IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 7 m // // ^ ,.% i^* ' ^"^^^ \ \ 1 ^ r ''^hI '''l^R. r '■ji| 1 1 J - '1 \ } • III .V .^Sff * \,f^lljl • ''^ifl ^H } » '•/ k4\ Is y Verbatiiii Eeport Of a Sermon —WJOtVtiMD 9Y TBMf-t ^ REV. FATHER DAMEN. subjeotv TRANSUBSTAHTIATION. — ^AT TI»— Church of the Transpiguration, BROOKLYN, NY. — OH— Sunday Evening, February 28th, 1876. MONTREAL D. & J. SADLIBB & 00. i75, Notre-Dame Street :''•! y /: ■•\-i ' 11 ' ■ ^ . : . ; ."::',,-•■: ■ . ' ^vv ■'.. ■ - '„ ,. ' \:m'-'it^ir\r',f:, n i!i,.^..0-- , ':' , ^ ?- . ■ 'f. ■■■'■\ ■.•..(.' ." " •.:.,.. •.-";-■■ .: . ." t- ■■■■■« ■ / ,./■'-. *■-.■.■ - : ■ "' / >, ■ . ' . ' •>-.. . ■ , ■ . ■ ■ - ■ l. ,..■..■.- •' - /--■" - A'. ■ ^- ^ - ' :■" ^ * ■.:' -..■.;. _;. '■; ^ i ''1 jl. V , , ■ / ■',-■' ■ ; • ,4^ ■ ' . ' ■■ • > ' i ' 1 - ' . 1 € V . .■ '..,■• t] • 2 J :.. \/- , .;M;.\'''':''^^-'^'/A/^.'^i^ -■■.:::. ^^ / - - . :' • \, - .. J •■;_; J, ,.-,». i • , ;■ «^» » ■ ■ ■' - , : ■ , .-. 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TRANSUBSTANTIATION. ** And whilst they were at snpperf Jesus took bread arid blest and broke.and gave to His disciples^ and said: 'Take ye and eat : this is my body ; ' and taking the chalice, He gavd thuiks, and gaye to theni saying : * Drink ye all of this ; for this is my lijlood of the new Testament, which shall be shed for many, for the remission of sina* ** St Matthew: Ghap> 26th, verses 26 and 28. . ^ / ^Dearlif beloved Cir^Mankl'y ' y I anndunoed to you, that on to-night I would jgivet a lecture on Transubstantiation", or the Sacramenit of the Holy Eucharist; and that 'I would prove, from forty-five texts of the Bible, the doctrine of thio Ca- tholic Church — that J would prove that the Catholic Religion is the Bible Religion, and that Pro|€i9.tantism stands condemned by its own Bible, anJuUkt, more- cil^«i^, X Would prove that we must believi inmys- taries— 'that is, in truths which ^e do not understand. Now, in order that you may understand the better tJbe arguments which I shall bring before you tbis eveningi I shall first state the doctrine of our sepa- rated brethren-~-our Protestant friends — and that is A mighty hard job j ibr it is very hard to say what tar Protestant friends do believe', And what they db ^t believe. They vary so much from each other» what one asserts as a Gospel jxuth, the other denies il*#|iiitive heresy; hence it is very hard to say ^hat our Protestant friends believe. But I will give ^T^- . 1 , ■ -< \ / .' w 4 M 1. ^'1 )| 1 ■j;t * * t MM A -;ifSi?';.*5v .> -;i, .-v*;,"^ !'', ■- / I 4 TBAKSUBSTANTIATIOir. the doctrine o^some of the leading Protestant bodies The Presbyterian says; that in Communion we do not take the real body and blood of Jesus, but bread and wine as an emblem of CJhrist. The Methodists, and the Baptists and some others say, that i© Communion we take bread and wine, not as an emblem of Christ, but in memory of Christ The Lutherans— who are a very large body— for Protestantism started with Martin Lijther and his religion, Lutherism. says, it is bread and wine, but the body and blood of Christ at the same time: The High Church Episcopalian says, it ij, the body and blood 'of Christ, and there is no bread and wiue at all ; butitis not transubstantiation. Now you see, it is very hard to say what they all believe. I shall now state the doctrine of the Cath- olic Church. It is the teaching of the Church which God established, the Church which was established by Jesus Christ, as I proved on a previous evening, and I defy any one to refuto itr-I do not care who he is, B^her, or any one else. I defy them all to prove that the Catholic Church is not the Church es-, tablished by the Son ofthe living (jod— Jesus Christ, . . I|*i?r then^ tdliftt the Catholic Church teaches, that by the power pf (Jod, and by the words of Jesus Christ,, spoken^ the prjiewt in the Mass, the bread J •pd Jrin« are changed into the body and blood of Je^ tlhrist, and are truly attd reiaiy received by the ^thfiil in Holy Communion/' Now,, understanding the doctrine of Protestantism and the doctrine of CathoUcity, let us see which has the Bible on its side— whether it 19 with Ctttholioity •^\ ' 1. ■)-} ■1 S'f: tbansubstanciatiom:. 