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Show ABLE, ELOQUENT SERMON HEARD AT CATHEDRAL Able, eloquent and scholarly was the sermon delivered yesterday morning al St. Mary's cathedral by the Rev. Father George T. MeCarty of St. Louis, who Is ! spending a few dny.v In the city, the guest I of the Rt. Rev. Blshrp Laurence Scanlnn ' of this diocese. Father McCarly dealt I with the permnntmcy and power of the I religion of Christ as exemplified bv the : Catholic church, pointing out that while I the proudest nnd most venerable families pass nwav nnd become as "cslerday, the Church of God lives on, growing In power and influence. "For fifteen hundred years," the I speaker naid. the Catholic church reigned alone, in undisputed ponsesHlon of thu house of Jesus Christ, '-ven though theuo centuries marked the critical period In the hlMtorv of the world In Its pa.ssagq from the domination of superstition to an acknowledgment of the established rights of Christ. When the last analysis In made, the nnt nssertlon mnde. we still And the, undeniable fart that the Catholic church k In posHCidon, Knrramcntally nnd doctrlnally, of the house of Jchus Christ. The burden n'Hta on those who protest. We stand supremely Indifferent to the assertion of passers-by; we stand with charity to all, with enmity to none.". |