Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-09
THE PAULISTS.

the past week at the Catholic Church
by the Paulist Fathers Wyman and
Handley were even more interesting
than those of the previous week
Father Handley, in his sermon Sun
day night on What to Believe,
brought out clearly the desire in man
to know why he was placed here, and
the natural hunger for knowledge
and in result of having been endowed
by God with such nature man has
right to demand plain light as to the
way OF living that will lead him to the
true purpose Of life. For this reason
God has given revelation, and the
visible manifestationsysuch as that
of the burning bush to Moses, was
necessity, in order that it might be
clear to us that the message was
from source beyond the human
power. Father Handley is master
Of Scripture, and in his sermon on
tho divinity of Christ" gave proofs
of His divinity, not only from the au-
thenticated prophecies of the Jews,
which were fulfilled even to the very
village and date of the Savior birth,
but by the fact that no man without
supernatural power could, as hum
BILE citizen and assisted by twelve I'M
lettered lowly- men, give re-
form that would affect the entire
world through nineteen centuries, as
Christianity has done,
In regard to the organization and
authority of the Church, Father
Handley said that regular organiza-
ton for the spiritual guidance of
mankind is just as necessary as the
legislative, judicial and executive de-
partments which make up govern
ment are for the preservation OF law
and order among men. In the same
way that it is necessary to have a
head to nation, it is necessary to
have a head to the Church, who is
the Supreme Pontiff. Christ did not
entrust His great reform merely to
the prin ting and distribution OF His
gospels, but also to living organiza-
ton to propagate and administer it.,
just as a political reform would not
be entrusted to the mere sending out
of books and circulars, but to men
who by personal effort and contact
with the people teach the reform.
Father Wyman, in his sermon on
"The Bible" gave proof of its being
of Divine inspiration, and of there
having been no collision among the
different writer's. The reverend gen.
tleman spoke of the neglect of Bible
study in the education of to-day, and
said that aside from its being the
greatest book of the world and the
essence of all our laws and civiliza-
ton. its literary value is unsurpass-
ed. 1t is above comparison with
Mohammed's Koran and the Vedas
of the Brahmins (some who are not
real students of the Bible have drawn
this comparison), which are merely a
series of ecstatic prayers. In refer
ence to the common claim that the
Church has always discouraged its
adherents from reading Scripture,
Father Wyman stated that long be-
fore the Protestant Reformation the
Church translated the Bible into
twenty-seven different forms of com
mon speech and placed it in the hands
of the people.
The last service of the mission will
be given tomorrow at 10 a. m.
Father Handley will speak at Miners
hall Sunday tomorrow evening on
life in the South in lecture entitled
1.-THE Shawnee River" and will be
accompanied by southern songs and
darkey melodies, given by chorus OF
local talent. The Father is a mag
netic speaker.