iesnena -
Slhs'e uloh'eht' or 'hoeo We 'ce III t'e
present how many do we behold II un-
timely confusion in the past! Recall
3, - <.C,,,, ,,o,,,,,, ,,f .,o,,r ,i,u..,,t How,
u'alJ are h''iB no" many CON you
count In the clty OF the dead! Yet they
all expected to live as Ion, 10 2gu, Bu,
their end of time came suddenly, We
scarcely pick up a neNs that we
do not read Of sudden deat1e-meD
called into eternity without a moments
warning. Who Of ine tiftv seven victims
Of the I}utte explosion tl0ilubt fen min
utcs before the shock that Il. len MINUTES
their souls would be before their God:
Yet how do wo live? Il, # the day
pagsiug over we're our las,. If phouid
20 10 one Of the unfortunate woman Df
t,ur riting and ii. k her If ,},a ryrprIed to
I 20 TO heaven she would look al me IN a,,-
| toDiehmept and rer,v. Yea" nd
whrn asked her how .lr ronld
avoid tho non TO wh,.n her lie
! IA lealiup she would saw thut she
Ieynert ~ reform sin tjtnr| Wto has
! orn,nieed IN give thnm ti,nt Ia rpformy
| t,on,Ianiore in vira ARC I.iIar ,,Il arn,,nd
| fhnrn, and vet thew do moi uer the,r t,,oe
nrnfirablv, ME mon v,hDen ,,vna .rc he-
Inc e,ntGd nv damnnhIa Gr;nIr nromisa
Io rrfntr "in time, Who has nromiefd
thnn the time THEW dr1ndn fnrn,.
enlvre
ray4ro IF the uncer+ainfv of time
lf Won have hecn Ijngorin1 ON tha hrinl.
If IeI # yop have hnrn ,nft;ng off
brwHrn, Cod knows, DO no, waste the
nrr,inue ,;,nn God n,yes yon Il ia tno m
prorious t. he wasted, 3ninvmcnf an,]
wc9lth will not take Won to linaven,
Make uan Of ths limo God has oivnn