The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-02
PAULIST FATHERS
 TO HOLD A MISSION
Services At St. Paul's Catholic Church-High Mass Sung Yes
 terday Morning

i. The Rev. Father Coyle, pastor Of St Pauls church, announced yesteroay that. Paulist fathers would conduct two weeks mission in his church. De" ginning Sunday, october 15.
 The month of October being dedicated to the Rosary there will be short devo- tions, including beads and the litany of the Blessed Virgin every evening during the week, immediately after the Angelus, except Thursday evening" when the "holy hour" from 7:3o to s'9o will be observed as usual.
 Yesterday at 10:3O o'clock high mass was resumed. The Rev. Charles OGal- lagher of Texas was the celebrant, and the Rev. Father Coyle occupied the pulpit. The choir sang Peters mass, and for the offertory. Mrs. c. J. Severin sang beautiful Ave Maria by Saint Saens.
 '.Faith" was the theme of Father Coyle's discourse, the words of his text being St. Paurs-"Faith is the sub stance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'
 The preacher, after pointing out the frequency with which the Savior and His apostles dwelt on the blessings and advantages of Christian faith. said:
 "First of all how faith enlightens the intellect Faith is to the eye of the soul what sunlight is to the eye of the body It broadens and expands our spiritual vision. It does not supplant, but supplements reason. It is the high est exercise of reason. As well might ho h eyes because he uses telescope. as be said to dispense with his reason be- cause he uses faith.
 What sublime truths does not faith give us? If the proper study of man kind is man., as the poet assures us faith teaches us mans origin, mans destiny, and the means of attaining this destiny. It rescues us from the mazes of doubt in which the heather world has involved it's votaues doubts so well ex- pressed in Omars Rubaiyat ,s,5... "'Yesterday this days madness did
 prepare;
 Tomorrows silence. triumph or despair; Drink! for you know not whence you
 come, nor why.
 Drink! for you know not why you go,
 nor where.
 "A simple child that lightly draws It's breath and that has knowledge of the catechism, is wiser far than the most profound philosopher who dis cards revelation.
 Faith teaches us that we have an immortal soul. It also teaches us how , that soul should be saved Philosophers may dispute and cavil about the prop critics of that soul, about its indivisi- bility and spirituality. An, but above all metaphysical disputations rings the cry of faith, the words of Christ. I am the Redeemer and the life. He who be- lieveth in Me, although he be dead shall live. and everyone that liveth and believeth in Me- shall not die forever
 Faith teaches us to place true value on everything, to weigh all things in the light or the beyond. to see that earthly things, insofar as they aid us toward eternity and joy ever !. lasting, are useful. but harmful if they hinder us from attaining the end for which God created us.
 i"Faith brings peace to the heart, no less than light to the intellect. Yes. the peace that passeth understanding the peace that comes from the con- scious possession of the truth. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'-free from the bondage of error and doubt"
 Father Coyle showed that among the practical results of faith were the min tries of noble men and women to the sick and 10 the poor in hospitals, or phanages and homes of refuge. He concluded by exhorting his hearers to 70 live "that with the apostle we can truly say, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me-" sis