The New York herald., 1873-10-20
ST. STEPHENS O. o. CHURCH.

DIR. McGlynn ON the Divine Maternity
The Council OF Ephesus-Henry Ward
Beecher sharply Answered-"Thou
Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against
Thy Neighbour
At Ste Stephens yesterday morning DR.. McGlynn
delivered o discourse on the divine maternity
OF the Blessed Virgin Mary, based on argu
ments, by which he sought to show that devotion
to the Virgin is not an ornamental addition or
beautiful outgrowth OF Christianity but an essen
tial constituent and necessary part OF the religion
founded by Christ. Having read the Gospel of the
Feast OF the Divine Maternity, Luke ii, 1882, he
said:-
The Church invites us to-day to celebrate the
maternity Of the Blessed Virgin Mary and under
that title we are called to honor her great pre-
rogatives. 1t is the teaching OF the Church and
called the Mother OF God. This is but sequence Of
the cardinal dogma OF Christianity the divinity Of
Sesps GG as May ae aed Uar
ity is a deusion. This doctrine is as old as the
Christian religion. In the beginning q the NTH
swas ssers we're two persons IN Christ and the
Iaity so firmly grounded were they in the
faith that the Son OF Mary was God, branded him
as hereto. When In the church OF st. sophia,
Constantnople, bishop mad The audacity 10 ques.
the sacred building, horror-stricken at his impiety.
st. Celestne l., the then shepherd OF Chrsts nocki
Council Nestorius was condemned, and the Catho-
lie doctrine that Christ Is God authoritatively de-
Council declared Mary to be the mother OF God.
Christ Is Cod Mary Is the mother OF Christ. There
fore Mary Is the mother OF God. Those VINO refuse
to acknowledge the divine maternity
SIN AGAINST LOGIC
or against the fundamental article OF the Christian
faith. The early fathers loved TO contemplate the
analogy between the new Eve. Mary, and the old
Eve, by whose fall sin and Its countless train OF
evils entered into the world. st. Paul speaks OF
rio ae ADAM
Church teach that In the supernatural order Mary
discharges the same Office as Eve In ~ the natural: .
when Christ was TO be born, the wonderful
seIJane srsn % alunes wnS the stem that was TO
bring iorth the nower OF Israeli was saluted
y ine ran Ansel the LORD Is with
| art thou among women" And Gods messenger
tells her why she is blessed :"Bchold, thou shalt
conceive In thy womb ana shalt bring forth son /;
| and thou shalt call his name Jesusn At the nat
/ OF Mary, "Behod the handmaid OF the Lord, be 1t
flied the words Of st. John, 'T6e word was made
flesh and dwet among us.n scarcely mad
| been wrought in Mary's womb when she chari-
tabIy went 10 visit her cousin, st. Elizabeth: and
the mother. Of Christ's precursor , cried out
iruis i"Ht OF ''s t6y womb. And whence is this
60 Come e1 70 % mes ~ 81. Elizabeth protests that MARY
the mother OF her Lord, did her TOO much honor In
coming to visit her. In this days GOspel We Teau,
! "Ue we MT down with them ana came TO Nazareth,
| and was subject to tnemr He h0nored and
! obeyed His mother. We cannot be lndlherent 10
| this woman whom Christ has honored. revered
| and obeyed. The spouse or Christ ana the mem
| bers OF His mystical body, whose hearts Dest Ia
unis On with her, cannot but love and honor Inc
/ mother OF Christ, her God.
How painful then, must IL be 10 the hearts OF the
children OF Mary to hear, even In our 0wn nme, az
II is reported In the papers, that
THE REV. HENRY WARD BEECnER
IN sermon on last Sunday asserted that "CathS'
lca /, ad robbed God or His attributes; some they
had en- TO tisc Virgin, others TO the Pontin" IL
is our DUTY TO protest against 20 m0nstrous o