The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-30

Terry, OF The shameful and c0Wardly murder OF III
fants forming in the womb and unable to defend
themselves of inhuman hard-heartedness, of violat
ed pledges, of unparalleled contempt for Christian
decency than is told in the testimony of this sinful
woman. In the vilest annals of heather Rome, in
the bestality of human savagery, there is fouer
tale
Never was the honor of man or the heart of wo-
impeached with viler sins, meaner acts or
Implying heartlessness, and never was
man or woman more execrated by the "clean of
heart" than the dead man and his living paramount.
Catholic fathers and mothers-you who believe
that the voice of the New Testament is the speech
of God, listen to this: "These sons of maledicton
have eyes full of adultery, sensual men, walking
cording to their own DESIRES they raging waves
of the sea, foaming out their own confusion to
whom the storm of darkness is reserved forever"
peter, II EP.) And to this: "And as they liked
not to have God in their judgment, God delivered
them to a reprobate sense to do these things
that not fitting; being filled with all uncean
ness, wickedness righteousness full of envy, muir
der, strife deceit" Rom. l :2S) And st. Paul,
once again, brands these wicked people with the
marks of traitors when he writes "They who do
such things, I have told you, and now again tell
you weeping that they are enemies of the cross of
Christ" (Phill., Ill, s. Nor may it be said in
extenuation that these peope-the Browns, the
Bradleys, the Thaws, the Beers-sin and are foul
through ignorance. The woman who is now on her
trial for murder who. to save her worthless life
confesses to participation in the most shameful
acts of dishonor and sin. was a member of the
Salt Lake Womans club, of the Poets Round Ia
bic of the Woman's Press club and of pretentious
religious organization which calls itself church.
and denies the Divinity of Christ With the sin
full man whom she lured from his legal wife. she
read the poets: eve read Burns Tennyson and
Chaucer together" she boasts
They were not of the Orchard and Adams class.
thtey were educated in the public and high schools;
and one of them in a university But with all this
education they ever taught, or did they ever
sincerely, honestly say prayer to Godl Did they
ever give hearing to conscience-the voice of God
warning the human soul Did they believe in the
incarnation, the crucifxion, the divinity of our
Lord; in the judgment to come. in Depart from
me you accursed into everlasting fire prepared for
the devil and his angels" And if not of what use
now is his education to fhe murdered man whose
body Is decomposng in one of our cemeteries 1t is
With deep anguish and bitter regret we are forced to
admit that our criminal and divorce courts are be-
coming the common tombs where the honor the
modesty and the chastity of many of our educated
women are being inferred.
''Well," you ask, what can we Catholics do to
arrest the decay stay the degeneracyl" Nothing
Apart from prayers, example and the purity
If our own lives, absolutely nothing. Stand aside;
hese people will extermnate themselves; they are
LONG it They did it in New England, and
he old and historic names, familiar to our fathers,
nave disappeared from the census 1t is as true
low in the days of the prophet: "The people
Who will not serve God shall perish" 1t is almost
impossible to live, uncontaminated, in social at
nosphere charged with mephitic impurities where |
ven boys and girls of tender years are morally |
deceased, but Catholic parents saved themselves and
heir children from infection in a more corrupt
and and age, in Rome, in Antioch, in Alexandria,
nd by adopting the same precautions and making
Sc of the same sacramental remedies, Catholic
arents can do it now.
1t is supremely sad; but these people are de-
troying themselves by divorce, by murder, by sui
ide, by abortion.
We appeal to our clergy and to Catholic fathers
nd mothers to instruct well the young Catholic
hildren in the saving truths of the church. to
atch increasingly and faithfully over their morals
nd to lead them often to the sacraments that they
lay be saved from the contagion of the social and
oral diseases cOrrupting and destroying society.
L. SEAMAN,
Bishop of Salt Lake.
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