Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-31


ened AMI perverse VIII.
Itll his unhappy fall, this warfare had
been rendered practically impossible by
that special gift of integrity which pre-
served perfect harmony among all his
faculties, and absolute conformity of his
Will, in all things to that of his creator $ !:
Just as a most delicate and complicated
piece or mechanism may be kept in per-
feet order and harmony, while the vital
link that binds together it's various parts
remains intact: but let that link become
broken. and its primary end, or purpose
will not be attained, nor its harmony pre-
served.
In this familiar comparison my breth-
rem, behold man before and after his fall
To regain what he had lost, or to re-
pair the evil that he had done, he could
not; his sphere had been lowered from
the supernatural to the natural order
You might then as well ask a man born
blind to describe to you the beauties of
ma ture. or the brilliancy of the heavenly
bodies that shine upon us, and brighten
our pathway.
atonement. therefor must be infinite:
but how could man. a mere finite crea-
ture, offer such an atonement: his good
works. multiply them as you may. must
ever Toe finite. Had not God taken pity
on our utter helpleSSneSs, and shown
mercy, the evil ones triumph would have
been complete, lasting forever. and man
would have remained his abject slave
here and hereafter.
But God did show mercy and he began
to manifest ii. even to our first parents.
before their expulsion from the terrcs-
trial paradise, by promising them Re
deemer. That Redeemer He foretold
when. after pronouncing sentence upon
Adam and Eve He said to the tempter:
II will put enmtties between thee ana the
woman, and thy seed and her seed: she
shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie
in wait for her heel
Who. my brethren. was that Redeem
er thus promised ard foreshadowed by
the eternal father? No other than His
only begotten son: for, the scriptures
tell us that: God so loved the world
as to give His Only Begotten Son: that
whatsoever belieVCth in Him may not per-
ish, but may have life everlasting He
it was. as we read in the Nicene creed
who" in the funess of time, "for us
men. and for our salvation, came down
from Heaven and was incarnate by the
Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary" And
adds St. John: The word was made
flesh and dwelt amongst us; and we saw
His glory. the glory as it were of the
only begotten OF the father fun of grace
and truth
What followed from the temporal Birth
of the Son of God into this world until
on that ever memorable Good Friday,
when expiring on the cross on Mount
Calvary He eXclams: IAN is consum-
mated" need not here be told. but, from
the devout consideration of H. as rela ted
in the holy Gospels, Let man learn the
true nature of his sublime dignity, and
his immortal destiny.
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