The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-28
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 80, 1878.

lNING, SEPTEMBER 80, 1878.
with q golden girdle, His hair white as SNOW,
as the sun in its strength Do you Christians
believe these thingsf You read them in the
New Testament, which you profess to believe.
If So, why doubt this, that He who has
ginning, and has thereby given US a revelation
of the order of faith and grace under which
we are to the end of the world, has also in di-
yers ways and sundry manners manifested
Himself at all times to His servants and
friendsf The man who can coldly deny this,
let him look we'll to his faith in the New Test
ament Scripture. I believe those who object
visions recorded in the New Testament Scrip
lures, even in the days in which they were
written. This. then, is the reason of our pill
grimage. And what is your motivef Is there
any other motive conceivable in men but faith
in Our Lord Jesus Christ, tender and fervid
love to His person, desire to render Him
Thanksgiving for the great graces which hehas
Target Is It not obvious that your motives
ara personal motives relating to the person of
your Lord and Masters What other motives
are conceivablef The blind world has i'm
Kingdom Of God tie politics Of Him who sits
on the right hand of God, and will judge the
living and the dead: This is true. There is
intelIects and the deadness Of such hearts
You know what the devotion of tho Sacred
Heart has been to you, You who have practiced
it, you who have tasted it, You who know that
character of Jesus Christ, that it is the key
whereby the whole mystery of His human
love and Divine charity, encompassed by the
and unspeakably tender to our hearts; Here
the world again objects, and says, This is as
old as the Gospel this is what Jesus taught
in Jerusalem. What is there new in this 1
l. 4L~raf .-<, do
votion of the Sacred Heart is beyond your re-
proaches. You ascribe it to the lips of Jesus
Himself, and it is true, and if You had believed
in that which He taught in Jerusalem eight
need when the world was grown cold to inspire
one of His children to revive the knowledge
of 1t at Paray-le-Monial. 1t is identically the
same truth it is the realization of the Divine
Manhood of Jesus it is the appreciation OF
His Divine love and human tenderness it is
the laying open of the heart of which He spoke
when he said, Learn of Me, for am meek
your souls This is the motive then for your
personal love which you desire
to Increase more and more personal know
ledge which you desire to raise into that Dl-
vine friendship to which the beloved disciple
was admitted when he lay upon His bosom.
And now have but two more words to say. The
first is this-Here is the personal motive OF
your pilgrimage to Paray-le Monial but you
have another. You desire to bear witness in
Jesus Christ You desire to bear witness in
the face of world growing blinG. that you
believe in Him, and you desire to make rePa-
ration for the blasphemous impieties which
men have vented in ali lands, and in our own
land, within the last year respecting ms d.
vine Person. We have been deluged with i'm
pieties, and you are ready to bear your witness
in the face of the world that you believe God
was incarnate, that God was manifest in the
flesh, that God was seen amongst men, that
His disciples handled Him, converted with
afa Wi that
in the midst of US on the altar, that there is an
order of supernatural grace and faith aud
mystery upon earth, and that as there Is an
atmosphere which rests upon the mountains
iusensble to us, 80 there is upon the earth an
order visible to the eyes of faith. insensible to
the world. You live in it, you breathe Ia. 1t.
You desire to bear testimony to these things
testimony that miracles have not ceased,
that visions are not for eighteen hundred years
ago alone, that communications OF the HOLY
Ghost are not restricted to the beginnings OF
Christianity, that that which was in the be-
ginning is now and ever shall be world with
out end, that We are under one and the same
order of grace, faith and salvation. This is
your first testimony, and You bear another
which is like unto it. Within the last twelve
months impiety has been heaped upon impiety,
and the power of prayer and the loving ear Oh
in the face of the whole world, go on q .pilgri-
mage to pray, to testify your faith In the
power of prayer that you believe that De,
tween heaven and earth, that between Ood ana
man there is An INSTRUMENTATION, ana q
power of duplication and of mercy. rms Is
q true and governing law of this world which
men disbelieve, because Satan who will be
crushed by prayer, detudes men into dis
belief. And once more you desire to bear your
witness that this world has Sovereign, ana
that the Sovereign of this world is not its
god. The god of this world is destroyer, its
Sovereign is the Creator by whom all things
we're made. Tho god of this world seduces
the nations by the uncleau spirits that go up
ont of the deep, by impiety, infdelity, sedi-
ton, NATURALIZATION, impurity, craft, covet-
God and persecution of His Church. These
are the lava of the god of this werld, and for
a time he seems to have the dominion; for
time he has seduced the natl ons from the unity
of the faith and obedience to the Son of God.
For time he is persecuting the Church in all
lands for time he is holding in bondage the
Vicar of Jesus Christ, He hath great wrath,