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Show ONE CHURCH NEVER CLOSED. A Catholic Answer to the Question: "Are Churches Closed Too MuchP" , Several Boston clergymen ansAvered the question proposed in the Sunday ' Globe, "Are the Churches Closed Too I Much?" The Catholic idea was supplied j by Rev. N. 11. Walsh of the cathedral, Avho Avrote: ' To a Catholic Avho believes that the ' Catholic church is the true church of Christ, and that it is charged Avith the ' mission of eternal sah'ation to all man kind, there can be no cessation of the labors of the priest of Christ and the salvation of the Hock. 4 The eternal cry comes forth from 4 heaven, "Watchman, Avhat of the j night? And the priest of God is bound, in season and out of season, to give an- 4 SAver to the call, for the call is o .' a soul, d Whether this call come in the bright- J ness of the day or the darkness of mid- j ! night, the priest of the Catholic church I hears the call of the soul Avhich is j about to depart from this life to meet 4 its eternal Lord and .Judge. He starts at the call, and administers to the dy- 1 ing penitent the last solemn rites and sacraments of Jesus Christ, to insure 4 its hapy and peaceful flight to eternity. A The command of Christ, "Watch and I pray, for ye knoAv not the hour," knows no time or season, circumstance or per- 4 son. and must be attended to as strict- 4 ly in the morning as the evening, sum- I mer or Avinter, Avhile the AA-orld shall J last. a Why? Because it is the salvation of I a soul for Avhom Christ died. For Christ T has said, "I will come as a thief in the Q night, and at what hour you do not A think the Son of Man shall come." I Therefore, the pastor of souls under ? Jesus Christ, imitating his ministry, Avhich kneAv no rest, must snend him- A ! self, as Christ himself, at all times, A ' at all inconvenience, at all seasons, by Y ! day or by night, for the' sanation of ; those for Avhom Christ died. And so, 1 in command Avith and in response to i : the command and Avish of Christ, his , church never can be closed, but must y I be open to his flock as the house of his A father. X |