Sermon Preached in Church of Christ the King by Rev. Father Leo F. McGreal, si., m.a., Jan. 23
Tzxr:—The "Wealth" of the Catholic Mission mi Coes RS
Ts Kingdom of Christ is a spiritual kingdom; its purpose is supernatural The work is the work of God, but it is carried on through human agency. God redeemed the world through the instrumentality of the Sacred Humanity of Christ, and He continues the work of salvation through human instruments. fortunately, one of the material is money. means necessary for that work It is not my intention to-deal with the necessity of missionary labour.
Suffice it to say: God wills it.
He has given a direct command which cannot be ignored and which cannot be abrogated by any human power under the sun,—a command which will stand and be obeyed until the same God gives a command to the contrary.
Every Christian prays the prayer which Christ Himself taught, the Lord's Prayer, in which is said: Thy Kingdom come. It the Christian means what he says, he wills that the Kingdom of God be spread over the whole world. He who wills the end, wills the means necessary to that end. Every Christian, then, of good will and sincerity obligates himself to help in spreading the Kingdom of God on earth—obligates himself to render material assistance in carrying out the work of the missions.
Naturally, we are interested in our own mission, but we are catholic, and hence universal, and our interest is not limited to this one field of labour. But you will pardon me, I'm sure, if I take this Catholic Mission of Shanghai as an illustration of what we have termed "Missionary Wealth."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.