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 ■ " FATHER DAMEN 
 
 ON 
 
 THE REAL PRESENCE. 
 
 On Thursday evening, May 22nd, the Kev. Father 
 Damen, the eminent Jesuit and missionary, delivered 
 the following impressive discourse at St John's Church, 
 South Brooklyn, N. Y. Father Damen read his text from 
 Matthew, ch. XXVI. 26th, 27th, and 28th verses:— 
 
 26. " And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took 
 bread, and blessed, and broke, and gave to his disciples ; 
 and said : Take ye and eat : This is my body. 
 
 27. " And taking the chalice, he gave thanks ; and 
 gave to them saying : Drink ye all of this. 
 
 28. " For this is my blood of the new testament, 
 which shall be shed for many for the remission of sins." 
 
 Dear Beloved Christians: 
 
 '\.<i ^ X announced to you on last Monday night that on 
 this evening I would lecture on Transubstantiation, that 
 is to say, the doctrine of the Real Presence of Our Blessed 
 Lord in the adorable Sacrament of the altar — and that I 
 would prove this from the Bible, and from the Bible 
 alone. For, our separated brethren believe nothing but 
 the Bible, so we will give them the Bible to-night. And, 
 
in order that you may understand my reasoning the bet- 
 ter, I will first state the doctrine of our holy religion, and 
 then state the doctrine of some of our separated brethren, 
 and blood of Christ, but only bread and wine taken as a 
 The Catholic Church teaches that, by the power of G-od 
 and the words of Jesus Christ spoken by the priest dur- 
 ing Mass, the bread and the wine are changed into the 
 body and blood of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and 
 are truly received by the faithful in the Holy Commuion. 
 This is 
 
 The Doctrine of the Catholic Church. 
 
 Now, the doctrine of most of our separated brethren is 
 • this, that in the communion there is, not the real body 
 remembrance of Christ ; or bread and wine as a figure 
 of Christ. I have said mnst of our separated brethren, ; 
 because it is very hard to say what Protestants do be- 
 lieve. "What one believes, another denies ; what one 
 accepts another rejects ; and, therefore, I say most of our 
 separated brethren. The High Church Episcopalians and 
 the Ritualists, admit the real body and blood of Christ. 
 The old School Lutherans, in like manner admit that it 
 is the real body and blood of Christ, but not Transub- 
 stantiation. The Methodist christians and the Presby- 
 terians, and the Congregationalists say : " It is bread 
 and wine signifying the body and the blood of Jesus 
 Christ." And so I say, my dearly beloved christians, 
 
 They all differ 
 
 from one another. Having understood what is the doc- 
 trine of the Catholic Church, and the doctrine oi leading 
 bodies of Protestants, I shall now prove the doctrine of 
 our Church, and for this purpose I will read to you from 
 the 6th chapter of Grospel of St. John, commencing with 
 the 46th verse of that chapter. " It is written in the 
 prophets," says Christ : " And they shall be all taught of 
 God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath 
 learned, cometh to Me.'\ Christ says that the prophets 
 have foretold that a time would come when the people 
 
would be tauffht, not merely of men as the prophets 
 were, but would be . 
 
 Taught by Qod Himself. 
 
 Christ being God, He teaches them and thus this pro- 
 phecy is fulfilled. '• Every one that hath heard of the 
 Father, and that hath learned, cometh to Me. Not that 
 any man hath seen the Father, but he who is of God, he 
 hath seen the Father. Amen, Amen, I say unto you : he 
 that believeth in Me, hath everlasting life." You see our 
 Divine Saviour prepares the minds and hearts of his 
 hearers. Before he enters upon the doctrine He takes a 
 solemn oath — for these words of Christ, " Amen, Amen, 
 I say unto you," were equivalent to a solemn affirmation 
 or oath. It is therefore the same as if Christ hath said : 
 " I swear by Almighty God, he that believeth in Me hath 
 everlasting life." Why does our divine Saviour commence 
 his instruction on this important subject in thic solemn 
 manner ? In order 
 
 To teach them the graveness, 
 
 the solemnity of the doctrine He is about teaching them ; 
 and He adds : " he that believeth in me hath everlasting 
 life." He promises them eternal life if they will believe 
 what he is about to teach them, thus preparing their 
 hearts to be inclined to receive and admit the doctrine 
 which he is about teaching them. And immediately after 
 that He commences the doctrine, and says : " I am the 
 bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert ; 
 and they died. This is the bread which cometh down 
 from heaven, that if any one eat of it, he may not die. I 
 am the living bread." Not the dead bread, not the dead 
 figure, not the dead remembrance. — " I am " says Christ, 
 *' I am the bread that cometh from heaven ; , j-- .- ■ 
 
