NASEBY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 76, 10 October 1874, Page 8

NASEBY.

I pbbbumb your readers hare ere this heard through (he local paper* ol the sudden death of Dr. Dick, a man moit dear to the people of Aueby, and to the H.A.C.B. Society iy particular, on account of hit' urbanity and . assiduous attention to the necessities of hit patient*. Our worthy pastor lias returned from hi* tour to Clyde, Cromwell, and yueenstown, where he has been for the purpose of raisins funds for ' erecting a parochial residence in Naseby, and is, I am happy to saj. in geod health. He celebrated Mass here on the 4th instant, and hi* address to his flock on the education of youth, was a most instructive fi'^K^lf r^.f?" edu « li J n hepe » I"" fr^ being education, fat lor Catholic children. In fuct it is not education butinstruction You can instruct a child to read write and cipher, but that is"' not" educating him in tlie proper sense of the term, for education withoutreligious instruction id worse than none at all. His sermon at -Tespers wus on the shortness of life, and the certainty of deatli (Qen. in., ver 12; ; vhich he divided into three divisions. Ist. Whether there ure any exceptions from divorce from death. 2nd. The precarious manner and time of this deadly separation. 3rd. The best means oT " securing to life a voyage of happiness. After a long sermon on the subject of death and the shortness of life, and the trampling of all laws human and divine under foot by the rebellious, tiiat this ordinance alone must be obeyed. Beside the multitude cut off by fire and water, and the sword, some yield to intemperance, other* perish from banger and thirst, or the inclemency of the weather, while some, impatient of death s dilatoriness, lay violent hands upon themselves, and put an end. to their own existence. Thus in life— fickle fortune— wo> see the high ana the low, , the lord and the serf, cue off indiserimiminateiy, by this dreadful reaper. But what is death ? To die i« nothing : but not knowing where to go to after death, aye, that is the puzzle. IS obody returns to tell us what is to be seen " beyond that bourne from whence no traveller returns " 'Jhen what is life ? "A. dream within a dream, where slippery steps arise." And when the goal is won, alas ! the grate appears. "Set however frightful death may be to a misspent life, it is not so to the ju»t Christian, whj know* \l,\ 1 , ", e ( , Bua " » 8e "gala glorious and immortal, and live with the blessed for ever. September 5, 1874. HißEßincus.