The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-12

troubled waters These two events occu-
pied the day after the promise was
made.
"On the morning after them we find
the Lord in the synagogue of Caper-
naum, and as he looked upon the audi
ence he saw In the assembly some ne
had fed in the desert miraculously the
day before. The incident gave him the
introduction TO his remarks and he said:
Some of you follow me, l gave you
bread to eat but / willard he speaks
now for the future, and so far he was
speaking in mystery-I will give you
bread you know not Of Therefore, not
an ordinary, material bread, with Whlch
we are quite familiar, but / Will give
YOU a bread that cometh down from
heaven and therefore no ordinary ma
terial bread, but such a bread that II
eaten of he will not die forever At this
point some of the Jews said out loud:
How can this man give us his flesh TO
eat?' Christ did not qualify his state
ment He did not distinguish or mlu-
gate his proposition. He did not retreat
from his position. He reinforced ms
former assertion by a still more emphatic
declaration supplementing it by form
of separation. He said: Amen, Amen'
say unto you, unless you eat the nesh
OF the Son of Man., that is to say, him
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have life in you. Thereupon they TOOK
to their heels and left the synagogue.
Thus they left him to go to perditoh.
Christ did not say to them, You nave
misunderstood me; you are taxing me
| literally and l wish to be understood hs-
uratively' They understood him literal
Iy and that is precisely the way he wish
ed them to understand, and accordingly
j ne allowed them to depart. Turning TO
sJTiII leave me
Z also?' But they adhered to him. Then
i he said: IF you adhere to me and my
cause and the principles which l came
into the world to enunciate and espouse,
, then you must accept my divinity, lot
(have given you ample proof
The speaker went on in detail to tell
kof the acceptance of the faith by the
1apostles and of the great mystery OF the
eating of his flesh and drinking his blood.
The Catholic accepts the statement Oh
Christ that he who eats the bread from
heaven will never die. and when death
comes the germ of the principle of life
teternaI is with him. The Catholic be-
lIieves it is Christ's flesh with the ap-
lpearance of bread. Father MeseFney
said that the non-Catholic claims the
lbread Christ speaks of IS but ordinary
bread That it is not bread from heaven
but bread of our own manufacture. He
IoIic and non-Catholic belief as to the ma
ture of the bread which Christ speaks OF.
He says the non-Catholics accept it only
as a memorial. not as flesh. The preach
Ter referred TO the Last Supper, when
iChrist and the apostles had partaken OF
the Paschal lamb, complying with Mo
sale observation.
The Catholic accepts the words OF
Christ at the Last supper. saying. I be
liieve. Oh Lord. in your divinity, and
though I don't understand this great
mystery, still because you say this Is
your body and because you promise yol
, would give me your blood, I accept your
: statement. and I reiterate that Statement
: after you and I say it is your body. anC
: so persuaded am l of that fact, that
( am willing to lay down my life for it
! because to deny your statement Is L
: iquestion your divinity. You tell me tn
= contents Of the cup are your blood which
( was to be split on the cross. and yol
: promised months before that unless at