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ministers OF God who shall address you from 'ns ps
will tell you and teach you what God requires 70 %
leve; and then your moral life ana life Of 'nrn
tisn piety. Secondly what Goa requires you tn do
believed as At; but he has revealed himself
and therefore Ia loDger permtted people act
according to their own capces This the privilege
Of pgaars, bot 1t not the privilege Of christians.
Aner that revelation have right to SAY, In the
arrogance p,iae of our own conceis can Judge Tor
myself We have NO right to use such Language. be-
cause we might do 30 In God had only
Deg9ten ron into the world to teach and to the
lie or Universal faith viii be heard the same A. IL
AL the ancient doctors and bishops and popes by
as witnefses that it il the faith they recaiyed from
Christ and from his body. With regard to thu moral
precepts OF religion you know 1t Is the duty OF
necessity Of observing the docsogue-the comma
OF God there ID in the world day IN dss
That religion true religion and belief Is something that
ust have in the heart of each doubt it
has bat the first stage verges into indifference
and the fourth into bsrbarsn This the course EaoE
one looks for religion In himself and he looks for
changed what looks ut at one time a. truth
he will not look at at another In the light
truth until the end Of his life They, st this day pre-.
tead that it Ia individual and doubt IL
az 20 the responsb.,y Of human action separately
rpoat~ard standing, visible, universal institution that
any man no matter where he is born II he will, had
the holy city and house Of God spoken 81
the raptuous language Of the divine prophet which
have Just heard Religion, therefore this true rsa-
rs it is in the mSr and you We sna s
brace 1t or reject but whether not dess
house Of God The Church s iepr mt Of us the
Church is the hous OF the Lord and it is for
ourse OF the privilege of entering in Now, with
gsrd the teaching that will ia place are
you aware, 90 you reflect upon it that notwinsand
ing the variety of languages the individual oharas
teIstcs Of those who the ministers Of the Catholis
Church that there Is but repetition OF oersmonV
round the globe There are no dootrinsS
and although there may be Church here and asothsc
there although minister may ba earned
more eloquent ar other and one vooe ~
be another mo
rety These bu The out striking Of
dium through which He teaches who teaches tnrourf
His great medium, divine Saviour and no one ess
When he sent his apostles hc said, send you 60 ~
and teach the nations TO observe all things whatever
have commanded ye and 10, with you all days To-
tie end Of the world Now, when the author divine
uh is the teacher Of the Church. ho~ aay
contIsd otions Nor is there for God contradict
him elf; ana therefore religions the cen.
rsdictpg and iafe. and the other With regard to
tn other object the glory Of the Christian temple aud
house OF the Lord have remarked that b.
administered the true Now the
in the Catholic Church institutions imbusd by the
son OF God with supernatural efficacy and admsistsr-
ed under outward to recognise them xad By
who them worhily This is ths general deaai-
on Of he sacraments In prayer may do ali that In
possible for do in petitioning God to forgive
sims but he has instituted sacrament OF pensnoe, b.
