The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-22

lees People. Simple ana silsst ~ multi
sudes looked On and listeneA ;-js their
eyes, tho shadow Of tears ;-Jin their lAoss,
| wonder ;-in their misAs, the dawning 81
faith; ia their hearts, the throbbing Of lore;
! on their lips, the Nrst faint vhispsrs Of
worship. Through the staple multitudes
moved men with seowlisg brows. His Bit
tor foes, they hated Him and feared Him.
They were, there 70 break the spell Of this
power over the People. He WAS teaching.
The Light" was speaking to the Dark
ness." And every word that fell from tho
lips Of the Light was star. And HE
star.words sbone on the " Darkness" The
Seer was speaking TO the /" Blind" who saw,
not. And ont of the Seer's Heart doated
. very Heaven with vast, lofty, radiant
horisons Of Truth, and Love and Mercy
The Darkness dared to deny the "Light."
On the haggard brow Of Darkness" fell
the star-words, wrestling the crown Of
Faith but darkness would not wear it.
Over tho Blind" out Of His heart foated
the Heaven Of Truth the Blind would
not look up to SEQ it. They, His enemies,
the Darkness, !" the " Blind, !" moved among
the multitudes, casting the shadows of their
doubts on His words. They would not be-
lieve Him themselves nor have Him to be
believed by the simple People. They
argued against Him. They wished to and
flaw Of the False in the golden web Of the
True which He was weaving round the
world. They objected. He stopped, in
beautiful humility,-jast like Him,-down
swered them. His answers were suns that
dazed and dazzled them. They were wrath
full. He,-calm. They-arrogant; He,-
awfully humble. The "Light" grew in
tenser - the "Blind," - binder. The
Darkness could not dim nor destroy one
single ray of His "1ight." The ozark
mesa gnashed its teeth, in hideous fury.
against His starry words. They, floating
far above it, shone all the brighter. Thep,-
powerless against His power ;-bafaed in
argument by His triumphant
answers ;--humbled to the very dust by His
own glorious humility they, his enemies,
who could not reach high enough to touch
the Heaven Of Truth He unfolded above
them, stopped down, in rage, " to take up
stones to cast at Him."
His Light they could not darken His
Truth-they could not touch. And then IL
they turned in anger upon himself. And
He:-"He hid Himself"
Is it an old story f-Yes.-Only an old
story f-Yea,-something more.-Whatf-
A present Fact. Whyf
The Christ, whether in the form Of Man
or in the form of Church, is yesterday,
to- day, the same forever" He never
changes ;-nor,-His enemies. His cbarac-
ter never varies nor, theirs. As of old,
SO anew, face to face they stand, the Light
and the Darkness. AS of yore, SO forever,
in spite OF the Darkness, the Light shall
shine sin spite of it's shining the Darkness
will still be dark.
AS, tie far centuries ago, SO to-day, the
Darkness" that cannot darken the "Light'
will try to destroy the Light-bearer. AS
before, SO, this hour His enemies, in the
extremity of their rage, will prefer stones
to arguments. As in Christ's Yesterdays,
SO in His meeting with the world To-day,
when the intellectual power arrayed against
Him is COMPOUNDED, the brutal hand of un :
reasoning Force is lifted to strike.
The Christ of ALL the years-is the
Christ of the thirty three years.
The wide world is His Judea now; and
up and down its ways He goes, known to
many, yet from many hidden,-up and
down its ways, through its cities, towns
and hamlets-aloug the shores of its CALI
lees, out across it's moral deserts where
many, many faint and famish for the man
ma and wherever going, as of old, "doing
good to all mo longer in the form of
Man for He has " bid Himself,"-but in
the form of His Church.
AS was the Man-Christ in Judea; so is
the Church Christ in the world.
And these two Christs are One,-One in
Nature, Life, Power, Person.
AS the Man Christ then so the Church.
Christ now, meets Scribe, Pharisee, Sad
ducee, Judas, PLATE, -Herod, Annas, Cal
phas, Doubter, Blasphemer, Director, De-
NAL, Mockery, Betrayal, Abandonment,