Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-05
|CONVENTlON MAY Is TIE MISSION ENDS|

THE MISSION ENDS
Close Of Two Weeks Services at
Sacred Heart Church,
TWO ELOQUENT SERMONS YESTERDAY
Series of Religious Meetings Conduct
ed by Dominican Fathers Was Most
Successful-Rev. Father Moraa
Talks.
From Mondays Daily.
The two weeks. mission at the Sa-
cred Heart Catholic church. which
was conducted by the Dominican ia
theers, came to close last evening,
after one of the most successful series
of religious meetings ever held In the
city. Two sermons were delivered
yesterday, the first at the close OF high
mass in the morning, and the second
at the evening devotions. Large con-
| gregations assembled at both services.
| AT the close of the evening service the
papal blessing and benediction was
given by Very Rev. j. P. Moran, who
also delivered the two sermons yes
| terday
Rev. Father Moran's Sermon.
Rev. Father Moran's sermon at the
morning service treated the fall and
the redemption of the human race,
/ from the time of Ewes fall in the gar
i den of Eden down to the birth OF
Christ and the beginning of the Chris
tan era. He spoke in part as follows
There are two great events in the
history of mans intercourse with the
Savior that never fails of interest
4 they are the fall and the redemption
I.of the human race. In the first we
have the temptation of Eva. from
which we derived the sin and sorrow
! which have since been in the world
In the redemption we>have Mary, who
brought into the world the Savior O.
mankind
The all of Eve.
"In the garden of Eden, Eve was
happy but when on that sorrowfu
morning she listened to the voice o
the tempter and fell, she was driver
from the sight of God Thus through
women man was led away from Coz
and through woman God was brough
down to man. In the garden OF Eden
Woman was the equal of man, blu
when Eve sinned God said to her TIL.
husband shall rule over thee, ant
woman became mans slave to be rule'
over by him, and to be bought ant
sold at his will. Truly her sorrow
had multiplied.
The Birth of Christ.
Through long weary years this con
tinued, man sinking deeper and deep
er into sin. But at the darkest hou
4 comes light, the light of christianity
The sex that for centuries had bee,
( degraded and despised had beel
chosen to bring forth a Savior. An
when on that winters morn the shel
; herds told the glad tidings of tn
birth of. Christi woman was elevate
) to a higher plane; and the name c
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