The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-05-15

b 1nat ne may not escape in the wholesa
u massacre Of bis infant contemporaries
Living under scorching sun, in an ur
grateful land, among people enslave
and demoralized, he worked at laboriou
trade, bore the burden and heat of the da1
, and remained always poor. In the famil
circle he obeys the simplest and PLANES
people; in religious society he obeys tn
imperfect aw which he came to divinize; h
obeys the false teachers he was to sinner
cede; he obeys the usurpers of his nation
r'sn.s-ooeys even Tiberius, of all usurp
ers the most odious and contemplate.
His exterior reflected the beautiful sad.
ness of his soul. History does not record
that he ever laughed it narrates distinctly
MS shedding tears. He wept for his friend
Lazarus; he wept over the fearful doom
| reserved for his beloved Jerusalem.
While all other legislators or rulers of
nations present themselves in the dazzling
array of pomp and vociferous magnificeuce.
the meek Gallilean proceeds to his pacific
conquests, with no retinue but poverty, no
circumstance but humility and silence. He
Is noid only when he asserts the mission
assigned him by his Father. Then he. who
spares the shattered reed, and will not
quench the smoking flax-who never "a.
pies to his own calumniators, denounces
with q voice of thunder those who d;s.
parage his ministry, and indignantly expels
rom the temple those who would convert
it into shop. With patience calm and
silent as the flow of the eternal vears ba |
submits to all the austerities, hardshins
and v1cissitudes of nature. His disc;nles
'ften speak of his labors, his fatigues. his
''giis' his prayings, his uninterrupted hui
of his rest For him the
low hours of the night glided by in PRAYER.
ND In the daytime, to pray more freely, he
vas wont to withdraw into some seoues-
cred nook. All the while, however. he
'as waylaid by temptation; he practised
usterlties the most rigorous; he did all
10 Penance sinners ought to do, yet he
led' a. he had ived-a virgin and imma- 1
llate. c
but 1t IS not in himself alone that we Il
ast contemplate this divine character. p
20 must view him in his dealings with
en- lie passed among them doing good :
oesousht the mercy of heaven in their II
'half; he used to sit down To table With IL
en- make himself one of them, bring n
ath nome to them; before they committed n
auic lie used to advise them; after thew IL
"mleted 1t, he was patient with them : u
spite OF their most stupid and disgrace al
feiapses, If they were but sorry, he was II
'rcl1ui to them. In the whole of his b;s. th
y there is not recorded a solitary rebnke 81
reprlmand to his disciples, but there is pl
consolation somewhere hidden in it. He Oh
erved all his severity for those bvpo. SD
ocaI doctors who never inculcated the ie'
OF charity on their disciples save to SIC
ure the monopoly of violating it with
punity for themselves. Alack, how many go
our day, who yet invoke his Name. con. In
nm pride in their neighbors, not for h;s ou
mole sake, but because it is trespass PIT
their Oon property! sue
lis very threats, even when most fer the
e, as when addressed to the learned res
loes, the self-righteous Pharisees, or the oes
Krupt Judas, were not unmitipated nv oa
'rtaln sweetness of intonstion and ges. chi
}, since they were invariably uttered in ops
euphemism of parable. With all &C
Is OF men he consorted freely, just as if enc
as matter of course. He had created Dol
ETY. in all the beauty and svmuo+,- - hea
'ierarchlc grades, yet society for him auo
aed to possess no distinctions he was peo
mar with all its varieties, with every mel
iltion in life, with every throb of pas. stee
and enthusiasm in the human beart leaI
'as all to all, because to all he present. min
lmself model. The Abderite looked L
man: here he is-Jesus Christ-Eccr tail
10. He shared the COMPANY and no. beg
the sumptuous fare of the rich : he prlz
equally at home in the society of the
AT seeing him walking up the road
Gallilee to Jerusalem alongside crew IF
llterate fishermen, one might have set loan
down as in his natural sphere still in mo-,
emple, among the doctors of the law. oon'
e the great high priest, even at the nan,
er age OF twelve, he stood unabashed. and
decided prediction was for child tb. ,
/; that happy period of life had for his to NJ
heart peculiar and sympathetic horn
ctlon; nor is this to be wondered at. tho 6
on childhood is based not only our I'll
for the future of earthly society, but that
ope of having any of our contempt sto.d
oclety at all in heaven. go
The article of last Sunday it was said &C.
ature yielded to his command hu+ =;