5 or whether it is with Protestantiam. ^For thii^ur- poHe, I shall read to you, ftom the sixth chapter of St. John, and I will give you nothing but the Bible, and ^our own Protestant Bible, if you wish. I read from the Gospel of St. John, the sixth chapter, com- mencing with the 4&th verse of that chapter^nd when you go home, examine your bible, deadly be- loved Protestant friends— tave> "verily, verily." These words of Christ ^ at 1^;. time He was on earth were equivr, l^mtc# :p> solemn oath. "He that believeth in me hath ev^asting lif<^." He promises them eternal life who believe in Hiih^ and He commenced His do<>>j trine in thi^ jnlemn manner — ^"Amen, Amen, h$ th*t Ijip^^^a^^ — Sj- Af .f , ^A ■ti M' =^ I t '•-j'j'f'" ^i;-"^; nr>v y i^ ,-^ *rtV . TBANSUBI^tANTfATKhf. mediately He oommenced the doctrine : « I am/^ flayn Christ, -the breadbf iife," « Your fethers did^t manna in the desert, and they, died." « Thh is the bread descending down frqm Heaven, that if any man eat of it, he may not die," « I am the living ^hread"— not a ''dead breaTC" which coma down rom Heaven." 4 If auys^ah ««t of this bread," rhich He says He Is Himself, »' he shall Uve forever, nd die br^ thlt I wUl ©ve- to you is my own ly dearjy belovied Protestant friend^ do you bei- ieV» that it is thfe flesft of Jesus Chrjst t " «« No " Buyk my Protestant friend^" Qh1 no, Sir, H do ^it believe any such nonsense as that." " What, my dear \ Protestant friends, do yon not believe in the Bible\? Do you no^ believe the word of God ? He says it is His flesh— do you believe it t » «* No, Sir, I do pot." Well, but then, niy dear friends, you do not beEeve in,the Bibh : you do not believe in Jesus Christ. *« Why,»* sayamy Protestant friend, *' how in the world can 1 believe in such a thing as that T I do not beUeve in i^ becau&e I do not understand it. , We Protestants are an intelligent ind enlight- ened people, Sir, and we do not believe ita a thing :«re do not understand. It is good enough for Oath* olies to believi in such things, because they area stmpleminded people, who pin their faith to the sleeve of their priest, but we Protestante, we are an^ intelligent people, and we do not believe in things^ we do npt understand." Do you not, ^ my deat/ fHends t^ « NOfc Sir, we do not believe in things W \ <- N •t;,' 'Y / 'liiSME iid eat is the if 'any living I down' •read," 1 .'^^' K^ N -f: ; tbaksubstanhation. do not understand." 1&J dear Protestant friends, tell die, do you believe that you see T " Well, what ia question 1. Do I believe that I see? Why/ , Sir, , I know that I see.*' And do yon understand' your sight ? Oan' you explain your light ^ tSan you ex- plain to me^the operation of your eye T Do you un- derstand, that when I address a congregationof three* or four thousand people, all of these people are repre> sented upon the retina of my eye with sBafte, fmk jand color; and this material picture upon the retin(h j^my 6ye bring^itoiiiy mind thoughts, i'dea^ and oonceptions— rthqug^ts of nze— -thoughts of sl^ape, of form, of color, etc.; t ^p, '.^-^^ ; . v . .^^^ , j _v. > '* ' *^ , y, f l^ow, can you explain <^ to me — ^how this mf)h 'erial picture, upon th% little ball of my eye,, oan bring to jpoiy mind, w))i<^ uyfk^ spiritual thing, all theso thoughts, etc. ? Oan you ekpUtim that to me ? J^ defy you^. The greatest man that has^^ver livgd— the g^l^atest philoBopl^r — has never b^n able to explain ^^ matter can act^ upp9 fpiftC Now) here is an fctif^ of mister on the spirit, the material picture of ypgif sjygnb^ jM^ng/upon my soul, whioh is a spiritn^ t^Qg, which cannot be seen, felt or tonohed,t whi<^ yptt; cannot ^plain.. Here is a mystery— hj^re i|i /f thing jl^t no man in the world^n explsdn. You do l^t believe in-^^tural mysteri^, my ^vCiur Protestant T ' " ■ ■ '' ■■■■"■ ' '■ ^^poyw^^mfp Ihat you 0$n near ? «' Why» pertjBin^y I .j9j[p, h^ t%t I heajc." Well, ^d),how do,J9u hear ? ** I suppose that I bear with iJ^ • *i 'J J, ^v-' 8 •■^. TRAKSUBSTAKTIATlaV; eyeB; canyoii'Sjif t.^^^ *' A « ./ Hero is another natoriil ^myatery which ^ou do no^ ■- understand. Can you explain how that littlle air whicH^ cotoes fifom my lungs, the vihration of wliich ai/ brings to your ear a sound, ta^ th«^ sound bnngs t0 ^ ^ your mind m^ tlioughts, ideas and oonce||>t!ibns ? Heii is another natural mystery which you cannot oomM ^prehend. You say, you doi not believe in mysteries, but here is another one you cannot understand, but m^whioh you believe. ■;:'.