which those who stricken with compuucop for
given their sins This instituted because he 10
sovereign and because he did not individually
and in specido manner COO years before oans
into tx tence But the merits OF that passion vhoh
church and when We came into existence by orginsl
guin apply to his mercy, and he responds by
his eAcscy and the merits his death upon the
cross, that is done the Ssorsmeuts
not ceremonies merely they are indeed suswarA
forms but they have their exterior part which the
work OF man, but the interior efficacy Is the wosk
Of God and while the minister pours water upau ths
baptized with foruB Christ who authos
| ized him. touches his guilty soul With his blood aaa
washes away his guilt and IL this be removed
there is barrier and ber
Gcd and that soul God win have witk
rim How IL 1t that guilt IL to be then II
through Cbrit sope That can be removed Hs hss
ed bmsut m ba haeAs
ced his ministers to exercise his prervgH a. hs
has declared, whore fins you shall tofsVe they ars
forgiven, and whose sins are retained they oro
rftsined unto them imply Ing that under outward
forms CHRIST himself Is cleansing and rsmosing
the crimes that weigh heavily the heart Is there
nothing mole in this temple; Oh yes verify Here u
the fuDees and the perfection Of sovereign tn
God Many OF you, perhaps have conception OF the
Caooc Church With regard acts of public iture
sanctuary Many are brought under Circumstances
which furnh no inducement to examine aud Imagine
thst me Catholic Church place OF yenient meet
ing TO hear sermon. 10 cbauDt praise OF the
Almighty or to recits and oiIer up holy prayors No
doubt alt these are ap ropste in such place; but maAy
OF have conception what constitutes d1nity
manner Then all the Catholics-supposed to number
more than two hundred mions-that surrouud ssr
globe have nothing more in their worship tbaa ysu
scattered inhabitsnts OF this neshporhood would
have bsitro this consecratsd altar And it ID ths
glory OF the house Of the Lord; it is shst wnioh
caibed the royal prophet to exult when he had
been told that be should enter that his foot shoud
stand IN that site and sacred Jeruaiem What then
IL th? 1t H. dearly beloved brethren the sscfifce a
our altar called tse Those who understand what
IL know with what profound feelings of aud
respect and recollection they should as st Those wno
60 not underetand It, look upon il as snocesson of very
uDDe aniug ceremC CnessGepg the priest dressed in Gs
robes pang to The right and to the left and sometimes
kneelipg and standing. They DO not undersand-thay
do not comprehend this. They have studied or
examined it and therefore it may De ut aud appre pae
both tor the and the oher, should refer to
them some length Put away the idea OF sacrifice
Of religion and 10 reality you have nothing left for there
is nothing TO distinguish the temple OF the Lord for
posing you imagine this absent you may hear q very
learned d that not exclusively be heard In
the Temples you may indugeu the duty the conso
atioB the exercise Of prayer but prayer you offer
up 50 God in your chambers, aid it Is sometimes
ceptable Therefore prayer does NOT ds''gaase the
house OF the Lord Should 1t be sacred poetry should IL
be divine music. should 1t be- words Of praise the Al
mighty that very music and those very words be ap
pied and bave been piled 10 others besides the Almighty
The world praise they have done with
music spendid and divine considered In reia-
ton to art and science than tina. ~hich has been ap
prop religion There is the refore ia tn
department. nothing which distinguishes the house q
the LORD from that Of Iyou pray you ask Of Ged
public authorities, and what Is that but prayer,
i does not designate the house Of God, nor dses
1t diaw any distinction between God aud mxa
You prsise him in psalmody aud cantcies but do you
not praise great heroes DO you not in poetry and
prose praise and almost defy statesmen who rise
the Of time and to dance in view Of those whe
witness him. until the is do not say that
show that neither in prse thing Of
our can you distinguish its divine master except yos
Introduce the idea Of sacraments What Is sacrifice
eacrdce IL the supreme worship of God 1t Is nothing
less. lie himself appointed sacrifice In the
cieDt IL In OF uivine Nor.
ship it the type that which afterwards bscsms
the u lnesa 1t not in Itself that which constitutes
the pleasing victim, but 1t introduced the pre-
Of that victm-our divine Saviour Jesus Christ
the sacrifice and he Is the high priest Of regoo,
and there other high priest but he except indeed,
such delegated to carry out tbs earth the
mission and office OF his eternal priesthood unit
the order Mechetek The church never pretended
to derive ota Of original authority from anything
record ed In the pages OF the New Testament She ID
oloer than that This country independent
try before framed Its constitution and is absurd to
suppose that this country must prove Its Independents
BY reference to documents Of its which could mot
have existed m had not been indepsndent before.
So with regsrd the church aud this New Testament
II IL her scriptures She has written It herself It
her children. already Christians and she
has cherished and erved It, for 1t Is far duplicate
Of the language which the Holy Ghost had tnscribed
ber and Thsrefors Is that fro
the church we know what is divine Worship, well -
the scriptures, for It impols attempt to sap
poe that after e00 the church did not know the