Year: 1873

Sermon by the Rev. DIR. McGlynn-The


Mystery Of the Trinfty-The Apostles


Commission-Thc Charter OF the Cath


Olic Church.


Alarge and highly intelligent congregation assem-.
bled in ST. Stephens church yesterday morning. The
recurrence OF the festival of the blessed Trinity
gave the pastor, the Rev. DR.. McGlynn, occasion
to explain the fundamental mystery Of the Chris
tian dispensation.


He took as his text the concluding verses OF tho
Gospel according to st. Matthew:-"And Jesus
coming spake to them saying, All power is given
to me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore,
and teach all nations; baptisng them in the name
OF the Father and OF the SON and OF the Holy
Ghost; teaching them to observe all things what
soever | have commanded you; and, 10, am
with you always, even unto the end OF
the world" The Church sets apart this day for
the contemplation and honoring OF the


TRINITY OF PERSONS


in the unity OF the Godhead; and she appropri-
ately presents us, in the words of the Gospel at
once the divine source OF her authority and the
supreme and ultimate object OF all our faith and
worship In the triune name OF God. the Father and
the Son and the Holy Ghost. It is in this name
that Christ commands we should be initiated into
His Church. and be born again in the holy sacra-
ment OF baptism. This mystery is to be the su-
preme object OF our endless alteration. and its
contemplation the source OF our perfect happiness
in heaven. To the holiest and the best OF old,
those who walked iliary with Cod this mystery
was not revealed. 1t was reserved for tnat son OF
man, who was the meeke5t and hunbleSt OF men,
and who yet did not hesitate to say


''FHE FATHER AND ARE oSE.N


1t was reserved for Him who came in 'the form OF
servant TO be the man OF sorrows and be bruised
for our iniquities; but OF whom His beloved dis
cpe in the beginning OF his history tells US that
'the Word was in the beginning and the Word was
with God and the Word was God and by Him all
things were made and without Him was made
the glory OF the only begotten OF the Father fall
OF grace and truth" What was hidden from the
wisest and the best OF Old is now known,
revealed TO every little child. And faith
in a mystery that is incomprehensible
OF the little child as condition OF the true mem
bershp OF the mystic body OF Christ. II baptized in
at the dawn OF reason their r Mother church pre-.
sents to them the image OF the crucfed Saviour
she must reveal to them the mystery that lies hid
His suTerings she must also tell them rand He was
God" "For SO hath God loved the word that He
hath given Tor it his only begotten son.


II IL only by the revelation OF the distinction
or persons in the Godhead that our faith in the
divine atonement can be Tor us more than an un-
meaning formula, and that we can understand how
God incarnate could ofer true and acceptable
sacrifice The divine nature that He has In one
and al-atoning value. While the distinction OF
persons renders 1t possible for such sacrifice TO
De 0HeFeu anu accepted DY GOu, tne Cnurcn
teaches what she has been taught, that there Is III
the one. simple, indivisible


SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF TILE G0DHEAD


a real and true distinction OF persons-the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost.


In the Gospel OF this day Jesus Christ, in addition
to intoxicating the dogma of the blessed Trinity,
speaks OF the absolute universally OF the Church.


G0 ye, teach all nations" teach them all truth in
all ages in ali places until the end OF time. That
commission. given to the Apostles, constitutes the
glorious charter OF the Catholic Church, against
which all the power OF earth and darkness will
fight in vain