 I am the Living Bread, ' ' 
 
 and- if any man eat of this bread, (which he says is Him- 
 self,) he shall live forever, he shall have eternal life. And 
 the bread that I will give to you is my flesh, for the life 
 
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 of the world." My dearly beloved, separated brethren, 
 lirat of all our Lord says that this bread of the New Tes- 
 tament is more than manna. Your Fathers ate manna in 
 the wilderness, says He, and they died^ and he that eateth 
 this bread shall live forever ; therefore the bread our 
 Divine Saviour intends to give them is more than manna. 
 But the manna was a miraculous bread that fell down 
 from heaven. If, therefore, the Holy Communion was 
 merely ordinary bread, as the Baptist, the Universalist, 
 the Presbyterian, and the Methodist says — that it is mere 
 ordinary bread, — well then it would be less than the 
 manna, for the manna came from heaven. What they 
 take in the Communion themselves they say is nothing- 
 but ordinarv bread. That was not the teaching of Jesus 
 Christ, for fie said it was more than the manna. " I am" 
 sayp He, " the living bread," therefore the manna with 
 life and with soul, " and the bread," He says " I w^ill 
 give to you is my own flesh." Is not this queer language, 
 that it is the flesh of God. Do you, my Protestant friend, 
 believe in the Bible ? " Why, Yes, Sir," says my Pro- 
 testant friend, " the Bible is my guide, the Bible is my 
 teacher, I believe in the Bible." Do you believe what the 
 Bible says, that it is the flesh of Jesus? "Why, no," says 
 ■ my Protestant friend, " I do not." Well then you do not 
 believe in the Bible. The Bible says it is 
 
 The Flesh of Jesus. ^ . 
 
 " Why," said my Protestant friend, " how in the world 
 ean I believe a thing I don't understand V" " I cannot see 
 that, but yet I believe in it." " That is all good enough," 
 says my Protestant friend, " for you simple minded, 
 ignorant Catholics, who pin your faith to the sleeve of 
 your priests, but we, Protestants, w^e are an intelligent 
 set of people and we don't believe a thing we can't un- 
 derstand." " No, no," says he, " we don't believe a thing 
 we can't understand ; we go by reason, sir, and we don't 
 believe things that are beyond our comprehension " " Do 
 you believe that you see ?" *' Why, what a question that 
 is ! (Laughter.) Do I believe that I see ? Why sir, I 
 
know that I see." Will you be kind enough, my dear Pro- 
 testant friend, to explain me your sight V How do you un- 
 derstand when you address a congregation of two or 
 three or four or five thousand people, that sill of those 
 people are presented on the little ball ol' 
 
 Your Eye, 
 
 with their shape, with their form, with their members, 
 with their colors, and so on — it is all upon the little ball 
 Ol your eye, and this material picture brings to my soul, 
 which is a spiritual thing, a thing that cannot be seen, a 
 thing that cannot be touched or felt, — brings to my soul 
 thoughts, ideas, conceptions of size, ol members, of color 
 and so on — can you explain to me how this material pic- 
 ture can make on my soul, which is a spiritual thing, these 
 impressions, and give these thoughts and ideas ? There 
 is a mystery. Do you understand it ? No, the greatest 
 philosopher or occulist that has been in the world has not 
 been able to explain the operation of the eye. 
 
 You don't believe things that you don't understand, 
 my dear Protestant friend ? " No I don't." Then do 
 you believe that you hear ? " Why, sir, I know I hear." 
 And will you be kind enough to explain to me your hear- 
 ing: — how do you understand* tha' the little air that 
 comes from the lungs, the vi})ration of that air brings to 
 my ear a sound, and that sound brings to my ear 
 thoughts, your conceptions ? Here is '.■',.,: 
 
