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Show 4 4" 4 4" 4- I : Father Cushnahan's Tribute : I 4- : to Sntermountain Catholic : 1 - (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) Ogden. April 24 The choir of St. Joseph's Jo-seph's repeated their beautiful mass of Easter Sunday, last Sunday. The mass they rendered so beautifully on both occasions' was Millard's in B. The precision in its rendition and the many evidences of careful and painstaking training reflect credit on the members. mem-bers. The pastor and congregation are justly proud cf their choir, it being one of the best in the city. Father Cushnahan at both masses called the attention of parents to the fact of the near approach of the time for the children to make their first holy communion and receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, and impressed upon them the necessity of their being thoroughly thor-oughly prepared to receive worthily the great sacraments. He said three factors were necessary to educate the children who were to take our places after we were gone, viz., the church, the school and the home. He said the influence of church and school would he neutralized to a great extent if the home was not Christian. The home was Christianized very largely through the literature that was brought into it by the example of the parents. The press, said he, today is the med-'urn; for good or evil, and he thanked God that right in their own diocese they had the influence of the Christian press in The Intermountain Catholic that unflinching un-flinching supporter and able and prudent pru-dent expoundar of Catholic truth. He said three things should ' make the Catholics of his parish subscribe for and support The Intermountain Catho lic: First, the duty they owe to their children to provide them with good Christian reading; second, the loyalty that all Catholics owe to their bishop and their diocese because this was established es-tablished right at the head of dio- j' cesan authority, and third, the grati- l tude that they in common with all other Catholics owe to the whole-souled whole-souled and generous man who put hi3 money into the paper solely and simply j for the love of mother church. He ' said we in particular owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Tarbet, because when he and soma members of the Hiber' niana called at the office of the paper and paid it a friendly visit. Mr. Tarbet, Tar-bet, unsolicited and unasked, requested request-ed his clerk to write out a check as a donation to their new church. He said such acts as those were the acta of a man and a Christian, and every man ; who is able to appreciate a noble work j: should aid and assist him in his enter- 1 prise. Be not satisfied with simply f paying your subscription; say a good word for the paper when you can. Con- tribute Catholic news to it when yon can; be united, and shoulder to shoul- f der let us fight the cause of God and . j country, were his closing remarks. If the Intermountain Catholic has not -j a wide subscription list in Ogden, it is not Father Cushnahan's fault, because this is a very small part of what ha said in its behalf. |