The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-08
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THE BISHOPS SERMON

Attic Cathedral Yesterday "a Large Con.
grcgntion wna present Observance Uf
Palm ~suudny-Tho Services at 81. Mint.
tlisw's Church.
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, tho last
Sunday before Easter, Tho palms wcrO
distributed In nil Catholic churches In
token OF Christ's ontry into Jerusalem,
when tho people strowod palms in his
why. Tho faithful wore tho palms In
their coat lappola aftor leaving tho
church. Palms lott ov0r arc burned
and tho aslios saved for uao on Ash
ednosday noxt year.
bishop Donnhno preached tho sixth
sermon OF tho I0nton SORES, last ovon.
! Ing, In tho Cathedral, to the usual over.
flowing congregation. Tho subject for
treatment was "Thc Wounds oil Christ's
Soul" as n sequel to his sermon Of ono
week before on "rhc Wounds Of Christ's
BODY
Tho right reverend preacher took as
his text tho following from tho Episilo
to tho Galatians: "Christ hath 70.
deemed us from tho curso Of tho law, DO.
ing made n curse for u.s." Galatians Ill
l3); and tho supplementary text: "ile
put on c~ursing like q garment, and II
wont In like water into HE entrails and
Ike oil In his bones" (Psalm los ". lSl.
He dwelt on the various commommora.
lions OF tho instruments Of tho
Sacred Passion, and then tho low
Ing turning OF tho church to
our blessed motliet in her Seven
Dolors, after which sho winds tho pur-
pie veil about tho sacred form Of Christ,
there to be had till Good Friday. But
We may lovingly / nour modi.ations take
of that veil: nay, going deeper still, We
must probe moro searchingly than
thorn, or nail, or spear. aud try to gaze
| upon the wounds OF hts soul. At the
very root OF the facility OF meditatlng
upon the purely physical aspects OF tho
Sacred Passion los tho danger OF injur.
ing Christ's real passion.
Tho preacher, betore entering upon
tho muin theme, laid down some propo-
sitions bearing upon tho divinity and
humanity OF Jesus Christ. lie had n
mans heart, n mans sensibilities, 4
mans shrinking from pain. He had a
human will-not confusedly merged
in tho divine will, but separate, though
harmonious. Ito had, OF course. a
mans soul-a fact which most OF us
lose sight Of in tho binding ~splendors
OF His divinity, Us We think the sky
above ia starless at high noon. AT
times. Just as tho Divine could raise the
mere human nature, &C it could, III some
wav that We cannot fathom. hurl its in
finite weight upon the poor. frail body
and beating heart. Then, too, from
the instant Of the incarnation the union
| OF tho Divine and human natures was
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he 0nce assumed he
never laid down. The human nature
was, temporarily at least, in some
dread way, overpowered and over
whelmed by tho Divine.
In the development OF thcss consider
| atoms lios the awtulness OF the wounds
| OF Christ's soul! lie foresaw, as God,
| He knew sin rs God, with infinite
knowledge and infiui 0 honor. but lie
suffered as man. II, ecalno q curse Tor
us, the victim Of ali e sins Of all the
world, With all their d. ,ad. all their sor.
row. all their sense OF guilt, all their
remorsc. This feeling OF universal
victim, this becoming a curse that
We might be delivered from the
curse OF law. is meant BY St. Paul
in his energetic language. lts