The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-29

delivered an object that, once given, can
not be recalled, that, once transferred,
hath lost its luster and diSsipated its fra
grance-a woman'S innocence, a woman s
purity has already been delivered. Yes,
you hedge yourself around with precau-
tons, you consult learned attorneys and
draw up lengthy written documents to-
safeguard few paltry dollars and then
with an tneXorable will and the power of
the law behind you. you exact from your
brother the price of the bond even though
penury should stare him in the face. And
yet you would idly, you would flippantly
break and shatter at will and with triv-
ial cause this highest and hottest obi
cation, bred in love and nurtured by sac
rifice, and in whose keeping is all that
life is worth living for
But. If 1t be, as it sometimes has been
and will be. that this incOmpatibility has
been discovered. and admitted nv both
that GOODNESS and Indifference have taken
the place of warm affection, that by
! serious disagreement this married life has
been robbed of its charms. that an aver
sion born of cruelty neglect and deser-
ton has made of those sworn lovers
strangers and enemies. then I say, nor
God nor man nor church nor state shall
hold together in the intimate relations of
life those that pain and sorrow bid must
part The church does not countenance
injustice. the church cannot force affec-
ton, the church does not demand that
one should either, in justice or charity,
drink the nectared sweet from the poison
ed cup Offered by faithless hand And
vet the church. as the guardian of
society, the protector of the common good.
| the church to preserve order and to re-
strain unthinkingness, Tashness and folly.
says, You shall pay the penalty inasmuch
as you shall not choose another life part
ner until one be laid in the grave. where
you promised by solemn oath that the
bonds alone should be severed.
And, my friends, from reading the
daily papers, from your knowledge of the
scandals Of divorce courts, from the reck-
tnS Ilrith 1xrIoi oI, !,
do you not think it were wise if individl-
ais should, if need be, immediate hem
selves on the altar of love that they
themselves have raised. that they should
be called upon to practice patience, for,
bearance and self-sacrifice than that this
confusion and chaos should reign as a
menace to society and a danger to the
families of the nation?
Which had you rather believe when
you accompany that darling sister or that
child of your heart to the altar to give
her with fearful eyes into other
arms and another embrace, that
she shall be fixed in the af-
joy the peace of one who has reached
the dearest goal of her maidenly dreams,
or that she shall walk up a bride in
whose heart already the tumultuous pas
sions breed a storm that will unsettle her
life until she wanders from threshold to
threshold, the pl&ything of any mans de-
sires to whom the winds of fancy carry
her?
las parting word 1 say to you daugh-
ters of the nation: When listening to
the siren voice of a deluding liberty you
shall sink into that social maelstrom,
dragging your honor with you beneath
the waves of passion and drowning the
voice of virtue; when applauding and
approving social theories that shall I'M
set you from the high throne of man S
respect and esteem; when you shall have
become marketable commodity, to be
bought and sold at the price of a judg-
ment in civil court then it shall be
the time for some golden tongue to adapt
to you women and to your mournful state
these warning words of Burke deploring
in an agony of sorrow the loss of chiv-
airy in a land that would cruelty insult
and outrage its reigning queen: @
I saw her just above the horizon,
decorating and cheering the elevated
sphere she just began to move in, like
the morning star full of life and joy.
Oh what revolution and what heart
must we. have to contemplate without
emotion that elevation and that fall! Lit
tie did we dream when she added titles
of generation to those of enthusiastic dis
tant and respectful love, that she Should
ever be obliged to carry the sharp anti
dote against disgrace concealed in her
bosom; little did we dream that we should
see such disasters fallen upon q nation
of gallant men of honor and cavaliers.
We thought ten thousand swords would
leap from their scabbards to avenge a
look that threatened her with insult. But
the age of chivalry is gone and that of
sophisters, economists and calculators has
succeeded, and the glory of civilization
is eXtinguished forever. All the decent
drapery of life is to be nudely torn off,
all the superadded ideas furnished from
the wardrobe of moral imagination are
to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd and
antiquated fashion. On this scheme of
things a queen is but a woman. woman
is but an animal. and an animal not OF
the highest order. All homage paid to
the sex as such and without distinct views
is to be regarded as romance and fol-
ly.'
And when this time rings. daughters
of the nation. you shall once more cling
to the cross, and once more, through its
saving power, be glorified and sacred in
the eyes of men,
The following musical program, Under
the direction of Miss Nora Gleason, was
carried out:
Vespers ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Gregorian
"Veni Creator Spiritus'' ........... GLORIA
]. w. Curtis
Ave Maria ................... La Hache
Mrs. Corinne Hammer and Miss
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
30 SalutariS'' Observation-Disclosures. GanSS
Miss Kathleen Fitzpatrick
(Violin obligato, Edward Fitz-
riclz)
''Tantum Ergo" ......-..-........... Rossi
'Laudate Duminum ....-....--. Rosewig
Mrs Corinne Hammer, sooist.
TIE Deum Hadyn