The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-15
The Word Made Flesh.
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D The Word Made Flesh.
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one OF the most humiliating cbaracte
lstlcs OF the age in which the Author
Ages has chosen 10 cast our lot ia its cravr
70 De gulied. Other ages have been guile,
but the deception was not of their ow
seeking; we are gulled because we war
70 % guiied, we pay to be gulled, we al
miserable If we miss being gulled. OF age
70 come as Is not our province to speak fur
ther than that, Whist was once true "a,
never turn out, even in the most advances
OF them, to be false; but of the age W
I'VE in-of this nineteenth century of oun
we can affirm that it surpasses all it's pre
oecessors In the pains it takes To be do.
ceiVed' ana that in these pains it takes 8
pleasure, which overspreads the too.ra,
str1cted bounds of ordinary luxury. and
rises to the magnitude of voluptuonsneas
we deny the existence of the light in which
we see, and we look for light in darkness.
II shallow fellow like Renan chooses to
style history q myth, he reaps a fortune
rom our credulity, (the more expressive
term g"llibility, is not English); the apos-
tate author of Ecce Homo made more mona,
by his Rasselas-like lucubration than hi.
equally unargomentative critic, the classic
sandstone, who tried to, but did not.
refute him. La Bible aur hides, or "The
Bible in India," will likewise have its dav
'f popularity and profit; any writer will
succeed in this nineteenth century if he lint
throw morality overheard. We have not
ret read La Bible aur indies, but we are as
amlliar beforehand with the sources from
7hich Its inspiration has emanated as its
lnwlsely learned author. He and all "a.
ionailsts of his class would have ma lool, |
through the starless night of prehistoric
lines for the divinity made manifest in an |
&c more truthfully historical and critical
nan our own; they pretend that the solu-
on OF the mighty problem of our exist
nee Is more likely to be found in the Epic
waimlkl and the Zend-Auesta, than in
ie Gospel; in the Trimurti than in the
rinlty in the Parsee Ormuzd and Abri.
an, and the Hindoo Avatars, than in the
'carnation, with its indispu.able effects
pom mankind; they prefer darkness to
sh6' and would blind US with the mists
1aoie' while our vision is enraptured ,
the splendid evidences of history.
IN an age OF criticism probably unparal- t
led IN the annals of our race. occurred 9
9 event which is the only imaginable solu- i
IN OF the enigma of human history. God S
sumed human flesh, became one of as. i
'ed IKE as, d'oelt among as 4; and during 9
brief soJourn, left us the model of more f
YES and charities, of more humiliations c
q sufieriBgs than mind of man can ever a
ncelve or heart Of man ever experience. b
g say that he was God, for never before g
since was there such man, He was f.
ong, yet he chose to appear weak Il
orea hy ell, he preferred TO be hated t,
dependent, and above want, he ignored W
ne OF the wants of the humanity he NJ
ne TO share. With victory in his very fr
nd, he still fought his way through life :: ot
was God, yet he condescended to be hi
70. Three-and-t thirty years he walked til
IN us in the flesh, and from his birth to h,
death there is not n truth but he pro- tie
med, not an error but he condemned:
virtue can be named which he did not ho
re easy by his example, nor fault to vi
ch human nature is prone for which he Mt
not find an excuse, at the same time sir
he was absolutely faultless himself bo
hagoras, Scion, Lycurgns, Numa-all on
ely human legislators and reformers- ia,
but heard, or heard of; Jesus Christ is
!, is felt, is touched, is believed, and ths
d, and lived. He is the only key to tina
an history; the living standard of the DOS
Is of all ages. IL
visible, SO tangible, SO fully demon dis
ed, is the magnificent life of the Son con
cd, that for eighteen centuries no man do
s senses ever dreamed of questioning fror
That gigantic a5surdity the
reserved 1or the nineteenth. In it's wild
'nce lnhaellty itself would fain her
down and pray, and its most tect
tent evangelist. J. Rousseau--eyen In +
lined that "whoso coul@ invent the not
Of Jesus would be greater than his com
Even the corrupt judges who con- Gene
ed him, signed the sentence of their
condemnation instead, by those fate
'ords, the terrible meaning of which A
tter age goes on unfolding-upon us wini
pom our children be hes blood! title
was born where never poverty itself .etit.
to seek an acvIuD, onJ L.. NJ