The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
ALL SERVICES ARE
LARGELY ATTENDED
Catholic Mission In Progress at st.
PauI's-CroWd at $50 O'Clock
Mass.

| The mission in progress at st. Pauls
| church grows In interest as shown by
| the increased attendance at the early
\ mass. There are two mission masses
Will instruction every morning-the first
at $50 o. clock and the second at o'clock.
The earlier service was largely attended
Monday morning but still better attended
yesterday. The church was filled.
The services at night include a short
doctronal lecture and a sermon, and the
church is always thronged.
| Last night the Rev Father OHearn
gave the lecture his theme, being the
sacramento system. He explained sue
| cinctly the seven sacraments and said
| that while the church made laws for
the administration of the sacraments, that
| the sacraments themselves were insti-
| tuted by Christ.
| The Rev. Father Healy preached an
| impressive sermon on death. His text
was from the book of Rev elations-"I
heard a voice from heaven saying, write
| blessed are the dead who die in the
| Lord" During the course of his dis
course the preacher referred to the fact
that his theme was gruesome, but he
had a message which all should hear.
Father Healy, in his deep, solemn. meas
pred voice. gave a series of pictures,
some of them slngularly tragic.
The speaker said In part: Death may
come to you suddenly, like thief in the
night. / have had those dear to me
snatched away by death, while the echo
of their pleasant laugh still fingered in
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voices still sounded to my ear, while the
sunshine of their recent presence still
lighted by path. You, too, perhaps, have
lost friends without warning. Perhaps
you have seen them stricken by your
side. Two were in the field one was
taken and the other was left
you have spent an evening with
friend, parted in good health and high
spirits, and in the morning you awoke
only to hear the news that your friend
had died in the night Every one Of
you, am sure. can recall at least one In
stance where a friend or acquaintance
die. very suddenly. The pages of our
newspapers are covered with the ac-
counts of sudden deaths; now 1t is one
man who drops dead on the street. again,
it is one who dies at his work, or still
another dies at the table while partaking
of the family meal; another dies in his
armchair another retires for the night
evidently in the best of health but is
,, found dead in the morning; or 1t is
mine explosion that sends score of
men to eternity unprepared, railroad
wreck in another place kills several
scores of men and women or it is boat
that goes down on the high seas carrying
several hundred OF an untimely death
, and a watery grave
THESE things happen altogether too
frequently for you to object Oh those
things are exceptional, and there is no
reason for my being alarmed My dear
friends, there is no safeguard against
an unexpected death; that is why 1t Is
called unprovided, unexpected; you never
know when or where or how it may come.
Neither age, nor health. nor money, nor
mower is security against 1t"
Father Healy then pictured the death
OF a United States senator who led a
11e of evil. refused to be counseled, and