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 Analjais of the power of the Senses 
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 lut Wednesday evening, JMarch 27 Rev. Father Fidelia (Sev 
 
 luBM Kent Stone), so well known as a Catholic scholar, orator, 
 
 tad divine, delivered a lecture in St. James' Church, James street 
 
 i **IlMGatholie Doctrine of Hell." The church was crowded every 
 
 I Ml being ooeupied. &i the aanctnaxy were seated the clergy 9f 
 
 1 6t Jamea^i and the Paasionist Fathers, the companions of Father 
 
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 A Stone in giving the grout mlHHioii now in i^i-o^nmH. ]Mm.m ^o 
 furthor we niu«i proHcnt our r<Mut«rH Avilh u briot' 
 
 • SKETCll OK FATHER KlDllLIS. 
 
 . He is a young prieai-a convert, fomoily a .nwn.>)«r of th.. i>,i.,l. 
 iHtii' ooinmunity-uow a Pawionist 111 the world, Kath.r Fidelw 
 wal-JliWei Reftt SKffltJ, a bTO of the Kov, Dr. Stoile-of 1 Won, now 
 at th« head of the KpiBOopal Theologic.il Seminary in C.uubridK« 
 Maw. Kent Stone grudi\atcd.wi(}i honom, from Harvard, a ineralKir 
 of the class of 'Ul. Ho was iramoiiatoly olfered the ProfertMorHhi|) of 
 Latin in Kenyon College, and at the age of 26 he l)ecftnie VnmA.ni 
 of that institution. VVhihi thwe he rtudiod theology with R.«hup 
 McUvaino of Ohio, with a view to becoming an Episcopal clorgy. 
 man la 1869 he acceipted the PreaideilcJ^ of Hob.*rt College, in Gc 
 
 Tcon JtWcfthoSr 'rte tJt Itoly prdbr. a^a^atlW.o Jmt 
 and was for some years a member of the -Congregation o St. 
 ' Paul" iPauliste , than joined the Austere Order of P.i«H.on.Ht. He » 
 the author orone or more Catholic books, is «r«atly endowed with 
 natural gifts :« a p*lpit orator and is noted fof an h^i^blo p.- 
 ous, sweet bearing, approachable alike by the poorent and humblest, 
 as well as by those of MgTioil >brldly station. Father Fiddi»k« 
 veen constently engaged in the duties of the mission at St. James 
 . every day for the past two weeks. He has preached wveral times. 
 
 HIS SERMON ON THE ANNUNCIATION, 
 
 LastMonday, "OurLady'sDay," excitedgreatemotionan^ongtho 
 -congregation. JHis first word's were, "Wonderful story I'Vand then 
 he proceodlHi. d^^ictingtbe sublime evente of the Annunciation and 
 aU that followed it. "An angel of God appeared tp this fift«en-yeM 
 oiamaid7nof Nf^areth, toannoupce, what?" And then he depicted 
 ti^ meaniiig of the Incarnation and Crucifixion of , our Lord. Ihe 
 Biased tiigin, stood «vt the foot of the Cross transfixed. Her comr 
 panion had fainted; Mary Magdalen lay prostrate, but the Blessed 
 
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 Virgin ntuod thi'm iw a MlatiiM ol" riiarhl«, in il I'lc ov,)' I (ui t-iM 
 by. SiiiH'oii hud liU-mlly jtinni'<| Imt to n firil ( < lohi. Slit- niuo<l 
 th'trn ; ilnri nciw oh)iu>, pitH I»iit)'Im niov(Hl hnr tu nit duwii. I'iiiHund 
 riivitront IumuIh took tjio nuilt out ul' tin) l)l(io(linj{ wuiiiul4 ot'uur 
 Ix)nl ; took down iho bjichhI body iind laid it. upon Miiry'n Inp. 
 "Thoy loft IliH dond body in thu lap of IliH inuthur I" oxclatni(^d 
 thu pruoohor. Hut, nioanwhilo Htich wiis thn ntorm of wut^ping and, 
 nobbing, cxcitod among bin huarers by tho vivid dolinontiotifl of 
 the Hoenfl tbattbfl ravurend gentleman had to atop for nomo uiinuUM 
 till quiot woH iflstorod. Even tho clnrgy in tho sanctuary, oh woU 
 AS tha people, were affected to team. Heldora, if over, hon nuch n 
 acene occurred in any church in this city. 
 
 It wtw in tbe biirry of all thoHo workn that Father Kidelin waa 
 callotl vipon to deliver tho following lochiro -^ 
 
 Ciitftife» VMi^tfi* tii^tdtft). 
 
