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RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUZI. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1904.

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Ministers' Corner fyftzdf A DAY OF FAITH. material world around us. If he be From Adam's sin to the first an earnest seeker for the truth, he Christmas day, the world's history simply asks, what are the proofs

was the wandering of the nations from God. Year after year the three great concupicenees, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," has been enticing men further and further from the divine way to walk in the way of human error and sin. It seemed while God counted his thousands, Satan counted his tens of thousands; that while Jehova was adored by the faithful few of a chosen race, the thousand cruel, lying, and impujre deities were every where in honor, The world was a rebel; humanity was an apostate; it had turned its back on God. What could win back the nations? What could overthrow Satan and the power of darkness? What could free men from their bitter slavery? What could take away the stony heart from the breast of sinful man and give him a heart of flesh? Men had changed the truth of God into a lie. What could win them from the worship of the creature, to the adoration of the one true God? St. John tells us in his sublime

liospei ot tne incarnation: "(joti so.esus 11 tie naa claimed no more

loved the world as to give his only begotten Son. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us." God knew that in every man there m A . aj was a longing tor the divine a reaching out after the infinite, which refused to be satisfied with any thing less than God. Some unbelievers have denied the divinity of Jesus on the ground that this earth of ours was too insignificant to be the dwelling place of the most high God. But the things of the spirit are not to be weighed in the balance of the physical universe. The crea tor of all things, whom "the heaven of heavens can not contain," is surely not called upon to choose for his dwelling place the largest planet. On the same principle, Our Savior should have come with all the glory of His Heavenly Father, a mighty King bavin?- "dominion from sea to sea unto the ends of the earth." To confound the wise ones of this world, its God came into it this blessed day, poor and unknown in the rude stable-cave of Bethlehem. Only the humble shepherds heard the angelic song, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will "-only the humble handmaid of the Lord and her carpenter spouse knew their God behind the veil of his helpless babyhood. Could this be the King before whom Rome's mighty power would wither away, as the leaves are parched by the redhot sun? Could this be the great Messiah and the Ruler of Israel whom the proud ones of Israel looked forward to expectantly? Christmas is a day of faith, proclaiming to the world of unbelief the great dogma of Christ's divinity; a day of faith, warning us thai the divine often times lies hidden behind the veil of the weakly human; A day of faith, bidding us tell others' the glory and the beauty of the Jesus whom we know and love. Many men in our day fight shy of mystery in religion. As they put it, they will believe only what they un derstand; they will accept only what they can verify and test for themselves. Suppose, for a moment, that you could make every dogma of Christianity as clear as the noon-day sun, suppose that you could adequately explain the Blessed Trinity or the Incarnation, why instantly they would retort that these dogmas were man-made. If totally in the corapas of the human, why look for a God to reveal them? Grant, on the other hand, that the Infinite God has spoken to his people, does it not follow inevitably that their finite minds will be unable to grasp the full purport of His message, or sound the depths of His will embracing Wisdom? It is, indeed, a great mystery that God, all-happy in Himlf, should have deigned to create us at all; it is indeed a sublimer mystery that He should so dignify our human nature as to make it his very own. The birth of Jesus Christ bridged over tlie abyss that separated man from God. A new era had begun for humanity. The Word of God, from all eternity consubstantial with the Father, was made man in "time, of the substance of His Mother, the Virgin Mary. A human body and a human soul were united forever to the Divinity, and through this hu man nature Jesus is ever to make intercession for us to the "one mediator between God and man." That Jesus is God is a mystery we cannot accept, says the unbelieving world. How can a man be God? The real thinker does not ask How can such a thing come to pass, for he realizes how powerless we are to explain the simplest phenomena of the

