FATHER HENNEBERRY IN WAX CANDLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 828, 9 December 1878, Page 2

FATHER HENNEBERRY IN WAX CANDLES.

(teom our own correspondent.) Auckland, Dec. 7. At the mission last night, Father Henneberry announced that a temperance procession would take place at half-past

■i.iiree to-morrow. The congregation would move through a large portion of the city, i'iie closing services would take place at seven o'clock on Sunday evening. On that occasion he desired the whole congregation j havft !>•' ••■'.'-••■ ax cnnll-'s .'» -heir hnnds. V" -■„. .[.I hold up iLc-i-.- I-,;. ■ .::.T.i!P.*,

•'.•.•len th«y would renew the!'- b:ij-ti.->mai -. u'.rs. The reason why these \. ;ix c.unlles were to be bought was that every good Catholic was expected to make a present of wax candles to his church, as was done in other places, where the churches were plentifully supplied by the people. Those "ho belenged to the church would leave their candles here, while others who were

i-onmvied with churches in other di;tricts wfjiilii take their candles with them to present to their churches. IHe rev.

entleman went on to speak of the efficaciousness of wax candles. He advised all his hearers to keep them in their houses. They were particularly efficacious when lighted in the chamber of a dying man. it was thought by the fathers of the Church that while in health only one lemon tempted a man, but when he was on his death bed in his last moments ten or more demons would crowd about him, endeavoring to seize the last opportunity to tempt him to the ruin of his soul, before the angels of God took him away from their reach for ever. So great had been the success of his mission that the supply of wax candles had been exhausted in the Colony, and merchants, finding the great demand for these candles, endeavored to procure supplies from Australia, but were unsuccessful; but he (Father Henneberry) had obtained a whole ton of wax candles from America. A great part of those had been already consumed, but there was a supply still remaining, and they would be supplied at the same price as they were sold at in America. Some people might say that he was " making a pile " by the sale of these things, but lie never received one penny from the sale of religious objects. If any profits were left over the amount paid for freight, they would be devoted to religious objects.