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 Father Fidel is spoke as fo,UBnp-:-<— ' 
 
 I anfccalttd-^p^n, in tho press of a busy mission, to speak to 
 you not 08 a mis8ioner,but oa a; liecturer; and in coming beforo you 
 in this character, I findto^self ill at ease. Yet it is not for myself that 
 I am nervous, for I belong to an Order which counts it a joy to obey, 
 even at the expense of self-love: but I wn anxious on your account, 
 Icsi in presenting a subject so important as that which has been chrt. 
 sen, I should, by my unskilful hand, and by the hastiness of my 
 preparation, do poor justice to the subject— a subjecf which has be- 
 come at this time one of public curiosity. Nevertheless, I trust that 
 the Holy Spirit of Truth may so direct tho wordft spoken, that 
 not only no harm may follow but some real good must be done Oiie 
 of the most acute, aTwell as most religious thinkei's of the age 
 preceding our own, threw out a remark i^nce which I remember 
 I questioned very strongly when I read it years ago before this 
 
 
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 TOE PROTE8TAKT REIfOHMERS 
 
 i„ ih. .iitoenth Malury, with ril th.it .hr«wjn»«. m«i« on. 
 teXHll"; Tliy hU«t .bout the woA.ut r.n.a.U, 
 
 «Lt«l «.d "jcoM •. th., «ho«>, they reUmed wh.t pU»»i 
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 tX a .J.U.". of *«..o«y which .hould b. -tW«.o.T «« U» 
 mZ int.uLi«,d t. Ih, h««n b«ut to .UMn» ; but th.yn«U 
 n. n.UUk.. Among th. doctrine, of the old ch>«h wh.« th. « 
 ... f «.,«mt«rv Mid helU-the dootrino of punbhmeni and > 
 
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 'i^:™ «d wiU »*-«.. »Cify it by ™ut,t«*.g^.b. 
 doctrine of pa.g.to.y tor the old dogm. of h.U, b«t ,t wtll be 
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 ktritUiu^l^- '^>>'' 'i'^"y >'> ' •!• iiiiti. I'lui'xiitiii I ii<<w All* Ixtgi lining . 
 not lliop'ly l<i (loiilit, liul ini>ivl\ Ut ,iti Ilk, Iti <li<ny tint LiittJ) of ' 
 nil riml |iiiuimIiiii(UiI< mul lioiurii n ^Diutiuliou nltnW tiavo |»'uimi«I ,. 
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 imint will runmin unly in tim luturtM ut thuHti wliu am k(i|>t Hnu by 
 th« furoo ol (Juthulic t'liitli. TliiH diHOUtwion whioh luw tMongoitig 
 ua fur tho liVHt fuw inuntlii iutlut ij(tWM|)u|)urH un«l iu Uio ieoiulfk 
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 TO CAW UmN FfKIX INTO PIJH6aT()KY r 
 
 to cluingu thu (luctriuo ui uturnul puniaaiaontiQtotliat uf tuiupuml 
 puoiiihmuut, u punitilMnout wiuuh hIdUI uut Im rQlributivu, but 
 Dimply to nunovu I'ruiu thu aoul^ thu Htuiuo of mIu. Wull^ my dear 
 fnondB,tlitH i(t omr^tli'*" niffM of thu liuioH. It in u ruuiarkajblu faol 
 thai in no pruvioiiH ii^hanthui-u Ixutn any gunurol niovuntunt of tko 
 huiuuu iululli>ct ii^iiUHt tluH doutiiut) of uturnul puniMhinuat. it 
 Im a duoti-iuu which ih Mupportud, Ihm Uton ulwuyH HupitoiUtd by Iho 
 niomlHun^u of umukiud; u doctriuo wiiich wiiHuui\<iiiiiiUy boliuvud 
 'by pufjui. nivtiontt-who had no iduaofiipiu-gntoiy in thu pro|>er i^nso 
 of the word; u doctrinu which ih bulived now by. nil thoHU nutioim 
 whioh thu light of GhriHtiuuity iitis uuvur ruiichud; n dtxtcuiuu whioh 
 was Duver oiwAi ed by any hufusy — 1 ni«un, by any man who wah 
 ablo to command nuch a following, .'ih to create a hcc!. Thuiti woro 
 individual mun who, liku Origun, 4UUHtionud thu (joctrinu of tho 
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 Inpon thin point. Tho doctrinu wuh too plainly taught by the foun- 
 Ider of Christianity to admit of a quoatlon ho long oa His divinity 
 
 ras universally admitted. It is a doctrine which was too for* 
 ^ibly and repeatedly proclaimd in tlie Holy iScripturcs to be qa<»- 
 
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 hedged. I shftll not detain you hf any proof of this; I think it will 
 be admitted by you at onc^. Any one who is familiar with the 
 Sciptares particularly those of the New Testament, will recaUtwt 
 
 * after text which teaches und affirtos, ii. the moat solemn manner.tb 
 troth that those who wilfully and 
 
 Ol^SilKATELV* IJEJECT THE GRACE 
 
 and the mei-cy of Gk)d shall be cast out of His presence into exte. 
 rior daiktess where they shall be forever given over tohopoless and 
 
 • unmitigated woo. So long, then, as the truth of Christianity m 
 never questioned'- the fundamental truths of Chriatianity; the divi. 
 nity of its founder, the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures-so long 
 thed.^trinoofhellremaint,d luicliallenged. The Protestant wfor 
 men had not the cOurage lo go ho far as to strike out that from 
 their list- but as the work ol I'lotestantism has gone on, as iti 
 consequence . have become logically worked out to their concluMon 
 
 K;^'^' in rationalism, this denial luw become more and mor.. frequent. 
 
