The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-07
NEED TO BE SANCTIFIED
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND breaches
A SERMON ON PURITY
Acts of Outward Religion, He Says,
Cannot PIacate God Unless These
Acts Proceed From u Clear Soul
or Tend to Create in Man a Clean


or Tend to Create in Man a Clean
Soul.
Archbishop Ireland preached the ser
mon at the morning service in the
Cathedral yesterday.
There was an unusually large audi
ence.
M. Guilmant was present and Official
ed in part at the organ.
Having read the epistle of the mass
Of Septuagesima Sunday Oh. Cor. ii.
19), the archbishop said:
st. Paul, recalling the passage of the He
pfeWs through the desert on their way
from Egypt to Palestine, declares that
w WI e. al had passed through the sea. ard
all nad been under the miraculous cloud
and all had been baptized in the cloud and
In the sea- with most of them nevertheless
COO was not well pleased. The meaning
OF st. Paul is that the outward receiving #
oiVihe dispensations and the outward m
plying with divine regulations do not make
men pleasing to the Most High. Some
thing more is needed. and this some hing
more is essentially needed, and to it ali
outward ceremonies and observances aie
but the means to an end, and this is ho.f-
ness Of soul Throughout the scriptures of
the Old and of the New Testament tn Is
so.enn truth Is constantly put before the
chlidren OF men that the great purpose OF
lie Is interior sanctification. that what
brings down Gods favors Is hol-
ness Ct soul. that what will
be the te~t OF mtiits Or demeris Lecore Ihe
Supreme Judge is the interior tfe, and net
what we may do exteriorly in appearing
t. horror and serve God. T1is solemn truth
that interior holiness and cleanliness is
the vital clement in religion at once Diff
ierentlates the worship CT the true G. d
from rom all forms OF pagan worship. In pa
ganlsm, frequently, at east, rel. g.on was
DelleVed as something different from m IL
ais: Religion was the invoking of the
deity. the Offering to him of sacrifice and
aICr.n
posed TO plaza The deity, ard obtain rom
him IaNcrs. Morals, the interi-r sanctf-
cation OF the soul, was quite, another mat
ter, which might be connected with CT sep
aratcd from religion. Incaed, the whole
conception Of the deity as tad in pagan
ism could teach other lesson for the
g1ds Of paganism were not regarded By
Their di 'cirles as moral beings. TIE Olyal-
pus of Greece ard Rome was a Larad Sc of
vice; the services in the name of re-igi ii
within the temples of paganism were not
seiGom sinful, immoral Prac ices, so that
the aid OF religion in pagani=m secmed To-
be primarily and almost eXsl 81 ely pr
claim the sovereignty OF the g.ds over
men and obtain from them temporal ia
vors, not TO ineulCate vi tue ana sa ify
souls.
God Is Law Pers0niHeG.
Net so in the rel g;on Il Jehovah. in TIE
religion Of the true God. cd is he moral
God the giver of law and the ayenger' OF
law, He is in liz; own benz he pr onif-
casion Ct Jaw; He is all truth, :. Il g cd ess
al perfection. Ara the God OF all Eere-
by the very necessity Of His beng de nand
that III, ratfona creatures Iepi oduce in
the nSe.E's SO far as 1t is p3s, ib IN
flute natu:e, lis cwn moral Ter ,ectian, ard
cannot suffer sin. the violation OF the
mLl al law. -.s.
Acts of outward religion cannot placate
God unless tEe.e acts proceed from dean
soul, or terd 10 create in man a c.ean 5 VI.
ls2iih, TIE Z. orhet Of sch yah, rep owes the
neoo-e who honor Him with Uhe1r lips
whie their hearts are :ar from Him.
What croft lave l." s-ys the l. re. s.
the multiplicity OF your offerings? When
you stretch cut your hands | will turn m
eyes from you; when you multiply pray. T..
L Will not listen. Wash yourselves be
devices from my eyes, and cease to do re
NerselE." Cleal Ines of ecu is what G
seeks; outward cbseryarces are welcomed
by Him when they denote a c.ean soul;
without Clean soIl they are before H N
but npCckeIies OF His divine perfection In
the new Jaw this truth j. yet made mose
evident. The Son of Gcd became man to
show US in our human form what God IS
ard what Gcd demands. Think of Christ,
Was he r0t primarily above all things e Sc
the holy, the moral the perfect Jesus?
Test OF True Love.
Omnipotcnce was,as it were, h en- in; N:
only at time was it manifest d.. At ell
times Je-US was The saint; at all times He
could have sad to his enemies WI en-
of you shall! convince me Ct s.n?"
Throughout the centurie S. as the figure OF
Christ passed over nations, men locking
up at Him admire in Him above al else
mora perfection. and worship in Him tie
Deity because of His h;linesS To HIS ftI-
lowers He said He that hath my com
mandments ard ieepeth them, lie it is t at
lcves Me-" For all else Christ cares rot;
unless there be true love, profess, on of love
viii not suffice: the test Of true love is to
have and to keep the commandments. re
purpose OF the incarnation. st. Pau. de-
clares, was to sanctify sous. TIE grace
of God our Savior hath appeared to all
ness and worldly desires. we should live
scberly and justly and cody IN this
world expecting the promise ard the CORY
OF the great God and cur Savior who give
Himself for US that He might redeem Us
from all iniquity, ard present to Himself
people acceptable, pursuer CT good works
Christ came not on earth merely to wo- k
miracles CT to manifest His omnipotence
to win the applause of philosophers, or to
seek outward worship; He came to save
souls. to redeem men from all iniquity. to
pursuer Of coed works. All csc that
Christ did was done that He might rede M
man from iniquity, and present to himself
a people acceptable. purzuer of good
works. Unless saints had lived the re-
suit Of the incarnation and the redemp-
ton. unless souls had been purified and
sanctified, unless virtue had reigned where
vice heretofore had prevailed, the incarna-
ton and the redemption should have been
failures in the eyes of God himself And
Christ's followers. whatever else they
might have done for Christ. had they car
ried His gospel to the furthermost ends OF
the earth, had they offered their lives at
the stake in His defense, had they chan-ed
psalms and hymns in His honor. they
should have failed to accept and under
stand Christ's mission unless they had
sanctified and purified Their own souls
Sacrifices and Sacramento.
The church Of Christ has its sacrifices
and its sacraments. 1t has its liturgy and
it's ceremonies. But the church proclaimS
that the purpose and end of sacrifices and
sacraments, of liturgy and of ceremonies
is the sanctffcation of individual souls.
The church never ceases to preach that,
assist as we may at mass, listen as we may
to the preaching of the Gospel. give as
we may outward respect to and outward
profession Of Christ's faith, all is in vain
If Christ's religion has not penetrated
10 the very core of the heart, if 1t
has not transformed the soul into child of
Christ, purifying, sanctifying and deffy-
ing the soul. Who in the eyes Of Gods
church are the heroes? The men and
women whose names it asks you to revere,
whose lives 1t asks you to study and imi-
tate. Christ's church has had. during the
1000 years of its reign among her chill
dren. men and women remarkable for
everything that the world can admire and
revere. She has had great conquerors.
whose swords swayed nations. She has had
great philosophers whose lips spoke wisdom,
whose pens traced all that is best in sci
ence and human knowledge. She has had
daughters seated on thrones arrayed in regal
robes. But the heroes of the church are
her saints. King Louis Of France is loved
in the sanctuaries Of the church. because
on the throne of France he kept his soul
absolutely pure from the stains of the
world not because he led as a crusader
the armies Of France over Africa and Asia
Honored for Their Piety.
Queens are honored in the sanctuaries be-