The Greeley tribune., 1910-05-12
ELOQUENT SERMON Is
DELIVERED by BlSH

Bishop Matz gave the sermonI
the morning and Father O'RyanI Of
St Lco's Denver in the evening.
Bishop Matz said in part:
Privileged, as | an. TO address 70
from this sanctuary in the new ten
pie erected by the people of Greeley
and surrounding country under III
all-absorhng zeal and irresistib
impetus OF your noble and self-sacr
ticing pastor, Rev A b. Casey. here
in the Athens of northeastern Col0-
rado. where hundreds OF Young men
and women are serving their appren-
ticeship before launching out upUl
the grandest commission ever en-
trusted to man. which is to educaie
his fellow man what subject nor
appropriate to the occasion could
choose than that of education; H.
true meaning. its full import. so
pregnant with blessings to humanit
when impaired in conformity VIII
the designs OF the Creator: and til
frightful calamity it invites wha
conveved in opposition to these
eternal designs.
| My text will be: AN power
given TO me in heaven and on c,hk.
Going therefore. teach We all nations;
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever | have commended YOU:
and behold, | am with you all DAYS.
even to the consummation of he
world Words taken from the 18th
chapter of st. Matthias, lS-l9--0.
What commission this one. siv-
en- on the mountain OF Gallilee he
mountain of Thabor. no doubt, on
whose glorious summit. once alreaiy,
the Savior had shown himself to
Peter, James and John in his trans
figuration. conversing with Noses
and Elias snow again made more
glorious still by the same sayi0r's
last solemn manifestation to the 100
disciples whom He convened on This
holy mountain so as to remove or
ever from their minds and hearts
every shadow OF doubt concerning
the truth of his resurrection. and to
give them the grandest mission yer
entrusted to man
! All, If we could have been With
these favored 500 on the mountain
and could have viewed that scene,
than which all Palestine would boast
OF none more rapturous: IL We could
have seen beautiful Thabor with its
snow-clad summit on that glorious
spring morning, rejecting the avs
of the rising sun, emblematic OF he
dawn of the eternal sun OF Justice.
whose coming they were 10 an
nounce to the Gentiles: If we could
have gazed into these expectant
countenances watching for the prom
ised appearance of their beloved
Master. If we could have desrried
Him piercing the clouds and ON
templated Him in all the radlence OF
HIS risen glory; would we not all
have exclaimed with Peter Lord II
is good to be here"
And If from the Saviour's lIps We
, could have heard that grandest of
All commissions which forms the bnr-
den OF my text, what would have
been our emotions on such an occa-
sion Could We have doubted fgr n
moment that He who was the cauter
OF this movement whoseeyoluiIans
were destined to reach the nlrtbar-
most parts of the world. couIs ,,a
for moment have doubted thar lie
was the God, since God alone c,,,id
have startled the world with a r,ral
revolution such as ChristlanItr has
involvedi ""'
Ana If after 1000 years with tbs
history of that Church before 10
/, with Its triumph over paggris,,
both ancient and modern pag,r''n,
; its magnificent civilization. its o..
!, gantic struggle of twenty centr-ta,
. against all the powers Of the y.arif
a., and hell combined, we were IA 90,
again in this beautiful town of rrao
ley at the foot OF yonder ri,
, mountains, 10000 miles away ,rnn
the original scene depicted aGo,a a,
. the loot of the Gallilean RANG. ,f
say we were to meet again hor.
, IN thls Athens Of Colorado, and ait
ness the corner stone laying ~ W.,
=. church Gas we did but a few ehor
months ago and its crownlng n Jn1i
e ca'loh To this same Divine Mosfer ~,
', an humble apostle of His. like tbos.
" WY WY $1,000 around him on Tbabot
WIN no pretenslons to either scionc,
= s,pluence or power. other than ia
u " % Which the Saviour bestowed unn,
y rms humble Gallileans; would 'po, no,
;" not hke the magicians OF pbaraoh ~,
'~heh they contemplated the narnoI aoI