 '' ' If the doctrine of hell is to bo ovorthrown, you must give up the 
 • ^ ' Bible you must give up the divinty of Johsum Christ, And thu ha« 
 Vf/: ^ been ackaowlodged very plainly aud plumply by at least one m- 
 
 '' i dividual who has the merit of biing candid, whatever other fouli 
 
 he may have. 1 refer to a gentleman whom I have noen spokdu of 
 ^ in the newspapers as Mr » liob ' IngersolL He says, " ii we aw 
 
 to overthrow the doctiiue of eternal punishment We must get rid 
 '^* ' ■ of the Bible; therefore, 1 shal. go for the Bible. " And he u. 
 { \ "going for it" (^Laughter ) Poor man— perhaps, for eternal puniA- 
 ment too; God help him. My dear frinds why does Mr. IngersoU 
 feel BO uncomfortable about the doctrine of eternal punishment 
 IBVhy are men so uneasy about this matter, so d.sirous of getting rid 
 ^ 'A ©fit 1 For a very simple reason, my friends. It is because thisage of 
 ouw is one easy-going self-indulgence: it has not the stem, Bttong 
 ".>> . :': force of ages which have gone before it; men are not now as ihej 
 
 *'* 'f: J^'' : ^ere, such sturdy thinkers, such hard reasoners- it isan age of triflers; 
 an age of diUetantism; an epicwean age; and men find it very na- 
 
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 lidtingly rebukes their aelfiahneol aud terrifies their career of plea- 
 mx9 by tha ugly spectre of a conking retribution. "Let us get rid of 
 thedoctrinu of hell, and we sliall bo perfectly happy as long as we 
 live.- Let uu out and drink and bo merry and to-morroW we will 
 die and that will be the end of us. " 
 
 Hiere is one form of the attack upon this doctrine of eternal pun- \ 
 ishiuent, which rather amuses than puzzles me, and, that is the 
 
 ' KN LISTING OF MODERN SPIRITUA^liJ 
 
 in the cause. For some time past the spirits seem to have been 
 very uneasy about this doctrine of hell, and have been very an- 
 xious to make us ail believe that it is only a delusion. The burden ' 
 of messages which come from the other world now-a-days seems to 
 bear the cheering intelligence that after all thii next life is not such 
 a disugi'eeablu state ol existeucu — that there is a serene peace and 
 joy thei'e for all, and messages come as by some spiritual telepiione 
 from characters of all kinds, whom the old orthodox faith would 
 have consigned long ago, at least b^ a very strong probability, to A 
 Very dillereut state of existence than that wherQ they now propose 
 to find themselves. They tell us that everything is beautiful and 
 pleasant there; that there are plenty of joys, social, spiritual, inttl- 
 Llectual ; they tell us not to be afraid, for all will be right when we 
 pass the dark river of deathv^ there is no such thing as hell. Now 
 1 1 say that this testimony of modern spiritualism is to me somewhat 
 [amusing. My friends, for myself I really believe that the spirits 
 [have a great deal to do with it — the only question is 
 
 WHAT KIND OF SPIRITS THEY ARE. 
 
 There is of course, a great deal of nonsense and humbug about 
 I business of the manifestations of spirits, but I believe there is 
 k great deal in it that is real, that is pieternatxiral, and that the a 
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 intheattJtnptto delude a g.-eat mAuy poor'.HUols. It ma very old 
 trick of the devU. Before man fell- I Bpeak now asonowho^ 
 sumes the truth of the Chriatians religion— «^.od threatened retribu- 
 tion. That retribution was to be the death of the body and the doathof ' 
 l^e ioul. Now before the fall of man the Evil One suggested an atgu 
 menttoourfiretparents, which wasonly the hrst presentation of thU 
 very same argument that is now reproduced by modern spiritualigm. 
 He wanted U) take away fromout first parents the fear of God's jurt- 
 ice, the fear of that impending ruin which had been threatened; 
 therefore he came under a seductive form and he said: "Hath God 
 aaid that in the day that ye eat of the Iruit of the tree of knowledgeof 
 Kood and evil ye ahaU diel God knoweth that in the day ye eat tlwreof 
 ye shall become as gods, knowing good and evil. Yo shall not die." 
 And it was by taking away the fear of death that he induced them 
 to eat and to fall. Ho is now, I boliove, endeavoring to take away 
 out of the hearts of men the fear of boll, that, making the way that 
 leads downward smooth and attractive, ho may gather ma more 
 abundant hapvest of those whom his infernal malice would diag with 
 
 him into the eternal abyss. . 
 
