Evening journal., 1908-04-20

rection. It was he who went every
where among the Jews and Gentiles
preaching the sublime story Of Jesus
and the resurrection. We see st. Paul
in Athens, the city Of Socrates and
Plato. and there on the AcropoIis, we
behold him answering the questions
of the faith that burned within him;
then again we see him giving an account
of the story before Felix. the Roman
proconsul and then before Agrippa TO
whom he relates the story of his life
and the cause of his espousing tn e
Christian religion. Again we see and
hear him sounding and resounding
that strong dictum, IF Christ be not
risen from the dead, then is our preach
ing and your faith vain"
Strange is 1t not that the writings
of st. Paul are not included among
those now under fire by the higher
critics. Even the four gospels and the
epistle of John are under the ban Of
the critics, but not so with the writ
ings of st. Paul. These men wh1
would upset Christianity because of
the interpretations of the texts have
not found any way to attack the gos-
pei narratives of st. Paul Father
Burke then gave some of the evi-
dences Of the truth of the Bible. say
ing that st. Paul was highly educated
man, who knew Greek, who sat at the
feet of Gameliel, who knew the philO
sophical lore of the Hebrews. Could
such a man been fooled into believing
upon human evidences alone the story
of the resurrection? No! st. Paul was
supernaturably inspired. II is folly, he
to attack the evidences of those days,
when such men as st. Paul believe
II and taught it ever at the sacrifice OF
his own life. The speaker then paid
a beautiful and touching eulogy to St
Paul whom he pictured as one of the
greatest of men. He then took up the
question of his suffering resultant from
his conversion from Judaism contrast
ing it with the sings and arrows o.
fortune as suffered by those who have
given up their faith to become MEM
bers of the Roman Catholic Church,
How strange it is, he said, that man
who was a Jew of Jews. a prosecutor
of the Christians, should be turned inte
a supporter of the Christians. st. Paul
stands forth as the greatest of th7
Apostles because he taught so forcibly
the resurrection of Christ.
If we look out upon the worlds
horizon we see the glorious power
of the sun as It rises to light the world
to action. We see it calling into being
that which was darkness and then
again we see 1t passing and all nature
is wrapt into a stiffness that borders
on death. The mountains, the hills
the valleys that were kissed by tho
light of the sun are now bathed in twi-
light which pre-figures the dawn OF
that rest so needful to the world. Thi'
is a power behind which is the story
of mans awakening. We today are
standing upon q mountain top like q
traveller who watches for the coming
of the dawn. From out the blaclSnes:
and mists we see guilt supreme, shin
| ing in all its wickedness, revelling il
its might but from it all we again SCI
a man high on a cross, and the voice
of the world cries out. This is sin
this is death. The scene is changed
Now everything is glorious, and to.
day Christ comes out victorious. Th'
victory over death is won. The yer,
courts of heaven must have cried ou
victory when Jesus threw off the bond
age of death. The members of thi
faith triumphant should today cry ou
victory. Let us all today cry on
with the nominations and choruses o
high heaven that one great word vic
tory. Let us sing the praises of Chris
who arose from the dead as he said
and give unto Him the palm of 10!
and praise for He today lifts the worll
from darkness into light
At the conclusion of the mass Bishol