The Irish standard., 1903-11-07
Text of the Evening Address
Delivered Especially to
Non-Catholics.
Subjects and Dates Of Lectures
for the Coming Week
Announced.

Large AUDIENCES nave marked the
meetings Of the Paulist Fathers at
the Church Of st. Anthony of Padua
on the East Side during the week.
The sermons are especially for nom
Catholics and all indications point to
a most successful mission. The mis-
sion will last one more week, closing
on the 18th. Catholics are expected
to invite their mont Catholic friends to
attend with them for these meetings
are being held particularly for the lat
ter. Copies of Question Box, by Fa-
Their Conway, about 600 pages, answer
ing difficulties received on missions to
non-Cat holics, are given away freely
to all non-Catholics during the mis-
sion. Last Sunday night the text of
Rev. Father Harvey was 'Thou Art
Christ, the Son of the Living God,"
from Mathew 1916. He spoke, in
part, as follows:
The Divinity Of Jesus Christ is a
question of deep and thrilling impor-
lance to everyone of us. Eternal re-
suits depend upon the answer that
we give to it.
To some He is merely man
good, truthful, wise, noble, spotlessly
pure-the perfect realization of every
thing that enters into the idea Of
manhood, "the saint, the type, the
model, of all men," Goethe "By His
greatness and goodness, He throws all
other human attainments into obscur~
ity." (Channing). He has received
special gifts, endowments, aids and
lights from God. To him, God lends
the support Of Indefinite Power.
More, He is teacher-a leader sent
from God. He is the mouthpiece Of
God. He speaks with an authority as
infallible and unquestionable as that
of God-He has God with him, in His
every notwithstanding Him to
fulfill every promise and execute
every threat. All this Jesus is to
some men-but for all that, to them
He is only man. He is raised, it is
true, to the highest possible pin
nacle of human perfection. But that
perfection-be it remembered-is hui
man. In essence, in nature, Jesus Is
never to their thinking anything other
than a man.
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their only guide the light of reason,
the character of our Lord and the
story Of His life gives ample evidence
that whatever He be, he is more than
a man. Il know something about
men," said the great Napoleon, land 1
tell you that Jesus Christ was no mere
man." Even the impious Jean
Jacques) Rousseau was led by his
study of Christ's life to affirm that eff
the life and death of Socrates are
those of sage, the life and death Of
Jesus are those Of a God"
This conclusion Of his, forms part
Of our belief as well, for to us Christ
is God. In Him there are two natures
wonderfully and inseparably united
the divine and the human-each in
its own fullness and perfection.
Though Joined these two natures are
not blended; they both remain dis.
tinct, each retaining it's own identity,
it's own proper character and qualities.
He was and is true God and true man
God from all eternity, knowing all
things, able to do all things, man from
the time of his conception by the Vir-
gin Mary and as man subject to many
infirmities. This then, is our answer
to the question with which I began
this talk: Jesus Christ is the second
Person of the Blessed Trinity-true
God and true man. He is the word
made flesh, God made man. This, my
friends, is the truth which it is my
duty and my joy to prove tonight as
best may, so all who hear my voice
may confess that the Lord Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh.
In building up my proofs, shall be,
gin with what is admitted by all who
have studied His life and character
the goodness, wisdom, nobility and
truthfulness of Jesus Christ. 1 shall
also gratefully accept their other ad-
mission that God is with Him, ap
proving and blessing His work. aiding
Him to realize His every desire and
blessing His every promise.
These, my friends, are the obvious
and admitted truths OH which l will
ground my every argument, and in
their light I will ask you to consider:
list. The testimony which Jesus
himself gave concerning His sacred
person and nature.
End. The testimony of the apostles,
His chosen teachers.
At the outset, it may be best to meet
and briefly answer an objection that
is sometimes urged against our belief.
1t is based upon well-known events in
the life of Christ and upon some of
His own words.
Christ suffered many things-hun-
ger, thirst, sorrow and death, thereby
proving that He was "a man. More
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