 Well, my dear friends, there Ib one very practical way ot look 
 
 into at this subject, and I wonder, that it does not ofteuer occir 
 tothosewho seem so much interested intho controversy. Itwthw 
 that it isimpossible for any one to dispose of the do«trint> ot eter- 
 nal puniahni&it. You may argue about it as much afl you please, but 
 it is impoaaible to establish the certainty of the opposite proposition 
 via, that there is nosuch thing as eternal punishment. Now then, 
 thb being 80, is it not much better, much wiser,t3 put it practicaUy, 
 to be, as men say. 
 ., "ON THE SAVE SIDE?" 
 
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 him tho relics and various curiosities, and just as ho was going 
 the young man 8aid,laughing, " Well father [ kave seen the re- 
 fectory whore you fast and the clioii whore you Uvko the discip- . 
 line, getting up in tho cold winter nights to sing tho office. You 
 have beon hero a long time, father, and you have worked Jwrd for 
 your salvation; it has been a hard life for you. Now, father wouldn't 
 it be a rather bad joke ou you if you should wake up after all and 
 find there was no heaven ! " 'Laughter). 
 
 "My son," said tho old man, 'Vould it not be a bad thing for you 
 if you should wake up and lind, alas! that there toasa. hell! " Ah! 
 my dear friends, indeed this is no joking matter. There is a hoU. I 
 aay this as a priest; I speak to you as Catholics; there is a ho'l, and 
 the punishment thereof is eternal. This is Catolic faith; this must 
 be believed. You as Catholics need n'> proof of this; it is sufficient 
 that the Church teache« for-you to believe; nevertheless in appear- 
 ing before you to-night, I would wish to spealc not as a preacher, 
 but as a lecturer, to try and show you as well as I ton tho 
 
 REASONABLENESS OF THE DOCTRINE 
 
 how it harmonizes with that natural light of reason which God 
 has given us, and how 'al^ it is inseparably bound up with all 
 that goes to make life most dear and the future bright with h pe. I 
 have stated the Catholic doctrine already, and I have stated it in 
 iUi fullest extent; that is, all the Church has defined conceining the 
 doctrine of hell-that there is a hell and that the punishment 
 is eternal. Yet there are other truths, others directly defined by the 
 Church or universally accepted by tho faithful which have a 
 bearing on this subject. The fifst is this: that God condemns no 
 man unl«s he deserves it; that no one is lost except through his 
 ' own fault; that no one therefore can suffer eternal punishment un- 
 less he willfully and obstinately chooses so^ do. Now, my dear 
 friends, you see at the very outset that this doctrine of hell contjiins 
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 furtkei and try to skow you that it if absolutely proved by reason, 
 by argumonte which are concluttivo. If wo 
 
 ADMIT THAT THERE IS A GOD 
 
 at all. Ho must be an indnitebeing.porsonaljnd free, endowed with 
 ftU perfeofcion; He created men personal and free, made him to 
 HiA'own image and likeness. Now, then, man having been endowed 
 by his Creator with the gift of freewill, was able to sin, for the 
 possibility of sin is involved in the very ideaof free will. The on- 
 gin of evil is, ftnA always has been considered, the most difficult 
 problem in philosophy and in religion; it cannot be solved ; I shall 
 not attempt to solve it. It is evident, however, that if God Ava« to 
 create a f^ being at all, the possibility of sin must bo in hisvory 
 nature, Man did sin ; evil entered into God's miiverse^ the order of 
 creation was disturbed. Now. God found Himself, if I may use 
 this language, found Himself in the face of a difficulty, for the fi«t 
 time. There w^auew'problem to besolved; a new attnbute of.the 
 
 divine nature was calletl into 6\eilcifle; hitherto only the goodness 
 of God and the power of God had been displayed, but when man 
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 began to act. And what is justice ^Justice is the hatred of evil; 
 justice is the ami which defends goodness : justico t8 goodness; 
 they are not different attributes, but rather the same attribute Viewed 
 from differ^t sides, for as gdodness creates and preserves, so justice 
 defends. Justice is that which secures the vork of God, which gives 
 the law of God its perpetuity, its stability; its divine sanction 
 What is meant by the sanction of a lawT It i» that penalty which 
 gives to the tewits security ; it is that which compels obedience to 
 Uie law : that without which Uw would have no fo?ce. Now, then. 
 ' thelawBof God which govern thi^monai univefte must have a sanc- 
 tion J if it wore not so, the moral oration would fell in an instant 
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 justico— nil three identical in tlio same Divino preaenci^ — combinod . 
 together in the work of creation. Moreover, the justico of God de- 
 mands that the punishment attached to willful and persistent sin 
 should be an eternal punishuieut Tins is really the luost important 
 part of the subject— 
 
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 THE ETEENITY OF THtE PUNISHMENT 
 
