The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-23
CROWDS HEAR FATHER YOUMAN
PAULIST PRIEST breaches AN
ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
'Sin" Was His Theme and He Held
the Close Attention of the Large
Audience.

| st. Mary's cathedral should be three
times its size in order to accommodate
| the vast crowds thronging there to lis
ten to the eloquent Paulist, Father
Youman, who is conducting the mis-
sion. The attractive personality of the
man, combined with his more than or
binary eloquence. has awakened the
interest of church-goers of all denom-
nations and his work in this city bids
fair to give a stimulus to religious life
and thought, which it has not received
for years.
The reverend father is evidently not
at all in sympathy with higher criti-
cism" and other liberal tendencies of
the age. His talk was an earnest, elo-
quent dissertation, and as his voice rang
out in all its impaSSioned earnestneSs,
few of his hearers were there but felt
inspired by his words to live more in
accordance with the teachings of the
master.
His subject last evening was "Sin,"
taking as his text: In that day where
in thou shalt eat of the forbidden fruit
thou shalt die" He said in part:
Let us ask of God to give us a
hatred of sin, for we live in sin. we
embrace sin, we think sin, all of our
nature endures sin and we cannot hate
Sin is q thought, word or deed
against the law of God. 1t is an act Of
disobedience where the sinner says to
God, L viii not serve The sinner says
to God, away with you. i have no use
for you; have my passions
Man, nothing but dust and ashes. a
worm of the earth. dares to rebel
against the master of the universe and
cry out. i, but a creature, dare tell
thee oh GOdi 7 hate thee
BY committing a mortal sin the
creature loses his God. loses his friend
ship, loses his fatherhood, becomes a
child of Satan. Wherever you go let
your hand be on your heart and say
What should 1 fear, God is with me-
by committing sin 1 lose all merit,
all my life's labor for heaven is lost by
that one cursed deed.
When l have sinned there is no
peace; there is tribulation, the eye is
darkened, the soul is oppressed, all is
misery and fear. | have seen men tear
their bodies open, plunge knives into
them to overcome the misery of sin.
There is no man so sinful, so cor
rupt, but that there is good in him,
hence God sometimes rewards the sin
ner with worldly goods and happiness:
but when misfortune comes, then it is
the voice of God calling to repentance
GO close to God; go repenting and
he Will never turn you away, but will
give you his peace. Each time | sin.
sustain a double loss-the power of re-
sisting and the temptation strengthens
and the sinner becomes a slave
Now is the time to break the chain
of this slavery. Go TO Jesus and one
drop of his blood will free you forever
The sinner does not see any of the
beauties of God, of truth, of virtue: he
can only see. everywhere, corruption,
rottenness, filth, impurity. He cannot
hear the pleadings of the Savior call
ing to him to return to repentance, he
only hears the evil of the world; he
loses all feeling, feels naught of the
misery his acts cause others: because
sin has rOtted his soul and destroyed
all that is noble, pure and holy. Even
as leper will corrupt all with whom
he comes in contact, so the moral
leper, the sinner, will ruin body and
soul. all with whom he associates.
IF there be any here marked by the
leprosy of sin, let him go to Jesus and
wash in his precious blood
Parents guard your children, do not
give them TO the moral leper: if you
do they will return to you stained and
fallen.
May God grant that at the close of
this mission there will not be one soul
left stained with the cursed leprosy of
sin, but all may be free, free forever in
Christ Jesus"