South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-18
GIVES FIRST Of
LECTURE SERIES
Fr. Conway Explains Talks.
Declares Christ Perfect
God and Man.

"CreedIess Christianity" will be the
subject OF Father Bertrand L. Con-
ways lecture at the high school au-
ditorium this evening, the second of
a series on Catholic doctrine 10 be
given here during the week.
Sunday evening Father Conway dis
cussed in a convincing manner The
Divinity Of Christ" and preceding his
lecture invited both Catholics and non
Catholics 10 hand in questions con-
corning Catholic doctrine and prac-
tees. This evening he Will devote
half an hour at the opening OF his
talk to answering these questions.
In SPITE OF the ran an audience
OF 500 persons heard hi m last
evening and ii his audiences Of
last year, when he delivered his first
series Of lectures in the city, may be
taken as a criterion. twice that num-
Der will hear him in his succeeding
talks.
Representing the knights of Co
lumbus OF South Bend and Notre
Dame, under whose auspices Father
Conway is brought to the city. Atty.
Charles Hagerty introduced the
speaker. AS a part OF the evenings
program a choir OF mixed voices from
ST JOseph's church rendered the
"Magnificat' and Frank Hiss con-
tributed a violin solo.
Lectures Not Controversial.
In opening his discussion Father
Conway explained that his lectures
on Catholic doctrine ore not intended
TO be contrversiol, but merely to
expund Catholic doctrine for the
benefit of those who mOy wish
TO be enlightened upon It, 10 over
come prejudice which may be the re-
suit of ignorance OF Catholic teach
ings.
I'VE open our course with lecture
on The Divinity of Christ" he said,
because ali Catholic doctrine is
founded upon our belief in His di-
vinity."
Pursuing his subject he said in
part:
"The Catholic church has always
been the firm. uncompromising de-
fender OF the divinity of Jesus Christ
The Pharisee I'm the bitterness OF his
hatred might cry bah! to the sufferer
on Cavalry's hill; the Roman In the
might OF his power might strive to
cast ridicule on the crucified slave;
the Greek in the pride OF his intellect
might sheer a the new doctrine Of
the resurrection Of the dead; the un-
believer OF every age might blUrt out
defiantly his denial;-yet always from
st. John the Beloved. with his doc
trine of the Legos, TO Benedict XIV.
church has ever proclaimed Jesus to
be the true God and true man in one
divine personality.
Faith Resists All Attacks.
Strong indeed today is the faith
Of all true Christians in this founda-
ton dogma of Christianity. Stronger
and firmer grows their faitS with each
succeeding age AS a mighty cliff on
the shores OF the restless ocean re-
sists century after century the waves
that beat fercely against it in every
storm. 50 the belief of Christ's faith
full followers resist each century's
denial.
Outside the Catholic church, even
in the ranks OF so-called orthodox
Christians. there are millions who con-
slider Jesus a good man, but deny that
He is in any true sense divine. They
call Him a great ethical teacher. the
founder Of a new philosophy of equal
ity and brotherhood, the most perfect
man that ever lived. but at the same
time they think the dogma of the
Incarnation, that Jesus is the one sub
stance with the Father, true God and
true Man, both absurd and unintelli-
gible
WHO was Je sus Christ? We answer
in the words OF the Athansian creed,
He Is God OF substance OF the Father,
born before all ages. and Man Of tho
substance of His Mother. born in time.
Perfect God and perfect Man. sub
sisting OF a rational soul and a human
body. equal TO His Father according
10 His Divinity, and less than His
Father. according to His Humanity.
Who. although lie is God and Man.
yet He is but one Christ. One, not
by the changing of the divinity into
flesh, but by the assumption of hu-
mainly unto God. One, not by the
confounding of substance. but by tho
unity Of person; for as the rational
soul and body is one man, so God
and Man is one Christ.
Life Without a Flaw.
Jesus Christ on the admission Of
even His bitterest enemies was a true
speaker-the noblest and best OF men,
in whom the centuries have not been
able 10 discover the slightest imper-