 My dear friends, beginnings and conclusions must) necessarily bo 
 eternal : that is to say a boginuing is eternal, it has an eternity bo- 
 fore it, otlierwise it would not be a beginnwg ; a conclusion is eter- 
 nal, otherwise it would not be a conclusion. Outside of God there 
 must be a beginning and a conclusion to all things. God has neither 
 beginning nor end ; His eternity is different from all other eternities, "" 
 it is an infinite, present existence, but to everything else there is a 
 beginning and an end, and the moral order there must cause an end 
 and that end must, of necessity, be eternal, otherwise it would not 
 bean end. When God plwsed man in the moral order, and gave 
 him an opportunity to use his free will — in other words, when Ho 
 put Him on probation. There, must of necessity have been an end 
 to that prcbalion, and that end was eternal ; there was a point be- 
 yond which probation ceased, and the state in which man found 
 himself at the ^rxd of his probation must' be a fixed and an etdmal 
 state, either for good or for evil. There is only .one escape from this 
 beginning-and that is not an escape. It is by holding that the end 
 of our probation is ill other words, the end of our present life — is 
 
 ANNIHILATION. 
 
 But this would neither be punishment sufficient to scure the 
 bbediuice of man, nor, to vindicate the justice of God. Annihila- 
 tion would be a punishment it is true, but a punishment so light 
 that men woidd>even desire it-^men have desired it. To cease to 
 be^to cease forever— oh! yes, this is what men, who are tired of 
 sinning, have diaircd and long e d for; it would b e an e sca pe from 
 
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 ^1 ta V ctoriou, ovor Ood. Mor«.yer, it would be .n on*», 
 Ich would overthrow the outiro doctrine eo„eem.ng th, etcm,i, 
 rfm«>'..xi»i,ne.,theimmo,talityofhU eoul, for ,1 .nmh,laU« 
 tZ^ 1» the one cu.e, .t would follow necc«.nly .n anoA.,, 
 aid tf ther. be no et..™.l death, then there i, no eten..l hfo:. ». 
 removed f«>n, the h„n.in heart, «, .1«. wonld hop,, be ,»k« 
 u'rrNo. the only logie.1 conolu^ion of . n,or.l proW.ou ,. » 
 « of .i»t»nee eithe. for h.pp««- or for n.,ee,y. So much t,r 
 the rranonl slatamont of dootrino and its proof, 
 
 Tp~P^, my dear frinde, during the tin,, that i» lef ««, to 
 U, Jk .TSctholic doctrine a little cloeer^ »n.ly- ^-™d 
 Thi^ wr.hall ftnd that not only in it, flrrt gn.nd afflrmatu-n b. 
 11;.U it. de«l, it i. a «».«nable d<«trine. thaUt ,a ho™« 
 fcy th. teatimonyof our inottoct, of our "»»« «■'»' '"^J[ "^^^^^ 
 iorieo which nmk. .u, hope for future happ.n««. The lo».« of th. 
 I^^^^rlingto received Catholic doctrine, i. total andenfre;.*,. 
 
 THE LOSS OF GOD^ 
 
 ana that involves the lo« of all happin«. Jut ^";;j^^;7^, 
 of God Uperfect WItude. hli« '^-^^"l^-^ ^Z^^ 
 attain .».our destined end '»™''" ^•^'^■"r";!;;'^;^ soul 
 
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 receive." "^ 'tis only when^^w.^^»P.a^*;^«/^ 
 heaven that we really comprehend a. aU the misery oi , 
 ■ ^Z^ with the light that th. d»in«s became. v,«bl. G^ 
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 and there shall be a beatitude of this sense of sight hereafter, VWe 
 
 - jiwd in Holy Scriptur« of the vision of God, the viBiow)f the Ki])g 
 in His beauty: "My eyes shall see the King in His bciaiity,*' "l^f 
 eyes shall behold Him, but not now." And here in this yiflihle 
 creation God has given us intimations of Hi» beauty aifd of Hui 
 glory— in the beauty of the sunrise and of the evei^ng; the beauty^ 
 of waters that sparkle on a starry night; the beauty, of the flower 
 
 ^ that pushes itself up beneath the mossy ston«: the beauty of tijHB 
 human countenance; the majesty of that royal form wh^jb €k)4 
 
 V, created to bo King over His creatures; beauty indescribable, lavuh^ 
 ed scattered every whore-all this God ^ve us only to lemindjusof 
 Himself, and all this compared with tl e glory of the hereaftw it* 
 ](/at the smoke before the fire, but the first streidf of dawn befon 
 the break of day. Oh, my friends, is it unreasonble to believe that 
 if we abuse this sense of eight which God has givn us; if wepiot- 
 titute it to look upon scenes which sully and stain the soul/whioh 
 iBcarit as by a h)t iioh,that the sense of eight shall be pnniahed 
 
