The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-10
A WEEK OF SERMONS For MEN.
The Dominican Fathers Services at
st. Patrick's Church.

The Dominican Fathers Services at
st. Patrick's Church.
st. Patrick's church was allied with men
last night to hear Rev. Father Groggin in
the first of a series of sermons to be
preached this week by the Dominican
Fathers, Rev. Father Groggin and Rev.
Father Slinter. The meetings are espe-
cially for men, and the object is to reach
those who have neglected their spiritual
welfare.
The argument of the sermon was along
general lines Of conduct and in it Father
Groggin took the position that God ere
ated man, and therefore had the right to
command and control him. He dealt at
some length on what God had done for
man, of the trials through which He had
passed to secure his salvation, and of
those things which were expected of men.
1t is an impossibility, he said, for a man
to prosper spiritually without establishing
an earnest cooperation between himself
and the power from which he received help
and blessings. Without this cooperation
God will not save men, he said because
of the fact God does not and was never
known to rescue men who did not find
enough in salvation to ask for it.
that if they did not consider their souls
worth saving, they would have to take the
opposite view before there would be hope
for them.
After prefacing his remarks with num-
Der of timely and well-impressed truths,
Father Groggin proceeded to talk of men
in different classes regarding their views
of religion. The first class, he said, are
satisfied with what they have in the
world and recognize no law superior to
themselves. They stand aloof from every
body and maintain a supreme Indifference
toward both God and man and seem 10
look upon life as though there is no etern-
ity. But the prophet said: THE fool hath
said in his heart, there is no Cod" This
utterance was the outcome of fear, how
ever and was spoken by one in remorse
and who realized The judgment of the
coming day and used this attempted meth
cd of putting the truth aside in a
trivial manner. 1t was conscience which
the utterer endeavored to kill, he said,
and when conscience was gone, the soul
would. then dash upon the temptations of
the devil and be lost the same as a YES
sci on the rocks when the lighthouse no
longer threw its saving rays over the
perilOus way.
There is a similarity, he said, between
physical and spiritual blindness to be
found in the fact that both progress
Slowly. w men lne physical SlgnL OIL man
is gone, he cannot move, and this blind
ness comes by degrees, and not sud
denly. Man is helpless when the sight of
his conscience is out, and when he has not
that delicacy of conscience which enables
him 10 move in the right path and main
tain the proper relations with his Maker.
The second class referred to were those
who have a faith and live up to it. while
the third class are those who do not live
up to their faith. He made an earnest
appeal by emphasizing that the first step
to redemption must be taken by man HIM
self. Gods law is not compulsory, and if
the world sets itself against it's Maker
and will not obey, there was no power
that could move it, 1t was urged that
none should postpone their salvation
with the hope of receiving death-bed for
giveness. While such is possible. vet
THERE is no policy in taking a possibility
in lieu of an absolute certainty. All were
charged in conclusion that that God has
not promised tomorrow He has prom
sed enternity.