■.:■;•• ''^■^r^^i^^'^-^^ r-;^-^; ■; > i.f ,^i*^. ■- J Do you believe that 1 W^ iy h^irf « isuppo^ i6; I see it" And ho^^do I mdve my hand? 1||' | n^ will. And what is my will ? It iii a spiritwl «lih&fc whieh cannot be seen, or Mt, and by thatei?^ ajiiple act of my will, I set into mdtibn iii^ hands,*^ my lipB, my eyes and my feet: in a Word, the whole , My 6f man is set into motion by the simple act of his will. Here is a mystery— here is a t^ng which you do not understand, but wliich ybii believe iii. m ; Tbu say, you do not belieVe in toysteries; arid whai #re you youbelf but a niy^rj/; from the crown bf your head ^ the *ile ^f youif foot What is miiti, bW ^ a cotnbittaltibn of mystery upon mystery I ' ' You siy; J^oudoiibt believe in mysteries, iind wh^ Wall iil^ , ture but mysteries t The seed that you tWoVibtbS j^rth tak«s root, and flfom that seed the^ ii»rtn^'up '% mighty tree, that towers; into the very clouds of heaven, and upon thai treejippean beautiftrl felikge •ad charming flowers, iiridlfemth^'ildweni comes a delicious fruit» and from that fruit agiiiu thousands of -:r<^thef seedfc^-€far y ott extilTOTtrt^ W^MH^ iM ^x - m^ if~~^ H J iiiiii*'' fc_.^ rA 1 ,1 >^ ..yN.. .^. H TRANSITBSTANTIATION. 9 who can explain, how that seed, which decays «nd rots, oto iiar^ the power of drawing out of the earth all the material that forms the tree, that shapes the . leaf, that fornls the flower, and tinctures it, in so del- icate a way, in shape and form, and transformis it into fruit, and from that fhiit come thousands of other seeds T Here is a natural mystery — a thing we do not Understand. Youjflrotestants, do not believe in that 7 ' You do not believe in mysteries ; you ate too smart for that. 'Do you believe that this earth, on which we dwell, is an immense ball that measures thousands of miles in circumference — a ball with all its cities, towns and villages — its seas, lakes and rivers, moun- tains, etc. On what does this ball rest ? On nothing, you say. It is suspended ihjspace— hangs on^nothing.*'^ Do you think that possible 7 How in the world can that be — ^that a ball of ^iich tremendous weight hangs there resting on nothing ? Why does it not fell ? ' Why is it suspended there T " Why," you say, « it is gravitation.*' And what is this gravitation t You cnnhot explain what it is : so, here is another natural mystfery, something else you do npt understand. You believe in telegraph lines, do yon not 7 You believe in sending dispatches 7 When you stand anct talk to the bperator^ tn the twinkling of an eye, whiii# ever you say to the telegraph operator here in New : York, is gone to Europe. It does not take a minute to travel. What do you, understand th^ to mean 7 "Why," you say, "it is electricity." Well, I guess it JiLln'ti will yoa be good enouf^ to 4ell »fi,^,whitt__ ! / r,?7 *'|^^,^Mi^5^ There it it again. f'-i. "Ti — ,___ r'„j^ilj(S*.i.- ^ ■. ■ ' ^*^' ■;■ r- --1 '\ iMJiliil \ '■'' >'\ I -It " • "f. "jC-^-v 'jgr! f Hi ' r l 10 \/ y-' 'i ' '^> 1KANSUBSTANTIATI0N. «myBteiy, floniettingi you cannot oomprebend, bnt atill you belieye in it. And bo, my dear people, light 18 a myBtery—hd than has ever been able to explain precisely wbat light ib. You all have some idea of what light is, butt no man, from the dayBof Adam t?) the present time, could explain precisely what light is. Newton, the philosopher, who was applauded as having discovered it, has been refuted, and we do nqt know yet what light really is. It i» a natural myl tBtfi And darkniess is a mystery, and water is a mystery, and every /bla^p of grass is a mystety, and the stars in the firnliment of heaven, and every living creature in the wate^ and the earth is a mystery, and you attempt to say, my Protestant friends, thnt you ' do not believe in mysteries, ignorant men that you ar«k If you were men of a little more education—if yoS kti^w a litte more philosophy, and knew a litte more of the natural sciences, you would never attempt tO fi(Hy, you did not believe in mysteries, and every time that you say that N^oii do not believe in mysteries, you proclaim to the learned that you are an ignorant man. Because you know how to cipher and read, and write And, perhaps, by looking at a map, can tell the boun- daries of the country in which you live, you imagine you are an enUghtened people. But do not