 * with what Holy Scripture calls the "stimn of darkness forever,* 
 the exterior, outer darkness of hellf God gave us not merely 
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 in the soul. God intends this sense of hearing also for an etenud . 
 eiyoyment. We read of the alleluias which echo through eternity; 
 of the sweet songs that are sung by the blessed in heaven. AnJ\ 
 here in this life all the music of nature comee to us only to reminft 
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 fowBt tree«; tho laughter of the vrave« upon the ehoro; the song- of 
 
 the birda at dawn of duy; tho intricate mclodioB of nong-ull tho*, 
 
 do but remindfl us of Homothing indo8crib«blo which ih to bo. My 
 
 dear friends, i. it unroa«onablo to suppom, tlmt if wo abmo thm 
 
 sense of hearing, divinely given u«. to lint^n to words that drop 
 
 like scorching pitch upon the soul, defiling and staining it; if mto 
 
 the ears of others we pour our vile wordn of impurity and shame. 
 
 out scorching, blUtering words of hate and anger and cruelty, our 
 
 blABPhemous words against God, His justice and His mercy, u U 
 
 unreasonable to snppoee that we shall be punished hereafter by 
 
 sounds of ♦•►weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth,' m Ibt 
 
 abode where no more kind or gentle or hopeful word slmll com« 
 
 forever and forever^ There is another sense, 
 
 THE SENSE OK TASTE, 
 
 and God has dignified this sense in a degree above all others. 
 Here, in the time of our mortal life, God has given us a banquet 
 which ^B really a divine foretaste of the heavenly banciuet, tho mav- 
 riage'Buppet of the Umb. Upon our poor tongues Ho comes to- 
 Z Him^ff; He gives us as, our very food and drink H» own 
 t^cious body and blood/ Oh! is it unreasonable to beheve th t t 
 ^^postit^e'this divinely <ii«nifiod sense of l^stete HoU.n^^^^^ 
 11, gluttony, beastility and drunknoss, we «hall be punfsh d 
 Ste^ by that hunger and thirst which shall consume forever. 
 There is still anot.hr sense, 
 
 THE SUBTLE SENSE OF TOUCH; 
 
 a sense which is hot local like the others; which is not confined to 
 any ..ne organ, but pervades the whole body. Oh! my friends, arc 
 7S2 2y who know only too well that quick-fire of passion 
 that fierce, burning heat which .ourses through the veins, and 
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 'to believe in the flie of hoH if we hoo it ftlraoot iwtuftlly begun in 
 thJB life- And I hiivo Boon imn wIjo mwnioi} to lie litomlly on fire 
 within. No, my frioudH, ov«n in tlmt which is iiiOHt r<3Voltuiig 
 I to tho fiwtidioUH intftlloflla of our diy, tho jmin of hoiihc, thoro u 
 ■othing Unit in contiury to mwiul rctinon, nor to tliat which ourn.. 
 turul hojMiH and imrn would Inud us to ((xprct. 
 
 Wh«n wo comn to.conHidor Unit which is tlie roul onHontial pain 
 of hell, w« may find it more dilHciilt to npoak intoli{gibI|r, an^ yet 
 there iH more which, to my mind, iiiHpires well grounded terror. 
 I know that it it moro conuDon to dwell ujwn the eensible tor- 
 ments of hell; they are bettor appreciated by those who live or- 
 dinory lives and are not accuHtomed to think much upon spiri- 
 tnal matters; but 1 really think that there in more that begets 
 horror' and affright in that which is philosophically and theolo- 
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 Let us see what this pain mean?. I have said that no man is loflt 
 except by his own fault, because he deliberately chooses to be lost. 
 Sin is the deliberate turning away of the' soul from God — aversion 
 from the Unchangable Good. It is not God who changes, it is the 
 goal, it is man who changes, who turns away fiotn God; so that mortal 
 sin i8,*«s St Thomas affirtna "aversioa'b iticommufahiti bono. " And 
 the soul which turns away finally, turns away forever; for, iliy dear 
 friends, it is impossible for us to turn back to God of onr ownslevos. 
 He is infinite, and we are finite ; and having gone away from Him, 
 He must draw ua back by His will. We cannot joach Him withont 
 His help ; and this help we call grace. But the very idea of proba- 
 tion implies a fixed limit to grace, and determines a point where 
 liberty of act on in this matter is impossible. When God has 
 'wuted until His justice demands that He wait no longer, He with- 
 I draws and the soul left to i^i^elf, having passed the boundary of 
 I iti probation rqfnains fixed forevtr, tumjidaway from^d — turned 
 mjvi {dlite faculties. Now as we consider thc!^B|ushment of 
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 puniBhmont of th« Houl-tlvo lw« of God in th'> throe fucultiw of 
 ttndowtttndiog, will, ftnd memory, tt ia by hiB 
 
