The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-20
I2,oOo CHILDREN
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(Contiued from Page 1.1 man if you receive his gift badly, if you turn your head away while
 He is giving it to you or if you reach out dirty hands to take it he will withdraw his gift. So God wants us to know when He is coming to us, in what way and what is the nature
 of the gift He is giving to us so when the Savious sent the apostles to teach them, and He who is baptized shall be saved and he that believes not shall be condemned"
 And so you know children that op the night before He died, He insti- tuted another sacrament, He took bread from the table, blessed it, brake it and gave it to his apostles saying This is my body and He blessed the chalice. And there children was in- stituted what we call the Holy Eu- charist the holy communion or the Blessed Sacrament, tine body and der the signs and appearances of bread and wine. God who made us knows what pleases our senses and what dis gusts them. He would not ask us to drink blood or eat flesh and so they were concealed under the out. ward appearances which to you mean food, the nourishnent you crave for
 
 eat this you will have no life-your soul
 Unless you eat this food the only food, that can reach your soul. your soul will starve. But you know, chill dren that just after our Saviour's res urrection He appeared to these same apostles in the same place and He said to them Peace be to you" AS the father hath sent me, so I also sent you. He meant children, that He was giving His mission to His apostles and therefore it was reasonable that He should give them the powers that He had, in order that they might full fill it properly Go as I have sent you and I give you the power that I have And then children He breathed on them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost, whose sins you shall for give, they are forgiven them.' That was the institution of the sacrament of penance.
 Children, you have just received another sacrament, the sacrament of confirmation by which the spirit of God has come into your souls to give you the strength you will need to re- sist temptation. You know little of temptation yet, children, but it will come to you just as sure as you grow up and your minds develop. Just so sure will you meet the tempter who will lead you away perhaps from the service of God.
 "And now the Holy Ghost comes to you gives you the strength you need to say no when you will be asked to offend against the commandments of God. The Holy Ghost comes to you to adopt you as his own, to send you forth strong Christians ready to re- fuse what is wrong and do what is good. We can not serve God by sim- ply now and then saying our prayers. We must do something, something for our neighbor, something, for ourselves. Our Saviour says we must take Heaven by storm. We must have something to present to Him when our soul is called back to Him. There are some who do nothing at all for God, who never see perhaps the inside of this church except on some great oc- casion; who seldom pray; who, worse of all vices, perhaps do not believe in God at all. Some day they will be invited to the Kingdom of God. If they have abused the opportunity He gave them here and did not appre- | ciate the gifts of God given them while they were on earth do you sup | pose when their soul goes back to Him He will bring them into another l home that they may have another op- portunity to refuse his gifts. There is | nothing defiled there, children. There all is love and peace and there fore all happiness. No one, there fore can enter there who is not | pure. Children you be pure, in your thoughts in your words and in your acts. If you hear foul words, keep away from the one who speaks them. If you know of foul acts, do not learn them for these things shut us out from heaven. Heaven, children, is the only happiness that lasts forever. Perhaps bye and bye men may offer you something instead of the service Of God. What does it amount to? How long vii it last? Only for a few years and then your soul goes back to God
 Children. there are great many vices in the world. a great many things offensive to God. But there is one sin that leads to great many others-I mean the sin of drunkenness You have seen men drunk. Perhaps you have seen women drunk. What did you think of them? Did you have any ambition to be like them? Did you suppose that they were grateful to God for the reason He gave them if they were willing to destroy it? Did you suppose they were on the way 10 heaven"
 "Children. I want as far as possible .o save you from that dreadful vice that mas broken up so many families md put so many children on the street and sent so many children to he'll II want you to promise me, on this day ,n which the Holy Ghost comes to you. to promise me that you will not ake intoxicating liquor until you are 5 years old
 The children in chorus repeated after 3ishoE, Milan these words: 'I promise ( with the help of God not to drink in- oxicating liquor until I shall be 25 l 7ears cid"