, 1874-02-23
THEPULPlT:
The Sadness Of Hypocrisy.
Address by Tho Rev. Father Terry,
Of 8l..patrick's Church"
The. Wisconsin,, Episcopal
Council.
Sermon. by the. Rev.. Or. stocklng.v OF
tle;.Epiphany Church.:
a Farewell to. His Pnrisllfoncrs'
Sermon by the Rev. Fir. Wondto, OF TUG
Fourth Unitarian Church,,
alr. Mccarthy Holds Services in; Crows
Opera-1iousc.
a Farewell to. His l'nris1ltoncrs'
Sermon by the Rev. Fir. Wondto, OF tho
Fourth Unitarian Church,,
alr. Mccarthy Holds Services In; Grows
0pera.fiousc.
TEE SADNESS OF HYPOCRISY:

delivered Ut ~. fatf.cSs onueaa, le!"oA -. ~
l'a1nes "hd Aoa''s 7'seo'A 80 os .s,s;,< ,ta
Sunday evoning Lontcn aaaFesses' ta".nb ~"
text from tho sixth chaptor OF Ut. Matthew
In mt Of n sal co,trtoua,,eo, as tho lypo-
~ o' nv.. w. .s",l,, - ,,..n oa r,,,,owu.
et'.'a ,no h.l'u.' ",' -. y" .,,;n r,,,,oua anil
worthy Hlslcrhooa 's tn's o"oneen "'"'
Hypocrisy. Christ wns not tho first to recognize
1nn1 w,,c, iTa annooral in tho world. It MAS
at ,,,as ,.,s,,.,. ,,.., o,.or 1,,oc,;tico, for.
uo1 ~ @', h''oi'osa WIS ~ ~ =. 49, +,,ot
iieaSen KNOWS, II hcod mol po'-pae ~ "as s''Hs
hypocrisy was always sad. III tho carly droo't
iterature wo find tho terms "Bal- -facol" " aud
a]vnocr;ticn, +" ,,sod na ouuiyalcuts; :. aud ILL.,
,;,t,r,v -, - cr;In .v;sarod vpocrisyn
The The spr, vorv Crock % word "hypocrisy' comes Of
false fncc, and uscd only Of tho acting Of tho
,,layora M tha stage. In the old Crock lran,a
w IT,. ,xo,,,,,, ,,ovar a,n,;c 1Io mcro,v actca
.,'o .,',':,. ,,o;, tho,n nina
'no sentiments "H'1st hl'otnot tI'''' 'no'.'
dumb Hllow, Or moro actlns ,wo. nov calt pailto-
lninlo. Tho GroolB calodit f'aypocrislH." But. ns
1ho utauo wuB mt ,tho only Dlaco .wloro men
;,',s, ~ ,a"s et;,,4, ~ ,ro,x1 soo,, o,aumod
1hda!eed III mere acte' Luz "ota soon "o"asa.a
a wider aprllcatioll' anu mon became more
players, or hypocrites, VINO were not "nat tloy
tecnetl. 1t WIS but sort anti foaoy atop 1ron
the Atago Of tho thoat tro to the stngo o. ren! nio,
Tor tho drama, after MI, ~ but picture Of the
world: There. Was tlat, however, II tno say
meah tat was coupled with hynoerlsy which nnxt nso
klIfGHH
Il WA mt lid sweet. goIt sadness TINT il born
Of human loyu, but it was tho dirk, ropusiyo
sadness that comes Of human 4nte. It was not
xho Sadness OF lilo honest, o,oll eye, but it was
Tic sadness of tho lowering, downeast visage
Tho word tho Greeks uHcd for it tlloy also used
for "nl!gcr :" anu thoro WAS perhaps aB much OF
sulonncs, iii it as thorc was in Sadness It was
this BIcn downrast fuco tltat hypocrisy put on;
nn,l OH tho old Greek utage it WIS represented.
by Tic l,orrid masks and rnilltod facos Of tho
nItbrE Een HnW ii That the very language on
our Inns tcli ,,s Of our hcnrts; ,for in our worry
language, III we'll as in rcaiity, tie grimysasod
hypocrltn is but MI actor with i mask on.
Let uy continue tho study l,tle further.
1row did virtue md piotv become assocated witt,
saducsp.-that l,orciI, aepuloLral gutls,cHs which
turns tic worry human iaco into collin? It was
robes Of pcty. S1rtuo has no saduoys III its
tnxi,,rn mi IL itn wl,ite roho now and then wo
r,,d lie B+'mrod nnd hiec,,nno1 Il ia' ontv tho
sl;mo nI ,Ge ncrncnt which remains of this wear
inr. Il WIS from such apsocintions tint ,pioty
became - nad :. aud we'll might Bho have