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 that flret, dJTino, God-liko fnculty, that ^on i» .lostin.'d to know 
 God. *rho boatJHc viiion ii. tho dir«ct, immodiuto oomprMhonsionof 
 God by the inteUoct when by the light of «l(>ry wo »huU wo Him. 
 the veil having b«)eu withdrawn. 8ince, theroforo, man wuh cn«tod 
 to enjoy God to poMw* llim by his inUdWt, to lose Him forever 
 moat bo a pain infinite and indescribable. Oh, my dear friends, at 
 present we are able in some mooHuro to distract oursolvim from the 
 ♦h ought of God. Wo wor« created to know Him, to bco Hini,an.l 
 if we do not wo are unhajjpy, ' 
 
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 " Thou hast made us 0, Ix)rd ! for Thysolf, and oursouls aie rcst- 
 lese until they rest in Thee" Yet now we are able to dibtitict ouh 
 selves from God, and some do not realize what it is to have loit 
 Him even temporally and partially. Wo have our business, our 
 pleasures, we luive our daily routine of duties, our newspapers, out. 
 books our conversations, our lectures our dissipations, and so we 
 go on day after day with a continue, incessant distraction and 
 never think of God. Alas 1 my frieniM, if the time should come, if 
 it should come to any of us, wjien there sliall be nothing to distract 
 tts from God and th^it wel^uld find that we had Iqst Him-lort 
 Him,for.whom w© were croited — and that our heart/ which was 80 
 
 vast that nothing but God could fill it, is left empty and desolate 
 forever— left empty as the bed of the ocean might be left if iti 
 watery were to be dried up and that great yawning a^ should 
 - lemato there fbrever,-* ghastly 4epth, covered over wjth dead; d«- 
 a^ying remains of mighty monsters and rotting rubbisli! Even so tho 
 tool from which God has gane away forever is a horrid void.filled 
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 H^Trid truth! There arc liiei. who oven now live on in the hatred 
 
 7(hd- the hatred o? all tliat in good, hatred of Ood 8 »ner«y; hiir 
 
 'ITo, all which Mb did ia order to display H.« mercy; hatr^oC 
 
 ".a mean- of grace which Ho han given as in order to atUm 
 
 unto the fullness of His love; hatred of the cross and of Him who 
 
 died upon it. hatredofHis Blessed Motherand of H« <ie*r«ji«ta; 
 
 hatred of tho sacraments; hatred of the wounds and of aU the 
 
 blood tliat foil from the wounds of Jostu, 1 But what would it be 
 
 to be left forever, tUod forever in the indescribable malice of such 
 
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 somewhat more easily, at least more vividly, the auiferiilgf 
 
 which the lost endure by the faculty of their memory. -«^, , 
 
 The memory might well be called the photographic po^ 
 of the .oul; that is to say. it is that faculty whicK leceive. and 
 retains impressions. It is power infinitely minute, capable of t^jeir- 
 ing injpressions with an ipfinitesimal accuraoy,a mttcroeoopw nine- 
 ty. We only see. in general, the rough outUneae of the pi<*ttr« 
 of memory; but now and then we have a proof of l»ow deh«»t. i*r 
 BMceptibilitiee are. and how far its powibUitiea extend. TheM ii^ 
 nothing which ever happened to us, which wa. «^o' 'P^^^ 
 ho thought which ever cro«»d ouj brain, which iiwdli^birti^t^ 
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 •vhiU in ibM bftokground lomewhert, in ■ome tUrk oornnr, unm 
 illje of our mamory, b«it it i» thorn •till aad ca|»ahU) of ropitxlue. 
 |ft%' ^' 'lioo. Thiak thuu, my friMuU, whiit intutt Ira the iudMorilnhlo (o^ 
 *^ 'fiiro of thow) bitfora whom int«lluctual vimIuu tho whulu |HiMt«biit 
 be HprMti oat, dintioci, unalt»rabi«i, with nothing to hindor th«m 
 trom going over it dl, horn boginiag to end beck ward* and forwarda, 
 lbnr*rd»aDd beokwarde, through all utemitjf iThe inuuiory of til thtt 
 Ood «T«r tiid for thflni -4UI th« opiiortuailie» wluali H« ever boHiuwml 
 npoa them; all tho gtMMe with which he ev«r M«iatedand uuticed 
 them; all the illuiiiiuatiun by which llo doiiir«Ml to awakou thorn; «U 
 the warning* whcruby ile aoughl to avort them from ilieir aMlf-AU. 
 oted doom, all thcrel and so thero tliat tho aoul cannot help Iwhold- 
 iog them. I: i« not merely that the aoul i» able toaeo all thia, hot 
 it cannot help aoeing it. You liave ruud of ihu punishment wbiok 
 waa inflicted by thu CaiihaguniuUM uiMflpio Itoman Ueneral, Kegu- 
 lus, when tliuy cut oil' his uyelidH ana' laid him bound upon th« 
 MUida of fhe desert ao that ho might gazo und gazu, without reFittf, 
 up into tliat burning i^'rioan aky. Moru terrible than this murt 
 be the apectacle of tho past aa it preHsea upon the viaion of Uio 
 loatr Itemember, also, tliat it ia not alone the memory of which is 
 defiQntiedand dark, but of that aino which is beautiful, which giviM 
 pafailpnd the greateat pain, What is it which given the deepest 
 the most inoonununicable anguish in tliis lifet It ianot tlie 
 of aluek joyf There is pain in looking b^k upon that wki(! 
 tiaringly beautiful, because its bMuty ugone forever, 
 toi^h of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that la am 
 Ihom )i«w tnaqy haoum hearts such a cry uoea up from day to day. 
 'uMve.jyjj^T a lost wanderer this night upon your streets who 
 looks 1'ilJpWn|y|pt''^]^ does no< look back, who does not 4are to 
 look '■^'''^^f^SK becpi^se it it so hopelessly, so mockingly 
 
