Of the sermons contained in this volume, seventeen have been reprinted from the four volumes of "Sermons by the Paulists, 1861-64;" and twelve published from MSS. Four of these are mission sermons, selected from the complete series, as the most suitable specimens of this species of discourse. The others are parochial sermons, preached in the parish church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York. There still remain a considerable number of sermons, more or less complete; but the confused and illegible state in which F. Baker left his MSS. has made the task of reading and copying them very laborious, and prevented any larger number from being prepared for publication at the present time. I leave these Sermons, with the Memoir of their author, to find their own way to those minds and hearts which are prepared to receive them, and to do the good for which they are destined by the providence of God. May we all have the grace to imitate that high standard of Christian virtue which they set before us, as true disciples of Jesus Christ our Lord!
A. F. H.
St. Paul's Church, Fifty-ninth Street,
Advent, 1865.
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Memoir | [13] | |
| Sermon | ||
| I. | The Necessity of Salvation (Mission Sermon) | [209] |
| II. | Mortal Sin (Mission Sermon) | [226] |
| III. | The Particular Judgement (Mission Sermon) | [239] |
| IV. | Heaven (Mission Sermon) | [252] |
| V. | The Duty of Growing in Christian Knowledge (First Sunday in Advent) | [263] |
| VI. | The Mission of St. John the Baptist (Second Sunday in Advent) | [271] |
| VII. | God's Desire to be Loved (Christmas Day) | [282] |
| VIII. | The Failure and Success of the Gospel (Sexagesima) | [292] |
| IX. | The Work of Life (Septuagesima) | [303] |
| X. | The Church's Admonition to the Individual Soul (Ash-Wednesday) | [312] |
| XI. | The Negligent Christian (Third Sunday in Lent) | [320] |
| XII. | The Cross, the Measure of Sin (Passion Sunday) | [329] |
| XIII. | Divine Calls and Warnings (Lent) | [340] |
| XIV. | The Tomb of Christ, the School of Comfort (Easter Sunday) | [352] |
| XV. | St. Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre (Easter Sunday) | [360] |
| XVI. | The Preacher, the Organ of the Holy Ghost (Fourth Sunday after Easter) | [370] |
| XVII. | The Two Wills in Man (Fourth Sunday after Easter) | [380] |
| XVIII. | The Intercession of the Blessed Virgin the Highest Power of Prayer (Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension) | [391] |
| XIX. | Mysteries in Religion (Trinity Sunday) | [399] |
| XX> | The Worth of the Soul (Third Sunday after Pentecost) | [408] |
| XXI. | The Catholic's Certitude concerning the Way
of Salvation (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost) | [418] |
| XXII. | The Presence of God (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost) | [429] |
| XXIII. | Keeping the Law not Impossible (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost) | [437] |
| XXIV. | The Spirit of Sacrifice (Feast of St. Laurence) | [447] |
| XXV. | Mary's Destiny a Type of Ours (Assumption) | [456] |
| XXVI. | Care for the Dead (Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost) | [465] |
| XXVII. | Success the Reward of Merit (Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost) | [475] |
| XXVIII. | The Mass the Highest Worship (Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost) | [484] |
| XXIX. | The Lessons of Autumn (Last Sunday after Pentecost) | [493] |