that Christians offer for so stupen

dous a fact? Is their witness true? The simplest argument for the di vinity of Christ rests on the fact that He whom the world reverences as the most perfect of men claimed all the powers and prerogatives of the Most High God. He told the Jews, a monotheistic people, that he was equal to the Father, whom they adored as Jehovah, the one true God in absolute oneness of essence, in working power, in eternal being, in the right to the worship of men: "I and the Father are one. My Father worketh until now, and I work. Before Abraham was made, I am. That all may honor the Son as they honor the Father." It is unfair to say that Jesus' audience understood these claims, in a spiritual sense of the moral oneness of a perfectly good man with God. . This is to read into the words a sub- , jective theory born of a prejudice which refuses to see things as they are. The Jews would never have been so angry as to have stoned than this. The' stoned Him rather, as they themselves declare, "because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God." Would not justice demand of Jesus a stern repudiation of their interpretation of His words, if He were merely man? Should He not have corrected their mistake, as He did on other occasions, when they mistook His teachings? He never did so. On the contrary, He declared Himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life of Humanity; not merely the universal teacher of the human race, but, as no man dared ever claim, its universal judge. Could any human being bid all other men to make himself the center of all "their thoughts and affections, as Jesus did? "If you love Me, keep My commandments. He that loveth father and mother more than Me, is not worthy of Me. Without Me you can do nothing." We feel confident that the denier of the Incarnation is not influenced so much by the arguments of intrin sic impossibility as by the fact of his evil life, which blurs his vision of the world of the unseen and of the spirit. "The sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the spirit of God, for it is" foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, be cause it is spiritually examined. That is what John the Beloved meant when he declared that, "if any man will do the will of Him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." As a general thing we come to be lieve Christ's doctrine not so much through the exercise of the logical faculty as through the act of the will, illuminated by the Grace of God, which firmly renounces sin by an act of intense sorrow. If a man goes down into the depths of his own life story, and realizes the need of pardon, he has instantlv started on the road to God. It is a short step from an act of sorrow to an act of Faith. Christmas day is a great revela tion of the manner in which God hides the Divine behind the veil of the human. Does it seem probable. Ask the worldv man, that the immaterial De ity should become intimately united to a material body? Does it seem likely that the infinite Creator should deign to unite to the God head that infinite humanity He Him self had fashioned? Does it seem reasonable that the Almighty should be born a helpless babe, subject to infirmity? "Yes," answers the Christian; "God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son." The apparent great things of the world are nothing to God. The good, humble mother of the crowded tenement is nobler in His sight than the proud, impure ruler of a mighty empire. The faithful Christian laborer in the city streets is a far higher type of humanity than the rich capitalist who gains his millions by the unscrupulous crushings out of his competitors and the unjust defrauding of his workmen. Just as the proud Pharisee or Roman procurator would have seen nothing remarkable in the birth of a Jewish child whose mother was denied entrance into the inn at Bethlehem, so toay the proud worldling fails to see the divinity of Christ's church beneath its frail and weakly human exterior. Men will often say to you, "Look at the temporal prosperity of the countries that have thrown off the shackles of Catholicism," as if material progress were the one great test of the nation's glory. They forget that this wealth is often due to

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mere natural conditions, and fre-(to rouse men from their indifference ouently, alas! has been cained bv'to the thimrs of the unsn world.

national robbery and individual in - justice. Others will reproach the

Catholic Church for being the home J from the Christ. When you kneel toof the poor and the outcast, forget-j day to pay your homage to your inting, Christians that they are, that fant Savior remember those who do

Jesus loved such souls with a sjecial love. It is one of the works of the Church's divinity that she is the chief refuge of those most despised by the world. Some again see only the bad lives of the popes, bishops, and priests in past times, or point out the scandalous lives of Catholics today, as if the goodly tree of Christ's planting were at fault, because of the rotten fruit lving on the ground beneath it. Let such men study rather the lives and works of the great Saints of God. Let them learn the Divine peace given to millions in the holy tribunal of Penance. Let them ponder over the Catholic unity of doc-: trine which witnesses every where. and always to the oneness of the Gos pel of God. Let them ask why the Catholic Chursh has weathered so many storms without the slightest fear of shipwreck. Let them turn aside from the human turmoil of ecclessiastical politics they so love to revel in to discover the divine, spir itual influence of one true parish priest. If earnest seekers for the truth, they must needs find it some day. The mother anxious about her sick child is the first to hear the doctor's step on the stairs; the mariner shipwrecked on the midnight sea, is the first to see the glimmerings of the dawn. So with a man on the alert for the divine. Hecries out in his weakness and humility to God for help, and lol some messenger from God comes, be it a book, a friend, a preacher of Christ's Gospel, and another incredulous Thomas has believed. Oh! you, who know and love Christ Jesus, remember on this His birthday the outsiders who know and love Him not. Pray that the sweetness and gentleness of the Christchild may sanctify our age and people. Ask Him that the spirit of war which now makes mighty armies clash in the far East may be changed to the peace of arbitration. Ask Him that the conflict between capital and labor may be done away with forever by Christian Justice and charity. Ask Him to open men's eyes to the evils of an irreligious education, which is ruining the children He loves so well. Ask Him to save our country from the divorce evil, which with race suicide is fast sapping the life-blood of our people. Ask Him

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