Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-23
BEGINS SERVICE
Of ADORAT|ON
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION IS
OPENED
Rev. c. MoIony breaches an Eloquent
Sermon In Evenlng-Touches Upon
Necessity Of Divine Help
From Day to Day

The forty hours alteration opened
yesterday at st. Josephs church with
solemn high mass at o'clock, at which
Rev. Raphael F'uhr, o. F. M, preached
the sermon.
At the service last evening Rev. c..
Molony, pastor of st. Agnes church.
preached an eloquent sermon on the
Divinity of Christ" He took for his
text, Thou art Christ, the Son of the
living Cod" He said in part
THE sudden disappearance of the
sun from the heavens, with all it's at
tendant miseries, is but feeble par
allel to what they strive to effect
among men who deny the divinity of
Jesus Christ. Our tender, loving Sa-
vior is more to the spiritual life of the
least of His faithful children than the
sun, moon and all the celestial spheres
there be are to the establishment Of
this sublunary planet. We feel the ne
cessity Of Jesus at every move. He is
life, and more than life to us all. In
Him we live and move and are.'
1.-THE infatuated Jews to whom Jesus
spoke wished to stone Him; not, as
they themselves confessed, because of
the wonders He wrought in their
midst, but because He declared Him
self to be God, whereas they said He
was only man. Thou being man,
makest thyself God?'
All Doubt Should Cease
1.-THE grandest conception ever ex-
pressed by man, even under inspira-
ton, is contained in the opening words
of st. Johns gospel: In the begin
ming was the Word and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God ....
And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among u.s. Here we behold
sublimity of divine eloquence worthy
of it's exalted theme. Can doubt any
longer exist in the face of such con-
vincing authority? He unhesitatingly
afirrns that the Word was Cod; and
that same Word was made flesh and
came amongst men and His glory the
apostle witnessed at the transfgura-
tion on Thabor's heights.
when a truth is sustained by the
unquestionably infallible authority of
Holy Scripture, all doubt and cavil-
ing concerning it should cease; and
throughout the pages of the New Tes-
lament we can find no truth so far re-
moved from the quibbling of sophis-
try by the unmistakable stamp of di-
vine revelation as the doctrine of
Christ's divinity. Titles, attributes,
works and worship are therein attrib-
uted to Jesus which could be predl-
Gated alone of God.
referring again to st. Johns gos-
pei, we read: All things were made
by Him, and without Him was made
nothing that was made Who but
God can evoke from the abyss of moth
ingness the myriad spheres? Who but
God guides the planets in their courses
and preserves universal order?
"Were Jesus but an envoy from
heaven. and a mere creature, however
exalted and privileged He might have
been, He could not exact for Himself
a similar faith to that which is due
to God.
Our Judge Our Redeemer
"But in these words He does de-
rnand such faith. Therefore, plain con-
sistency shows that He must be truly
God. Can their pride, like that of Ju-
liam. the apostate, keep men from bow
ing down in humble alteration before
Him whom the angels adore; or do
they wish TO postpone their credence
in Christ's divinity until they behold
that other convincing proof when all
men shall stand before the Judgment
seat OF Christ? Yes, that Savior whose
astounding miracles so far suspended
the effect of natures laws that even
Death himself relaxed his iron grasp,
shall sit in judgment on the final day.
But If He is to be our Judge, He isl
also our mercifu1 Redeemer.
while contemplating the divinity Of
Jesus, our minds revert to His two
fold mission on earth: the appeasing
of divine Justice outraged by sin and
the leaving to His children an exem-
plar whereby to model their lives. Cor
responding to this double object of the
incarnation Of the eternal Word comes
our twofold duty of gratitude and i'm
itation. To follow Jesus through life
TO the best of our ability is the only
means we have to prove our gratitude.
To carry our cross in the footsteps of
our Divine Master to Calvary and
thence to rise with Him to life eternal
IS our privilege and our duty, and is in
itself an honor and glory infinitely
surprising the accumulated favors of
this worlds kings and princes and en-
perors.'