 :'-'' V':':^ •. - .-/t'^ A Mystery. ■■^''■> ..'■•- 
 
 You don't believe in mystery ! Do you believe that here 
 is a mystery — your hearing and your sight is a 
 mystery — which you cannot explain ^. Do you be- 
 lieve that 1 move my Iiand ? " Why", says my Protestant 
 friend, " and don't every one see that ?" How do you 
 know I move my hand ? " Why, you said by your will." 
 And what is my will ? My will is a spiritual thing, a 
 thing that cannot be felt or touched or seen, and yet by 
 that single act of my will, I set into motion my hands, my 
 feet, my eyes, my lips, my lungs, in a word, the whole oi 
 
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 man is set into motion and into action by this simple 
 act of the will, which is a thing that cannot be seen, or 
 felt or touched. Here is a mystery ! No man has ever 
 been able to explain ; how matter can act upon spirit, and 
 how spirit can act upon matter. That is a mystery. You 
 don't believe in mysteries ? And what is all 
 
 Nature but a Mystery. 
 
 All nature is a combination of mystery upon mystery. 
 How do you understand this simple fact ? I throw a seed 
 into the earth ; that seed decays, and from it there springs 
 up a mighty tree that towers into the very clouds of 
 heaven. Upon that tree is rich foliage, beautiful 
 flowers, beautiful color and shade. That flower decays, 
 and from it there comes a fruit — a delicious fruit ; and from 
 that fruit again thousand of other seeds. Can you un- 
 derstand it — can you explain it ? You know that it is so 
 — can you understand how that seed extracts out of the 
 earth all the material that forms the tree, that gives the 
 rich foliage, that shapes and forms the glorious flower, 
 and changes it into the delicious fruit, and that fruit again 
 into the thousands of seeds ? 
 
 Do jPOuUnderstanJl? 
 
 Yoa do not, you can't explain it, but you know that it is 
 so. You don't believe in mystery ; do you believe in light ? 
 " Why, of course," says my Protestant friend, "I believe in 
 light." Well, light is a mystery. Do you believe in dark- 
 ness? Darkness is a mystery. Do you believe in 
 air? Air is a mystery. Do you believe in wind? 
 Wind is a mystery. Where does it originate ? Where 
 does it go to ? All of these are mysteries — the whole 
 world, my dear people, the whole universe, is, full of 
 mysteries upon mysteries. This very globe, the earth, 
 on which we live, we all know, is suspended in the air ; 
 it does not rest on anything at all ; it is constantly turn- 
 ing around, but what it is that moves us ? You will say 
 it is the centre of gravity and so on What is the Centre 
 of G-ravity ? A mystery ! So is Electricity a mystery ; 
 
 
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 and so is most everything in the world likewise. >ay not 
 then : I don't believe in mysteries ; for surely you must 
 be a very ignorant man if you dare to assert that. The 
 wisest of men, _ - v 
 
 St. Augustine and St. Thomas Equinas. 
 
 and the greatest men that have ever lived, have freely 
 acknowledged that there were thousands of things in 
 nature which they could not understand. From the very 
 fact that man's nature is limited, is circumscribed, and 
 that G-od's mind or intellect is infinite, it follows that 
 there must be mysteries to the mind of man. For^ in the 
 mind of God there are thousands and thousands of truths 
 that limited, that narrow, that circumscribed mind of 
 man cannot fathom, cannot understand. You can't put 
 all of Brooklyn in a church. Why not ? Because either 
 Brooklyn is too big -or the church is too small. So, in 
 like manner, all truths that are in the mind of God can- 
 not be comprehended by the little mind of man, Now, 
 those truths which the little mind of man cannot fathom, 
 cannot understand, thene are truths above the comprehen- 
 sion of man, yet to the mind of God they are very clear 
 and very plain. But, is it reasonable to believe in a 
 thing which we do not understand, which we do not 
 comprehend, which we cannot fathom ? It is reasonable 
 when we believe it on 
 
 The authority of Infinite Wisdom 
 
 and Infinite Veracity. Now, God is infinite wisdom and 
 cannot be deceived, and he is infinite veracity and can- 
 not deceive. Therefore, to believe what God teaches is 
 reasonable. Reason tells us that finite intellect should 
 be submissive to infinite intellect and infinite veracity. 
 In other words ii is reasonable to believe whatever God 
 teaches. Where is the man that will call this principle 
 into question ? Where is the man — I care not whether 
 he denies all religion and believes in no God, or whether 
 he is a Christian of any denomination — I am sure there 
 is not a Protestant listening to me but will say it is rea- 
 
