The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-03-18

| would lead one to think otherwise, and
j the very practical man of business,
hasn't any time to do much more than
| judge from that panhandle. Well, an
opportunity came UP for advancement,
/ and the head of the house, who himself
| was a Catholic, knew that the peculiar
nature fthe position required a fellow
who was just little might apt to do
some thinking about his religion, and
| what it stood for, and he knew, too,
that good Catholic would be the best
| possible selection for such a position.
! Remember, said good one-I didn't
mean a cloitered and perenially bead
/ telling individual; but a healthy-mind-
| ed, able bodied clean and straightfor-
ward chap, who knew how to temper a
worldly tendency with his religion in
! just the proportions to bring excellent
| results. Well, the manager was spar
| ring around for a good man, and some
| one suggested the young man he spoke
| of. That was the first time the man
ager knew the young man employe
was Catholic, and then, when he was
| told that the same young fellow was
| pretty decent sort of one, who thought
| it good policy to get to mass as often
as possible in a week, he jumped at
| the suggestion to take him. Well, he
| did take him. and put him going, in a
way that he couldn't have gone I'M
aided.
l knew an old fellow, who when he
got long past fifty took on the role of
adviser. Sort of thought that If he
hasn't given young fellows a good eX-
ample when he was young, it was his
duty to give them good advice now
that he was no longer young. He made
everyone who knew him pretty much
tired out with his assumed pedagogis
air, and the funny part of it was that
he yelled loudest on the church ques
ton and never went to church him
self. Sort of thought that there was
just the reason why he was a good
counsel on church affairs; because he
could see the thing from the outside,
and didn't have any of the sanctuary
oil clogging his view of things.
They had a mission at his church,
and he was prevailed on to, at the least,
start it. And strangely enough, he
stopped advising people then. He went
about two nights, and absolutely re-
fused to receive an impression; said it
and he got on pretty well so far, he
guessed he wouldn't bother changing
at that late day. Well, the third night
of the mission, a strong verile young
missionary who knew men way clear
through to the backbone, and who
could tell you you'd to under certain
conditions better than any one [ ever
heard guess, mounted the pulpit. He
quoted a bit of scripture, which gave
the clue to his talk, and my old friend,
who was Indifferent before, got a bit
interested, when he heard that he was
going TO hear something about Hell,
he was willing to get out; but he was
just where he had to stay. In about
two minutes / saw him nugging closer
to the man next to him, and to tell the
truth, the whole congregation was just
about getting ready to sizzle and par
boil, and they saw visions of flesh
hooks and other demonic instruments
dangling over them. The missionary
Father was going it for all that was in
him; as one apt phraSer would put it,
he was carrying about forty pounds of
steam to the square inch, and was
yelling down to the fireman for more
heat every minute. Naturally he had
some effect on his listeners and the fell
low whom we've been talking about
lasted about ten minutes before he hud-
died up in d corner of the pew, and
looked as though he wanted to shrivel
up and set into a cooler surrounding.
Well, The missionary Father kept pull
ling it on, and he'd just about exhaust
with everyone else in the church SIM
mering and sweating until they were
just about exasperated. Guess the old
fellow thought he was getting a taste
of the real thing, and when the young
priest told us he was going to take us
right to the brink of the hot place and
let us peep in" he told the truth.
+ Before that mission was over, my
friend had a, new lease of the life re-
1gious, and church couldn't come too
often to suit him. He started in right
there and then going TO Mass, every
Sunday, then wanted to go during the
week, and insisted on dealing generous
~ with the collection box. Now here's
an example of what some people will
do
Mass every morning during Lent
won't be any terror at all like that, and
1 miss my guess if you won't get as
much zeal into you, as your old friend
did. if you accept this suggestion and,
at least, give it a trial.
Only, I meant to say, of course, that
this only applies to those who don't
have to get to work before eight or
nine oclock-which is a pretty fair
sized assemblage.