Weekly Chemawa American., April 03, 1903, Page 8, Image 8

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THE CIIEMAWA AMERICAN
would they riot? You require material
food for your material body and in that
b jdy there is your soul, the image of God,
and it must receive food and nourishment,
as that body must receive sp ritual food,
so must that soul be fed with prayer and
the sacraments, which God brought to
this earth. Let me'a deny it if they will.
Baptism is the sacrament given us as chil
dren, and after baptism, we must say our
prayers. We must receive the sacraments
that Christ brought here to earth. They
are not the institutions of man. JNo man
can institute them. If we break the Com
mandnents, Christ has given us a means
to come back to Hirn by penance. He has
left His power and sacraments here.
Through the sacraments of penance our
sins shall be forgiven, as truly as Christ
forgave the Magdalen of old.
"And we must receive Communion.
Hear the Master speaking at the last sup
per. 'This is my body and this is my
blood.' He took bread into His own bl ss
el hands and blessed and consecrated it
and changed it completely into His own
body and likewise the wine into His own
'blood. And He said, 'Eat ye all of this,
for this is my body;' also 'drink ye all of
this, for this is my blood, shed for you and
for many to the remission of sins. He
who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
shall have life everlasting. Do this in
commemoration of Me.' Thus He will
live in that soul and that soul in f Tim.
Man may say that changing this bread
and wine into the body and blood of Jesus
Christ is an impossibility, is a mere myth;
but those eyes you are looking out of,
seven or eight years ago were the food of
which you partake, and if I were to come .
here some years hence and you children
W9re to occupy these pews, you would look
at me with new eyes. How can that be?
The food you partake of is transubstanti
ated iato the organ of sight. The food you
partake of is changed into the flesh and
blood, and bone and muscle, p.nd sinew of
yourselves. We are forced to admit it,
and then here is this Christ speaking,
'This is my flesh and blood, and man, a
mere man, says it is not, and what is man's
knowledge and power compared to (h-
knowledge and power of God. That God
' who brought him from nothings est;! That
creature who'cannot explain what is life
and death, that creature, when Christ says
this is My flesh and blood dares to stnrd
up and say it is not! On the one Lard
there is that God speaking, whom shall ve
follow? Dear children, to whom shall yui
trust your salvation? Whom shall we fol
low? 1 shall follow the Living God, who
created me. This is the teaching of CLri.-'.
Consequently, say your prayers! A pray
erful soul will never be lost. Be obedien';
be studious; do not idle away your time,
and when you are put to this or that em-
v ployment, do it earnestly and well. Then
let us, after saying our pray era, study
. our religion. Study our religion be
cause it will help us when yon and I
and all men shall stand before the gitnt
God and tell Him how we lived upon earl! .
The word will be given out when we am
dead and our souls will go home to ti e
judged. These souls of ours will have to
stand before God some day before lorjr. to
tell Him how we lived, to tell Him howvo
kept the Ten Commandments. To every
one of us that question will be put. I'o
will ask us if we kept his Commandmon's
upon earth. Let us be able to say ye.
Let us live such lives that when we rari
away one by one, as we will, we can n.crt
that living Saviour, and that we may n.e t
around that great white throne, there to
rest for all eternity, is a blessing I pn.r
for all of you, that when we leave this
earth that living Jesus may say to r.
'Come home to Me ye blessed of my Fath--r
to rest" for all eternity in the bright a: I
everlasting happiness of Heaven,'is what I
pray. ,
At the close of the Archbishop's remark-,
Superintendent " Potter addressed tie
school in a few well chosen words, in
which he thanked the Archbishop for hi?
talk and said, "I hope that every boy ai. i
girl in the school will remember v hat U
has said and that the same will nmU
every boy and girl here better and Cbeina
wa will be greatly benefitted no doubt, L"
b is visit and excellent sermon here today.'