The New York herald., 1873-10-06

4 MS command OF Lne EnKHSn lauBudBe Is rcHiulh
ably good for Hndoo. Choosing for his text the
truths contained the first ten verses OF the sec
ond chapter Of Paul's Epstle TO the Ephesians, he
lie or converted man. The state Of
By ons ayn o
man has never begun to beat; dissolution has be-
| gun to take place. From this torpor CnrstS power
OF salvation can release u.s. The lives that we iead
| lives There are so many things that are new and
beautiful to us tnat we discover new world. The
very beau ideal Of humanity is truly converted
man.
ST. STEPHENS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Sermon by tho Rev. DIR. McGlynn-Thc
Evangelical Alliance-The Presump-
tion OF the Christian Young Mon and
the Christian Old Mcn-True Evan
gelical Unity.
At the high mass in st. Stephens church yester-
day morning the Rev. DR.. McGlynn made an elo-
quent protest against the action OF the Evangelical
Alliance in CHASING the Roman Catholic religion,
under the head Of superstition, with infdelty, as
the enemies against which the friends Of Christian
unity have to contend. His vindicaton OF his
Church against the attacks OF her enemies, couched
in vigorous but chaste language, produced great
effect on his hearers. After reading the Gospel,
Matt, xvi, the preacher said:-Ir is not, as you
know, the custom OF the Catholic pulpit to take
notice of the latest sensationshe latest startling
murder or divorce case-but the meeting OF
the Evangelical Alliance in our midst, an
event so sensational in many respects would
seem to justify some notice from this place that
will not involve any departure from the SELL
conscious dignity OF the Catholic pulpit. 1t would
be alfectation on our part to seem Indifferent
about the doings Of that association. Apart from
the interest which all feel in our fellow man In
his aspirations after truth and Christian unity,
we cannot but feel special interest In the delib
erations OF
THE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMEN
of the Evangelical Alliance, one OF whose chief
avowed objects Is to oDstruct the progress OF the
Catholic Church. No, we cannot be Indifferent
when we learn that their avowed object Is to op-
pose infdelity on the one hand and Cathoicity
(which they calumniousy call ''superstition') on
the other. The Church that taught their ances-
tors to give expression in language, and, from
besotted savages, made them civilized beings-the
Church that gave their countries saints and In
tellectual giants, compared with whom these
Christian young men and these Christian old men
MERE roDDLING INFANTS,
called a superstition by these respectable gentle
menl 1t will be we'll to mediate on the true type
OF evangelical unity, to protest against the as
sumption OF these Christian men that they are the
OF Christianity as taught by Christ
1t is right that some voice should be raised here to
proclaim that there are hundreds OF millions or
true Christian hearts that cannot be weaned from
allegiance to that Church which the Evangelical
Alliance vfes as superstitious 1t Is charity on
our part to remind the p0us delegates and learned
divines from Europe that 1t would be well lor them
to direct their batteries against the millions OF
men and women OF their nations, and lately OF
their own communion, who look on the Word OF
God as a fable. They have at home. even in their
pulpits, men who deny the truths OF revelation,
who wear
THE GARB OF MINISTER'S,
that they may the more effectually undermine the
Christian ed1dce. And this mere handful OF men,
dscaiming at the outset to represent any Church
to have any divine authority to teach or to de-
fine doctrines conference OF well-dressed, medi-
Ocre responsibilities, who relegate most things
that Christ taught TO the regions OF mere opinion
that the Christian Church OF all ages and the
Church OF the great majority OF Christendom TO-
day has always taught to be the very Word OF God
has the enrontery to assume to itself the title OF
| "Evangelical,n and to shamefully violate CON-
WRITTEN UPON THE HEARTS
| OF all men as well as in Gods revealed word: =
| "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neghbor." These men have the hardihood to call
/ by the name OF superstition the religion OF the one
Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. the
s'' the church It that has given them ali that
they possess Of Christianity and OF civilization
that has built their churches. their colleges and
/ their schools that has preserved for them the
Christian traditions, "The many things that are
not written In this book" as ST. John says In mis-
tender and religious care. the written
! Word OF God; this Church that to an i'm
an an impartaI and well.instructed Visitor from
pagan land would present itself as the Christian
| Church OF history and the embodiment to-day or
i Christianity, as 1T has come down from Christ and
his Ap0stles-if there Is any such thing on earth
this church is dismissed with a sneer as super
stition or denounced as an enemy OF Christianity
by these self-constituted Christian young men and
Christian old men, who, II they are Christian at all,
are such only because OF the greater or smaller,
| the more or the fewer shreds and patches OF
i Christian teaching and OF Christian practice which
their ancestors carried with them when they re-
/ beled against the divinely constituted authority
OF the Christian Church, and in bravery OF which
these, their descendants, now parade their
| HARDLY COVERED NAKEDNEss
/ like some savages that we read Of who at times
make pomp Of scant mutated fragments OF the
garments of their more civilized visitors. The true
status OF these gentlemen Is that OF recacitrant
/ children OF the one Catholic Church OF Christ. And
| their refusal to accept her teachings and seek ad-
mission into her communion, II is at all excusa-
BILE, Is to be excused only because OF their igno-
| rance. And ignorance Is but
POOR EXCUSE
| the world the ways OF Christian truth and unity.
Let us then for our own spiritual comfort and Tor
| be here present, mediate little upon the true
evangelical type OF Christian upty as we hnd II in
the holy evangel OF Christ and as 1t has ever been
In the opening speech OF yesterdays meeting
the Rev. DR.. Hodge IL reported TO have said at the
beginning OF his discourse on Christian Union =
"The Church OF Christ Is one. There Is one faith,
one shepherd, one King, one Kingdom one Father,
other i man SPOKE better than he knew; and his
| words Will suggest for us thoughts derived from
Gods word 10 the Strengthening OF our own faith
Christ Is called o household, family, fiock, q
Kingdom. Christ's visible household must nave q
head Christ's family must have father; Christs
| flock must have shepherd and Christie kingdom
must have ruler. The grand new republic which
| Jesus founded, finding It's subjects IN all states,
| being In the world but not OF the world, should
| not be without visible head This Is what Christ
promised In the Gospel Of st. Matthew. Other men
| not Indifferent about the coming OF Christ, had
| mistaken who Christ was. But when Christ asked
tho apostles, Peter, as their spokesman answered
| for them, "rhou art Christ the son OF the living
| Godr Then Christ, with the wisdom and au-
thorlty OF an incarnate God, declared that the