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Show CHRISTIAN BURIAL REFUSED. Bishop Ludden'sTreatment of Violators Violat-ors of the Sabbath. Bishop Ludden, of Syracuse, has taken stringent measures to enforce the proper observance of Sunday in his diocese. He recently promulgated a rule that the honors of Christian burial would be refused to those who die by accident on the Lord's. Day, having culpably violated its duties and obligations. obliga-tions. ' That he intends strictly to enforce this rule is shown by his action in the case of William F. Murphy, aged nineteen, nine-teen, who was drowned a week ago last. Sunday while fishing at Tully, a resort near Syracuse. Young Murphy with four or five com-, panions of his own age left the city Saturday, afternoon to spend the night and Sunday at Tully, fishint and boating. boat-ing. After breakfast Sunday morning he, with a companion, started out in a boat to fish. Shortly after they reached the lake the boat capsized and Murphy was drowned. The bishop prohibited the church services which were to have taken place Wednesday morning at the cathedral ca-thedral of the Immaculate Conception. His claim is based on the fact that Murphy did not attend mass on Sunday Sun-day and, consequently violated the third commandment. ! The bishop further said: ! Many who call themselves Christians Chris-tians and pome who call themselves Catholics start out on Saturday -nights and Sunday mornings to spend the Sundays at some pleasure resorts, places of very questionable amusements amuse-ments such as dancing, midways and drinking places. AIL these forget the observance of the Third Commandment, Command-ment, "Keep holy the Sabbath day." Apart from the ethical question of appearing at these resorts, every Catholic knows that he is bound to attend at-tend at divine 'service and hear mass on Sunday and by the culnable omission omis-sion of this duty he constitutes himself him-self in. the state of mortal sin. While the Sabbath is made for man, man is made for God. Hence the first duty on the Sabbath is to give glory to God according to prescribed forms of divine service, then sanctified rest and innocent recreation. Owing to the manner of our Sunday observance with its crowded excursions on land and water, accidents are frequent. Crowded cars are wrecked, fishing boats are upturned and violent quarrels quar-rels take place at dancing and drinking drink-ing places. Of course the sin of neglecting neg-lecting mass by going abroad, except the scandal given to others, is no greater than the sin of neglecting mass when remaining at home. In either case a Catholic sins greviously and non-repentant, does not deserve Christian honors living or dead. Catholics who are Catholics only in name are the most grievous deceivers of their own souls and the "greatest scandal to others. |