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Show BUTTE. . Office of The Intel-mountain Catholic, 47 East Broadway, Butte, Mont., Hugh E. Ryan, Manager. TEAST OF THE HOLY NAME. i The rongresjation of St. Patrick's church listened to an eloquent sermon Sunday morning by Rev. Father Mc-Cord Mc-Cord of New York, who is in the city visiting- his sister, Mrs. George MoDon- j 1 aid of the west side. The reverend i 1 Father spoke of the "Feast of the Holy ; I Name." and his eloquence thrilled the ; j vast audience. He is a foiveful, mag- ( IiU'iic, unctions speaker, whose polished ' manner and easy delivery, pointed off with pungency and sparkling rhetoric, j ,. carry out to the audience conviction of I the most pronounced nature. His ser- inon was too short, the auditors craved i more, and when the hist sentenw of iJk jm ) tji ation was uttered the hundreds of listeners bowed their heads in reverence, rever-ence, in contemplation of a most touching touch-ing pronunciation of the holy name. The subject of the discourse was one which brought home the truth and force of the acts committed in the routine rou-tine of everyday life the violation of a sacred vow. the breaking of a solemn i vow made in youth at the altar or in the home, when the catechism was read or a chapter from Holy Writ explain- ! d. The respect due the Creator is too often lost sight of in the worldly hour I of seeking things ungodly. The parent 1 in moments of .abstraction commits the I great error of taking the Lord's name I in vain, and this in the presence of the children of his family, in the presence I of women, in the presence of men who I object to such language. Only too of-I of-I leu does the father enter his house with I the taint of blasphemy upon his lips, when in its stead there should be the sweet-scented words of greeting, of pa- j ternal consideration, of paternal love, j At the table some one or more of the elderly members of the family might i so far forge: himself as to utter words which in his own tender youth he frowned to scorn. The child is there, it , is in the formative age, what it hears j parents say it takes for granted as the proper expression, and right there it forms in its own mind the impression that what has just been said is a new-phrase new-phrase it can with propriety use at any time or in any place. Another awful sin is the practice of Feandalizing the neighbor. Especially criminal is such practice when the child's ear is turned on the conversation. conversa-tion. The child is then taught to regard re-gard every one in the light of a miscreant mis-creant until time or actions shall prove him to be otherwise. God gave the father and mother the little child with the command that it be instructed in j.reordanee with the teachings of the P.iMe: that its heart shall not be tainted taint-ed by the foul atmosphere of blasphemy. blas-phemy. Let the Sight of righteousness and of purity shine upon the child life, and through the parent let this light so shine. |