Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-01
ASKING MEN TO B.
YIELD PRIDE AT
FEET OF CHRIST
Father Deery breaches on
Subject of Timely
Interest.

Asking men "to come down from their
little self-constructed pedestals Of in
tellectual pride" and to "kneel like little
children at the feet of Christ" the Rev
Albert " Deery of st. GATHERINGS Catho-
lie Church Sunday preached a sermon on
the text, There shall be one fold and
one shepherd"
The Rev Mr.. Deery said, in part:
'If man would come down from
their self-constructed pedestals of in
tellectual pride and leave behind them
the cloak of self-sufficiency which they
have wrapped their intellects and hearts
and like little children kneel at the feet
Of Christ and say simply, speak, o
Lord, for thy servant heareth,' then
woul the prayer of the SQod shep-
herd be fulfilled. Then would the lost
sheep return to the fold from which they
have been torn by hirelings and unfaith-
full shepherds.
Continuing, he said:
In the Gospel OF today, our divine Saw
Tor shows Himself the Good Shepherd.
The prophet foresaw this when he said.
I will set one shepherd Destined
to be shepherd Jesus wished to be
born in a stable, His cradle being man
ger, His first adorers the shepherds Of the
vicinity When later He began his pub
lie mission He jOurneyed over the hill and
dale, from village to village. from town
to town, congregating. amid thousand diff
ficulties the lost sheep of the house OF
Israel Standing in the midst of His
beloved disciples, and surrounded by the
multitude of those, who, whilst they
closed their hearts TO His earnest plead
ings could not close their ears to the
sweet music of His words. or they eyes
~ INF
nance. He lifted His voice and spoke
those sublime doctrines
AS our Savior stands thus speaking
In the street OF Jerusalem, His mind
wanders in prophetic vision across the
plains up to Golg8tha In spirit He sees
gathered there at the foot Of the cross
His tender flock the young church com
posed OF few faithful souls, who would
willingly give up their lives In defense
Of His doctrine. Again He gazes down
the centuries in spirit, and He sees the
realization of the prophecy that when
the shepherd has been struck the hock
shall be dispersed and before His vision
comes the scene Of our age and our day.
When church is multiplied on church
when Christian is divided against Christ
ian; when each tears from his sacred
teaching only that which suits himself
and the rest IS called a lie; when indi-
vidual ouinion is pitted against rcvela
ton; when men calling themselves fol-
lowers OF the divine Master coin new doc
trines and call them Christ's invent
novelties that tickles the ear. and stamp
them with the counterfeit seal of the di-
vine shepherd, when 10 be united in
faith IS deemed conventional. and to be
assembled in the holy bond of one re-
Iigolus fold is considered lutoleraut.
What great grief must not have srieved
that sacred heart of Christ when He
beheld men Of our enlightened age adj
vocating in His name and as His fol
lowers that 1t is inconsistent with His
teachings to hold that there should be
one church. but that each one is to be-
lieve as suits him best. and the more
scots the better for Christianity.
There is but one church upon the
broad earth that Processes ever TO be the
same There Is but one church that lays
claim to an infaulhle authority which
must be heard and obeyed. There IS bur
one church. search where you viii. thar
calls all minkind MS Christ did rich and
poor, slave and master. learned and ig
norant. to sit NJ her feet and learn from
her and not from private opinion That
church IS the Catholic Church. That
church IN ali times and in all ages has