The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-24

We have truth.
Now some would say this preacher is
going to say He is in the Catholic Church.
Not SO. He was only suggesting thoughts
thing was certain. If we found Christ we
should have the truth. Truth preceded Ms:
truth came after us. 1t was, therefore, in :
dependent of us. 1t existed before the
world: supernatural truth did. It would
exist after the world. 1t was like G cd -
it was in God,-" the same yesterday, to.
day, and forever" Like all things it had
attributes, and one of its attributes was
Intolerance.
Some one will Immediately say-Oh! but
this is tolerant age. Truth cannot be
intoleraut. Can it mott Is it mott Try
it. Try it in the natural order and see
Take two and two. Will two and two make
five7 Take the three angles of right
angled triangle-will they make four right
angles7 Your old triangle laughs at you.
You cannot do it And 30 it is with truth
in the supernatural order. 1t is into'erant
in itself. 1t cannot compromise or contra
diet itself, for it would pot then be the
truth. But it is tolerant To those who are
seeking after it, and who, te the honor of
the human race be it said, graspits shadow,
or what they mistake for it, and worship
it, generally because they really believe
that the shadow, the fragment, the error, is
really the truth.
" haG 10 tiutb, tutu J. w mere IS CuEIsLI
Find Him and we have truth Where is
Hef He is surely somewhere in the
world this night. Let us 60 searching
aud seeking after Christ. Is He in a
book Christ is not in book. You can
not bind Him between covers and hold Him
there. He is greater than a book, even
thou gh that book be, or profess to be, His
word Christ is greater than His word. He
Himself said: ~ am truth ;" not My
word only but Me. The living being,
the Ego, is the truth. Not merely what /
say. That is why He had such confidence
in Himself; why He used language that no
man ever dared to use. ever conceived be
fore. Sc am the truth" And it is because
the truth is living and real that it is spread
over the world. Those few sentences that
dropped from His lips have become the
religion of the world and made it all
holy land, no longer restricted to the mar
row strip of country called Palestine. 1t
is because His words were more than words
that they live. Men are greater than their
words. The grandest thoughts ever
thought have never found utterance in
words.
Out on the sea there are pillows that break
So in the soul there feelings that float into
speech
No: Christ is not in a book. Where is
He then :? He must be somewhere, and
somewhere in this world. Let US go
searching again. Let us enter :, Church.
any Church, and ask:
Have you Christi
They aDswer,-Of course we have.
Do you believe in and worship HIM.
or course we do.
Then you have the truth
OF course we have.
Are you sure now7 No hesitation.
Well
No wells. Are you certainf Can you
possibly make a mistakes Then if you can
make . mistake, how do you know YOU
have truths Honest now7
Well-and you leave that Church l5 will
not do. The attribute of truth is intoler
ance. There is no doubt about it, no hest
tation. We enter another, and much the |
same process it gone throug h. They wor-
ship Christ, they believe in Christ, they
believe in truth. But if you ask them are
they certain, can they possibly make
they hesitate. They will not re
ply. Or they will caudidy confess that
they may he mistaken, or they may have
some truth and some falsehood.
THIS is not Christ. There was no hest
tation in Him. This is not truth 1t will
not do. We must have something more
than this, more than the fragment of truth,
a Church that will sag this is false-this is
true-this is right-this is wrong that
will not quaver or shrink, but proclaim
with Jesus. "For this were we born, and
we might bear testimony to the truth"
And the world will justify those men. And
will say to the tumutuous rabble when it
finds these witnesses crowned with the
.horns of suffering and persecution, 1--WE
ind DO cause in these men,"
The lecture concluded at about twenty
minutes to ten. To say that Father Ryan
leld his vast audience in his hand through
,ut would i'll describe the effect of his ora
DRY. His voice is singularly clear aud
distinct. Hisdelivery is admirable, rising
rom time to time to the most mpassioned
trains. The pnetical faculty is evidently
trong in him /; but it only serves to adorn
lis keen logical language and add music
# it's own 20 close argumep tative sentences
hat strike like a hammer straight home
nd true. He has a wealth of illustration
Yer at hand, bnt he does not allow il TO
AIRY him away. AT least he certainly did
ot on this occasion, nor at the sermon
which he preached a the Mi8sd Cantdta in q
he morning. The sketch given above off e
RS poor idea of this able and eloquent I
riest's discourse. There were present on
he altar several ciergymen, besides Dr.
IcGlynn, Father Macready, and others at
ached to St. Stephens. The lecture was {
iVen for the benefit of the narnchjai s.c :