The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-11
LOSS OF REWARD
RESULT OF SIN
The Rev. Timothy Brennan
breaches Eloquent Sermon
on Eternal Salvation.
MAY LOSE ALL IN A DAY
CHARACTER BUILDING OF YEARS
SOMETIMES SUDDENLY LOST.

At st. Marys cathedral, Sunday, higf
mass was celebrated by Father Michae
CurTan. The Rev. Timothy Brennan
preached on the subject, 1.-THE Loss oil
Cod taking his text from Matthew
XXii:13: Bind his hands and feet and
cast him into exterior darkness" He said
ia part:
lin the gospel which we read on this
nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost there
is brought under our notice the fate OF
man who appeared at the marriage feast
without the nuptial garment. This mar
Is but a figure Of those who appear al
the great banquet in the kingdom oil
heaven without the saving light of JUS
tice, without sanctifying grace. Our di-
vine Lord calls all TO his banquet in heaV-
en- calls all to a feast which is ever
lasting, but there is one condition for
admittance there. We must have 0ui
hands filled with good works and OuI
souls free from the stains of mortal sin
else our fate shall be the exterior dark
ness forever.
1--WE shrink from the thought of eter-
nal punishment; we are too much inclined
to couple the name of God and mercy
as an excuse for bad, Indifferent life
Today let US endeavOr to form some lit
tie notion of what the loss of God means
In this world loss is measured by the dear
ness to US of the thing lost. One man
loves wealth and for years and years
his one aim, his one thought, is to pile
all the powers OF his mind and body.
Some unexpected thing happens and
that man loses in a day the work and
endeavor of many years. The blow stuns
MIN. completely skaters the powers OF
mind and body. and Oftentmes such q
person will bury his grief, his loss, in a
suicides grave.
o Love of Home.
The good. true husband loves his wife
and the little ones whom God has given
him. Let him lose the loved partner OF
his joys and sorrows, let one Of these lit
tie ones be called away, and no human
pen can describe. no human voice can
say. the sorrow that fills the husband s
the fathers, heart
What heart that beats here is so dead
to love that loves not home? Memories
are twined round the word home that
steel and sword can never sever; friend
ships were formed there that time OF
space cannot shatter The soul, with its
infinite lOngings, leaves the body of clay
and at once it seeks the origin of its be
ing, God. It rushes, with a force that
naught can stay, to embrace, to rest in
the infinite good, but if that soul is in
the state of mortal sin, between it and
its God there is placed barrier that never
can be broken down. God and sin are
incompatible terms.
To-day you have in your hands eternal
life or eternal death. You have the free
will to choose either. Do not deceive
EOuISeI WIN tne Thought, GOu Is HleIct-
full Yes, God is merciful to those who
love him, not to those who despite him.
Do not luli yourself into the false secur-
ity that an infinitely merciful God would
not condemn you forever TO the exterior
darkness. He warns you himself against
that false thought. We have Christ's word
warning US about this hell of torment
We have his messengers. proClaiming II
to US in no uncertain or wavering ian
guage. It is for US to heaTken to the
warning and. doing so, to lead pure viz
tuOus, honorable lives. with this thought
ever before our minds:
What doth it avail man TO gain the
whole world and in. the END suffer the
loss of his immortal soul, lose the end OF
his eXistence-GOd."