The Real Man Is a Spirit Only (Volume 1) (Paperback, 3rd ed.)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. From the St. Pavl Daily Pioneer-Press, Dec. 22,1876. CONSECRATION SERVICES. Sev. John Ireland Consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of this Diocese. SERMON DELIYEBED BT BET. T. O'GOHMAN, OP ROCHESTER. The following language was used in Rev. T. O'Gorman's sermon: Protestantism the world can understand perfectly? there is nothing unearthly or mysterious about tliat; but the Catholic Church, its life, its progress, its antagonism to the spirit of the age, is a sore puzzle, which defies and irritates the world. To be sure, men have their theories; but, if the truth must be told, they are by no means so satisfactory to the theorizers as might be wished. Such expressions as the consummate policy of Rome, and '' the marvelous machinery of the Catholic Church, and the utilizing of intense fanaticism, are after all but stock phrases, which are unequal to solve the problem. What is there behind the policy? What puts life into the machinery? What creates and sustains the intense fanaticism ? If the church lives by human ingenuity and earthly devices, why is it there has been and is nothing like her in the world ? Have you not among you policy and machinery and fanaticism? Why is it then, if these be our levers, you do not raise up before expectant humanity an organization like that of the Catholic church ? Come, we have thrown down the gauntlet toyou I Muster your forces, convene your philosophers, call in human genius to exert human policy, set to work human machinery, inflame human fanaticism, 0 world, 19th century, boasted age of progress and'science and civilization We throw down the gauntlet to you. Come; try your hand at it, and from out of religious chaos bring forth a chnrch universal, one, infallible, everlasting What You hesitate ? You draw back ...