The Newtown bee., 1903-09-25
CIRCULATION
Ten Psges.
EITCHFlELD COUNTY

EITCHFIELD COUNTY
KENT.
AT THE SACRED HEART CHURCH.
The mission, given by the Rev
Father MCLEAN of the Fathers of the
Connecticut ApoStolate at the Sacred
Heart church, closed with impressive
ceremonies at the $50 O'Clock mass,
Sunday morning, September ID.
Father MCLEAN preached the sermon,
which was very appropriate for the
occasion. He said in part: "He that
enters the work of salvation and goes
on in it day after day to the very end,
he and he only shall be saved. There
is no change in God from eternity to
changing, Interchangeable God, and so
it is with all His great attributes, His
goodness, His love, His justice. His
mercy. And so you see, my beloved
Christians, If we are to meet that God,
we must build ourselves up to meet
His justice, His goodness, His mercy
and his love. Then when we come to
die we shall lock out and see our sal
walton. We shall know that our past
life has been one filled with goodness
and love for God. There is no conso-
of this good, day after day, week after
week, year after year our life through,
and then what an example we become
to all around us. But we all will say,
it Is difficult work to be good day in
and day out. 1t is hard to serve God
all the while, but my beloved Chris
tianS, when we look to the service OF
God it appears as high, steep, ragged
mountainside to climb. So 1t is, but
when we see up above perseverance"
written, you see we must climb tina t
high and difficult mountain. and when
we look up at it's summit, now enjoying
everlasting happiness, we see poor
creatures, as we are now. We see St
that he denied Christ and said he
knew Him not; St Mary Magdalen,
poor unfortunate woman of Jerusalem,
woman of sadness; st Augustine man
who tasted the pleasure of sin, and we
see up there host of people just like
that. They have reached the summit
Of that mountain they have climbed
that steep and ragged mountainside
and are now safe with God. They
have encountered the same temp
tations we have encountered. They
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without; they had the same things
to contend with that we have and yet
they are saved: they have persevered,
and have reached God. Cannot we do
as they have done? If they have
climbed this mountainside and have
reached God, cannot we climb it?
Cannot we reach God, too? Why, Ger
tainly, and then see how God helps.
us. He leaves us not to ourselves to
climb this mOuntainside but gives all
the help we ask for. Jesus Christ him
self says: "Ask and you shall receive"
"Ask the Father anything in my name
and he will give it to you" Persevere
to the end in NJ! serving 3; God, 50 that we
lasting Joy, and surely if Christ, will
give us anything for the asking, He will
certainly give US our salvation. Why
have we fallen again and again in the
past? Is it not simply because we have
not asked Gods grace, Gods help,
when temptations came to us in one
form or another? Did we pray? Did
we ask God to help us. Did we ask
Him to give US the strength and
courage to assist US in saying our
morning prayers? Perhaps we had not
said them for days and weeks before,
or our evening prayers either. What
would you think of a soldier that would
60 out to meet his enemy and when he
came near him would throw away his
weapons? And so it is with us, my be-
loved Christians; we have not con-
Quered, we have not perSevered; SIM
ply because we have thrown away our
arms. We can pray anywhere and
everywhere. There is no place where
we cannot pray and it matters not
where we are tempted. There is the
drunkard; he knows that certain places
are the occasion of sin for him. He
knows as we'll as you do that every
time he goes into one of these places
is the young man or woman who enter
tains improper thoughts and desires
and yet they will continue. The
drunkard will continue to 20 to the
saloon; the impure person will continue
in the selfsame impure places; the
young man or woman will read the self
same literature that is bad. How can
they hope to persevere. My beloved
Christians, if we are to perSevere, we
must for the salvation of our souls,
keep away from these persons, these
may be. There is only one way for our
salvation. "He that loveth the sin
or danger shall perish in it, says
Christ. Here are the two reasons why
we do not persevere. Firstly, we dc
not pray, we do not ask God to help us.
Secondly we do not receive the Sacra-
ment in Gods church; we do not come
to mass on Sunday; we do not serve God
as our religion teaches us to serve him.
We pray when we come to this
church ON Sunday and assist at mass
and receive that food, the body and
blood Of our Saviour, Jesus Christ
Now each one can be honest with him
self and you can ask your yourself
honestly, is. it not simply because
have not prayed, have not asked Gods
help, have neglected my duty in one
way or another? If that is not the
reason then the other reason is, l have
not avoided the occasion Of sin. 1t i!
the easiest thing in the world to pray
if we only pray as we should, and keeE
away from the occasion of sin, then W.
shall perseveret here is is no doubt Of
it. God has been good to us. He de
sires our services more than we do
) therefore, He has given us all tn
means to save our souls. Look thel
nv beloved Christians, as St John says
look to yourself that you may not low
the things you have loved. In con
clusion Father Mclean said, IF yo1
begin now to serve God watch your
selves carefully, and now in order t
so show that you are really true an
earnest, let us all stand and promis
God from the bottom of our heart
that we shall renOunce Satan'a nd sin.
HAPPENINGS OVER MACEDONIA WAY
While picking apples Saturday, job
5 Brown, Jr, fell about 80 feet from ;
9 tree, breaking both arms at the wrist
and injuring his head severely.