be too fast-*** do not crow, until you get out of the jtoods,'* ,118 the saying is. It is just because you know so very kittle, that yov attempt to say, you do not believe in ^ysteries. the greatest of philosophers, the most sqien- ''*' yen of the age,, have ackno wledged „tha#. tfia ^S:-: . . ima — ml — r:=-:j' _... := "^■'— »■■** " ft ili MiUMt~:=^BB ^^d ii fiuir Now when God reveals these trutl^s — when H« myiL i " That is a truth,*' k not man bound to believe ' it t Is not God the infallible truth that cannot de* oeiy« } Is not Bjm the wisdom that cannot be da* ^aatve i i f-WhiWf tbQwfoffo» »4ra^^pre eepte4-t»o w^ '•,,-"11 1 V'l '1 W it % minds, whid||!fna do not understand, what is the dut jir v.r 'A 'v-^. 12 TBANSUBSTANTIAIION. of man T Is he not bbund to beUeveit ? Is he no. bound to believe what God teaches ? Do you see Anything unreasonable in that, my dear Protestant friends T Tou think you are reasonable in rejecting mysteries, but, in! Wality, yon are very unreasonable- When an infallible Truth says a thing, is it wise and reasonable that we should hot believe it T In other words, is it not wise and reasonable for man to be- lieve what God teaches T " Oh 1 of course," says my Protestant friend, "man is bound to believe what God teaches, whether hd^ndersknds it or not." Very well,| then, all we ask of you is tci inquire— has God said it— and if He has said it> man is bound to believe it. "';•;.;'-' V>^--::,. 0:»-.^j ^.^ ; , ^ . : ^ . j^ Now then, with regard to the truth her^ before you— the truth of Transubetantiation ; namely, that the bread and the wine, by the power of God, , and by the words of Jesus Christ, spokt^ by the priest in the Mass, are changed into the body and blood of Jesus. Has God said that it is t #e must examine, and if God has said it, man is bound to believe it. Do you not agree with me now, my dear Protestant ^^^?^} ^ Where is the man ihat pr^pMs to be a Christian, and does not say with me : *• That is right, Sir. If God has said it, we are bound to believe it;^ Well then, let us see if God has said it. You want the Bible t «* Yes, father, we waht the Bible— we loiji the Bible, Sir.". Very well, then, we shall give yol* the Bible: "And Jesus said, « I am the hifead of life, whiob rcaroe dowa from Honvgn^Xain the liv j w l\ \im^i Ifrhich came down from Heaven^ and the bre«4 that I will (jive to you is my flesh.' " A < • 1 •• . :A eit, itani ■'\ be a \ * ■ ■ •'■' ■ )« a of * reoA ' s K vA- TRANSUBSTAKTUnON. 18 JcBus said it is His flesh. Do you believe it ? Do you believe the Wordof Jestis Christ? Do you be. lieve the Bible ? ** The bread that I will give to yon is my flesh." " Ahd the Jews murmured ambng themselves," says St. John, the Apostle, **and said how can this fnan give to iis His flesh to eat ?" You ^see the Jews understood dtir Divine Saviour in the jral sense of the word— 4bat they were'really to eat^s flesh, and drink Bis blood, and they said: " HowNcan this man give to us His flesh to eat ?" Then J^tis said to them t'^ Amen, amen, I say unto you, unless^you eat the flesh of the Soil of maii, and ^ drink His bioo^^ou shall hot have life in you." You shall never be sav^, you shall never see eternal life. " He that eateth myNtedb and drinketh "my blood hath everlasting life, lih^ shall raise him up on the last day." Christ here threittens with eternal, dam- nation those that refuse to ea^ Bis &esh, and drink Bis blood. Notr, my dear Catholibs,^ pay attention to that. You believe in the Church ; yoi^ glory in being a Catholic, and jnbu do not go to Confession — ^you do not go to Communion. You do not eat the fle& of the Son oft^lfan, kind Jesus Christ says you shali^ damned. Mind that well, my dear Catholics. Th^ i^ the WiMrds of Jesus Christ : You <* shall not have life in you." "He that eateth nay flesh &nd drinketh my blood," sa3rs the Saviour, "hath everlasting life, and I shall raise him up on the last^^ay, aiid he shall live forever; for," says Jeans Ohrist, **mj flesh ia kheW that alter flftoiin hutidred years Protestantism ^*?! ♦- H :;Si ■4 I ■1 :m -Mn .^^JX^.^ S^imxi^smiiHfiim^- II! '■'' l-i P ! 