Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-11-11


day morning at both the low and Nigh
masses, Rev. Father Charles e. Dona-
hoe, the rector, delivered the second
of the series Of sermons by local min
listers now being published in The
Evening Journal.
The church day was the feast of
the patronage of the Blessed Virgin,
the 25th Sunday after Pentacost and
the fifth Sunday after Epiphany The
epistle was from st. Paul. Coloss. iii.
1917, and the gospel was as follows:
Matt. xiii, $3.50. "At that time: Jesus
spoke this parable to the multitude,
saying The kingdom of heaven is
likened to man that sowed good seed
in his field; but while men were
asleep his enemy came and oversowed
cookie among the wheat, and went his
way And when the blade was sprung
up, and brought forth fruit, then APP
peared also the cookie. Then the ser
wants of the good man of the house
said to him: Sir, didst thous not sow
good seed in thy field? whence then
hath it cookie? And he said to them:
An enemy hath done this. And the
servants said to him: Wilt thou that
we go and gather 1t up? And he said:
No: lest perhaps gathering up the
cookie, you root UP the wheat also
together with it. Suffer both to grow
until the harvest, and in the time of
Gather up first the cookie, and bind II
in bundles to burn; but the wheat
gather ye into my barn.
Taking the gospel for the day as
the keynote of his sermon, Father
Donahoe made striking and forci-
BILE application of the parable of the
wheat and the cookie to the condi-
tions which have always obtained in
the world, saying in part:
There has been in all ages and
all conditions those who might be re-
garded as the wheat and those as the
,cockle in the field sowed by our Lord.
Not even after the coming of Jesus
Christ and the sacrifice on the cross
for the redemption Of mankind was
this condition changed, and there are
cookie and wheat even today. This
condition not only obtains among the
many or the masses, but among even
the chosen few of God--among the
people of Gods church.
There has been and now is cookie
among the wheat III high places, and
even the throne of st. Peter has known
the faint of the seed oversowed by the
enemy of the good man of the para
bic, while it has been found at the
altar and in the pew.
but, like the owner of the wheat
field in the gospel, God will not al
/ low the cookie to be uprooted until
the harvest time; and, for season
at least, He seems to treat both the
good and the bad in the field alike,
and showers His blessings upon all
iimpartially.
"The servants in the parable were
scandalized by the presence of the
cookie among the good grain, and in
their uncharitableness would have up
rooted it. But we should not be sur
prised or scandalized at the evil
things we find in the world. God Gre
ated man a free moral agent, and
therefore cannot force him to fulfill
the imposed obligation toward his Gre
ator. Man is human, and, being hui
man, is subject to all the temptations
and frailities of his nature. All are
created alike and of the same common
clay-pope, priest and layman-but
all can exercise their own free will
in whatsoever direction they may
choose. This is natural law, and
it follows in natural sequence that
evil will always be present with us.
People some time wonder why
God allows sinners to exist-why He
allows the cookie to grow in the same
field with the wheat. There is an OBJ
vious and all-sufficient reason for