The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-07
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

No man is SO insignificant as to BE-
proof that his example can do no hurt
There is no man but knows more evil
of himself than he does of his neighbor
One beautiful soul is the door through
! which one enters to the society of all
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God has nowhere promised or engaged
Himself to give grace to those who
willfully abuse and slight present offers
of it.
Better the positive teaching of de-
nominations containing some positive
truths than the ethical generalities of
diluted Christianity.
One of the reasons the Church has for
moving forward with the world is to
get away from the corpses of hereeies
that stink by the roadside.
Sterne's tailor used to let a hydrant
run all day to be lulled by the sound
of a waterfall, and the reincarnation
of that aesthetic tailor must be writing
our late novels.
1t is not easy to have veneration for
man that makes a fat living out of
his belief, even when the fat living is
within the letter of the law
[ have seen many married men that
reminded me Of poor shivering monkeys
tied to hurdy- gurdys in action: and
just that kind of man is most eloquent
in pleading with bachelors to enter the
Elysium of wedlock.
Boswell asked DIR. Johnson what he
thought of the practice of confession.
why, l don't know but that it is a
good thing" answered Johnson. The
Scripture says. Confess your faults one
to another and the priests confess as
we'll as the laity Then it must be con-
sidered that their absolution is only
upon repentance, and often upon pen
ance also You think your sins may be
forgiven without penance: upon re-
pentance alone"
Mary crowned Queen of Heaven has
attained the summit Of glory and fe-
licity; yet she is still for us a loving
mother. mighty helper. Never does
a single Ave Maria" devoutly uttered,
fail TO reach her ear, to touch her heart.
to awaken her compassion AS often
as we repeat this salutation we think
of her in her majesty, her power, her
loving kindness; and, with ctildlike
trust, commend to her all the cares and
sorrows that Cypress our hearts now
and entreat her aid in the hour of our
death.
Boswell: I asked him whether as
moralist he did not think that the
practice of the law, in some degree hurt
the nice feeling of honesty. Johnson:
Why no, sir, if you act properly. You
are not to deceive your clients with
false representations of your opinion;
you are not to tell lies to Judge"
Boswell: What do you think of sup
porting cause which you know to be
bad?' Johnson: Sir, do you know it
to be good or bad till the judge deter
mines it: !. it is his business to
judge. You are not to be confident in
your own opinion that a cause is bad,
but to say all you can for your client
and then to hear the judges opinion
Since the vast, illimitable extent of
this material universe was discovered
by modern science, it has been analog-
1cally assumed and almost laid down
as proposition that this world, being
inhabited by a race of intelligent be-
ings. many, if not all, other worlds are
however, proceeds from misconcep-
ton of the true constitution of the uni
verse. Creation is divided into two
parts, the spiritual and the material,
the order of spirits and the order of
bodies, and these two parts are totally
independent of each other AS spiritual
and intelligent beings, therefore, do not
require material worlds for their hab-
itation, so material worlds do not re-
quire spiritual and intelligent beings
for their inhabitants The great ma
terial worlds of space reflect in their
bodily constitution the infinite perfec-
tions of the Creator in the same way,
though in an infinitely less degree as
the great spiritual worlds of angels re-
fleet them in their bodiless constitution.
Man, however, the inhabitant of this
earth. is neither spirit nor matter, but
a striking combination of both, a mi
universe in himself, living
here a material life, but advancing ir-
towards the spiritual portion
Of the universe. into which he is finally
and permanentlY absorbed