Pentecost Sunday.
The Holy Ghost.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : The difficulty of the subject.
I. What is the Holy Ghost? : i. " Holy Spirit." 2. Human mind. 3. Difference.
II. He is God : 1. From Scripture, a. Arian difficulty. 3. Three modes of production.
III. Objections: 1. How "sent"? 2. Words of Amos. 3. Wresting the Scriptures.
IV. Descent: 1. Special coming. 2. Necessity of gifts. 3. Knowledge, tongues, miracles, love.
Per.: 1. Special necessity 01 love, 2. Fortitude and patience. 3. Invocation.
SERMON.
"O the depths of the knowledge of God!" exclaims St. Paul in the presence of the mystery of the Trinity. " Who shall declare His generation? " asks Isaias, speaking of the birth of the Word from the Father. And, Brethren, not less incomprehensible, because not less divine, is our subject to-day, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son. It is one of these heavenly mysteries unfathomable even to the angelic intelligences, altogether above and beyond the range of human reason, and known to mortals only through faith in the revelations of God. May He who can give speech to the dumb and render eloquent the tongues of even little ones, may He empower me to treat as worthily as mortal may of His nature, of His glorious descent upon the Apostles, of the wondrous gifts with which He endowed them; and may He give you to