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 sonable that man should believe what G-od teaches. 
 Now, then, waeu there is a q'Aestion of belief, a truth 
 which we don't understand, we must examine, and if 
 Grod has said it, my reason tells me 1 must believe him, 
 for God is infinite wisdom, and cannot be deceived, and 
 is infinite veracity and cannot deceive. Now, with regard 
 to the doctrine on which I am speaking to-night, name- 
 ly, that in the Communion we take the 
 
 Rsal Body and Blood 
 
 of Jesus Christ — has G-od said it ? He has, my dear peo- 
 ple. .Christ says : " and the bread that I will give to you 
 is mv flesh, for the life oi the world." And the Jews 
 murmured at this : '• You must eat His flesh and drink 
 His blood" — the Jews murmured among themselves and 
 said, " How can this mn'i give us his flesh to eat ?" The 
 Jews said precisely what a Protestant says — "How can 
 that be the ilesh ot Jesus Christ V" ''How can this man," 
 said the Jews, " give us his ilesh to eat V" The Jews un- 
 derstood our divine t^aviour in the literal sense of the 
 word that they must eat His liesh and diink His blood. 
 Now, if Christ was not to bo understood in this manner 
 surely He could have said to the Jews : " You don't un- 
 derstand me ; that is not my meaning that you should 
 really eai my flesh and drink my blood : lor I only meant 
 "that you were to take a bit of bread and a sup of wine in 
 in remembrance of me.'' " Ah," said the bold Jews, 
 that is an easy job to take a bit of bread and a drink of 
 wine ; we all comprehend that." But the blessed 
 Saviour said : " '.Except ye eat the Jlesh of the Son of man, 
 and drink His blood, ye shall not have life in you.'' 
 Christ threatens them m ith eternal damnation, to be de- 
 prived of eternal life, if they will not believe and do 
 what He says. " Except ye eat 
 
 The Flesh of the Son of Man 
 
 and drink his blood, yo shall not have life in you." And 
 ajj'ain to encouraii'e them to believe what he wishes, and 
 to receive what He offers to them, He says : " He that 
 
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 eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting 
 life." He promises them eternal life if they will believe, 
 and if they will oat his li sh and drink his blood. "And 
 I will raise him up upon the last day," says Jesus. "My 
 flesh is meat indeed, and my blood i« drink indeed." 
 Christ foresaw this, that in 160) years Protestantism 
 would come into the world, would deny his doctrines, 
 and would say it was only bread and wine taken in re- 
 membrance of Him,— bread and wine taken as a figure of 
 Him. Christ foresaw this, and, therefore, in anticipation. 
 He refuted their error, saying : " My flesh is meat indeed 
 (in truth and reality), and my blood is drink indeed," (in 
 truth and reality) ; as if he had said : " After 1500 years 
 
 New Religions will come into the World, 
 
 and they will tell you that my flesh is not meat indeed, 
 and that my blood is not drink indeed — only in figure." 
 " No," says Christ, " but my flesh is meat indeed, and my 
 blood is drink indeed, in truth and reality." "He that 
 eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood a})ideth in me 
 and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I 
 live by the Father, so he that eateth the same aiso shall 
 live by me." Now, then, my dear people, when we wish 
 to derive Catholic doctrine from the Bible, what must we 
 do ? Eead the Bible, and take it as it reads. Add 
 nothing to it, take nothing from it, then you have the 
 Catholic docirme. Christ says : " It is my flesh, it is my 
 blood." The Catholic says : " My Lord and my God, 1 
 believe it .'" Theri^ is the simple faith of the Catholic — 
 " I believe, my Lord and my God, upon thy word." To 
 
 derive 
 
 Protestant Doctrine 
 
 from the Bible, you must change that Bible ; you must 
 add to it or take away from it. Christ says : — " The 
 bread I will give to you is my flesh." In order to meet 
 the Protestant doctrine, you must say " the bread I will 
 give to you is not my flesh :" just the contrary of what 
 Jesus Christ says. Again, Jesus Christ declares ; " My 
 flesh is meat indeed, and mv blood is drink indeed ;" and 
 
