Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-20
MANS FINAL DESTINY.
Eloquent and Convincing Address py
the Rev. Father Barry.

Rev. Father Barry of Denver opened
the Catholic mission . yesterday at ,
the Church of the immaculate Con-
ception. The services began at ~ a.
m. sharp and for quite a while the
ushers had their hands full to find &C
c~ommodation for the crowd that lock
ed to hear the eloquent speaker. q
ceremonies were vel carried out ana
the music good.
last night at 7:30 O'Clock, after
Father Mccormick of Alabama a
| recited the rosary, Father Barry -
| livered a lecture on Mans Flnal Des,
tiny His fame as an orator IS wen
| deserved. for he handled his subject
iii a masterful way. Tie not only y
taresfed his hearers, but moved them
deenlv and his words could not but
bring conviction. An hour and TWEEN
T. minutes did he hold his audience
~spellbound. 80
Following are brief extracts from
his lecture. -
..rbere are certain great questions
which in our best moments SOUND
forth from the depth of nature
and demand an answer. What am !.
Whence have | come? Whittier am l
goinge What is before me?
+ exnected of me? What am ! to ex-
neetp What is the way? What the
means TO attain it? These. the
nreacher said, "are the questions
which in a thousand tones sing GU IN
the minds and hearts of men. ana
ONCE they have been heard, they Keep
echo;nc ON through life, haunting Us
with their whisper or their sno"-
whenever a lull in the busy nun,
around MS permits us to listen, an1
> they will not be still until they a's
answered and reason is satlsneu.
I ..Thus il is with U.S." he said. lnus
Q il has been as history SHOWS, wiz
slaIl the generations before us Ihes'
: nnesIions and the attempts TO answc'
them constitute the VI q.
5 The systems of philosophy tina, eve
existed .
pack at the very dawn OF nistoI,
wa hold our Aryan ancestors. pre-en
inenriv the thinkers OF their uas
wrestling with these great propieni
D. of the soul. seeking their solution VII
= an earnestness perhaps never equaile
in later times. Their intellect recos
9 nized that the infinite dispos
le lion of the elements of a poo
! pive TO itself that interior an
SPONTANEOUS movement called III
= which it had. not? Agal
q how could life, reduced to simple y
ternal movement in h plant, give
is itself sensation. which it a no.
x Finally. how could the life Oh sen,
J, have given to itself the life OF ihte,'
= gence. which it had not! Memo =
uuod non habet. -
No. science cannot solve the pro
Is lem Of mans existence. II cannol 2
y. swer the question whence ne cam
y. Much the more difficult ones. why
he he here and whittier is he GONG
answer these questions satisIacsoL;
iii we must know the Fundamental ~
ciple OF mans constitution. Wltnu Z
this principle we have no Key =
~ nature or destiny. y
is spiritual soul and a material Dody, !.
raj bodv IS the organ of the u ana =
sani IS the vital form of the q =
body exists only for h sake Oh :
IN soul. and the soul exists Tor 2 ms
en- nurpose. a nobler object. Man =
he subject made for an object. TINS
&C the fundamental principle OF ms :.
stitution, without knowing the uuy,
err we cannot understand the suuie
What. then, is the object Q WI,
for man exists? The catechism ans"e'
at God. This is the only answer =
- satisfies the intellect and soo'nes
.sinca God exists. man Is HIS e