The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-19
RELIGIOUS.
The Preaching Friar at the
Dominican Church.
Father Tom Burke on Heaven
and He'll.
Oscar Hugo on the Bible in the
Public Schools.
Mr.. Northrop on the Theatre
and the Dance.
il LENTEN SERMON AT GRACE CHURCH.
What Mr.. rockingham Knows
About Divine Providence.
Archbishop McClOskey ON the
Forty Hours Devotion.
Robert Collyer, of Chicago, at the
Church of the Messiah.
sermons in the Catholic Churches on
the Penitential Season.
Sermons in the Catholic Churches on
the Penitential Season.
THE GREAT DOMINICAN FRIAR.

Gifted Orator Of the Order of st. Domi-
nic-The Congregation Of st. Vincent
Ferrers Church Moved to Tears
About seven hundred years ago. and shortly after
the occupation oil Ireland by Henry IL, there was
LITTLE HAMLET IN OLD CASTLE
, child or the great house OF Gczman, who ut his
birth, devoted to the service OF the Church by
his pious parents. The child was baptized "Do-
mingo," or, as 1t has been Angcised. "Domlnic"
Gwentvthree years after this infant then grown to
p man, was made canon OF
THE CATHEDRAL OF OsMA,
and, five years after, priest and Archdeacon Domi
mic, or, as he is now known, st. Dominic and was
Bent on missions throughout Spain, then the most
earnest and fiery Christian nation on the globe.
Hw eloquence was great his delivery SO forcible,
and his learning 30 profound, that
THE PROUDEsT GRANDEE OR HIDALGO
uoned his beaver ana knet to receive Domlnic's
blessing. even on lonely road. when he passed.
The world has since learned what came OF this
mans earnestness and zeal.
THE TERRIFIC CRUSADE
AGAINST the Albigenses the death OF Raymond,
Count Of Toulouse, the foundation Of the
DOMINICAN ORDER OF PREACHERS
by Innocent ILL.,, In 1915 and the great diffusion OF
the order all over Europe, which became SO general
that at the dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry
Will, three hundred years after, the Order OF ST.
Dominic possessed in England alone fifty eight
houses. with magnificent tracts Of land,
GARDENS, GRANARIEs REFECToRIEs AND MEssUAGEs
Rppertaining to their splendid estates. The order
adopted the rule Of St Augustine, and In England
we're known as
BLACK FRIARs,
while In France they were called Jacobins, from
HOnOras I'LL by o bull confirmed their privileges,
giving the order the order the name OF Predcants,
Or Preaching Friars, and to this DAY they have
alone, among all the religious orders OF the Roman
Catholic Church, merlted as well as preserved the
little OF
THE ''oRDER OF PREACHERS"
And well they have deserved the name. First and
foremost among the devoted men that have planted
the banner OF the Catholic Church In every CLINE
have been these same
WHITE GOwNED AND WHITE cowLED
children Of st. Dominic. They were with Columbus
their feet bathed In the waters Of the newly found
Pacific waste OF waters; they fought Martin Luther
Of the French Revolution, while Danton, with his
lion roar numbered inside OF the walls OF their dis
mantled convent IN the
and few years since they established O community
and founded house for their brethren in this city.
quence they have swayed nations by this the
greatest gilt OF God, and yesterday In the Church
OF the Dominicans, at the corner OF Lexington ave-
nue. and Sixty-drth street. in this CITY, there APP
peared in the pulpit
SIMPLE BROTHER OF THE ORDER,
founded by the fiery and eloquent Castilan, upon
whose shoulders 1t Is believed that the mantle OF
Domingo Guzman has fallen. The vast church,
which for taste, elegance and simple purity OF
architecture is not edualled by any Roman Catholic
edifce IN New York, was nled to overlooking by
rapt and fashionable congregation to listen 10
FATHER TON BURKE"
Europe has already rung with his magical and
powerful eoquence; and the crowds or MOnSelgnori,
English, French Belgian and Austrian mobiles, To-
gether with swarms OF fashionable and titled ladies
were 10 sen to .he Of
Father Tom Burke In the exquisite church ON the
PIAZZA DEL PoPOLO
can never forget his burning words and the gran
deur ann perfection Of his gestures IN the pulpit.
Gifted In the LANGUAGES, he was fully as eloquent
when mis- nowery sentences uttered In the lam
guage which he first iispc1 at his mothers knee In
ROMANTIC TOWN OF GALWAY,
Tor Father Burke Is an lrisnman, as his name fndL
ms s ar on inc
Burke was born Galway, Ireland OF poor parents,
but Of the kindred Of the ancient house Of De
years OF age left his native country to pursue
HIS STUDIES ON THE CONTINENT.
theology, from whence he went TO Florence to finish
the same branch, and thence to Perugia to study
A RENOWNED SCHOLAR AND PREACHER,
electryng the inhabitants and visitors to the Eter
sory. fnen home again Went Friar Burke S to Work
In every great city OF England. Tnen We get o
glimpse or him In Dublin. where
WALTER BLAKE AND DEAN KIRwAN
had preached before him. Everywhere Frar Burke
went vast assembages were held entranced py his
eoquence, and but snort time since ne came to
America, he passed through this city without any
flourish OF trumpets and went to mission IN
Memphis, Tenn, where the same success attended
him. Yesterday morning he preached In
THE DOMINICAN CHURCH,
of which the Rev. Father Lilly Is pastor, TO an I'm.
mense congregation, and when he assembled into
hood OF st. Dominic almost hiding his face from
view pin, had 1t fallen to the noor, could nave
been beard.
THERE ARE NO GALLERIES
IN the church. and the sound OF q human voice Is
quite artculate amid the stiffness. Father Burke
6u1Yertng from terrible cold having arisen from
Bck Deu TO preach the Lenten sermon. His costume
he threw his hood back from his face, and
DISCLOSED A CONTOUR
in every line OF which genius shOne, his luminous
large eyes seemed to scare and penetrate every
person In the great audience Men and women
strained their necks to get sight at him, and per-
sons standing back In the aises stood on their tip
toes to listen. FATHER Burke Is man OF
TALL AND IMPOSING APPBABANCB
and In his gestures reminds one OF a combination,
ter But Fecnter with all his art Is an actor--this
man Burke Is deadly IN earnest, and even Horace
Greeley would not close an eve wne ne thunders
tortn pronunciation 10 sinners passes to the Ger.
tain Deatncation which awaits the just III
TIE COURT OF HEAVEN.
from the depths OF terror into which he has
plunged his hearers by his description or the place OF
By magnificent wave OF MS arm, which seems TO
0Weep over the head of every man. woman and