The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-18
REV. DR.. MGLYNN IN HoBoKRN.
Preached TO a Large Gathering at
Father COrrigan,s Oh

Preached TO a large Gathering at
Father Corrigan's CHI urch.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn delivered an interesting
discourse yesterday afternoon at the Church
of Our Lady Of Grace, Hoboken. The church
come from New York. There were also
present many o n-Catholics of Hoboken. In
the sanctuary were seated Father Hennessy
of this city, Father Killeen of Bayonne and
Father Fabris of Hoboken. Father McGlynn
was attended by Father Corrigan. Previous
to the lecture, st. Mary's Choral Union,
under direction of Professor OKeefe, sang
Gounods GLORY Be to the Father
Father McGlnyn's subject of discourse was
Hearts and Heads" He said that his dis
course would not be so much about the ma
terial Hearts and Heads as of those spiritual
gifts and faculties that endow the soul of
man with immortality. MAN was the
noblest work of God,' he continued, ''and Of
things of this world it ought to be mans
proud boast to be able to say, to dare to say,
to be his duty to say my Father, our Father.
We are made in the wisdom of God to be in
terpreters of 4he mystery of creation. When
man came into creation all was explained.
All before was but the preparation for the
coming of man. 1t was a workshop
wherein to cave his child, to have him fulfill
the tasks the father had set before him. By
fulfilling these duties the child may be called
hone from school to enjoy the future, to
enjoy the wages of the tasks he has faithfully
performed.
1.-The soul of a man is endowed with an
Unsuitable longing to kno the truth, as well
as a capacity. This is in the order of nature.
Man is not satisfied with the mere food that
feeds the perishable body, but seeks sufficient
to provide for the minds wants. Man every
where is conscious of the hunger of the soul
for something higher and better--a higher
truth. Capacity and appetite are but
whetted by whatever he acquires of knowl-
edge. He rises with the cultivation of the
human min nearer to the thought of an
eternal, infinite truth. He is not
satisfied with anything short of this.
When he gets away from truth
he begins to create for himself. 1t
is a necessity that he should minister to his
clear teaching of the Catholic Church, based
on revelation, that man has received from
creation this longing to love and enjoy God.
He can never be satisfied with finite things.
His soul is too great, having been created
in the image of God. All progress of man
towards a higher civilization is but a more
| perfect commonwealth. ALI we have to re-
sist in nature is the corruption of nature. No
man who appreciates the dignity God has
given to man can say that a man can do
aught else than always paying tribute to the
Creator.
with all our gifts, our power to know
and love and serve God, we are strangely
fallen from our high estate. Survey con-
temporaneous events to see how prone we
are to fall. Man has sinned against the
Creator. Man, endowed with the knowledge
of the moral law, must subdue brute to man,
but we are only too often guilty of the
strange perversion of subjecting man to the
brute. God teaches us we are all brothers,
one to the other. When man rebels against
God, he turns his hand against his brother.
This is not the Law of true brotherhood, but
instead is the law of appetite, of might, sup
pressing, robbing, aye, numbering the poor,
the simple and the lowly.
"It is a part of my purpose to say something
of the supernatural, to show how our Father
is a Father in spite of our failure to make
our hearts his temples. He has never entirely
abandoned us, never forgotten the work of
His hands. God has so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son to save it.
God has become man in order to make man
more like God. God has taken mans nature
that we may become partakers of the divine
nature. Someone has wittily, but truthfully.
remarked that the Christian head differs
from the Pagan head in that the former has
had one story added to it with a sky1ight on
top. Christ has given a new type of the
Christian head. It is only in C~hristendom
that we nave the highest civilization. All
men are brethren and owe one to the other
fraternal duty. 1t should ever be our duty
to endeavor to bring our hearts and heads
into conformity with the heart and head of
Christ"
Al the conclusion of the discourse Father
McGlynn gave the benediction.