Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-04-08

Bishop Donahue preached the sixth
sermon of the Lenten series, last even,
ing, in the Cathedral, to the usual over
flowing congregation. The subject for
treatment was The Wounds of
Christs Soul" as a sequel to his SER
mon Of one week before on The
Wounds of Christ's Body"
The Right Reverend preacher took
as his text the following from the
Epistle to the Galatians: Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse Of the
Law being made a curse for us.
Galatians Ill. 10; and the supple
mentary text. HE put on cUrsing like
a garment, and il went in like water
into his enraiis and like oil in mis-
bones psalm los ". 1S). He dwelt
on the various commentators of the
instruments Of the Sacred Passion, and
then the loving turning OF the Church
to our blessed mother in her Seven
Dolors. after which she winds the pur-
pie veil about the sacred form OF
Christ. there to be had till Good Fri
day. Bur we may lovingly in our
meditations take off that veil; nay, go
ing deeper still, We must probe more
searchingly than thorn or nail or
spear. and Try 70 gaze upon the
wounds of his soul At the very root
OF the facility Of meditdting upon the
purely physical aspects OF the Sacred
Passion lies the danger Of injuring
Christ's real passion.
The preacher. before entering upon
the main theme, laid down some propo-
sitions bearing upon the Divinity and
Humanity OF Jesus Christ. lie had
mans heart. a mans sensibilties, a
mans shrinking from pain. He had
q human will-not confusedly merged
inthe Divine viii, but separate. though
harmonious. lie had Of course, 2
mans soul-a fact which most Of us
lose sight of in the binding splendors
OF His Divinity, as we think the sky
above is starless at high noon. At
times. lust as the Divine could raise tli"
mere human nature. so it could, IN
some way that We cannot fathOm. hurl
its infinite weight upon the DOOR 1rall
body and beating heart Then, 100,
from the instant of the Incarnation the
union of the Divine and human ma
lures was indissoUble-wha ne once
assumed he never laid down. The hui
man nature was, temporarily ut least,
in some dread way, overpowered and
overwhelmed by the Divinity.
In the development of these consid-
7rations lies the awfulness OF the
younds of Christ's Soul, lie foresaw,
"a God. he knew sin as God with an in
mite knowledge and infinite honor,
lut he suffered as man. lie became
curse for us. the victim of all the sins
If all the world, with all their dread,
m their sorrow. al their sense Of
uilt. all their remCrse This feeling
" universal victim, this becoming
.urse that we might be delivered from
he curse of the law is meant by St.
Paul in his energetic language It's
searching nature. going 10 the very
-itals of his humanity. 10 the very cit
2del and sanctuary of his soul is eX-
PRESSED by the Psalmist. He put on
,ursing like a garment, and it went in
ike water into his entrails and like
oil i'm his bones in the light OF these
tests and principles the preacher took
ND the agony in the garden, with the
temporary recoil of the human will,
The kiss of Judas, the meeting with lis
mother. the three hours on the cross,
and especially the awful sense Of guilt
and dereliction which made the dying
human lips cry out in horror to His
Eternal Father
From each he drew practical lessons
Of conformity to Gods holy will, 70
matter how bitter the struggle Of
union with our dear Lord in times OF
sorrow and gloom, and especially in
that loneiiest hour Of all when our
lutrering soul shall tremble upon
eternity. that is the time to remember
the agonizing cry, TO feel that He was
and is our Elder Brother, who has
tasted the bitterness of that death, and
ten thousand times more bitterly than
we shall ever taste.