The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-26
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CATHOLIC Church
Two Masses Said at st. Mary'S
Cathedral and Special Mu-
sill Rendered.

THANKSGIVING mass was celebrated at
st. Mary's Roman Catholic cathedral at
s o'clock yesterday morning by Father
Michael Curran, who preached a short
sermon appropriate to the day. Anoth-
er mass was said by Father d. Kelly at
9 o'clock, followed by a sermon. There
was a large attendance at each service.
For the o'clock mass, music was fur
nished by Miss Lille Whelan, Miss
Florence O'Neil, Miss Genevieve Brooks
and Miss Mildred Cuddy.
Taking his text from Revelations vii,
70, Father Kelly read: 'BenedictiOn
and glory and wisdom and thanksgiv-
ing, honor and power and strength to
our God forever and ever. Amen"
Father Kelly said in part:
Before time began or man was ere
ated, this was the Angels prayer before
the throne of God. Thanksgiving day
means a day set apart when all should
attend church, and in the secrets of
their hearts acknowledge and confess
with joy the benefits which their Father
in heaven bestows either upon them
selves or others. BE nothing sOlicitOus,
said Saint Paul to the Philippians, but
in everything by prayer and supplica-
ton, with thanksgiving, let your prayer
and petitions be made known to God
when a friend bestows a favor, graf
itude demands thanks. So universally
impressed is human nature with this
idea that one who fails to appreciate
favors is looked upon with contempt
and Cstracised by society. Even the
dumb brute will acknowledge the kind
ness it receives. This proves that the
instinct is universal. To God alone,
mankind is indebted for all il possesses
What have you that you did not pos
sess?' asks st. Paul; and if you re-
ceived, why boast as if you received
not?'
Since 1S63-fOr nearly half d century
the chief executive of the nation has
been sending a message to all citizens
to return thanks to our Father in heav-
en- for the blessings he in his bounty
bestows. These blessings are two-fold
spiritual and temporal. Spiritual
blessings. known only to those who
serve God. mean peace and happiness
When one enjoys peaceable conscience
it means that he is at peace with God
and his fellow man. 1t means that a viz
tuous life has been his guiding star
through a thorny pathway of life. For
this we should be thankful to God who
gives the grace to be honest, upright
and faithful citizens.
Temporal blessings consist in bOun-
teous harvests. Our supply is greater
than our demand, and for this reason
should every loyal and patriotic citizen,
in obedience to the wishes of the ruler
of this great republic, today be CRATE
full and return thanks for Gods bOun-
teOus providence.
"A nation that denies and forgets
God. cannot last Unfortunately, that
very prosperity which is showered upon
the nation makes many forget God.
The Dispenser of All Good Things
For the last ten days we have been
reading the piteous appeals sent to
heaven for the entombed miners at
Cherry. ILL.,; how all were awakened to
a sense of their dependence on God.
Those VINO escaped from the Jaws of
death tell how they prayed, sang hymns,
wrote letters to their loved ones telling
that their only consolation was in the
hope Of meeting them in heaven. In
all the grewsome stories told by these
dying heroes, faith in God and gratitude
to him were supremacy manifest. It
was their only source of happiness. 'Su-
perstition. say unbelievers; but a su-
perstition that ealms the soul of the
dying husband and father; that enables
him to endure without muTmur the
pangs of hunger and an unslaked thirst,
is better and preferable to the anguish.
dependency and hopelessness of the UNI
believer
For those who lost a husband, father
or a brother, our deepest sympathy
should go out today What a cherries.
sad and sorrowful Thanksgiving day is
theirs! For those who survived the poi
sonous gases. hunger and thirst and are
this day with their families, we should
return thanks to God and, like the an
gels, cry out: 'Benediction and glory
and wisdom and Thanksgiving, honor
and power and strength to our God for
ever and ever. Amen"
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