The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-22
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Nn confecrasd by hrchpisnop dnS ne6, on Sunday
forenoon according to The ritual OF the Roman Catholic
Church After the building had been set apart for divine
worship b the solemn ceremonies OF the ,on grand
high mss celebrated at which Rev Eugene Cassidy
dictated as priest Rev Mr.. oFanell deacon and Rev.
Mr. McKenna a. sub deacon. After tie reading OF the
first gospel Rev Archbishop Hughes assembled the altar
and preached the following
SERMON.
The words, said be, which am about to read are
found in the last three of the Gospel according TO
Saint Matthew
And Jesus came and spake uRto them, saying, All
pow or is given uoto in heaven and in earth
Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptisine them
10 the name OF The Father and OF the son, ana OF INC
Holy Ghost:
Teaching them observe all things Whatsoever have
commanded you and 10. with you Away, even unto
the end Of the world. Amen
This commission given by blessed Saviour to his
Apostles is tnc not because it recorded in the Gospel
OF saut Matthew but it is recorded in that Gospel be-
cause it is true II event recorded at the
its occurrence for Saint Matthew and the other
apostles had heard Of years and years before and s
scted upon it, snd it only when after another
the Holy Spirit directed them to commit certain portions
Of the history OF their Divine Master and of their
mission to writing that find Saint Matthew recording
this, and having recoracd this his gospel
On occasion like the reent, in which u new
edifcis apart from all proiane use and in which one
dead to be offered henceforward, it is MT unsuitable
that should look back to OF those great mary
and fundamental principles On when me erection OF
churches and Their and the ends OF religion found
their earliest sanction II is unnecessary for me to
dwell day upon the nature OF the ceremony which you
have witnessed for that ceremony by itself has
spoken and to and to hearts
feelings indicating its meaning that this ID to be
the house of the Iord-tha here his believers
to present heir petitions him-hee they
learn The divine truth, and that the publication OF the
material temple is but symboical of the purity Of the
,J~ hmm shniI i'm i'm
the Of his God Neither is it possible TO dwell
upon all the topics necessarily employed in the end for
which q church is erected to the honor Of God He that
has to speak can do so but OF one topic at one
but then know that every thing is ncuded-that II
speak the commission to preach the gospel We do
not thereby slight omit the Institution OF the sacrs-
ments, for fact every topic OF religion that Is dis
cussed from the chair OF truth is not discussed rs
q separate article, or as something standing ont
from it. is always understood by the preacher and
the hearers to be discussed in communion with and in
harmony with all the other parts OF religion Hence the
Church has conception of that bare mode which
selves upon one particular text and uses 1t with
deprecis ton disregard of all others When the Church.
for instance, directs her ministers to preach upon tho
text which says " He that beieveth and is baptised,
shall be saved she does not to exclude the other
condition necessary for salvation They are oil included
parts of religion is but teaching and 1t is all in
cuded in the commission given by the Son OF God IN the
words which you have just heard They describe the
object for which divine Saviour came earth,
after having aoned for the sins of the world by the inf
pite merits Of his death. He is again among his
apostles risen from the Dead and during the forty
days Of interval between the and ASCENSION
the inspired writer says ne was conversng with them
about the kingdom of God and yet there Is record OF
what he said upon that occasion; but these thu
last words which he addressed to those twelve whom he
had selected, and to whom he had delegated his own
mission, and given his own power to carry on his own
work. To what extentY The boundaries OF the earth,
and all nations, as regards space. And how long was
this to connuep Till the contamination of the world.
What is their commission To teach eco you, there
FORE and teach all nations bapsing them in the name
Of the Father, ard Of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost
teaching them to obey all things whatever have com
maAded you and To- am with always and until the
OF the world rhe .r. sh 1
that it is teaching church. and teaching church not
by virtue OF superior by Of the elevated
called to the Office of eacners-bu teaching by virtue
divine and nfalble authority for this is teaching in
to sneak in his name and Sy his sathory
the attributes Of him who sends another those at
tributes conveyed to that other Therefore Is tina,
the church of Christ from the beginning, has been
teaching church, and not reasoning church-not spe
cuative church not church of opinions, not church
of contradictions but church Of unity, because it is
founded upon the divine commission teach and that
commission, coming from divine in its whole
extent must necessarily be the and therefore there
is for disunon ground for contrary doctrines
IT. then dearly beloved brethren, you will cast your
the pages ecclesiastical history you will perceive
departed frem. In fact, If you study the life o
divine Saviour himself you will perceive the methot
BY which he would propagate the knowledge Of d;
He could have inspired them IL could have caused the
hearts men, and there call up fire and feed the
ghened with the know ledge of those eternal trut
which he had come from heaven to establish upon the
earth but then this would not have been in the order
his economy He became visible from the invisible God
whom he had been-he became visible in incarnaton anc
when he would bring disciples around him, not BY
the exercise Of Divine power as constraining them but
by the ordinary means of outward persuasion and
to ss OF truth that ob Is tfs
interior of their hearts the principle OF divine
which constitutes the divine tie Of Christian faith Wher
Ch;is wrought miracles he did not do secretyhe did
not simply by act Of his will raise Lazarus from the
dead but he adopted outward forms. Men could thai
he raised his eyes to heaven and that he groaned il
spirit and tbat he made use human words saying in
audible voice" Lazarus, come FORTH Also when h,
cured the man born blind, he did not interiory say
in his own will let this man see but he prepared com
position of the clay and dust of the earth and spe
put upon his eyes and told him to go and wash
thus has believed and become attached to him ans
passed over into the communion Of the society which III
was about to establish upon earth. When he sent hi
Apostles you will perceive the very same order is pre-
served. Those men who before they had received thu
confirming and ordanng power of the holy Ghost, upoI
the day of Pentecost, had been minded dull
cowardly, all at changed, and began under
stand their functions and the nature Of the mission
which had been committed to their They are COW
ards no longer, they dark minded longer but
on the steps of the synagogue of that temple in
which their Master had been persecued and found
preaching Christ and beginning the work for which then
Master had appointed them and sent them forth Who
were these men' They not taken from the halls
science they were not great according to the
worlds estimation: but taken from the
humblest walks of life to go forth upon their message
dispute like the philosophers the Greeks not 70
prove by sylogsms and reasoning-for these philoso
piers with all their science could not convert single
vilage-but these humble entrusted with the
simple message Of teaching the truth and wherever they
went forth hundred and thousands of every ran-the
rich the learned the poor the aged and the young-ae
all found to have been brought into The communion Of
fellowship with them simply because they bore With
them the marks Of divine authority TO teach and as time
went and as the field became larger and larger they
associated others 10 take authority in the common
teship What has been the order and the progress of
religion? It has been that the r condition of every be-
bever Is 10 learn. The hTst condition OF all those who
enter the Church Of Christ would be ministers in
the Church Of Christ, Is to learn and 20 learn FROM
whom Why from thnt church-from the body Of the
psstor.hp Of that churchto whom the Son of Coz com
mlt;ed the church and gave the guarantee of his own
divine yeraey that his teaching and their tsschng
identical End that ne would be with them in that Office
The FIRST thing TO learn AMI it is not imposition in
ihe Catholic church That the minister Of God should
quire obedience he part Of those whom he ma
been placed teacher for how he discharge his
DUTY TO teach others not bound by correspond.
ing obligation to learn and 1t ia upon this account thst
in the Catholic church pretends TO take upon
himself the Office Of mir.er o. God. No man il per nit
ted 10 yield to Illusion In his own mind and to
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