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A sermon delivered in St. Michael's Church, Kensington by the Very Rev. Dr. Moriarty at the funeral obsequies of Rev. Daniel Sheridan, (Pastor of above church), Saturday, July 19, 1856.
Author
Moriarty, Patrick Eugene, 1804-1875.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1856-07-19
Publisher
Philadelphia : Thomas McLoughlin, bookseller and stationer
Source
Catholica
Topic
Sheridan, Daniel, d. 1856 > Death and burial. Funeral sermons. Lutheran Church > Sermons. Sermons, American. St. Michael's Church (Kensington, Philadelphia, Pa.)
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our minds. Our.brother has left this altar. .He has stepped from
this altar:down into the depths of the sepulchre, with one step only,
which has already made his soul rebound upward to the very portal
of the Kingdom of eternal light and glory, and we. follow that soul
-in the glorious affinities of. our religion, in the glorious affections of
our faith. Our tears will soon dry up, as the vapor before the sun.
But we follow that soul with the.true affection of our hearts, the
prayers which are raised to God our father for its eternal rest. For
we know, beloved ‘brethren, that whilst there is a certain admixture
of ‘light and darkness producing necessarily some shades, the soul that
so long dwelt in that darkness cannot, according. to our.ideas, all at
once escape directly from. the contagion of so much darkness, but some
little shade of. the grave may yet remain over it... We beg the Father
of us all that in the last visitation of His mercy and goodness He may
remove that shade and ,draw the: soul paternally to His affectionate
embrace. | pee atta Tes
Yes, beloved brethren, he is gone... He has stepped from the altar
down into the depths of death. While-this was not the place where
he met the last event which in some shape or form will.come to us
all, was he not standing where he ought to be as the head of his flock?
Was he not standing exactly where you would wish the priest -to:be
when itis his utmost effort to guide and direct us into that Kingdom.
[The sobbing, and other manifestations of emotion, which this touching allusion to their be-
loved pastor elicited from the congregation, here reached such a height as entirely to drown
the voice of the reverend gentleman.]
Was he not in that position in which the priest ought to meet the
stroke of death? .He might: meet it at home on his bed; he might
mectit in the street. At home.and abroad the stroke of death awaits
and where could he meet it more nobly? : Oh, beloved brethren, cease
your mourning... He fell as a priest ought to fall...He fell.as‘a
Christian ought to fall....He. fell as:man is necessarily bound to fall,
in humble ponitence before the throne of God. He fell in a well-
founded hope in the love'of.a divine Saviour, and in the embrace of
those divine virtues he was safely kept. He was rescued from that