Lectures and sermons . er; no misery in thisworld, all would be happiness, if men would only open theirfestering souls and let in the salt of the power and of the graceof the Lord Jesus Christ! Thus do we behold the action of the confessional on , my friends, let us pray that God may enlighten those who,without the pale of the Catholic Church, go on from day to day, Effect on Society. 499 from year to year, adding sin to sin, and bearing the accumu-lated burden of their sins before the eternal judgment-seat ofJesus Christ. Whilst we pray for them, oh, let us, like good men and true,e
Lectures and sermons . er; no misery in thisworld, all would be happiness, if men would only open theirfestering souls and let in the salt of the power and of the graceof the Lord Jesus Christ! Thus do we behold the action of the confessional on , my friends, let us pray that God may enlighten those who,without the pale of the Catholic Church, go on from day to day, Effect on Society. 499 from year to year, adding sin to sin, and bearing the accumu-lated burden of their sins before the eternal judgment-seat ofJesus Christ. Whilst we pray for them, oh, let us, like good men and true,enter into those privileges and graces which we enjoy, cleansingour souls from sin, preserving them in their purity by the fre-quent application of grace, which destroys those sins at thebeginning, and, by frequenting confession and holy communion,build up our souls upon the grace of graces, and strength ofstrengths, until we are gathered, in the fullness of the years ofour manhood, into the joy of our Lord Jesus Christ. THE BLESSED EUCHARIST. f; [Preached in St. Michaels Church, New York, on Sunday morning, June 2d,1872.] EARLY BELOVED BRETHREN: in this wonderfulage of ours, there is nothing that creates in the think-ing mind so much astonishment and wonder as thefact that the Catholic Church stands before the worldin all the grandeur of her truthfulness, and that the intellect ofthis age of ours seems incapable of apprehending her claims, orof acknowledging her grandeur. Men in every walk of life arein pursuit of the true and the beautiful. The poet seeks it inhis verse, the philosopher in his speculations, the statesman inhis legislation, the artist in the exhibition of his art. And,whilst all men profess thus to pursue the true and the beautiful,they wilfully shut their eyes against that which is the truest andmost beautiful of all things upon the earth—the Holy CatholicChurch of Jesus Christ. I dont know whether there be anyProtestants amongst you here to-day; I believe t
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