The New York herald., 1873-10-13
ST. STEPHENS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sermon by the Rev. DIR. hlcGlynn ON the
True Evangelical Type Of the Church
Has tho Church a Visible Head 9-The
Charter or the ROma q N Catholic Church.
large and highly intelligent congregation as
sembled in st. Stephens church yesterday morn.
ing to hear DR.. McGlynn crticse the doings Of the
sixth general conference OF the Evangelical ALI
ance, and attempt to prove the validity OF the
claim OF the Catholic Church to the title OF the one
and only Church founded by Christ Having read
portion OF the sixteenth chapter Of the Gospel ac
cording to st. Matthew, he referred to an address
lately made at one OF the meetings in Association
Hall, and said I'VE were unworthy children Of
our mother, the Church, II our hearts did not burn
with Indignation and II our lips did
not culver with intensest feeling at any body OF
men denouncing the holy Catholic Church as a
superstition as an enemy OF Christianity to be op-
posed equally with inndelity as a barrier in the
way Of the work OF Christ in sanctifyng the world.
/ find an excellent division OF my subject sug-
gested by the utterances OF member Of that Con-
ference venerable for his years and venerated
among those Christian men for his supposed great
learning and his real or supposed great services
to Christian theology, the venerable DR.. Hodge,
who told u.s. as he is reported In the
papers, that in the Christian Church there
is one household. one kingdom, one fold.
He described better than he knew the very
CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH OF GOD.
Yes, 1t rs one family, OF which Christ Is the head,
10 gather which together the Son OF God became
man, and for the proper preservation OF which He
came TO build His house. We are something more
even than members Of Hts family; we are the very
living members Of the body OF Christ, and we are,
or ought to be, one body in Christ. the Incarnate
God has provided for this union with characteristic
goodness ana wisdom. He came to save us by
human means and through human cooperation,
and therefore was 1t that He became man and
called TO aid Him more men, whom. with such as
siduous care, He taught by word and example, to
make them depositaIies OF His doctrine and the
foundation stones OF His Church. In the few Irag-
mentary records OF His word that we have He tells
US His plan for the redemption OF man In language
SO plain that we may well wonder how men, with
strange and most unpardonaple assumption
calling themselves distinctive by the name of of
Evangelicals can fail to see 1t. During His Lifetime
Christ was the visible head OF the visible C1urch,
which lie founded. Has He left IL headess in
Eyangelical Alliance say That He has, and Christ
says that He has not:-'T say to thee that thou
art rock;n his name was not rock, It was
Simon, until Christ gave him new name and
made him q new man-t"and he has become
q rock, because Christ said, thou art rock;''r
MY IOC GhnrcnnNsnd these good men have come come
across the ocean, many OF them at great trouble
and expense to ind out where Christ has built II;
wherein IL unity. Christ said to Peter I'll will
Duild on thee.u Let us seek IL where Christ built
IL. This Church may fail perhapsS IL is built upon
q man, upon Peter, fisherman, rude fisherman,
q Gallllean
WHOSE DnoGUE BETRAYED NM,
to whom 1t was said, ''Thy speech betrays thee.u
Christ says, 'The gates OF he'll shall not prevail
against g." These good men say that the gates OF hell
have prevailcd-prevailed long ago. The liturgical
books or nomies OF one OF the denominations, IN
some measure represented In the Conference, tell
ITS deluded followers that for 1000 years the
whole Christian world was sunk In horrd idolatry.
and Christ stands up and says, "The gates OF hell
shall not prevail against it.v
The Church OF God is q Kingdom. Yes IL ", DR..
Hodge, and Christ, when lie asccnded into Heaven,
did not leave HIS kingdom without a ruler. "And
viii give TO thee keys OF the Kingdom Of Heaven.u
But Dr. Hodge and Professor Hitchcock and the
other excellent pen, who have met to
arraign the Church, would take away the
KEYS from him, 10 whom Christ gave them,
and suspend them mcwherc-nowherc--they
VIII not tell us where. The Cnurdh Is iamilyi
Yes. The apostles we're all brothers In this family
and Christ was the head. But, as visible head,
He Is here no longer His family is here. Has IT
visible head Christ says that II has. The Lord
said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hatn desired to
have you On tic original Greek, plura that he
may silt you tpilraD as wheat, but tine Son Of
God ncarnate, have prayed for thee that thy faith
fail not, and thou, being converted, confirm thy
brethren. Peter is TO confirm those who arc In the