Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-26
PRIEST
Tells AUDIENCE OF
'UNNELCOME GUEST
Interesting Sermon by Paulist
Father on Death Which Even
the Tnfidel Cannot Deny
Should Be Kept in Mind.

Catholics Of Boise are nanifesting
unusual interest in the mission that is
being conducted at st. Johns cathedral
by the Paulist fathers. Both the early
morning and evening services continue
to be well attended. Tuesday evening
Father Donegan delivered timely SER
mon on 'The Unwelcome Guest" to a
very attentive audience. He spoke as
follows:
There are times in the life Of every
man, with his natural likes and dis
likes, that there come to him, in the
guise of persons, events, things or even
thoughts, what might be called unwel-
come guests. Very few, IL any, escape
them. Sometimes not even day passes
during which a man Is not met by
these visitors, which fill him with APP
prehension and loathing, and find no
responsive reception from him. And
then. too, it often happens that what
one day a man may find hateful or
unwelcome. the next day owing to a
change of circumstances or to a change
of his viewpoint, he will gladly well
come 1t. But there is one visitor which
generally speaking is to all men at all
times the unwelcome guest--aye, even
the very thought of it is banished from
the mind. My purpose tonight is to
have you entertain for few moments
thoughts of the visitor, the guest, which
every one of you must one day receive.
CANNOT DENY DEATH.
mime is the message. the sentence
Of death. l stand for God! He it is
who bids me to pronounce that SEN
tence upon every one of you. Dust
thou art and unto dust thou shalt re-
turn Every one of you must die.
Need prove IL? Is not death the uni
versal fact? Nature all around us is
constantly giving evidence, in the de-
caying rocks. the whitening grass and
flowers. the trees shedding their foliage !
and the brute beast and man falling off
one by one. And who dares deny
death? The fool hath said there Is no
God but what fool says there is no
death? The atheist may deny God and
hereafter and make death the end of
things, but still he admits death, call
it what he may The infidel on the
street corner may blasphemously defy
God to strike him dead, yet does he
think 1t impossible that he should die /?
Doctors and scientists are experiment
Ills odiiS w tiSNcN eI IeHltuleS lOT ldI1l
diseases. Do they expect to bring per-
petual life to man? 1t is not in mans
power says the prophet, to stop the
spirit, neither hath he power in the
day of death This is the sentence of
the Lord on all flesh: ON whatsoever
day thou shalt eat, said God to Adam
and Eve, thou shalt surely die They
ate of thestree. The terrible certainty
Of hn NAynr v,i,, hrDt, l. -.
them when they beheld the body of
their son Abel, slain by the hand Of
jealous and revengeful brother. Death
indeed makes all men brothers, and no
matter how great the difference may be
in men in life, they shall all sleep to-
gether in the dust
LEAD BETTER LIVES.
.'Of course, there is nothing new
about death, nothing new save your
own death. However, most people put
aside the thought of it, because they
always want to put off death for a
long time.
while we know we must die, no
man knoweth the day nor the hour
Neither youth nor old age, sickness nor
health, is a guarantee against death
See how the young men were carried
i
were taken and the sickly left. Yes,
We may live for years; but how many
can be sure of living through the
night? In spite of our modern inven-
tions and of the efforts of doctors and
scientists, the accident policy is still
in great demand. A shipwreck, or
collision of trains, hurls hundreds to
eternity; man is struck down and
killed by AN auto or a street car;
child browns In tub of water under
the very eyes of a mother; one, young
and hale and hearty, drops in the street
unconscious. and dies within few
hours.
"The accidental death is very COM
mon! How can you be sure it will not
be yours? The great trouble is that
most of us won't believe in a sudden.
death, because we never picture such a
death for ourselves.
mo man knoweth the day nor the
hour
Such being the uncertainty of the
time of death, it behooves us all to
be always ready, SO that death may
not find us unprepared Live a good
life, II you wish to die good death,
for life and death are one. Life is a
stream which ends in death.
Death Is but the finishing touch to
. picture without which the picture
would be incomplete. And what If that
picture portrays life Of sin, a life at
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