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Excerpt from New and Old (Sermons), Vol. 1: A Monthly Repertory of Catholic Pulpit Eloquence Embracing Two Sermons for Each Sunday and Holy-Day of Obligation of the Ecclesiastical Year
Shall I tell you without reserve of what I wish to speak to-day? Shall I tell you that being struck with terror at the mere thought of the judg ments which God will inflict upon the last day, I must endeavor to communicate that terror to your hearts; to arouse sinners, as it were, by a cry of alarm; and, if possible, to rescue them from their fatal leth argy, before they shall find it changed into the sleep of everlasting death? Yes, learn it, you who hear me, it is not with aview of astonishing your imaginations with unmeaning pictures, not with the view of producing feeble and transient emotions in your hearts, but in the hope of effect ing your conversion and salvation, that I shall exhibit to your spiritual vision the most sublime, the most awful spectacle that religion can offer to the eye of faith. Unite with me in contemplating this last and fear ful scene, the bare thought of which, in former times, filled the deserts with solitaries, and forced St. Jerome, although exhausted with works of piety and austerity, and St. Hilarion, though emaciated by fasts, disciplines, and vigils, to tremble in the inmost depths of their solitudes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
