The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-06

be it remembered, were men high in
power, who, therefore, might have CON.
tradicted any false Statements contain
ed in the Gospels, loaded their authors
with shame and branded them as i'm
posters. Far, however. from being able
TO give the lie to the evangelists thew
were constrained by the evidence of
their own senses to admit all that those
holy men wrote; Hic Homo mulra sig
ma facit, ct 81 dimittamus cum sic. ON
nel5 credent in cum.
And in the council of the chief priests
and Pharisees, convened for the pur-
pose of adopting measures against the
life of Jesus, CaiapIas adduced no rea-
son wherewith to justify their conduct,
except that if they left Him alone. the
Romans would take entire possession
OF their place and nation; that, there
fore, it was eXpedient that Jesus should
die, in order that they might be left in
the' enjoyment of their power. You
know nothing. Neither do you consider
that it is expedient for you that one
man should die for the people, and that
the whole nation perish not" It is.
therefore, ridiculous to picture that
Jesus Christ lis a myth Were it so.
the Jews would not now be without a
country, without a temple, without a
priesthood, without sacrifices, dispersed
over the world and despised by all the
nations OF the earth. After this ter
rible myth had been consigned to the
grave, His enemies could not rest as !
sured that they had completely triumph |
ed over Him. A suspicion crept into |
their pinds and troubled them so much |
THAT they presented themselves before |
PLATE, demanding that detachment
of soldiers be dispatched to mount
guard over the sepulchre and that the
same be impressed with the great seal
Of the state; Lignantes capidem cum
cJstodibus. They feared lest the myth
should be spirited away by His dis
ciples.
PLATE, the Procurator of Judea, who
played SO prominent a part in fhe death
of Jesus and who will be regarded as a
type Of the unjust, cowardly and time
serving judge, after having thrice de-
clared Him innocent, condemned Him
TO death, oetensibly to satisfy the peo-
pie, but in reality that he might not
lose favor with Caesar; and he after
wards transmitted to the senate an ac-
count of the life miracles and tragical
end of Christ, as we ere assured by
Tertullian, who prevailed upon the en-
peror and the senate to examine the
original document, which Was at hat
time preserved in the Roman archives.
1t is related i'm the Talmud that the
people once asked Jesus to tell them !
definitely whether He was the Messiah
He answered that He was. How shall !
wa know that you are?" they asked.
Bring me a dead man. He replied,
and I viii raise him to life" They
opened tomb. but
ound only bones Bring me
ven those bones" said He, "and
he man to whom they belonged
hall be restored to life" Thus. the
'almudites themselves have always re-
-arded Jesus Christ as a real historical
,ersonage, and it never entered their
minds that He was a Myth. Then He
vent about working miracles. He was f
allied the son of the carpenter; Julian. s
ne apCstate, applied the same title to :.
linn as term Of contempt, and He is =
ecognized by the same name among
he Jews Of the present day. He has at -
Il times been regarded as an Historical
aality, and not as a myth 1t is too i,
lie now to begin to cast doubts upon
lis existence. 1 refrain from further u
on this point, because the A
sct Of Christ's life, passion and death
so plain and evident, that one cannot
clip seeing it, unless by closing his
yes TO the truth. 1
ITO Be COntinued.1 -