 b>o ntif ttM^H|fc<l^roc»ak' to lUlLPOor girl who waits for the night 
 to oofw Kprlhanl^aB she sUmcs along the street Go to her; ask' 
 kwlfl^ irememben the time when she knelt at her mother's knee;^ 
 HiAm inniemben the days when the blue sky seemed so near and 
 Ihe %Mr saiig so sweetly , in the morning, and when she langhed 
 
 
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 j^ h«r broihnr alpU/. A«k hnr Ifiht Mtnumbnm thi «hqiek 
 jiyi imr flnt nuinmutibn, whon the wtiut up to tha AltAr*mil !■ 
 Iir liitlfl whiiu Jr<|iii» 'M|M^ *^* v*^' which wm not mur« par« Ibtfi 
 1m yuang t'«»ni>i)>wii mV" '-'"^ priiMt oiuiio down from Ui« alUr 
 •ad f(^r tl)|0 |fi| f(p|i nbwfiiui llul> of IIuIiom upon hur \i\f, Mk her 
 
 if ihii tvi*!><%<iKftl'''' l''>'^'tf'** '^'i*' ''^'^ ^''^ *''** '^"'*w"' 70*1^ '^^' 
 f ,|||ii||uiiM, il Hhn slop* to luUin to yon, »\w will anawer not 
 U*«Mnfbut falling down, will w«op her anguiah at yoar faat 
 (8«n«tion.) Ylb, the thought uf that which waa lovely in Um 
 ■Ml bfloomoH a torture, if titat pait ia a ioat peal. Even ao, tli* 
 ■anory of all dear aoenee, of all beloved cotupaoiona, of all Um 
 kopfa, the opportunitiea, the gloriona iKMnibili^iee, of a lift whidi 
 hM oloaed hopeleealy will be a torment to th« Ioat joul for all etet' 
 aity. What, for inatauce, would bo thit recollection of auoh a miaaioB 
 M that in which w* are now engaged, the eohj of the meaaageof 
 Ood'a gentlaneea and long anfluring— tlie memory of the OraeiilZ| 
 beneath which 1 atand, the phantom of Oar Lord Jeana Chrial 
 Bailed to the Croaa, with Hia handa and feet bleeding, the laatdrop 
 kraing from hia pierced aide I There will bo no oruoiflx in helL. 
 It will be only a memory —a memory which will pierce forever the 
 leala of thoae for whom He died in vain 
 
 My dear frionda, 1 liat^e come to my end, and I And waiting for 
 me at the end the moat pathetic thought. 1 have apokbn of the me- 
 mory of the Cruoilixion. It will not be a memol-y without reproach 
 Let wta^ -yooi^a it a.meaningleaa picture now i' ^ Waa it a mean' 
 inglJMtorifice when it waa aocomplia^ed upon dalvary 1 If you 
 wiah an argument for the truth of eternal puniahment, I point you 
 to it there. l)o you believe Uiat He whooune down from heavan 
 and waa bom of a viigin, and who died upon a oroea, do yon bali- 
 avd that He waa Oodt Do jou t If you do, tell lue do jon think 
 He auffered all that for nauglEtl Did Gud atoop U> auck a laviah 
 diapby of love, auoh a waato of Mtravagant pa^ion, all to point a 
 dramatic tale to adorn a divine romance t No, my dear friends, if 
 there ia no hell there was no need for God to bmome man ; there 
 was db need for God to be aoourged at a pillar, to be crowned with 
 tboma and nailod to a cross ; there ia no meaning in the death of 
 
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 JmiB Chriit Ah I my beloved, look at tbril pUUble fo^m; 
 
 HimM He twUi there dead in Mar/e Up at the foot of the 
 
 with His armaetill open aaifto invite poor ninnera to Hi« eml 
 
 iok at Him, and look at her in hex mawnal woe, desolate, 
 
 •T«e that look at Him and see Him not - look at Him and look 
 
 her if you would know something of tl.e reality of hell. Wl 
 
 must it be. that a God should go su far t> save us from it UTi 
 
 ceive yourselves, my friends. God has loved you from alleten. 
 
 , And love is not an idle game. One connot with impunity 
 
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