Remuera

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1913, Page 47

Remuera

(From our own correspondent.) In response to Monsignor Brodie's appeal, locally, for the new orphanage, a goodly sum has been subscribed. The children attending St. Joseph's School contributed the sum of £5. The monthly Communion of the Children of Mary was well attended on Sunday last. The general meeting took place in the afternoon, and after an instructive address on gentleness by the spiritual director, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given.

A most enjoyable social gathering took place in, the schoolroom on Wednesday evening last. The function was promoted by the members of the choir in aid of the organ fund, and was most successful. The euchre prizes went to Miss O’Keefe and Mr. Maurice Sexton. Musical items were contributed by Misses Desmond, Frost, and Zainey, and Mr. -Wright,

Speaking at the late Mass on Sunday last Father Doyle said there seemed to be in these days of ours a conspiracy against belief in the real existence of hell. To-day we have a group of students going on for the ministry who deliberately put their names to, a document denying the existence of hell, and yesterday the papers told us of the whereabouts of a non-Catholic preacher who calmly abolished hell, and claimed, in consequence, to have won many converts to his church. Putting aside, for the moment, all Scriptural and traditional proofs, Father Doyle said the best antidote to this conspiracy would be an appeal to everyday common sense. The speaker showed by aid of analogy that just as a coercive and penal police service is a necessary equipment in every properly organised State, so, too, is such a service, in a spiritual sense, necessary in the department of religious morality. Furthermore, Father Doyle said there is quite enough evidence to prove that an eternal hell is part of the Christian revelation, just as the Trinity, and the Incarnation, and the Redemption are part of the Christian revelation ; and what is revealed must be believed. To be consistent at all, then, people who accept the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption on the evidence of revelation must also accept the doctrine of hell.