The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1906-11-17
DIVINITY OF THE SAVIOR.
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love. purity and mercy triumphed over the pagan
and brutal forces of the world Men who realize what
the world was before Christ died and what it be-
came afterwards must acknowledge that He was
more than man.
If there is one single passage of Holy Writ that
proves Christs divinity, it is King David's in the
Twenty-first Psalm wherein he foretells an event
which was to take place thousand years after and
which was fulfilled to the very letter on Calvary
'1hey divided my garments among them and upon
my vesture they cast lotsw
Our Lord Jesus Christ divided the history of
the world. We have the ante-C Christian history
and the Christian era, and He was a prominent
character in the world as much as or more so than
julius Caesar, Herod. Pontius PLATE Pope Greg
DRY |. Christopher Columbus. Washington. Lin
coin. Roosevelt, ETC.
irrespective of the Biblical history of the Jews
and the Christian world for the Jews were Chris
tlans before Christ was born and rejected by them
III the sense that they anticipated the Messiah
whom we now follow, and regardless of the mira
Giles God wrought while on earth there are two
other reasons or proofs of the Savior's Godbood
First. no human being could utter the marvellous
perfect, dynamic words and parallels He spoke.
Ihey were and are without a scintilla of doubt
divine and supernatural and the second and
strongest of all that Christ was and is and will he
forever IS that He bore His dreadful humiliations:
the reachery OF His own chosen friend Judas.
HIS UNJUST trial and conviction; His scourging at
the plIar; Ills GROWING with thorns; His blind
fodlng. butetng and the splitting of the multitude
upon Him; His sorrowfu iournev to Calvary viii
a heavy cross upon His shoulders covered with
blood from His scourging falling under the cross
three times from deathly weakness His blood drin
ping along the road at every step; the brutal urq
ing by blows and kicks of the soldiers to make Him
rise and totter on. and finally stretching ont Ui
delicate arms and limbs the brutal spikinp of His
body to the cross, in silence During all these To-
nomlnous insults and SORROWS He never nrr
INJURED, until the Father of all creation. and of all
power and goodness, withdrawing Himself from
the dying Goldman, in order that the full punish
ment of Divine justice due to sinful human 4osL
might be borne by the Redeemer to the full canSod
the Savior to cry out, Father. Father. wbv hast
thou forsaken me 2" -i''V
In endeavoring to show to some extent tho
character of Christ man we will add 10 tb;s NO
per letter written by Publius Centullus 70 the
Emperor OF Rome and the Senate The or;oinaI
is in the Vatican of Christian Rome. and tbern a.
no reason for doubling its authenticity:
There appeared in these DAYS a man of ,,no,4
virtue, named Jesus Christ who is VET Ev;no
amongst US and by the Gentiles is accented as
prophet of truth but his own disciples call hin, a.
Son of God He raiseth the dead TO life and Inc
eth all of diseases man Of sto 4ru cur
and comely. with very reverted countenanca s,,ah
as the beholder may both love and fear SUI"
His halr OF the color of a chestnut fuu -;
plan to his ears. whence downward if is n,d.o
orient ana curling and waving about his sbonI
ders In the midst of his head a seam or nort;o,,
N IN his hair after the manner of the NaEarites
His forehead plain and very delicate H. fa-
without spot or wrinkle is beautiful with iis race
red q" loVey
His nose and mouth 50 formed that notb;na
can be reprehended. His beard thickisb IN onIa
like his hair not very long but forked Ills lool-
innocent and mature: His eyes gray. clear avG
quick In reproving he is terrible in adn,a,,: eI'
ing courteous and fair spoken pleasant =;
sation mixed with gravity " culver
1T cannot be remembered that any have soon
him laugh. but many have seen him ween r. seen
portion of body most excellent His hand pro pro-
arms most delicate to behold In speaking v ql,p
"nas bean m@ srnas s9n Wise man for m SIN
When we contemplate the heights e. !.