1 — ^r" Si would come into t^e. World in Germnny, and that Pro- teBtantismwoulddeiiy tiiatitiathe real Wy ajd tW blood truth and reality. " I believe it," says the OathoUj,. and the Protestant says, « Lord Jesus, allow me tp, differ with you. You say it is your flesh, now allow^ me to differ with you. You say it is your bloody alltff me to differ with you, and I hope you wfll not take, it as aa in«|ult Allow me to tell you, it is only bread and wine." So, the Protestant religion teaches pre- dsely the contrary of what Jesus says. Now^ who it, the Bible Christian^ Itisthfe Oatholic, who says :,, « Yes, my Saviour, it & Thy flesh and it is Thy blood.' ; 1 W is it tjw Catholic who is the Christian ? The Protes- taat says, the Bible, is my feith; the Bible is my, ^Bsh^ AM the Bibl e jgffli:; "If the re be any ma^j &k among you, let him"^SeOii ihe priwt ^^ S gfe*. ai4;lft l»l«^ P"»y over him, anointing hi^^ ■■4.;t :*. ...^:fe 4,.>1^ .1 ' atPro- ly aftd lal the' CJhriBW ed" in ideed," i I desire QCtrine»V hing to obvious theCat^ Int door brary. 'k , believe 8,*' I do eed," ill latholiCft r me tc[; rtrallotfi )dvftWof not taki;^ lybreal^ ibes prtr bo aayB ?, y blood/ V e Protei* ble is my, any mail; itormf: ting hifn ►?r .;4- «P«lllfflWr«W«8»MWM»^ TSAirSUBSTANTIATION. 15 witb oil in the name of the Lord.*", Here is the com«> mand of the Bible, that the priest must come to the si6k man and anoint him with oil. Do you believe that, my Protestant friend t "Oh ! no, sir, I do not believe any such superstition as that." But the Bible ««ys you must. "Oh! well, we cannot follow the Bible all the. time," says my 'Protestant friend. Where^ is the Protestant who calls in th^^ prtest in time of sickness that he may anoin^ the sick person nWith oil ? You see you do not |hllow the Bible, my dear Protestant friend ; you do nolrtake the Bible for your guide or teacher. ? "H;? s* - The Bible also says, you mnst confess your sins*— St. James,* Fifth Chapter. Do you that f Do you confess youf sins t ** Why, do you think I am such M simpleton as that ? " answers my Protestant friend. But tl^e Bible says so, my dear friend. Here you goi tigainst the Bible i^in. Thb Bible says also that you must fest. Christ says : " I have given you an example, that as I have done, you do in like manner." Christ fasted. Do you fast T " Of course not." The Bible tells ns, that the apostles fasted, even after CSirist had gone-^Thirteenth Chapter of the Acts oi the Ap6stl^. We read of the^viour fasting and praying. Db yon fest T " Oh ! no, we do not ftat.** '0tt\\, then, yon ^o not fbUow the Bible. ^0nlefli|^; Jrou do peti^aneei^' ^ys ike Saviour of the woi4d, ♦* yoi jshftll 1^1 perish." It is ocnnmanded in the BiUe, anl you ray yon follow the Bible. Christ himself faSted ■Itoy. 4>i^'iba^for ^ nigh'to, i nd ^hft apo g tlea feated^ ISHttt Hpi^iyeu go against the Bibl^, nty dear Pro^ t'.i x~ X-- -t-^^ - - - '-v—rr' / »'*■ » t » \ '<*?,/. ■ Pi ' ill m 'if' I i ^! ril' 16 TitANSUBSTANTIAtlOK • estant friends, and tch^orrow night I shall call these things to your min^ ; ' to-morrow night I shall give a thousaiid things-to show that Protestantism is con- demned by the Bible, and that Catholicity follows the Bible. I caijipot say too much in this lecture, as it would take too much time from the real subje<}t'QD wl^ich 1 speiJc to-night, Transul^tanti^tion. /* F^ my flesh," says Jesus « is meat indeed, and 4, viy blood is drink indeed, fie that eateth m^ fleshy and drinketh My blood abideth in Me, and I in Him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateU Me, the same also shall ^ve . by me." He does not say, he that eatetlk the reiaem- branoe of Me, or he t^at eateth the figure of Me, but ^e says he that eateth Me. . You say, my dear Prot- estant friends, you do not believe in mysteries. Well now, I think it is a very great mysterious^ thing to eat the figure of a th^ng, I would like to see a man eai the figure of a thing. I do not believe there is a man in Brooklyn who could do tfeat, for it would be pretty ha^-d to know how to go atout it. Yes, my dear friends, I think that u a very mysterious thing. ',f^p *' He that eateth me," says Christ ** the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that oam^ down from Heaven, and he that eateth this bread shall live forever. Mpmy, therefore, of His disciples hearing it> said : * Thii is a hard saying, and who can believe it.' " Some of His disciples, therefore, you itoonders- ' l9od our Saviour to say that they must literally eat Itis^esh and drink His Mood ; * for, if the disdpled m4Pt0Sfii Km as ProtestantsliS^^^^t^—'SlC \ ..