The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-23
INSPIRING TALK
At ST. MARYS
Sermon by Rev. Timothy Bren-
nan on Living Up to
Our Faith"
FINE MUSIC BY THE CHOIR
WORDS OF CHEER TO YOUNG
MEN AND TO PARENTS.

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The services at St Mary's cathedral
yesterday were solemn and sublime. The
choir sang hymns consisting of "Veni
Jesu, o Salutaris' at the offertory, and
a beautiful "Agnus Del" after the COM
nunion. At the end of the mass the cele-
brant, Rev Timothy Brennan. preached
an eloquent sermon, his subject being
| Living Up to Our Faith the text being:
/ Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold
upon eternal life whereunto thou art
called. Sixth chapter of First Epistle of
St Paul to Timothy. The sermon in part
follows:
Last Sunday, dearly beloved brethren,
was an eventful, a memorable day for
the Catholics of Salt Lake. for on that day
was dedicated your beautiful and stately
church to the service of the Living God.
MaJestically it raises its head above the
city gTandly and nObly il looks out on
Utah's mountains, seemingly as firm and
as lasting as they. Standing at the gates
OF the Golden West. edifice of the one
true faith and one true sacrifice. il re-
minds man that the first and great duty
OF mis- life Is the worship of the Creator,
and that his desires can never be salts
fled with time-they are of eternity.
Standing at the gates of the Len
West, II raises its pinnacles alOft to the
brighter and the better land. reminding
US that we delve and dig for the
worlds goods, there is another delving
and digging to be dOne-a deIving and
digging on the great road to God.
Standing a the gates of the Golden
West, this temple bold and stately, every
stone of it in harmony, every stone of it
going to make one beautiful whole this
temple whispers to US a lesson, and the
lesson IS that our lives should be bold
and stately; our lives should be character
Ized by living faith, a yearning hope
and Christlike charity, in fine, we ali
should move onward and move upward
with the glory of God and the salvation
of each other our watchWOrd. The stay
ana the glory of the Catholic church from
the days of Christ till now have been
a Jealous, an enlightened, a GOd-feaTing
and God-loving laity.
In the world outside. men will tell you
that Christ and the redemption are but
myths in the pride of their little intel
lects and IN the sordidness of their Ii
centlOus hearts they viii tell yOu to eat
and drink and make merry for tomorrow
you die and after death there is no resur-
rection.
Teachers of infidelity,
Aye. aye, there are men today. men
occupying chairs i'm the universities of
our great and glorious republic, men who
dare tell the students there that marriage
IS only compact to be dissolved at sweet
will: men who would blast the very foun-
datiOns of our nations strength and bring
Rome. In the world outside there are
men, too, who can see no good in Rome,
men who look upon her faith as a super
stttion, her sacrifice as a fanatCal dream.
YOU dearly beloved brethren, have to
fight these. and your arms are the sword
of virtue and zeal the shield of truth
and honor. You have to teach them by
Your word and example that what is
great and noble and self-saCrifiCing in
this world springs from God; that mans
faith and hope and charity emauate from
Him and that this world, with its rushes
and its stops its joys and its sorrows,
its hopes and disappointments. are but
so many preludes to the eternal bliss
which comes when lifes short day is
over.
There are others in the world outside.
great. serious. earnest souls, men tossed
about in the sea of doubt. men seeking
for the truth and the light. men who. like
Newman, have cried and cry:
Lead. kindly Light. lead thou me on;
The night is dark and I am far from
home
These, dear brethren. you are to take
by the hand and 10 whisper to their tenn
pest-tossed souls the words of faith and
cheer and peace.
Future Catholics.
ION last Sunday you beheld your white
robed little girls and manly little boys
singing the praises of the Great Creator.
That spectacle made you glad and
aroused the faith within you as it edited
also those earnest souls outside our com
munion. These little boys and girls viii
be. the future Catholics Of Salt Lake.
VIII they be true to the Christ: will they
profess His name in all their ways and
days. will they ever be firm. true sol
diers of the Cross? The answer is sup
piled, by asking another question: Are
their parents these things? g.. they are.
their children will be rocks of faith, bear
ing on their shields ever God and Father
land.
ooh fathers and mothers, you are a
royal priesthood; put on your children
the garments of the Christ: place in their
hands the sword of virtue honor and
truth. and bid them go forth 20 live and
die. if needs be- for the Great Master
And you. young men, the Catholic man
hood of Salt Lake, you beheld ,Ie glorious
spectacle of last Sunday, and I have no
doubt if YOU have love of God and Father
land your heart throbbed fast because
you were Catholics. You are living in
a free country, country OF advance and
progress. There is no barrier to impede
your onward movement VIII you in the
acquisition Of the worlds goods forget
the doctrines of the Cross?
Young men, the future of the Catholic
church in Utah depends upon you. Be
true to your faith and your country and
then it follows as the night the day
thou cannot then be false to any man.
Procession of Veterans.
"A few days ago. dearly beloved. We
beheld a procession Wend its way through
the streets of our city. They were the
men of the Grand Army of the Republic
the men of the Union, the men of Bull <
Run, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg. As
those veterans filed past with the war
worn. bullet-eaten flags Of many fights
floating proudly above their heads our
hearts went out to them. 1t was fitting
1t was right. and from my heart ! would
pity the man whose soul would not be
stirred as those heroes marched past
Dearly beloved. there is another GranI
Army marching through the streets of
every city in the WOrld-it is the Grant
Army of Jesus Christ. We make up a
battalion of it and above our heads floats
the banner Of truth, justice and judgment:
before us is the leader. Jesus Christ In
His hand He rears alOft the living flag
the Cross-and His word comes to US as
we march along: Steady, my soldiers
steady; no hating. no wavering After
the cross there is the crown: after the
fight there is the resurrection; after the
resurrection there is eternal life Steady
my soldiers. steady.
Back to our leader. Christ come our
voices fresh and lively as the breezes If
r1Orning: We follow. Christ: we follow
"Our cry is onward and upward. eve-
onward and ever upward to the better
the brighter. the eternal land of God.