The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-09-08

ness that we are fulfilling the plans
OF God and realizing the eternal de.
signs of Jesus Christ present to His
mind on the eve of His great passion.
Truly. If heaven and earth are filled
with Gods glory, thrice sacred is the
spot sanctified by His sacramental
presence. And privileged indeed is
this people to whom the King of kings
Himself has come as a friendly visi-
tor.
During these historic days, when
the Son of God is nations guest,
heaven itself surely is very near to
this people. And this fair city which
has become sacred shrine of Gods
presence in teeming with His graces
and bendictions. Look around you
and consider we'll the full beauty and
the fuller significance of this wonder
full scene. Nature and grace, earth
and heaven, are blending here all
their varied splendors. For the mo-
ment this Royal mount is become a
second Tabor and the very heavens
have opened above this hallowed
place where the angels of God de-
scend in silent alteration around the
throne Of the holy eucharist.
What tongue of man can voice the
sentiment of faith which at this mo-
ment fills to overfowing each Catho-
lie soul here present, revealing the
presence of the Son Of. God under the
veil of the eucharist? AS truly as on
that first Christmas night the tender
child of Mary lay within her loving
arms, as truly as when in Judea He
sat upon the hillsides and taught the
people the wonderful truths of God,
as truly as when he healed the leper
and fed the multitudes and gave
sight to the blind, as truly as when
as last He was raised blessed Holo-
caust twixt earth and heaven; Just so
truly in Jesus Christ our King with
US and before us, there in the sacra-
ment of his love.
"The time is too precious and too
sacred to pass in fruitless question:
ings. There is plenty of time for
scientific inquiry and mental investi-
cation of the how and why of Gods
wonderful dealings with men. To-day
we only hear the omnipotent words
of the Son of God Transforming bread
and wine into His own body and
blood. His word is truth and His
pOWcF OululpOIcuCS. fAuu WE llcdI Ou-
ly His words and our hearts bow
down before the miracle of His power.
This is my body; this is my blood -
Either God is not God at all and
the whole universe is mere fiction or
these words are true. He who doubts
must take his choice We stand with
Gods eternal promises, sublimely
confident and perfectly sure that
what He says is true.
"Oh. Catholics let us begin today to
! fully realize the enormous treasury of
grace contained in the central act of
the church's worship. Even one holy
mass offered in one place in all the
world would have in itself such value
that all the wealth and gold of the
earth would be but meaness and des-
titution compared to it. Oh! Catho-
lies. stop for moment and think
priesthood of Christ were extin-
what would our lives be today IL the
guished upon the earth and never
again till the end of time the euchar-
istic sacrifice should be offered upon
our affairs. How destitute would all
the world seem then. What could the
inventions of men ever produce to fill
the aching void in our hearts thus
created? The very thought makes us
shudder. Thanks to Gods infinite
goodness this awful anathema will
never come upon u.s."