New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-02
TIE IxxAcUIl re CONCEPTION
sERMoN ny ARCaBla3Op HUGHES.


Yesterday morning, Archbishop Ha,hss preached
ct St. Patrick Cathedral, bic first public srmoa snce
bis return from Rome where be has spent consider
abe period Of time. There was very large ccegre'
cation present. to welcome back the distinguished
prela'e Amer the ordinary opening rites, the Arch
bishop spske as follows:
In the name Of the Fssher and Of the Son, and Of
tbs Holy Chest; Ameni
vsy ohe cut down bousss Of sbs tres. saS then
N tie way md the nuiiuds that vent bss sad that fol-
ow.e erd out saying Hc-suus to the 500 Of DAVID Bies
80 be that soneih the Of the Lord dossaas In the
The passage Of the inspired word Of the Holy Ghost
from wl:oh have just re4c, beloved Brethren, d the
history OF tse passion of Savior /. begins With
the xXith Chapter Of st Mathew and concludes In the
,xlid. II Is too long, therefore, to be read in tue
ra station; but the words which you have just heard
are these which spscisly applicable TO the so]sm-
pity OF the day. They are the records Of the enhu-
sl:sm Of The people seeing the son Of Good entering
uto the Holy City. They also the records Of th 1T
mutabrty Of hun an affections by which, possibly,
some voices tina, cried out, Hossns to the Soa OF
David, al that time under change Of eircu instances,
ard only few days afterHTd, cried out
With equal earnestDess, Z" Let him be CRUSHED p
Nevertheless tie Church. in order to impress upon
you the great nth a. ihs hu1iison Of Siviors
passion was undergone, not Of necessity, bu, by His
OWL free choice, and manifestation Of His love-
tie Church cay has preserved these words, that
you, following dag by day throughout the eccesiis-
teal Year. TIE couise OF the Gospel of the Son OF
abe he til cometh 10 the Of the Lord; Hossnns
in the highest In short, the Palms you bear
significant OF triumph as well as OF joy. They Ne
The same Palms the same symbol which, in tbs Wind
ing streets CT the Cstsconbs distinguishes from al
others the red saints who sleep there. Victory
And yet it would seem strange ter me to speak 10
you TO day on the subject of victory. Tue Son Of
God who rose triumphant from His grave, ~ho be-
came IL Cor queror be has need oftbis but il
ctsssry for Hi Church. which inherit the vict s.udes
Of Hi life AID with them the alton OF His suerGgs
H. h. .-u....k
might seem arse that should speak of triumph to
you-thouid speak to you OF the palm which Is the
symbol of triumpo, at the monest whon you are as.
sailed by tie pride OF certain persous aud in the plb
lie jour- SIS with mputa,ons dshonorable, rsyil.
irgs calumnes, slan6ers whenever those who ere ,os
appointed guardians OF justce pushing its princi.
pies TO the exteIne 10 order TO invade VIII say. the
liberty Of the Church Of Christi. This would not
seem TO be a tfiumph-aBd yet, signihc suty, il is
II is bscsuze-wha does it prove! Tsat the ordioary
siens Of conquest net siceBt to arrest the pro-
ares of truth il proves thattheres way of patting
do Sn this hated teacher of the Son Of God this sub
sti'ute for bis own person-the Church that Ibis pride
and that other prejudice avail not sganst Ter and,
more particularly that those Who do not know her
attributes AID her msjestc duty, are only those
who regard her as the enslsyer Of the human kind,
the adversary Of oil that is enlightened grand and
liberal is there not there sufficient for tIi.