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 the Protestant says ; " My Lord, allow me to diflfer with 
 you. You say that it is your flesh, indeed. No, lord, 
 you are mistaken ; it is bread, indeed. " And my blood 
 IS drink, indeed," says Christ." " Not so," says the Pro- 
 testant, "allow me to differ with you — not blood, only 
 wine." You see, my dear Protestant friends, you are in 
 possession of the Bible, but you don't believe the Bibla, 
 for if you did believe it you would believe in this doc- 
 trine of the Catholic Church; rejecting this doctrine, 
 you reject the Bible. Say no more : " The Bible is my 
 guide, the Bible is my teacher," for you stand in direct 
 opposition to G-od's holy book, the Bible. " This is the 
 bread that came down from heaven, not as your fathers 
 did eat manna and are dead; this bread shall live for- 
 ever." These things he said, teaching in the synagogue. 
 Many, therefore, of his disciples, hearing it, said : '• This 
 saying is hard ; who can. hear it." Some of the disciples 
 said : " This is a hard doctrine and who can believe it ?" 
 Now, my dear people, remember that the disciples were 
 chosen by our Lord to be the teachers of all the world. 
 They were afterwards to go and teach all nations. If, 
 therefore, the disciples did not understand .m corractly, 
 then Christ was bound to explain Himse. . to them. If 
 He left them in error, then He has caused the whole 
 world to fall into an error by the teaching of the dis- 
 ciples. Now, you see from the text that the disciples 
 understood Him in the literal sense of the word, that 
 they were really to eat His flesh and to drink His blood, 
 and therefore they said : '* This is a hard saying, this is a 
 hard truth, and who can believe it ?" Now, if 
 
 The Disciples 
 
 had understood Him as our Protestant friends under- 
 stand Him, that they were merely to take a piece of 
 bread ar '^ ">. glass of wine, why, the disciples would never 
 have SI . his is a hard thing and who can do it ? They 
 
 would iiave said, on the contrary : Is not that a very nice 
 and easy thing, that we are going to get a piece of bread 
 after a long journey and after our fatigue, when we are 
 
in the literal sense of the word ; they were really to eat 
 His flesh and to drink His blood. TV hen Jesus saw that 
 His disciples understood Him in this way, did He recall 
 it, did He contradict it, did he set them right ? No, my 
 dear people, but he insisted upon it more and more, that 
 it is His flesh, that it is His blood, and He rebuked them, 
 for Jesus knowing in himself that His disciples mur- 
 mured at this, said unto them : " Doth this scandalize 
 you ?" As ii ho had said : Do you think this is beyond 
 my power ? You have seen me give sight to the blind, 
 ' and hearing to the deaf, and speech to the dumb, causing 
 the lame to walk, and raising the dead to life, Tou know 
 that I can do all those things. Cannot I also give to you 
 my flesh to eat and my blood to drink ? If then, says 
 Christ, you shall see the Son of God ascend up where he 
 was before, what, then, when you shall have seen me die 
 upon the cross, and be buried in the bowels of the earth, 
 when by my own power I shall raise myself again from 
 the dead and shall ascend up where I was before ? If 1 
 can do all these things, why can I nv'>t also give you my 
 flesh to eat and my blood to drink ? And you see how 
 reasonable all this is, my dear Protestant friends. You 
 believe, as 
 
 Every Christian believes, 
 
 that God has created Adam of the dust of the earth, 
 and that God took a bone out of Adam's side and 
 turned it into a woman. Now, if God can change the 
 dust of the earth into a living man, why can he not also 
 change bread and wine into His body and into His blood ? 
 Is not God all powerful ; Is not He Almighty ? And what 
 means that word *' all powerful " or that word " almighty ?" 
 Is there anything which He cannot do ? How will you 
 circumscribe the power of God ? " It is the spirit that 
 quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing." The words that 
 
 / 
 
1 have spoken unto you are spirit and life ; they are reali- 
 ties. It is the Hpirit of the divine faith that quickeneth ; 
 the flesh profiteth nothing-, Christ condemned his dis- 
 ciples because they were carnal men, because they mea- 
 sured the power of God by the arm of the flesh. The 
 words that I have spoken unto you, says Christ, are 
 spirit and life ; they are realities, not dead figures, and 
 not dead remembrances. There are some among you, 
 says Christ, that do not believe ; for Jesus knew from the 
 beginning who they were that did not believe, and who 
 he was that would betray Him. And he said : " There- 
 fore do I say unto you that no man can come into me 
 unless it were given unto him by the Father." 
 
