The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-22
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the TIVE his1srieos sre bat the record Of the
one sssss Person.
+ ThsEsEoss Il II that the life Of the Church
must - constantly reproducing, along al
her ysars, the very seeBes Of tho Life q the
Thirty-tArse years. Tia an everlasting
Drama ,-asd Christ 10 its supreme and
etsrpal ehssastsr; but amid its thousands
Of ever-chaBgipg scenes, there never can
b ose that has not it, counterpart far back
amid tbess consecrated Hours; the fret OF
which, On humble, Human hour heard the
Angela song floating through the starry
sileucs Of December night over lowly
child 1.-THE last Of which, Q glorious, Divine
hour, ssw Angels (were they the Christ
mas-AngelsS y sentinelling the opee grave
ofsa Risen God. And that human divine
life Of tho Christ man from the Christmas
mfdaight to the Resurrection morn is the
life ofethe Christ Church from Pentecost
until the Ead.
Each day, therefore, of the Church in the
world. reproduces some day of Christ in
Judea.
What Day Of His life lie on as Dow:-
A solemn question,-with an awful an
swer.
Ye, who read these words written in the
weary yigils of the night, may laugh and
call .th6m rhapsodies and, in pleasant
jest, ye may deem the writer Dreamer.
But thinkers must think for the thought
less. Dreamers of the Divine must dream
and tell their dreams to these whose dreams
by night, like their fancies, by day, are
only of the Human. And some must watch
while many sleep, to guard their souls
from danger and wake them for the day.
What Dayf
The worlds days are measured by the
Chnrch's days her days by her Christ's
days. What day is it in the worlds time 2
The Christian answers ;-whatever day it is
in my Church's history. What day is it in
the Churoh's historyi The Spirit answers:-
whatever day 1t is in Christ's life. For His
days are the Dial by which Time is mea-
sured. What day, then, ID it nowf Where
falls the shadow on the dali 1t rests on
one of Christ's last days. How near the
last mo one knoweth.
One Of the last what meaneth that p
A day not long before HE Calvary. And
that,--the meaning!-His Church is near
one of her last Calvaries. How near AT
the foot of the awful slope - beginning
the ascent. Bearing the Cross Yea, bear
ing it--and bleeding beneath it-and glad
to bleed and ready to give the last red drop
of her blood.
Who accuses her f-who accnsed Him .
10 Dhor nd Coz ;ho
and Sadducee with scripture on their lips
and hatred to interpret it;-they who used
the very words that promised Him as argu-
ments for His rejection. Who accused Him
Men who taught the peoples in the temple
and read for them the holy words, and with
an awful blindness, interpreted them into
"Crucify Him." They accused the Man
Christ. Their counterparts accuse the
Church Christ.
Who condemns Herr Who condemned
Hint PLATE, Herod, the political govern
ment, men of the State. The State did not
want the Christ who was in Pilates way,
who was an offence to Herod, who was an
Inconvenience to the civil government.
Who condemns Herr The modern Pilates,
4ACLOOo, ScoOSc oh0 AuhhS
statesmen. In His last days the civil power
in the State and the sect power in religion
stood side by side against Him ;-as they
now stand side by side against His Church.
In His infancy the Civil Power, through
Herod, painted for His death. He fed to
Egypt. In His Church's infancy, the civil
power prosecuted. -Herod died ;-he re-
turned to His home. The first Prosecutors
died. His Church which had fled to the
Catacombs, reappeare6 among men. In
His boyhood he was let alone i'm his man
hood, he was protected in his human rights
by the State. So with His Church. At the
last when he asserted his divine rights the
wrath of the sect-power among the Jews
was reused - nor did it cease its war
upon Him until He stood before the State
power and was condemned. So with His
Church in her last days. Did not say that
His history is hers and her days are His
Who accuses Her 7-The sects. Who