The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-06-13
H1w PUBLICATIONS.

lated into English by tho Rev. An.hans-
Farley. St. Monica. Church, Jamaica. H.
New York: Catholic Publication So.; -. l.,
New Orleans: C. ID Elder. ''ety
This translation Is from the seventh r..
edition of Mr.. veuillots wonderful vork ,., ION
bears upon its title page letter Of spnro,.
and affection from our Holy Father p;.. ~%
The work in the original is entitlaa A.
Chrapa, as though in naming the one v,... $3.50
of Redeemer, the author has said all en-. Aos
be said in reply to infdels, scoffers ana .
tates. The translator, with true cb,;...s
reverence, calls the work before him The Jss
of Oar Lord Jesus Christ but this word do..
not fully convey MT. Veuillops meaning, forh.
has written more than biography, it ia tbs
historic, dogmatic, and philosophio rsvesliDs
of truth 30 bright it is strange that the whols
world does not see it, and so consoling that i.
10 strange that Same world does not long To
follow it.
1t is also refutation of Rsnan's blasphemou,
work against Our Lord but perhaps its trus
design may be learned from these words of the
author on page twenty:
swell, q man, an uncertain being floating on
uncertainty, who tends towards indiferentism:
an indiferentst who does not deny God, who
does not wish to make war on Him, who
has simply resolved to forget God, not know.
ing that God will not forget him-a man, in a
word, who has never reflected on God, and who
desires never to think of Him-such o man the
author of this work has been, and for such men
it is written"
It is clearly the authors aim to disturb
this fatal Indifference, and awaken it into
knowledge, and enthusiasm. and q love of
Christ d" SO that believing you may have life
eternal"
The style of the work is most interesting,
the narrative unfolding such deep meanings
such wonderful beauties, such opportune CON
siderations, that the reader is carried along in
spite of himself from page to page of this
luminous pathway of theology, history and
science.
It is book which cannot, in any sense Of
the words, be called dry or heavy, nor even
controversial. There is NO controversy in its
pages-they contain only the simple and cub
lime facts of Gods dealings with his creatures,
the logical and majestic march of His truths
through the centuries of time, and the re-
splendent glories Of His promises fulfilled be-
fore the eyes of man.
We will only quote sparingly from the work
before us, preferring to leave the foil enjoy
ment to the reader.
AT Cana, through the iutercession of Mary,
o miracle il wrought, whose profound meaning
We will forth with consider but his presence at
the nuptials contains another lesson We should
first understand. He came to degenerate man.
As he went down unto the food of penapcc of
Jordan to sanctify the waters which will be
made the matter of the Sacrament of spiritual
regeneration, SO be goes over to the marriage
feast and renders it glorious by his presence
| and by miracle, 90 as to honor for ever the
marriage state-the future Sacrament which
will purify the source of life.
"Jesus Christ gives to marriage q two-foM
soluble Against the enemies of all Glasses
and all degrees who would repiunge it into its
former degradation, he surrounds and defends
it with the eternal rampant of his own
the indissolubility of the copjugal tie may pre-
vail over all conceptions of doctrines, customs
and of laws.
Therefore, be begins by establishing mar
riage-that is, the Christian family. Thus he
places his own memorial at the base Of the
social edifce with one word, he will build up
the edihce, and the immense work will be
In regard to the works of mercy,
which our Blessed Lord enumerstes as having
been done to Him because done to the poor
Mr.. Veuillot writes:
ALREADY, on the very threshold of death,
Jesus pronounces those words as q royal legacy
which he made for the duration of ages, to the
multitude of the poor, to the INDECENT, TO the
captive and to the abandoned
Moses, striking the rock, caused the living
waters TO gush out of it; the word of Jesus,
penetrating into the human heart, has made an
inexhaustible food of charity to swell from it;
A two-fold grace, it has saved sinners as well
| as succored the unfortunate"
In regard to the Apocalypse, he writes:
"a book full of mystery and beauty, always
luminous and always obscure; whenoe doc
trine and prophecy gush forth as if from an
inexhaustible source, and which, INCREASINGLY
Intercepted, delivers to tho world only ct
epochs the truths that it contains"
But our extracts do not convey q CorrectideA
of the work, which shines with words Of truth
and thoughts of beauty, for as q few stones
would fail to give the grace and design Of
grand Mosaic, 80 these few extracts reveal no
part of the sublime plan which the writer
paints upon his pages.
But among the many excellent works written
in our day, and addressed to the intelligence OF
man, there is none calculated to do greater
good than this of the valiant veuillot, the able