 Divine Faith, ^ 
 
 my dear people, is a gift of Grod ; you must beg earn- 
 estly of God for that divine faith. After this, many of 
 His disciples went back and walked no more with him. 
 Then Jesus said unto the twelve : " Will you also go away, 
 will you also leave me, because I teach a doctrine you 
 don't understand ?" And >Jimon Peter, the head of the 
 Apostles and the first Pope of the Church of God, 
 answered him : " Lord, to whom shall we go ?" As if he 
 had said: If we cannot take Thy words whose word 
 shall we take ? '' Lord, to whom shall we go ?" Thou 
 hast the words of eternal life, said Peter, and we have 
 believed them, for we have known that Thou art Christ, 
 the Son of the Living God, and therefore Thou cans't not 
 deceive nor be deceived. And so says every Catholic : 
 We believe it, Lord, because Thou hast said it. Thou 
 ar^ the eternal Truth and eternal "Wisdom. Thou cans't 
 not deceive nor be deceived. Thvirefore, says every 
 Catholic : " 1 believe it because Jesu.s Christ, the Son of 
 the Living God, has said it." And is not that reasonable, 
 my Tear Christian friends, that we should believe what 
 God says ? ^ut did the Apostles really believe that it 
 was the body a.id blood of Jesus Christ that they received 
 in the Holy Communion ( They did ; and the Bible is 
 before everything else, the Bible is my authority. I will 
 
i*ef«»r you now to the epistle of St. Paul to the Corin- 
 thians, the 10th chapter. There wo see that St. Paul 
 exhorts the Christians to lead holy lives, because they 
 were daily permitted to receive the body and blood of 
 Jesus Christ. " Therefore, my dearly beloved," said St. 
 Paul, "fly from the service of idols, I speak as unto 
 wise men ; judgr you yourselves what I say." Now — 
 says St. Paul — 1 leave it to your own judgment ; you are 
 wise men; you ar • reasonable men; I leave it to your 
 o vn judgment whether it is not right and reasonable 
 that you should liy from the service of idols, and from 
 everything that is sinful, because 
 
 The Chalice of Benediction 
 
 which we bless — is not it the communion of the blood of 
 Christ, and the bread which we break, is not it the par- 
 taking of the body of the Lord ? You see, St. Paul takes 
 it for granted that they all believe that it is the body and 
 ^'lood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, they should lead good, 
 holy Christian lives. And in the 11th Chapter, St. Paul 
 says : For 1 have received of the Lord, which I have also 
 delivered unto you. The Lord Jesus, on the same night 
 in which He was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, 
 He broke and said : " Take ye and eat ; for this is my 
 body which shall be delivered for you. Do this in com- 
 memoration of me ' '• Ah !" says my Protestant friend, 
 '• that is the thing, sir, that settles all. That is the end of 
 all now. " Do this in remembrance ot me ; do this in 
 commemoration of mo." Do what ? •' Take and eat," says 
 Jesus : " This is my body. Take and drink, this is my 
 blood — and do this eating of my body and this drinking 
 of my blood in remembrance of me. You see what 
 sophists the relormers were ; how they have blindfolded 
 the people. Christ did not say : Eat bread and drink 
 wine and remember me; but he said: Take and eat; 
 this is m -^ body. Take and drink : this is my blood, and 
 do this eating of my body and this drinking of my blood 
 'u e, e.nbrance of me. Realbj eating my flesh, really 
 drinking mij bhn.'d, remember me Remember all that 
 
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 have done for you, all that I have suffered for you, 
 remember mv life and my death upon the cross. And 
 this is precisely the explanation St. Paul the Apostle 
 gives you. Martin Luther knew this to be the true 
 meaning of the text, and hence he said : I wish, to spite 
 the Pope, that 1 could deny the real presence of Jesus 
 Christ in the Sacrament. 1 wish that I could deny it, to 
 spite the Pope ; but, says he, again, when denying it, the 
 Bible stares me in the face, and I stand condemned. 
 
 . . Martin Luther , 
 
 acknowledged that the doctrine of the Catholic Church, 
 that it is the real body and blood of Jesus Christ, is so 
 plainly shown in the Scriptures that he dare not deny it ; 
 for he has said : Let us take the Bible for our guide. 
 Now do that, my dear Protestant friends, do take the 
 Bible for your guide, for your teacher. And if you do 
 take the Bible for your guide and teacher, you will be a 
 Catholic. You can never be anything else but a Catholic, 
 for all of the doctrines of the Catholic Church are so 
 plainly, so explicitly, so clearly contained in G-od's Holy 
 book, that you can't believe in the Bible without believing 
 in the Catholic doctrines. But here is your misfortune. 
 When you read the Bible, you don't understand it. Your 
 intellect is clouded by prejudice and by early education ; 
 and prejudice and early education, my dear people, have 
 a very powerful influence over the mind, they blindfold 
 the intellect of the man, and he does not even see the 
 clearest and plainest truths that he reads. 
 
