The Irish standard., 1913-04-26
SERMON PREACHED
By Rt. Rev. Bishop Bowling of Des Moines
Iowa, on the Occasion of the Eleva-
ton of Rt. Rev. Jane. A. Duffy
to the E Episcopate.

I they hear without a preacher, and
how can they preach unless thew be
sent?" st. Paul had good reason to
Know that even as the Father God
had sent the Son, the Son had sent
other men to be his witnesses lin
Jerusalem. in all Judea and Samaria,
and even to the uttermost parts of
the EARTH for had not the voice of
Jesus himself hidden the blinded and
converted Saul, now changed from a
furious prosecutor of those Of his
way" into a vessel Of election" to
visit and 30 into the city Of Da-
mascus and there await the coming
Of one who should tell him what TO
do.
Naming Of Peter.
Vague as was the mission OF our
Lord it was far less amazing than
the means he took to perpetuate that
mission. The Father in sending him
sent perfect man. Never man
spake like this man." exclaimed
those who heard him. "Who shall
convict me of sin?' was his own
challenge to his enemies. Indeed
this was the Son of God," asknowl-
edged the Ccnturian at the crucihx.
ion. But he. in sending the apostles,
sent men manifestly imperfect, al
though he sent them with a mission
as ample as was his own. lie took
man named Simon and said to-
him: "Thou art Peter, and on this
rock | will build my church, and the
gates of hell shall not prevail agains,
It," He seemed to neglect those aids
which are considered necessary for
the propag cation of literary d. pln-
osophical movement. He had moth.
Ing to do with schools He made
little or no provision for an apollo
getic. All he asked for was men who
would tell what they had seen aud
heard. His first followers we'll un-
derstood the role which men should
enact In the work Of redemption.
The most Of them had come to him
through the men whom he had sent
the apostles-and to whom he had
given an authority equal to his own
He that heareth you" he said to
the apostles. "heareth me-" A man,
Peter. the rock on which he built his
church. was associated with other
men who seemed to St. Paul to be-
something to whom even that splen
did apostle OF the Gentiles submitted
his gospel for sanction.
After fourteen years. he tells the
Galatians, II went up TO Jerusalem
according TO revelation and confer.
red with them the gospel which I
preach among the Gentiles, but apart
with those who seemed to be some
thing lest perhaps ! should run or
had run in vain Marvellous con-
formity of one who tells us that he
received his gospel by revelation.
"For either did l receive it of man
nor learn II save by the revelation Of
Jesus Christ, yet who recog-
nized that it was Christ's ordinances
which had established that group OF
men whom he describes in the epis.
tie to the Ephesians as "some apos-
ties, some prophets, others some
evangeists and others some pastors
and doctors for the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministrv;
for the edifying Of the body of
Christ"
St. Paul a Witness. ~
Indeed, there is no more interest
ing witness to that ancient instruc.
tion which we call the hierarchy
than is St. Paul. whose letters so
clearly display the organic features
of that primitive church for which
the gospels were written. He let's
us see not only the great respect in
which he holds the deposit Of doc.
trine'-so great indeed that he bids
the Galatians hold even himself &C.
cursed If ever he attempted to teach
them anything else; but in a great
poverty of documents he illustrates
as none other that magisterial au-
thority which he associates with the
word bishop and with the names of
his beloved disciples, Timothy and
Titus. 1t is he who casually informs
US that the rulers of the church are
called bishops. Take heed to your.
selves and the whole flock in which
the Holy Ghost hath appointed. you
bishops to rule the church of God
] which he hes purchased with hin