Sermons and Discourses.

SERMONS AND DISCOURSES

PY THE LATE

MOST REV. JOHN MAC HALE, D.D.

ARCHBISHOP OF TUAN

EDITED BY

THOMAS MAC HALE, D.D., Ph.D.

DUBLIN
M. H. GILL & SON, 50 UPPER SACKVILLE STREET

1883

PRE FACE.

The volume now published contains select Sermons and Discourses delivered by the late Most Rev. John Mac Hale, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, while Professor in the College of Maynooth, and during the course of a long apostolic career in the Church of Ireland. These Sermons and Discourses are arranged in the following order:

I. Great truths of religion.
II. Detached moral subjects.
III. Festivals.
IV. Subjects for special occasions.
V. Discourses in the College of Maynooth.

In the four sermons, viz., iv., vi., xviii., xix., in this collection, preached in Rome, in the church of Gesù e Maria, in the Corso, during the winter of 1831-1832, and translated into Italian by the