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Sermons and Addresses of His Eminence William Cardinal O'connell, Archbishop of Boston (2)
Sermons and Addresses of His Eminence William Cardinal O'connell Archbishop of Boston - 2 Author:William O'Connell Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Pilot Subjects: Sermons, American Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PRAYER Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. -- Matthew vii, 7. God is infinite. There is no place, no spot, no space, where the unlimited, all-pervading eternal Deity does not exist. When the firmament is radiant with the fervid glare of the noon-day sun, look up to it and say, God is there. When the night appears and the soft rays of the moon and the flickering rays of countless stars send their mellow brightness upon the sleeping world, fix your eyes upon those distant spheres and let your soul speak and say, God is there. Spread out before you the map of the world; place your finger upon the dreary, lonesome wilderness, where never has trod the foot of man; or point to the remotest parts of the barren desert where human life is impossible; or let it rest upon the place which marks that part of the vast changeful ocean where no ship or bark of man's invention has ever sailed, and then whisper to yourself the indubitable certainty, there God is, there the Infinite exists. When you have searched for the most remote and distant portions of the universe and recognize that He who created them still preserves them by His presence ; when mind and soul and thought have traveled leagues immeasurable, come back again and let your consideration centre upon yourself. Look in upon your soul, gaze down into the most secret depths of your own consciousness, reveal to yourself what you alo...« less