The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-25
Yet Progress That BlctS God
Out of Universe Is TO Be
Condemned.
ELOQUENT SERMON BY
THE REV. FATHER BRENNAN
Bishop Scanlan Deals With
tuberculosis Scourge in
Morning Mass.

AZ the high mass at st. Msry's Catho-
Ito cathedral Sunday morning, the Row
Father Timothy Brennan preached an
eloquent sermon on "'rhe Spirit OF the
Age" Tho o'clock mass was cclcbrat-
cd by tho Rev. Father w. X. Ryan. and
the o'clock mass by the RI, Rev, Bishop
| Laurence Scanan. Tho high mass was
sung by the Rev, Father ID. Slattery, and
the RI. Rev, Bishop Scanlan presided,
The bishop made a few remarks on the
tuberculosis campaign at the high mass.
The services at ST. Patrick's church
were conducted by the Rev. Father Mi :
chae Curran, and the Rev. Father Dennis
Kelly conducted the services at Tooelc.
Father klely preached on Charity" The
vesper services mt ST. Mary's cathedral
were conducted by Father Ryan. In his
sermon at st. Mary's cathedral at the
high macs, the Rev. Father Brennan took
for his text 81, John XVI, 6. And when
He Is come, He will convince the world
Of sin because they believed not in Him "
In part. Father Brennan said:
Age Of Unrest.
The age In which we live is an age OF
progress. and in many respects an age OF
enlightenment, In the matter OF earthly
comforts, in science, navigation warllEe
accoutremcns and those other hundred
and one things, we are far ahead of the
days OF De Gary, Fulton, Daguerre and
Galvani. Children OF the future, we are
never Mt rest, and those past discoveries,
great and brilliant ms they were, are en-
tirely forgotten in this. our day OF push
and puff Yes, surely, We live In an age
OF progress, and human beings as wo
are. we know and boast OF IT, aud Il we
for the moment forget that we are an en-
lishtened people, TO whom the steam
shoveling of the very heavens would be
nothing new. the cultured orator in the
senate and the empty haraneuer at tho
street corner the educated journalist and
the composers OF the less and more glar-
ing sheets. do not fall at once to remind
us st. Paul, in the older day, inspired
by the Holy Ghost. wrote those three
words 10 the Corinthians: knowledge
puffeth up How true they are today,
after lapse os twenty centuries.
Condemns Tendency.
Progress confined within its proper
TO be applauded, and every good and true
man welcomes II. but when you find
progress as 1t were. bringing heaven and
the things OF God to earth, or pro progress, ;
the universe, and those truths which are
from eternity unto eternity, then this as
pect Of progress is 10 be condemned. and
this Is precisely what this progressive
age OF ours is trying 10 do. There Is in
this age OF progress the tendency TO
bring heaven to oarth, to estimate God
and religion according TO the low stand
ard OF earthly knowledge and the ten
dency OF our age leads but to one end
and infidelitY
Religion treats OF God and the eternal
OF the Divinity and those reve-
latlons which He has made known In
time to His creatures, and no human
teacher no human science, can estimate
truths OF religion, We must have God as
our teacher or some one commissioned
TO speak in His name. and to attempt TO
fathorn religion by human reasoning alone
Iapi,e . tG. hiulo ma I
". Curtis sang tho sooist part OF Wei
gand's Festival Mass in an effective
manner.
Talks on tuberculosis.
In his sermon at . O'Clock mass, Bishop
Scanlan dwelt at length upon the terrible
scourge of tuberculosis; The bishop de-
world in some way gifted, but certainly
tuberculosis is not a gift. he said Tn
bishop declared that tuberculosis is the
result OF sin. resultant from eXcesses.
A suggestion was contained In Bishop
Scanan's remarks 10 the effect that the
should establish great uni
versity for tuberculosis patients, and that
all should be admitted. whether rich or
poor The sufferers who were able 10
pay should do SO. he said. but those who
are not should not BE- deprived Of The
Ian believed this to be an effective way
of checking the spread OF the disease at
once and ultimately would result in
stamping 1t out altogether.
Bishop Scanlan also had A word to say !
to parents on the head of permitting their |
daughters to frequent resorts He warned |
mothers against allowing their girls TO go
TO the places OF amusement--so called
which are about to open. and declared |
that this practice is responsible for n
great deal of sorrow afterward. n young |
girls go 10 the resorts. he said. they
should be accompanied by an adult per-
sor under whose protection they would
be safe.