The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-05-14
TRUE CHRISTIAN HOME.
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the human heart; the human heart strengthened by
bravery and honour, virtue and love, and both of
them proclaim to the world today the unity, the in
dsoubllity, the sanctity of marriage. We take his
tory; we take the baseness of the human heart and
they give marriage, contract to be dissolved at
sweet caprice-woman captive, woman slave, COW
cred with veil and hidden in the most secret re-
cesses of man house; ave. aye, and flocks of them
with all the strength, the nobeness, the love which
characterize woman penned up between four walls,
the prey of monster.
Woman today who is your preserver, your sup
port and your friend-aye, to death. Woman-I
have need to tell you, It is the Catholic Church
You may be white or black, your lot may be the
sweat of labor; the ease of riches your mind may
embrace the stars know not the letters of thy
name; but true, brave, pure woman fear not;
the Catholic Church is with thee, and being with so
is Christ.
The Catholic Church has her fmagnificat" and
in that magnificent she gives forth to the world the
cantice of the triumph of pure, true womanhood.
"Behod all generations shall call me blessed" Yes,
yes the house of Nazareth is the model of all Chris
tan home There lived Mary, flower and strength
of womanhood. There lived Joseph-he was but
carpenter but in the very welding Of the car
penter's tools there honesty and truth in every
step of his simple life; there was a beauty that
breathed of heaven And Christ the child dwet
there, and ah, if He needed lesson-which He did
mott would be given Him in the kiss of Mary, the
honest grasp of Joseph That home of Nazareth
sanctifed by the love of Mary, the faithfulness of
Joseph the affection of the child Christ, is the ideal
of all Christian homes, and while nations look up
and take that home of Nazareth as a model, there
will be holiness strength about them which is of
God. All. women, look up and behold your pre-
server. the Catholic Church. She has exalted Mary
and calls her the Queen of Heaven the Queen Of all
good, pure womanhood. The Catholic Church has
placed you at Mary's feet-and she bids you stay
there. She has taken you from your dens of slavery
and placed upon your brow the triple crown of God
of home and of country. Pure, true womanhood
was ever the glorious song of the Christ and His
Church. Pure, true womanhood gave strength to
the Of the crusader gave love to the breast of
the miner; and aye, gave and daughters loyal to
their God first and their country then. Women
look upon the Catholic Church and love her if you
are fair-mnded at least respect her if you are not
She dragged you from the mire of slavery in the
days of the Caesars; she sacrificed helf her pos
sessions for you in the days of the Eighth Harry of
England, and today, after all the years of FIGHT.
vicissitude and change, she places you where you
rightfully belong-the queen of the home the queen
of the nation Yes, there that lofty pedestal she
keeps you, and though kings may frown and bad
hearts may vomit; though tyrany may lord it over
YOU, and ustful hearts may cry free love- the
Catholic Church will keep you in your rightful DO
sition; the Catholic Church will ever hail thee as
the fair flower of heaven; the fair flower of earth
Avaunt, thou foul fiend divorce all good and true
men look upon thee as the child of hell; and all
good and true women with their children clinging
to the skirts with their cildrens names written in
their hearts, seek their husbands arms seek their
husbands kiss, while Gods angels smile and whis-
per: F'What God hath joined, let man put asun-
der"
This is Mothers day in Utah. Every day in Utah
should be mothers day. Home spells little for us
without mother; mother is queen of mans infancy,
queen of mans boyhood, queen of mans man
hood. She is queen of his infancy when she
bent over his cradle whispering to him how
great, good and loving God is. She is queen
of his boyhood when, a sweet sister, she
played with him, teaching him fondness, sweetness
and sympathy. She is queen of his manhood when
man looked for love and woman gave it; gave it
with love, truth and sacrifice that ended only
in death, and in death hoped for resurrection o.
mother great is thy name; after God thou art the
only true star of hope and holiness that rises today
above our storm-tossed and un-distracted world.
All days should be mothers days in Utah. And
yes the true faithful. viruous mothers with JOY in
their eyes because of fathers devotion, the chill