The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-02-15

sacrifice of the coming Messiah take away then this idea
OF sacrifice from the worship and service of God and
have nothing lett by which you render to God the
homage due to the Supreme Being you pray you pray
nothing in itself essentially excellent for you pray to
man. too in ordinary life which case, what is there in
do that which very proper and consecrate to its high
est end But the sounds might be dedicated to the
praise OF conquerors or earthly benefactor so there IS
nothing thereore in music to make it At offering to
God alone And il you examine the powers of your
mind and heart, you will find nothing Of that pc
culiar and divine language in worship worthy to be ad
Sacrifice is for God alone Prayer may be made to man,
to saints to angesbut sacrifice to God alone. And it
idea of true religion, whilst surrounding idoatry had
corrupted Them Iii on this ground hold the doctrine
in order to be sacrifice for All the ancient sacri-
Aces of the Jews were offerings the part Of the
people through their priests to influence God not OF
themselves or By the blood Of oxen and goats inundated
but because had reference to the sacrifice tho Of
God And according to the Catholic faith it is mere
y in the act Of dying that he offered that sacrifices not
when in that passive condition in which he is spoken Of
by the Prophet, the innocent and silent lamb who
led to slaughter by his amenities; because he himself had
power to lay down his life and to take it up again. But
is chiefly in the sacrifice of the holy eucharist the
Church has beheld the accomplishment of this
that in which he ocates high priest and partic
pated in the offering, made by his will and the exercise
Of his almighty power and exercised his priesthood Of
erng himself the Eternal Father for the sins Of all the
world If, beloved brethren you enquire further into
this subject particularly aided by the light Of the holy
teaching of the Church. you will how the Apostles
and the fathers of Church. men whose writings became
identified with all that learned, well holy, in
.he primitive aith-you will perceive that they speak
Melchizidec. And on the night on which he was
betrayed he, in reference to that priesthood, spoke
mankind This you will find expressed by all the early
writer's who make reference to the subject in the wr
tugs of the Apostles in the Acts but particularly in the
passage under consideration, where the Apostle
1--WE have altar whereof they have no right to eat,
who the tabernacle" Our separated brethren,
since the period in which this error commenced,
pleased to imagine that Christ by his death perfected
salvation and superseded all sacrfce and Of the
which they pretend to ground this is that if
admit any sacrifice subsequent to his thereby
represent the sacrifice of Christ incomplete and
being supplementary But this is not the idea Of the
Church at all 1t is that her altar she has offered that
sans victim in mysterious manner, who once, in an
outward and sensible manner, expired the Iii
not, then her meaning to offer lew sacrifce-but she
that made by the Saviour, according to his in.
junction. when taking bread and wine, he sad this
my body-do this in remembrance Of me-" If then
brethren the sacrifice spoken offs merely amoral sacr
fce-of prayer mercy, good works-if these the
Kings which serve to show forth Lord, why did
Saviour say priests of the Jews could not partic
pate t7Were theynot obliged to participate in all actions
mercy How them could they be forbidden since all
men are pledged to love and serve God and do those
works of mercy acceptable in his sight? But neither is
it this for in the ancient declaration of the prophet
Ma achi who in announcing the fulfmen of prophecy,
and the substitution of the substance for shadow says
that the time coming when God should reject their
sacrifces that they were not pleasing in his sight"
have pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts neither
will accept ar Offering at your hands From the rising
of the even unto the going down Of the same, my
shall be great among the Gentiles and in every
place incense shall be offered unto my name. and pure
saith the Lord Of Hosts This the language Of the
ancient prophet and could not refer to moral sacrifice
which separated brethren pretend to be substituted
for those of the old dispensaion. And why Because
this would indicate change-because Ged always
cepts them according to his own injunction. Nor 1t
refer to sacrifice Of the heart for after ALL who the
man worthy to make this high declaration? But our Sc.
paraei brethren say Christ died onoe for ALL and
summated the sacrifice to all eternity. This il
true. There is infinite plenitude in the merits
of Christ. But do they mean to say that he
nothing remains on our parts Whit then would be
of moral sacrifices if souls be made per-
feet hy Ch-istsO0 years ago They do not say but pro-
'ihsTramsnt in me conversion Of the soul 10
grace They reqeirs the performance of moral duties
showing thst there means appointed by God, by
which they made partakers Of his sacrifice by which
his atonement made available and communicated to the
SOUL called eternal life In this sense then, is that
hold our sacrifice is derogation to the fuluess O
Christs death. If brethren, you were to examine
Church for this doctrine; it. believing in Christ,
divinity, you receive his declaration in simplicity
aside false and distorted teachings of preudced edu
cation If you examine the sacred of the Catho
lie doctrine you will perceive in it something
allied than is possible for human tongue to express YOU
will perceive the glory conferred upon his Church. snt
upon that humanity he assumed for sakes Is
an infinite glory for his Church, that her minister
doy hy day, al the rising of the mornings sun, in
obedience 10 the Injunction of Christ 'do this in
remembrance Of me-" takes that bread and WINE
and, consecratng it. as he did, offering it to God,
in the Of the human race-bu of his congrega
ton and sometimes Of individual Here is something
approach God with and If were left without
SUCH how could we approach him in public worship
Our separated brethren think they do God henor when
they abolish the priesthood destroy the altar and leave
the house of worship merely empty edifce where the
people NEE! for short time and depart Brethren, this
doctrine OF the holy eucharist is upon which might
dwell many hours but have necessarily passed
great amount Of testimonyhat Of the Holy Scriptures
themselves. When you find our Divine Saviour speak
ing Of 1t as his body, and the Apostle afterwards
referring to it in the same languages when you
behold oil the great and distinguished fathers of the
church speaking Of the eucharist in terms strong
beyond the apparent measure Of delicacy when
you find from the testimony of history that all sects and
separatss from the bosom Of the churchhe HISTORIANS
the Eutichans--th the Greek Seceders-all SO embued
with this doctrine that found in all their lturges
the have itfrom all this you will perceive
that II is recent doctrine of christianity but which
be traced up to the days of Christ and his Apostles
and clearly established, that have to
believe that ifthose who first assaed il in pos
session of all the testimony since collected upon the sub
ject they would not have attempted TO deny this the
choicest and best legacy OF Christ to his people 1.-THE
concluding portion Of the discourse compelled to
omit at present
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