The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27
ONLY IMMORTAL
IS JESUS CHRIST
The Rev. Father Brennan in St.
Mary'S Cathedral Describes
SaViOr'S Attributes.
NO KING EVER so GREAT
NO OTHER NAME THAT LIVES IN
HISTORY OF WORLD FOREVER.

At St. Mary's cathedral Sunday the
services consisted of mass at d. m,
by the Rev. d. Kiely; mass at a. m.
by the Rev. W. X Ryan; mass at II
a. m. and sermon by the Rev. Timothy
Brennan. The services were marked
by fine music, Mrs Q. NJ. Hendricks,
cOntraltO, Of Denver, being the sOloist.
The evening services consisted or YES
pers and benediction at 1880 and Tine
sermon by the Rev. W. X. Ryan.
In his sermon at the II clock mass,
on the theme, Christ liVeth, Christ
reigueth" Father Brennan said in part;
Jesus Christ is the only living name
in history, and Christianity is the only
real civilization. other men have
sprung up, great and glorious in the
domain of art and literature. war and
legislature. Like meteor they blazed
across the centuries and then died out
True, their names and their deeds may
be blaZOned in the history Of their
days. True, monuments of stone and
marble may be erected to their mem
ory IN the noisy thOrOughTareS OF our
cities, or in the quiet of stately tenn
pies, but beyond the record of silent
book, beyond the record Of cold mon
ument, they live not. The student of
history closes the perusal of the pages
of their lives with these two narrow
WOrds-they were.
Mighty kings and emperors, whose
tread shook the world, and whose very
names spelt victory, philosopher and
sage, orator and jurist, painter and
poet, warrior and statesman. have gone
home to mother earth. They have
passed aWay-they are dead. Christ,
the prescribed Galilean. died and they
laid Him in the tomb of a stranger,
and from that tomb He arose again. to
live and reign forever over the hearts
and minds Of men. Christ was a lead
err a soldier and a cOnqueTOr, too, but
He and His army fought not with the
steel of force, the iron hand of sub
JugauGn. His battles were fought on
the minds and hearts of men, and His
arms were faith and hope and char
ity.
are the veterans of His empire, you
have fought His battles valiantly and
we'll For almost a century you have
been tried and true. Today your forms
are stopped. your hairs are gray and
your eyes are dim, but the spirit Of
the Christ lives in you stronger than
ever. Steady, old warriors, vet a
while. Soon your bent forms shall put
on Immortality, soon those dim eyes
shall blaze with the light of God. Soon
those gray hairs shall be crowned with
the incOrruptible crown.
And boys and girls. you are the
young soldiers of Jesus Christ You
VIII be true. You will keep His stan
dard alOft, with your eyes ever fixed
upon the eternal day star, with your
lives breathing, ever breathing, that
faith and hope and charity which Jesus
christ gave 10 men. And little chill
dren, the living flag of Jesus Christ
49, WAH "huei oLotliu me MueH L say
ms L" you, go to your fathers and
mothers, i'm those happy. bright DAYS
OF your childhood, go TO them and take
them by the hand and bid them tell
YOU the story Of the Christ tell you Of
His suffeTings and His love, of His ma
thence and His charity, that. when YOU
grow mp to manhood, YOU may ever be
true TO Him and to His cause
Let Jonas rejoice in his plant of
IVY, let Abraham prepare a feast for
angels beneath the tree of Mamre let
lshmael moan by his palm tree in the
desert. let Elias repose near juniper
glory. as Christians. to fight, TO live
and die meath the saving shadow of
the Cross Christ Iiveth, Christ reign
eth. Steady. soldiers of Christ steady"