The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-02-08
DEITY REVEALED.
Father Organs Sermon on Religion
in Light of Science.

Rev. Father William Organ, at st.
I.eo's church, Sunday night, began d
series of sermon lectures on revealed
religion The series Will occupy The
greater part of the next three months.
and will cover the subjects suggested
i'm the questions recently prOpounded
by Father Organ to Dean II. Martyr
Hart and some of which the dean has
not as yet answered. Father organ
VIII not. however, enter into any pub
lie controversy on these subjects. but
will discuss them frankly, as religious
questions in the light of modern sell
cnce. as far as he understands the gen
eral subjects to be treated. He said,
in part;
before with the mighty mysteries of
life. Our fathers were held i'll reg
ion partly by the grace of God and
partly by credulity. They had the old
traditions. hopes and fears, and be-
lieved this world to be the center of
all the universe. Today we know that
our earth is only grain of sand float
ing in the infinitude of space, and we
are only infinitesimal atoms, crawling
for d day.
rs there any intelligent cause, low
ing and Just, that works for truth and
morality. for the good of society and
the things behind it" Can the God.
if there be a God, that created us think
of us one by one? Are we held in any
loving arms of an infinite and Omnfpo-
tent being, or are we the chance crea-
lures of some vague. untntelliglble
causes? Has God spoken across the
abyss? Have we certainty of that
speech? Is there definite revelation?
His word to us, which we call super
natural, because il is beyond the reach
of our nature, is it intelligible to US
without some special illumination OF
him and his methods?
- am the Light of the world he
said. who was, reputed to he the son
of the carpenter. Joseph. and Mary of
Galilee. Was He the Light of the
World? Have we his strong shoulders
to lean upon. or are we hopeless, weak
and blind? We go to a future we know
not of. What will it be? Only six feet
OF ground. and we a little heap of dust,
forgotten? These are the questiots to
be treated in this series of discourses.
81 have. I believe, studied little
more than the ordinary parishioner on
the PHILOSOPHERS and theologies of the
world, and l believe that unless there
is a church organized of Christ, an
Divine spirit, we might be born and die,
live dream hope and suffer and act
our lives as best we can. but unless
that church-nothins.
The entire series of discourses will be
built up around these two principal pos
tulates:
There is a God.
Il can know that there is an intelli-
gent Anause of all creation, cause that
is truth, justice, love, power and
mercy"
"The echoes of these qualities" said
Father ORvan, ARE found in the
hearts and minds of men
st. Dominic,s church was crowded to
the doors Sunday morning to hear Rev.
Father Rooney deliver a mastery adj
dress to mothers. The sermon was
listened to with deep interest, and at
several points Father Rooney present
ed his subject with such feeling that
he was interrupted by the aroused emo
tons of his audience
He spoke especially of the high duty
of mothers to their children, and the
responsibility resting upon them to
give their offspring a right start in the
battle of life. The mother has. more
influence over her child than any other
person. ana IL Sne Is acIudLeu anu III
PEELED by the motives that Influenced
the life of the divine mother of Bethle-
hem she can teach her children to
grow up into useful Christian men and
women. He paid high tribute to the
love and tenderness of mothers, the no.
bility of motherhood rand the fidelity
of mothers to their children, which
leads them to believe in their children
when all other friends fail. The great
duty of all parents is to rear their
children in the true Christian faith.