Evening journal., 1915-06-12
POINTS TO Christ AS
VICTOR OVER death
Father Walsh Tells Women
To Choose the Better
Part of Life
CLOSE CATHEDRAL
MISSION TOMORROW

The Rev John r. NJ. Walsh, who
IS conducting the Cathedral mission
for Catholic women, continues to
draw large crowds morning and
night The solemn closing of the ex-
ercises will take place at 7S0 o'clock
tomorrow night
In his sermon last night Father
Walsh said
"Laa night we spoke about the
punishment Of sin There Is another
punishment about which we are all
familiar but don't want TO think
about. II is the punishment Of those
who die with mortal sin on their soul.
But a punishment that none can es-
cape is death. ! have known people,
who, when the subject Of the sermon
was death. did all In their power TO
put their minds on other things They
we're not wise, BECAUSE the thought OF
death is most salutary 20 keep us in
the way OF salvation. Remember thy
last end, says the Holy Ghost and
thou shalt never sin Isn't II hard
to think that I am going to die; TO
say goodbye to all and TO everything
to say an eternal farewell to every
created thing in this world, even to
those who would have sacrificed
everything their own lives
that mine might be prolonged? Even
with the saints il was a struggle,
and we must make the same strug-
gle 10 obtain the same end. Man. re-
member thy last end and thou shalt
never sin
Now can we imagine souls taking
a headlong plunge into perdition.
committing mortal sin, and thinking
at the same time OF death. When the
temptation comes to disobey the
warning of parents. 10 plunge into
excesses OF impurity. or to defraud my
neighbors, II we stop to think and say
to ourselves. I am going to die. do
you think we will expose our soul tu
eternal RUM Mo- But the worldly
put that thought far from theml Peo-
pie go blocks out % their way TO es-
cape the sight Of DEATH and others
! tremble when they hear that some one
has died
"But why dread death? For. the
thought OF death and it's near ap-
proach can startle the soul Of man as
nothing else can. Once. when I was
chaplain 10 an hospital. a man sent for
! me. ] asked him why he wished to
see me, and he answered. Father 7
can't die like a dog Yet he had lived
worse than a dog and was now paying
the price, long even before nature de-
p manded H. Now none Of us want io
) die like dogs. but some men and
3 women are leading lives that make
I dogs worthy Of car aronization: people
S who enjoy the greatest respect and
vat in
l. that no respectable person wants
y near wonder when they see tn,
n faces Of friends FADING into erea,
5, distance; | wonder will they be a.
l. calm a. now; or, will not the dew.
u be at their bedsides to drive them Il
. desperation and despair and 10 SEIZE
II upon them and carry them TO theil
ruin-the punishment Of an angry but
e just God
J. Death was never intended bv Al.
e mighty God: il was introduced IN
g spite Of God and in destruction OF
S His plan. He intended the union OF
body and soul TO endure as long as
the soul should endure. II was a
union He never intended to sever. But
man severed ~ And that is the rea-
son we fear to die. That's why the
Y man in the hospital cried out, I don't
want TO die like a dog.
so, death is a salutary thought
since death does not end all, but. on
r the contrary, so much depends upon
= It, Let us hold fast to the words
y of Almighty God who proved His
n words by the deeds He performed.
Listen not 10 them that say we have
: nc soul that makes us like TO God
s and that our marvellous faculties como
n from no one knows where and 60 no
e one knows whittier. Christ summoned
), Lazarus back from death after four
4 days in the tomb. Man can't do
: that,-recall the dead 10 life. We must
go 10 one who knows; we must 20
J, TO Christ He tells us all depends
e upon the moment Of death. where
. justice. and not the Sacred Heart.
n rules. He tells me that II die in
4 sanctifying grace heaven and AL
2 mighty God for all eternity are mine /:
e but. If the guilt of mortal sin Is on
K my SOUL the time OF mercy is past.
e "If the thought of death were present
I would we give ourselves over 20 the foil,
s of the world, TO the bodily pleasures oi
the flesh, speak words Of abomination
e. listen to the false teachings of the world
e and make ourselves the agents of hell
b These are pits into which we are likely
g TO fall.
81 am reminded of an incident some
time ago in a neighboring State. You
all know the meaning al a ioy-ride. II
means giving ones self up TO insane
pleasure. -Four women were in the party
, After they had satisfied their animal ap
petites, they raced with death and deatl
J won. The machine plunged into the icy
{ waters Of a canal. The papers sait
: nothing of the women who sought thcil
wayward daughters-hoping the best
and expecting the worst-in the morgue
And such is the end of many a JOY ride
1T isn't the eye OF the world that
/, is going to judge us, but an eye more
powerful, more seaching. II is the eve
OF God. AS we die so shall our des-
tiny be for all eternity. But If We
thought often of death. would we al
, low ourselves TO be deceived? ! think
, not. o let us be guided by wisdom.
Let us be guided by the knowledge of
e Christ. who has passed beyond the
p portals of death 10 warn and judge
4 US. The world is not to Judge US.
but one from whom no secret can be
!. hid. Women advance downward and
r progress toward perdition when they
!. take into their own hands the domin-
ion of God over life and death The
e way of nature Is Gods way. Harken
2 not to those who whisper ways of