The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-06

Large Congregation.
Archbishop Ireland preached at the
Cathedral yesterday forenoon to large
congregation. He said:
The church, in the festivals celebrated
during the past week desires to put be-
fore us in a foreible manner the thought
of the next life, and, consequently, the
life. On the first of November she COM
memorates the saints in heaven, in order
that, recalling to our memory those VINO
have gone to their reward, we may under
stand that our destiny is also with them
in heaven. On the I'd of November she
bids us remember the souls of the faith
full departed, yet In purgatory, reminding
us of this other truth that in order to
reach heaven we must appear before Cod
cleansed Of all SIM Purgatory Is where.
souls leaving this world guilty OF lesser
faults, or not having finally fulfilled tho
penance remaining for faults for
given are detained for time until they
are completely purified from all guilt.
implicitly by setting before us the souls
in purgatory detained there because Of
lesser sins, the church bids US remember
that there is a place of punishment to
which are doomed souls leaving this world
guilty Of grievous sins. y
HEAVEN. PURGATORY. HE'LL.
Such the world awaiting us on our de-
parture from earth-heaven, purgatory,
hell: This the great doctrine, brethren,
of Christianity; this the great teaching Of
Christ and Of His Church. The thought of,
this teaching gives US the correct view
which we are. to take of this iffe, and of
walking upon the earth, intelligent be-
ings. capable of knowing things, of trac-
ing things back to their cause, of follow
ing them out to their final ends; we are
busted with a hundred studies of things
around us, things beneath US and things
above US; We are busted day after day
and hour after hour in a thousand oc-
equations. What is for us the great
study? 1t Is the study of our own selves.
And when we turn our attention to our
own selves IS it the great study what We
are TO eat and how we are to be clOthed?2
Is 1T the great study what we do today
or what We shall do tomorrow? Why,
such things are only the smallest details,
which are of value so far as they fit into
the great purpose of our whole life. A
ship at sea is busted little with the wave
which strikes 1t now, or that which will
ton is whittier is 1t bound? Brethren,
reason tells us that the knowledge we need
above all other is that of the final purpose
Of life; that the great study which de-
mands our attention is ,.,zay,ss.
WHITTIER ARE WE GOING,
and what road are we taking to go
thither?
The whole aspect of life on earth
changes according. to the purpose which
we assign to it. If we are here for fifty,
sixty or eighty years, as it were for a.
few moments, and all afterwards is TO
come to an end, why let us be consistent,
and as the thOughtless unbelieVerS men,
toned in Scripture, let us eat, drink for
tomorrow we shall die. If there is naught
but earth to satisfy the intense. craving
of the soul, let us reach out and grasp Of
it all we can. The wise man then would
be he who has no thought but that of OBJ
tanning the earth, so much Of it as he can.
1t matters little what the means maybe.
so that success crowns the effort. But if
this life is a preparation for something
else. far nobler and greater, far MORE
important, then let us measure well every
step in this life, so that every step may
lead to the next. And if we care not for
then we are the veriest fools, then at
every step we are the destroyers of our
own happiness, and, as far as we can, Of
tians, disciples of Christ. disciples of
Christ's church, and the solemn teaching