The New York herald., 1871-09-18

tney nave not been able as yet to shake on their
couniry-acquired laziness and 90 TO church ike
everyday city folks.
The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Father Ca
zeau, the subject being Faith aud Science To the
man, he said. who depended simply upon rational
light for the guidance OF his there in lite a
great deal tnat was dark and incomprenensible.
lie lived and had his being In the midsl OF
AN ATMOSPHERE THICK WITH DOUBTS
and mis2ivings, and nothing seemed clear to his
ewes. 1t was not so with the man whose soul super
natural light snone full upon, and who felt and
acted according TO the way the light directed Such
mans aspirations were not bounded by the limits
prescribed by rules and laws made here below; nor
was his vision confined for his soul's consolation, TO
the contemplation OF things evanescent-of objects
that were destined 10 perish and decay, ana leave
naught behind them but the disagreeable od0r Of
their own corruption.
The reverend father then went on at some length
to show the difference between the natural and the
supernatural order OF things, ana then spoke ol
FAITH AND SCIENCE.
IL was all nonsense, he said, to suppose as some
science could not walk hand in hand They
were not .antagonistic They were, on the
only this difference between them, that ons
Is far brilliant than the other, and, fact,
The more brilliant OF these two lights was faith.
Without 1t we were taught we could do nothing
10 please GOO IL was Indispensable TO our saliva.
ton. When we believed IN the sensauons eXpe-
rlenced from the enemies of our various senses we
only gave in our adhesion 10 what experience taught
us was fact; but this was not fath When we
put our belief In the word OF man, that was human
faith; but 1t was divine faitn to believe In those
things which concern our eternal welfare which
were revealed to US and LAID down for our belief by
Almighty God. Thus, when the councils OF the
Churcn declared certain dogma TO be an article OF
faith, good Catholics were bound to believe in it;
for the councils act through divine authority, and
cannot err IT was all folly 10 point to tnis that or
this or that dogma OF the Church and exclaim, "He
Is good Catholic" The Catholic religion was
POSITIVE RELIGION.
Ii never makes any compromise with wrong and
Is ever the same and he who was not with 1t
the Church's authority Luther or an Arius his
tate was invariably the same. lie would have to
give IN his adhesion or crumbe to the dust under
the weight OF her authority or die an outcaSt from
her communion. In these days OF SIN and corrup-
ton there were many men who talked nippanty at
all times and at all places about the divisions" In
the Church made by men who, The enemies of the
Church clalm, have at heart her greater welfare.
These divisions were no divisions In point OF fact.
There always mad been, ever SINCE the time OF the
Apostles, men who, under the guise OF this that
TEMPORARY WARFARE
IN the Church; but had the Church not always been
triumphant ID the long run. and that too. without
single step before her enemies? 1t a strategy OF
the Evil one TO deceive the unwary by the lnsduous
cries oil misguided men who GAINED 10 be good
Catholic. False prophets there were many nova
days and IL behooved every good Catholic to be on
tilclI cNll IHC ldltu VI
the good Catholic was founded on q rock and
NO HUMAN INVENTION,
no human ingenuity sophistry or force could shake
IL from Us foundation so long the cltade-the
individual believer In that faith-iOrtined himself
against The enemy and left no weak point in The
rampant where the enemy might md a temporary
lodgment The good Catholic knew that his tath
was the saving one, and tnat knowledge OF itself was
sufficient to make him host III himself, lmpreg-
nabie 20 ali assaults, come from what quarter they
might. The reverend speaker then closed ny ear
nestlv eXhortng his hearers TO remain steadias III
the talth o; their fathers. and TO hand 1t down 10
their children unsuleu anu unstaued.