^'T^-'^" J-- i ' (^^ ' \")viit ' '^ I > >> "•y Si*..; .»'' mi^^^-i'^. TJIANSUBSTANTU7ION. n they were merely to eat ft piebe of bread and drink a cupof ^ne,noneof thedisoipiles would have made any fuss about it f but, they understood Him in the literal sense of the word, and, therefore, they said : *' This u a hard saying" Now the disciples were to be the teiachers of the world. Christ had chosen them for tUit purpose to go all over the world, and to teach all nations of the earth,^ and it was, therefore, all im- portant that His'disdples should understi^ His doc- trine, that; they should 1 haVe a oorreot idea of His doctrine ; fo« if He left them in error, t}ien He him- -s^if would be ih.e ciaQse of the whole world going into error, i Then, if He was not to be understood.in this manner,- He was hounds by all the laws of justice, to explain Himself to His disciples. Did (He do it 7 N(H iMii^e Insisted, moro and more, that it was HiiB bo<|y^and Mood; And Je0u% knowing in His heart, \0fial His disoij^les murmured tit. this, said to them $ ^'Boes this scandadiae you T Do you think thiJs ift beyond I my power ? Tou have seen me giving eight t6 md. biind, hearing to the deaf, speech to tiie duml^ ireetoTing the lame, and reviving the dead." Well now;^; /aays€9irist,lfl can do these things, why cannot I a,\a6 /change bread and wine into my body an4into my blood. You believe that I have changed the dust t>f the earth into a livio^ man, at the creation of time, and that I took a'vribout of Adam's body and changed it into a woman. No^, says Christ, as it were, if Lean ohnnge the dust of the (»rth into a living man, and a bone into a li'dng woman, why otinnot I also change read ind^HBtw intoMy bipfy and bleojtf* ff^tew;" e'--^^ ' 4 "St ,■-,.>■ •■.•^'iv^^j^ *^:7^-:*'V X S^ ^4!^-A---l4. , n 18 TBANSUBSTANTIAT OF: * says Ghriit, 70a ahfliU see the Son <|f Man, useiiid ap where He was before; it is the spirit that quiokeneth, the flesh profit nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." They are realities— not deadf figures, not dead r^membranoes.;^ The words that I have spok^x^ llio you are spirit and Ufe; but there are some tkmong you that believe not," foi^ He lulew who-^ey were, that did not i)elieve and who w6uld betnay Him. Tou see, Christ puts those who do not believe what He teacher, on a level with Judas. And H6 said, therefore ; ** I say to you that- no man can eome to Md,* unless it be giv^n to him by <^ the Father.'l Some of the disciples could not beMeye what Christ saidj and they 1^ Hilft, and Christ never called them back ; but turning to the twelve Aposip ties, fle said : " Will you also go. away t Will yowl also abandon me, because I teaol^ doctrine that, you ; do not understand t^^ >l^ Peter, the fiitet Pope, answered Him ; •'Lord, to whom shall we g6]?" My God, says he, if we cimnot take Thy word, whose word then shfdil we take*? We have known ; and wfe have^ believed that Thou art the Son of the living God, and, therefore, says Peter, we believe it, bteause Thou, ^tbe Son of the living God, hath said it i(% belief it, says feter, in the nan^eof all the rest df^'i^ |he Apostles, whether we underetanditorBOt. Thorn oh I God, Thou infallible Truth and Wisdom. Thoa hast sud it, and we believe it Well, is it not a rear Bcmable thing to believe, my Protestant friends, what God has said ? 6id the Apostles believe as we clo^> -^did the priml^^ Otaria tiwf |wti»wae.we ^t^ Wea^ A 1 I " V-J*- 1 •«' -^^^ . -V ■ ^^ ; ^^T~ .-' is ti"^^" ' ' ,t^^^^!§LJh'tV''^ *' •»1»r ■;; ' ' ••' :_:,- n-'f*' -"y.'^.i ^-^ .1*^ m -/ Z\-ifi' \ - (*., /■■' A •ASJi>A-<4 f ■^' '. » TBANSUBSTANTIATIOBr. u did ; th^ believed that it was the real body and blopd of Christ. Where ia your proof ? The Bible is my proof. YOu will take nothing but the Bible, and so you must have the Bible. I will now read from St. Paul's Epistle to the Gonnthians— First Epistle and tenth Chapter — ^where St. Paul exhorts the Christians to lead holy lives ; and he gives them, as a motive, that they should lead holy lives, because they w4re permitted to receive the body and blood" of Jesus Christ. 