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WARM WORD PAINTING OF THE
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Prelude to the Sermon of
Rev. j. c. Hull.

Rev. James j. Woods preached a
sermon at the cathedral yesterday
morning, taking his text from the
2Sth chapter of Matthew, 10th verse:
Behold, 1 am with you all days, even
to the eIconsummation of the world
His theme was '"The Blessed Sacra-
ment,' and Father Woods said:
Such, my dear brethren, were the last
endearing words which once fell from
the blessed lips of Jesus, when he
bade farewell to His chosen twelve,
before returning to His Heavenly
Fathers home. The place was the
well-remembered upper room at Jeru-
salem, wherein the apostles so often
used to pray with Mary, heavens
peerless queen, in the midst of them.
Though their apostolic hearts yearned
with anxious zeal to win the souls of
men to Jesus, still not until they heard
these last. most tender words, did
they venture for the first time to
consecrate Christ's precious body and
blood, and bear Him in their bosoms-
the richest. treasure of heavenly grace,
the noblest legacy of our Redeemer's
Il
grand success that followed whereso-
ever the glad gospel rang out it's peals
of glory to God and peace to men.
Our faith today in this same divine
sacrament beams as bright as in the
bosoms of the apostles of old. Our
hope in Him lives just as strong,
undimmed by the lapse of time; but
our love alone perhaps has lessened,
if not grown cold, because we do not
visit our Divine Lord as frequently
as we should: or when we do, our
thoughts it may be have strayed away
on all things else but Him. To visit
the Blessed Sacrament is in accord
ance with our faith, which teaches
that Christ, in all the fullness of His
GODHEAD AND HUMANITY,
whole and entire, is really, truly and
substantially present in the adorable
sacrament of the Eucharist; that as
soon as the priest has pronounced
over the host and over the ehalice the
solemn words of conservation the
sacred body and most precious blood
| of Jesus Christ is Immediately present
therein-the same sacred body that was
born of the Holy Virgin, the same that
! hung upon the rough tree of the cross,
| that rose glorious from the dead, and,
| in fine, the same sacred body that now
! sits triumphant on the right hand Of
| God, the Father.
His all-compasionate, tender sacred
heart, fearing that mid the hum and
din of the busy outside world our souls
! would faint or weary on their heaven
ward way, to be near us In our every
/ need, He has chosen our churches for
His palace, and our affairs to be His
! throne. We see the palaces. of the
| worldly monarchseY ever threnged With
kinsfolk, courtiers and admirers from
| distant climes, but how often is Jesus
I earthly home forgotten and unvisited,
! not by those alone, whose outward
| lives depict their willingness to cruelty
Him anew, but too frequently by His
Intimate friends, who, l may say, share
the same roof with Himself and live
| meath the blissful shadow of His saw
| ing tabernacle. 1t was not always So
| The saints, who now gleam bright and
| beautiful before the great white throne
of this Eternal King of Kings, without
! exception, cherished as their first and
latest love tender devotion to our
Lord in the holy sacrament
Our Lord Himself desires to be often
visited. Behold" He says, 'I am
with you all days, even to the consum-
nation of the world" Let us draw
nearer to our blessed Lord, and with
| chlldlike trustfuiness ask Him fondly
the reason Of His stay. With all your
mind listen attentively to His reply and
treasure His burning words within
your inmost soul. my delight is to
be with the children of men, Morn
ing after morning He quits His Faith
er's throne to become anew our price
less victim in the unbloody sacrifice of
the mass. Nor does His boundless
| goodness rest herein, but with undying,
1ncomprehensible love, He would dwell
in our very midst and cause Himself,
both day and night to be shut up in His
| Iowly
PRISON HOUSE OF LOVE,
| ever longing for a kindly visit from us,
too often His unkind and thoughtless
children. Truly does Father Faber
say, Eve do not understand our own
privileges, because we do not study our
dearest Lord enough. Why not begin
| in time what we shall be delighted to
do for all eternity?''
Visit Him often. therefore, dear
| brethren; stay with Him now, and
then pray to Him with all your heart
and your whole soul, for heaven is only
| heaven because Jesus is there, and it
| is not easy to understand why earth
has not become heaven already, since
| Jesus is on earth also. "Come to Me-"
/ He says, 'All you that labor and are
burdened, and 1 will refresh you" Oh,
marvellous invitation! What rich SOW
ereign of the present day, or in the
| worlds vast history, has ever de-
| clared to his subjects that he would
/ dispose of all his wealth amongst the
| afflicted poor and sorrowing of his
realm? 'Tis easy to conceive the dense
! throng that would willingly respond
/ to such an unheard of proposal. Yet,
! my dear brethren, we have in our poor,
/ but royal, tabernacles Jesus Christ
| Himself, the fairest of all the sons Of
men-the Eternal King of Kings
! sweetly inviting us to visit Him, and
/ yearning anxiously for our coming,
| that He may load us with the riches
| that never fade-His priceless heavenly
] treasures. s'Come to Me all you that
! labor and are burdened,'' most uni
versa1 invitation! Hence, with Him,
| there is no exception of persons-tre
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to their Fathers home.
The prince and the peasant kneel
side by side, each having his own par
ticular soul to save and individual
heart to consecrate, which none out
side himself may freely give to God.
"And I will refresh you," that is, I,
Myself, the Eternal Author of your
being, will be your sovereign main
stay in all your trials. I, who am the
exhaustless fountain from whence all
goodness and mercy stream forth. will
temper all your sufferings and soothe
you in all your woes. Our best made
visit consists in casting ourselves at
His sacred feet and throwing ope2 to
Him our sinful hearts, as Magdalen
did of old. Our fondest prayer should
be for light to see ourselves as we
appear to Him, then our very earnest
ness viii best dispel our darksome wan
derings of the past.
And when that end shall come, which,
though We Dpreaiya If not iS stealing