umph, But there is sill more. Looking over the
history Of that ChuIchtha miraculous Society, one,
harmonious, universal aid indepe ndent- that one
Christian Society called the Church-lcoking over
III annals Of her history and what she hiss passed
II rough you will perceive how closely hers resembles
tie history of the life Of her divine Founder Hers
! Ike His, truly, 'TiuWph-an everlasting tru nph
over the world over the enemy Ct TRUTH the part
of eco. Oh! Crusader the amount of her yiciss'
tutes The first Apostle entsrsd tie gates OF the
worlds imperial ntress ne enter led the lists with the
power Ct that Empire; and when the struggle came
between Peter and Nero, and Nero had his triumph
for moment Peter hsd his for all eternity, in heayen
and on earth In the succession OF her course during
| the first three hundred years. the force of that
en- pire Which lad suhugsted all ice empires of tn,
| world wss directed toward the subluyation OF that
ore living Christian Society and which wss tie m
queror. 1t still exists, While that empire has long
| TIE Church is and has been, and ever will be-
! sssailsd by all the bad passions of the human
heat aiced by the pride OF science, and the osten
alion of Nevert eless though she suffers che
shall suffer like her master with pste1ce aud know
irg that in the proper tina, she too shall triumph
But theIe is a second reason why the palm in your
bsrds should be regarded nc token OF triumph. 1t
Il that great event which has lately occurred which
tab the definition of doctrine, which, though for
500 yeas finding Ilsc6 in TIE heart The Church
had never before received the official seal of pro
posed doctrine namely the doctrioe Of the Immaculate
| Conception Of the blessed Virgin Mary. Here Is
crown of your iriumphs That moe. cistH guished
snd most elevated Of all Gods intelligent creatures,
in Heaven eath has had the rec ignition OF her
great glory sGd prercgatiye. or sll the hereses by
vtioh Gods Church mas been s,siisd not one, with.
out cir ae exception, was ever htcached, that did
not contain son germ, some principle calculated to
vesken, or 10 destroy, or If possible, to bring into
degradation, in the estimation OF men the ever
blessed Virgin. This has been more particularly the
case within ire last three hundred yeEs. The least
ancient Of t1e heresies which have been broachsd 10
that especially which made it point to Gu! her of
from vereration, sndia theory, by way Of Increasing
the glory, Of her Sor, 10 do IL at which necesss-
! rly must ouainish hie, take away her chief
gi:.,, aaa ieave her merely highly respectable,
;spas ~ .as yere q in the Holy
ChuIcb; they then would not leave other errors IN
| toucbsa mill fiji ally every doct inc OF religion
syen 10 The divinity Of the San OF God hiss been not
orly dispu.ed but denied under the plea OF Christi
snity pure and at the same time rational. ANA this
mode CT error has now gone 10 us utnos' n'hH, oe-
You'd which it can stray no fartoer, oa i.s o.a ;
hand II is Ieusrksbe that in proportion to the vio-
Ieyce of Il assaults Of the sdverssreI OF uutn the
| lovs of the Church has become more wsrn and 10,
tsnse 10 the mother of her Redeemer aud Master and
has turned more especially to the honor Vi IN blessed
Viraip Mary viii not say hst ano!g the atnolcs
.o..ts-ed wide among communities, where no sound
YEA hesri but that OF prosperity kiGd oil e1peNeI
cv wssIot felt Leading them not 10 urge Tue ruins
/ tiev behaved; but throughout the Carsn1a "oIie
tbat devotion TO Mary. in exaita'on OF ms a'ssi
| b,ts. Of her Divine SON, was generally tsit FL
/ rSIIv AZ A time vixen so many OF those Poian'afo-
| ;s,s N ;,hout God those hunanitarisns WITHOUT any
! r;x,n,s of divinity those men whose ook az human
nairre as kind OF improbable upper stratum oi ani'
- ii life end have no key key to urderetand tns mys-
.ayx-ubsn thess closfes Of men began 10 thnk lnst
Sty,,b 81 Christ had ful6ued her misson-ths great
Snui r;nen.d into completion. Oh could these
,nsn iook upon the spectacle presented az none on
he 9Th day Of December leSi they wout runn !,
STANG that th Church Is rot cead tnat tne -
SO, oId that she lives and bresthesi anc as she nas
NV bs ,vn Of empires and states during $500 years
S.r".iT unmoyed 80 she shall live TO witness me
;;s.Jtrgf, and the decay Of this hnmsn phhosopn!
I'D humanitarian schenss by which they woaia