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Discourse on the Right Reverend Simon Gabriel Brut-e, D.D., Bishop of Vincennes : pronounced in Mt. St. Mary's Church, August 19th, 1839, on the occasion of a solemn service for the repose of his soul.
Author
McCaffrey, John, 1806-1881.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1839
Publisher
Emmitsburg [Md.] : M'Clean, Duphorn and Troxel
Source
Catholica
Topic
Funeral sermons. Bruté de Rémur, Simon William Gabriel, 1779-1839 > Death and burial. Bishops > Biography. Mount Saint Mary's College (Emmitsburg, Md.). Catholic Church > Bishops. Catholic Church > Indiana.
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"greater trials yet awaited him. . Though trained to piety betimes
and accustomed to regard religion as a pearl above all price 5
though even in the very morning of life he had girded. himself for
mortal conflicts, with a courage not unworthy, of the martyr’s
crown: yet had he necd of all the deep impressions graved upon
his soul, and of no ordinary strength of mind, and of a fortitudes
which Heaven only could bestow, to pass with principles unshak-
en and picty unimpaired through the medical schools of the
French Capitol. Infidelity sat. on the professorial chairs, whiclt
were then indeed the chairs of pestilence ;” and impicty reigned
among the Jicentious students, who received’ instruction from
them. .'The lecturers, such men as Lamarck, Fourcroy. and
Pinel, never Tost an opportunity, of venting a sophism or a sneer’,
against religion: the auditors never applauded so heartily, as’
When these poisoned shafts were flung amongst them. “fhe bold-
est Atheism and the grossest materialism were studiously profess:
ed ; and it was assumed as an established truth, that death is an-
nihilation and that. man, like the beasts of the ficld, having no
God and no accountability, should. have, neither hopes nor fears’
beyond the grave. Yet there was ainoble band’ of youths, who’
would not bow down to the idols, which impiotis men had erected 3:
but, like the children of Israel in the fiery furnace, passed uri=
scathed through the midst of the flames. ‘For the angel of the’
Lord walked with them, arid the fire touched them not at all, nor’
troubled them, tor did them any harm?’ @) Need: I say, that
the subject of this discourse was of their number? that he could’ :
neither be entangled in the meshes of infidel sophistry, nor driver:
from the profession and practice of his faith by the sneers of pro-.
fligate fellow-students, nor decoyed into vice by their persuasions’
and example? On the contrary, he was, the advocate of goot! :
morals and defender of religion, among those who scoffed both af
morals and religion: he was a model of piety, where piety (was
most unfashionable and to a weak and coward mind would have’.
appeared no longer respectable. . His zeal: for the honor of God:
and the interests of truth would not permit him to.be always Si-
Jent, when both were attacked ; and with the christian portion of:
the medical students he entered into a plan of defence, which was’
ultimately attended with success. When the infidel sneer ov’
sophism of the professor was reccived by others with applause,
; * Daniel TI,-C, 50th-V.-