 In my own country, Holland, — lor you all know I 
 am a Dutchman (laughter) — in my own country, the 
 Catholics have been persecuted for some three hundred 
 years and longer, for Holland is ruled by the family of 
 Orange, and we all know what kind of things they are — 
 the Orangemen. (Laughter.) For three hundred years 
 the Catholic religion has suffered a fearful persecution, 
 just as the good Irish have been persecuted in their 
 country for three hundred years for their religion. In a 
 country like Holland, the pastors and parents take great 
 
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 care to instruct their children well, for fear they might 
 be led astry. On one occasion a little boy was coming 
 home from church, and 
 
 The Dominie, 
 
 that is the name given to the Protestant preachers there 
 — met him. " My dear little fellow," says the preacher, 
 " where have you come from ?" *' I come from Church, 
 sir," *' And what have you been doing in church ?" 
 •' I have received my first communion. Dominie." *' Your 
 first communion ! and what is that, my child ?" •' That 
 is receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ," 
 says the boy. " "Why," says the Dominie, " my child, 
 that is a very solemn thing, to receive the body and blood 
 of Jesus Christ." " Yes, sir," says the boy, " that is what 
 our pastor has been telling us for the last three months. 
 We have been going to him every day to be prepared for 
 .the first communion, and on every day our pastor tells 
 us we shall have to be very good boys and very good 
 girls, indeed, because it is a very solemn thing to receive 
 the body and blood of Jesus Christ." " And how many 
 of you little boys were there ?" says the preacher. " We 
 were sixty boys and sixty girls," was the answer. 
 " Why," says the Dominie, " that is one hundred and 
 twenty ; and did all of you receive the body and blood 
 of Jesus Christ ?" " We did," replied the boy. " And 
 how many Jesus Christs are there ?" asked the preacher, 
 " One," says the boy, 
 
 '• Well, then, my child," says he, " don't you see that 
 this is impossible ? How could all of you receive the 
 body and blood of Jesus Christ ?" 
 
 " Please, sir," says the boy, " what is Pentecost ?" » 
 " Pentecost," says the preacher, •' is the great and so- 
 lemn day when the Holy Ghost came down upon the 
 apostles, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." 
 " And how many apostles were there ?" asked the boy, 
 " There were," said the preacher, " eleven apostles. 
 Judas had gone off to hell. There were eleven apostles 
 and one hundred and nine disciples. 
 2 
 
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 " Why," says the boy, " that is one hundred and 
 twenty, aint it?" 
 
 " Yes," answered the preacher. 
 
 '• And did all of them receive the Holy Ghost ?" says 
 the boy. 
 
 " That's a fact," replied he. '« The Bible tells us that 
 they were all filled with the Holy G-host." 
 
 •' And how many Holy Ghosts are there ?" asked the 
 boy. (Great laughter). .. 
 
 "Go," says the preacher, "Go, you impudent little 
 fellow. Do you mean to teach me ?" 
 
 " No," says the boy, " I was only asking you a question 
 or two." (Kenewed laughter.) 
 
 Here, you see, my dear people, that the preacher had 
 no difficulty at all in believing that all of the one hun- 
 dred and twenty apostles and disciples had received and 
 were filled with the Holy Ghost, and yet there was but 
 one Holy Ghost. But he could not believe, for the. life of 
 him, that all the communicants had received the body 
 and blood of Jesus Christ, Yet, to any one that believes 
 the Bible, the one instance is as clear as the other.' It 
 was prejudice, early education, that blindfolded the 
 heart and the intellect of that preacher ; and that is the 
 case with men of the Protestant faith. 
 
