[Transcriber's notes: This production is based on https://archive.org/details/sermonspaulists00unknuoft/page/n7. Many footnotes have additional citations indicated by "USCCB", based on the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Bible found at http://usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible. Most differences appear to be typographical errors not detected in proofreading or minor changes in verse numbering. End of Transcriber's notes.]

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SERMONS.

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Sermons,
Preached At The Church of St. Paul the Apostle,
New York, During the Year 1861.

New York:
Van Parys, Hugot & Howell,

34 Beekman Street.

1861.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by

VAN PARYS, HUGOT & HOWELL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

C. A. ALVORD, PRINTER.

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PREFACE.

Some of those friends who listened to the sermons contained inthis volume have expressed a desire to see them in print, andthought they would do good. This friendly counsel has not beenacted upon without hesitation. The great scarcity of Catholicsermons in English would seem to afford motive enough forpublishing, though it is feared that these may fall too far belowthe standard. Certainly, they make no pretence to brilliantpassages of imagination, flowers of style, or appeals to popularenthusiasm;{6}these not comporting with the serious and earnest work in whichwe are engaged. But we trust that they will be found plain,simple, and direct, and that there may be those among ourCatholic brethren who will derive an appreciable benefit fromtheir perusal—some clearer view of Christian doctrine or moralduty, some thought to touch the heart, and draw it upward to God.If so, our purpose will have been accomplished. With so much ofexplanation we send out these few sermons into the world;doubting, somewhat, if all who heard them when they came livingand warm from the preacher's lips, and listened with interestthen, will prize them now as they lie cold and uncolored on thepaper.

St. Paul's. 59th Street, Dec. 1. 1861.

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CONTENTS.