The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-15
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER Is, 1871.


NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY NC
vine commission, by right based upon our
history, by q right based npon an eterna priv
lepe to confront the world and tell it TIL for its
salvation it must kneel and kiss the feet of jesus
Christ by right based upon all that is sacred
and ali that is holy, that we this evening bring
this place under the dominion, and into the roy,
atty, of Jesus Christ. Such is our mission, and
and will be a home aud habitatiOn of God to
many of you. Perhaps, however, some OF you
here, with pride and Independence of spirit,
would cast the old faith ASIDE TO take 70 y oIId5
trample under foot the traditions OF tne pasS
and make the old truth step down and make It's
obsequious bow and take the hand o. TINS nlne
teenth century, and you would effect com.
promise between Christ and the world. Do you
see these vestments that we wearf We won
| them in fair battle from the Pagans, anu we
bring them down consecrated and holy, redo
lent with glorious scenes and glorious memories
of the past In the very ceremony OF this
afternoon, down from the heart of David come
to us the olden psalms and as symbolical OF tn q!
dead yet living Christ, we clothe our church IN
the STROUD of an old dead language; and thus,
with old prayers and old psalms we VIII, on
this vast edfce. We are all men OF the Pass :
We come to yon with words of truth out OF the
heart of the old Gospel, from the very foot
of the cross. We are the only men that can
human opinion, which is but q shifting sand,
! whereas your soul demands, in the storm
We have the great past back of US; we come
to you from that great Good Friday evening
with the shadow of that Good Fridays
cross upon our hearts, with the truth OF
that Good Fridays cross on our lips, and
we plant that Good Fridays cross in the
cornerstone of this building this evening !;
and when this vast edifce shall have been
completed, through your generosity, and yonr
children shall enter it, they will hear nothing
new What care we for anything new Ii the
sky new Is the sun newt Is the earth new
Everything grand is old everything grand is
ancient. and all new ideas are like so much
foam breaking against the foot of the cross
, Again, say, we have the right to plant that
cross, for it is we that have borne it down from
Jesus Christ even unto now. Other men-mer
, of the present, who wear q modern dress and
speak modern language and teach what u
f called ''modern truth" but which you VIII a..
low me to call modern opinion,-men OF thls
kind Law the corner-stones of their edfccs. nm
: ask them by what right can you do so! Dc
b You bear the cross down among the nation
. and the peoples of the world Did you plant !
o deep down in the soil of the human heart
d Have you preached it from that Good Frida!
If evening down to the present day Have 50"
p the corner-stones of your earthly editces:
o NAV substitute your earthly opiEions for ete'
H. nal truth and give them to men in order Z
,e satisfy the craving of their hearts, hnt wit
j. which they will not be satisfied; You ma
II build your churches; but we, who have face
n the world through SO many ages, Will face
still: Do you think we fear your Do 20
as think our hearts are tremulons! Do you dete'
If o shade of fear on our cheeks Do you dscov'
"a a pallor on our browsf Why do we face IL
T. world SO bodilyi Because back of US is
he strength which has supported ms for eishtee
hundred years, strength which is above, an
u beneath, and around us-the strength of Jes!
if. Christ himself. Hence the application OF, I'll
=, words in the ceremony of ing corner-sto
Cd .'In the faith of Jesus Christ" That is VIII
We we bring to the world when we build loo
habitation for q sacramental God. We bril-
to the world, not the shifting sands of hum
opinon but a strong rock, which is the Gre
oil of Christ My Church, which is garland
the with crown of thorns-a crown that ne'
@ fades while garlands of flowers do fade
e It Church, which has endured through I
CAV mightiest and most cruel prosecutions I'll
49,; human tyranny could devise-my Church I'll
Of has Walked across eighteen hundred yea
-. over thorns and in tears, and whose feet
- not tired yet-my Church, that has preacl
20 for eighteen centuries, whose voice still rlr
for with the same old silvery sound as clearly
t%a before, and W hose words have as deep mean
80 | as ever-my Church faces you to-day. Ii
rod love US, we deserve your love. 1t Is not a III
compliment you pay us-it IL DEBT OF JUST
,o If YOU hate us, accept your hatred,
;tL our Church, of all churches, Is the one I
,o,, incites the deepest and darkest hatred, as
;2;ch as the deepest and intensest love-
- in this land of the sunset, In this beaut
~ Southern land, in this land whose banne
ort% political independence has been furled,
Ian furled let me hope, only for tlme-here
esus Mane O.n ,,snr ,rIS;cb nos saved ,
hood III JUG uus - III 80, a nation that 4
her many slns ; auu - go III We do
cath cruu4pleu lhIo Aulns PC. ~ 80, ,,erson.I mr.
our carly IhlS o"tinel -, IL q. L,,t
eyes we Ptests Sou . Gov -, an,on,r vou
Him teach your hearts the words of truth.
q we must speak to you of Him before whom eN
ser thing OH earth and in heaven and under
rocas earth must bow. We lay the conversion
r;n ga this building not for our personal Interest
q not for the interest, supreme and sublime oil
nj Those
leage lnhorai SOUS 10 49, tn ossist in the cerer
nrosS of laying this corner-stOne, with feeling
from reverence uno ieI,ot ;n',,h cnrios;tv are
that you VINO h' AZ, 0V TeLI;o EShnrch ia alwa
On y ID; curious thing. 1t wears strange aspe