10th chap. I4th verse. ** Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from the service, of idols. I speak as to wise men. Judge you yourselves, what I say." I leave it to your own ^judgment-^you are wise men — ^you are intelligent men. Isit not fai||f is it , not reasonable, that you should fly from the service of idofi, and from everything that is sinful, because, said he, ** The cup of ^lefwing, which we bless, is it not. the Communion of the blood of Christ, and the bread wluch we Inreak, is it not the Communion of the body of the Iwrd T^ I ited it, as it is in thtf Protestant Bible. You see^ St. Paul takeis it for ; granted that they all believed it, and that, therefore^ ibey should lead pu^ and holy lives, because theyr were daily permitted to receive the body and th& blood of Jesus Christ. Attd in the 11th Chapter of the same Epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul saye^- after instructing them to receive worthily : ** I hav*^ reoaved from the Lord that whidi I also deliver . unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the 'night, in which^ fie was betrayed, tbok bread and giving; thanks,- :# .-^j^ ^ r ■■> V \ "^H ^m^ /• \-' -:*w-k 4. \ 5. ^ 20 I TKANSXTBSTAKTIAllOir. i~r wfaioh shall M delivered for jou. Do this vfor a oommemorationlof Me.' This oup, or chalioe, is -.the new testament of My blood. This do ye, as oftej as you jdudl drink for a commemoration, or in memf)! of Me."' « Oh I " says my Protestant frito^,' expluns alU" *t 8ail^^ *'&e and eat : this is My body" and " toke and driidc ; this is My blood/ and do this eatillg of,. My body, and this drinking of My blood, in remem-; branceofMe. Bfe did not say, take a sup of inne, and a piece of bread, and remember Me ; but He said : i ^ Take and eat j tliifl is My body, and take and drink i i this is My blood«" Bemember me as often as you shall' eat My flesh and drink My ^ipd^remember My suf- fering BQ^^y death. ,Tm|||lB|jfiipely t|^u|xpl»i' .nation whiobt St. Paul . ginJl^^SIPwoidiswJesus Christ; for, says St. Pj&ul ''As often as you shall eai' this brea4], and drink this chalice you shall show the death of the Lord until He Comet^ "—you shall rof ^ member, the death of Ohrist^ whenevw you take your HoYy Cbntmunioii. ^ Wherefore, whosoever shall eal tHi»]wead aiid dtxnk this cup unworthily, shall l^ _jgMlty of the body and the blood of thb LoreU_" j^^ ^^'?;'>c ^ -"*:» .If ■ said: rink■' Bay,it waa not His body and blood, then, inydear inends, yoa give the 'lie to Jesus. And^hereis the man, who has the daringinsolence and the daring blafl- phemy to accuse the Son of the Living God of a lie. Will you my dear Protestant friends, give the lie to Jesus? Do yoii believe in Jesus Christ? "I do," you say* Do you believe what He says ? ** I do not," you say. Then if you do not believe in Jesus, you are not Christians. Do not be talking any moJaabout Christ, and do not be talking any more about the Bible, for you do not believe in either. Throw over- board all Christianity,' or become oonvexts to the Catholic faith. You cannot believe in Jesus and the Bible and hold on to your Protestantism, and deny that Christ spoke the truth : He did speak the truth : He said it was His body, and it was His Woodj and to say, it is not His body awd blood is giving Him the lie. Now this doctrine of the Catholic faith is as oW as Christianity itself. It has been believed fifom the beginning of the Christian world, before Protestantism oame into the world. Tou have only to read the works of St. Imbrose and St. John Chrysostom, and they are referred to by Protestants also, as men of great learn- ing, of extraordinary sanctity and virtue. These men have written whole book8,fifteen and sixteen hundred years ago, on the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Adorable Sacrament of the Eucharist, and I thank (Jod that many of our Protestant friendi belieVe in the Bible, and tjiat many Protestants are giving up their 1^0res3f^##^«it error, and are admitting now the doctrine of the Catholic Churoh, and even in Gei»» mMiy, and in spite of all the persecution agninat the ^ •' /? ' '"V M; i '■■-■ f'j'k. , -,-?),; ■.'S;'"ft^>f' w^- , * TBANSITBSTANTIATION. 