 And ''.gain St. Paul says : " For as often as ye shall eat 
 this bread and drink this chalice, ye shall show the death 
 of the Lord until he cometh." Thus St. Paul explains 
 these words: "Do this in remembrance of me," as a duty 
 whenever you receive the Holy Communion, that you 
 shall remember the death and the sufferings of Jesus 
 Christ. Therefore, whoever shall eat this bread and 
 drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty 
 of the body and blood of the Lord. "If ye drink it or 
 eat unworthily," says St. Paul, " you shall be guilty of a 
 -.1. I... ■., . /.' ; ■u.-i • ... - < ■ I' - 11 i 
 
 '• Froflanation ' .•..,. 
 
 of the body and blood of Jesus Christ." But how can I 
 profane the body and blood of Jesus Christ if it is not 
 there at all ? Therefore, the body and blood of Jesus 
 
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 Christ is there. " But," says St. Paul, " let a man prove 
 himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this 
 chalice, for whoever eateth and drinketh unworthily, 
 eateth and drinketh judgment, that is damnation to him- 
 self, not discerning the body of the Lord." Ye eat and 
 drink (says St. Paul) judgment and damnation on your- 
 selves, because you do not discern with the eyes of faith 
 the body and blood of Jesus Christ. How can you see 
 the body and blood of Jeeus Christ, even with the eyes 
 of faith, if the body and blood be not there ? There- 
 fore the body and blood of Jesus Christ is there. 
 
 I will call your attention only to three more texts, 
 namely, these recorded in St. Matthew, the 26th, 27th, 
 and 28th verses : • 
 
 " And while they were at supper (says the Bible) Jesus 
 took bread, blessed, and broke 11, and gave it to His dis- 
 ciples, and said : Take and eat this — what I have in my 
 hand — take and eat it (says Christ) ; this is my body ; 
 take and drink it ; this is my blood." Did Christ speak 
 the truth at that time ? Why, of course, Christ always 
 spoke the truth. He never spoke anything else but * 
 
 The Truth. 
 
 Now, then, my dear Protestant friends, do you believe 
 in Jesus ? " Why," answers the Protestant, " Of course, 
 I believe." Do you believe what He says — take and eat : 
 this is my body —take and drink : this is my blood ? Do 
 you believe what Jesus says ? " No," says the Protest- 
 ant, " I don't." Well then, if you don't believe in Jesus 
 Christ, then you are not a Christian, lor a Christian 
 believes in Jesus Christ and in the Bible. If you do not 
 believe what he says, then you are no Christian. Would 
 you give the lie to Jesus ? Christ says : •' Take and eat: 
 this is my body." If you say it is not the body of Christ, 
 then you make Jesus Christ a liar. What a blasphemer 
 you are ? What a horrible blasphemy it is to call the 
 Son of Q-od a liar ? And that is, my Protestant friends, 
 exactly what you do when you say it is not the body and 
 blood of Jesus Christ. Christ asserts it so positively. 
 
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 He said it on the night before he died. He said it to His 
 disciples for the last time in the supper chamber : " This 
 is my body ; take and eat. This is my blood ; take and 
 drinx. It is that very same identi. al blood which shall 
 be shed for many for the remission of sins." 
 
 You see very clearly then it is the body and blood of 
 Jesus Christ ; and do not, my dearly beloved separated 
 brethren, in the name of Q-od, do not be opposed to the 
 Bible, and don't give the lie to Jesus Christ. Believe in 
 Jesus, 
 
 Believe in the Bible ; ., 
 
 and if you do, you believe in the Catholic Church. 
 
 Do now, all of you, my dear Protestant friends, when 
 you go home to-night, or to-morrow or next Sunday, take 
 your own Protestant Bible and kneel down and say some 
 piayers, that G-od may enlighten you, and then read the 
 texts that I have read to you to-night. Bead the Gospel 
 of St. John, the 6th chapter, commencing at the 46th 
 verse. Reaid it attentively. Then read St. Paul's Epistle 
 to the Corinthians, the 10th and 11th chapters. Then 
 read St. Matthew, the 26th chapter, and 26th, the 27th 
 and the 28th verses. But before you read, pray fervently 
 to God, that G-od may enlighten you, that he may make 
 you see the truth, and if you do the light of the Gospel 
 will flash upon your mind, you will see the truth of God, 
 and you will see that you have been going astray all the 
 days of your life, thus far. Do this and pray fervently 
 to G-od, and Q-od will enlighten you, for he that seeks 
 the truth in all sincerity frees his mind from all preju- 
 dice, and prays fervently to G-od for the truth, G-od v ill 
 give it to him. He will drink of that truth, and it will 
 ■ave him and introduce him into the glory and the joy 
 of Heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ?■