2a 't»^- GathoUe Ohuroh, under Bismaiok, hundreds and hun^ dreda of Lutherans, hundreds gf learned meni of ahip Kt^ (ind wealth, are ooming over to the Catholic Church-— ProteBtiEknt miniBters among them. And in Englandyhow many Protestant clergy, within the last thirty-five years, have heen converted to our Holy Faith? Not less than two thousand five hundred. By what t By "reading- tjhoee books, that were written . sixteen hundred years ago, in Latin and Greek, by our holy ancestors of the Faith, and which contain the Catholic doctrine precisely as it is to^ay, " We have been led astray—- we ; have been separated from our mother, thoi originjal Church ; we have done wrong ; we have gone ii^to the way of eternal perdition, and we mtis%f(> back," they say. Hundreds and thousands are coming back at the present day to the Catholic CSiurch. in Germany, in Sngland, and in the United States. Many men, who where once Protestant min- isters, are now Catholic priests, and several of them ace Catholic bishops, and even cardinals, because they were mdn of intelligence, men of learning and educar tion; they were not carried away by blind prejudice; they did not follow the road of the vulgur crowd. '* I hate Catholicity, anyhow," you say. The Jews hated Jesu» Christ, and that "did not save them. And so you hate the Catholics anyhow, and that is not going to ;ta|^e you to heaven^, Let me tell you that. When you ase in eternity you will remembei^ it, and then youimlliay, Ah I that I had taken the advice of that .old man, but then M will be too late, fiir when you tare vaaa in that ** lock-up " there is no gettii^ out of it. Of oouimey ^^f^J* ^aW^ !^ Ming abi^t tfa^ idi '.'Ml A MA I \ I it % --vj- i. •■ i» n i^ ' ii- 24 / TBANSUBSTAIJTIATION. things/lt is a very serious matter, and you have a joul/4 save. Save that soul, and the only way to4o 80 is hy the true religion, and no religion established by man can do that. Therefore, I would recommend to all of you to pray fervently to God to draw you into the right path. Get the books which I have re- oommended-the three books which we call the set. Read them and study them, that you may be ^^ to understand the doctrine of the Catholic re"^on. When I gave a mission at St. Joseph's, th^^Was a young Virginian who went to his preaxjher and said to him: " You must answer the questions contained in this pamphlet of Father Damen, and if you do not do so to my satisfaction, I am going ovet to the Catholic religion, and he proposed the questions. " Well," said the preacher, " you must not be think- ing about these things— do not be bothering your head about them." « Well," says the young mwi, « I am not going to damn my soul— I must know the truth, and I want you to prove to me the truth." « Well " says the preachers, ♦ I cannot do that, and there is no man in the world that can doit." « Well, then," says he, '• good-bye to you, I shall become a Catholic," and he became a Catholic, and every highly educated Catholic. Now, was he not a sensible young man ? He wanted proof, and when he could not get it he went where he could get it. 1 say, then, get the pamphlet oontftining thy lectures, and read it attenUvely, and take it to your preacher Mid ask him to refute it, and refute it to your satisfaMion, and if he does not satisfy you, come t» me and 1 will make you sure of the truth. ' ^ ' . iiKl.ft'j4-'*')m^Ji '.--J>i. .y^ar^ 4 ■■-«'-'.'•'■» 'tt.«.i..i..''. I'A'.-.'.^.^j^.r. f Jtki.'is^ aKu .Mattai-abA v«. f^tAtujUi. -i^' ">'*'*,. ■Tjf-(S^i }i^iM4^:f'4^-}A% ^t iiR '§.>in».',*.-»^-;^!v*M.«l*«:t-ir^9t ^4i;,.%i>Mfe4.a^-*i*: ■: • Av^^ •5 ;'*'*:»v*4ft#«^' Jj ^i^^M^^falttt' t'*-'.!<^:.?;»-f: 'il '/'./■/ Wj*!"-'- *4lft!v 'ii- ^.^ W* tf K* tif ^^■' ■; I VI if-'MiM ^"U ;''*«*»«»i>WIMIWI>BIWp«W l l iaiiii|i V*. I^L-i , j; i> ■ ■;. "• 1.' ■' ^ r\ - s 5tv iS -'♦;?■ ove^i 1 wouia prove uiai we 'must oeiievp in myB^ teriefh- 'that is, in tratbe which ^e do not understand. Now/ in order that you may understand the better tlbe ai'guments which I shall bring before you this evening} I shitll first state the doctrine of our sepa- rated brethren — our Protestant frietida— -and that is A mighty hard job ; for it is very hard to say what l!tur Protcistant friends do believe', iind what they db iKit believe. Thciy tary so much from each other» what one asserts as a Gospel iruth, the other denios as a positive heresy ; hence it is very hard i to say what our Protestant ftiends believe. But I will give ,p iTj -,,t J-,_L^.i.-t^,:^.-.^' ■¥-^:.-^^''-,^'^^ s; -. _'.^_j -Vi-^^--,--^ ..,:■. j.ti:. ^,■,-^ ., .:r.r:.. >:■-■■'•'-:' }> )[: ■ ?;..-■ :W(^-^' -:<% - ;■■"■»'"■;■ -i.-f- ' n"'. :--^^;4-'i-- f 'i . r • 1 ■ -* w^ '^B^m ....^