The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-02-14
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hoods. God alone can perform mira
cies, which supersede the powers of
angels and men. Christ worked mira
cles in His own name, by His own
authority, and by His own personal
power. Being the Author of nature
He can suspend it's laws at will by the
same power that He established them
and produce effects beyond those of
ordinary natural laws. Since the in
finite power of God exceeds the power
natures laws As Lord of inanimate
nature, Christ silenced the winds and
waves, walked upon the waters and
changed water into wine; as the Light
of mankind, He gave bodily sight to
the blind and cured instantly the lep-
lous, the deaf, the mute, the crippled,
the paralytic, and drove devils from
the bodies of the possessed as Mas
ter of life and death, He raised from
death the son of the widow of Naim
and His friend Lazarus. LAS many
as touched Him were made whole
Mark 6, Sc. AS Creator, He made all
nature acknowledge His empire. His
many miracles Christ performed fire.
Guently in presence of vast multitudes
Public facts were they, effected in
large cities amidst skeptics and scot
fers and before prominent eye-wit-
nesses, VINO were certainly capable of
erasping these eternal facts. The
Jews and pagans did not presume to
deny the historical truth of Christ s
miraculous works, nor did they en-
deavor to explain them in a natural
way. Some, in their blindness and
wickedness, even ascribed them to
the prince of devils. Working His
miracles by His own power, and there
fore being proof of His Divinity
Christ could truly say, though you
will not believe Me, believe the works,
they give testimony of Me-
The Resurrection. the Paramount
Proof of the Divinity of Christ.
The mystery of the glorious Resur-
rection constitutes the masterpiece of
Christ's miracles and the convincing
seal of His truth. The greatest Won.
der-worker, the Redeemer arose tri.
umphantly from the dead by His own
inherent power on the third as He
Himself foretold No historical event
possesses more claim to credence than
that of the Resurrection. Persons,
worthy of the highest trust, testify to
this pre-eminent fact. The disciples
heheld with their own eyes Jesus liv.
ing, really dead and alive again. No
ones death in history is so attested
as that of Christ. The Evangelists
record that the, Saviour talked and
ate with the disciples He permitted
them to touch Him and they saw Him
ascend to heaven. st. Paul narrates
that Christ appeared to over five hun
dred disciples at once. Such an assem-
blage of witnesses could not have
teen deceived by Imagination. Nc
advantage could accrue to them fol
any deception, but, on the contrary
persecution, suffering and death would
be the punishment of the imposture
Should the apostles have invented the
Resurrection, all Jerusalem would
have branded them as impostors The
thought of hallucination, on the part
of the apostles, who SO eminently sue
ceeded in establishing the Church
without any human assistance which
has lasted over nineteen centuries
amidst the greatest difficulties, would
be consummate foolishness. The
steadfast witnesses of the Resurrec.
ton only believed after the most ire.
futable proofs of its reality. Even the
Divine Master reproached them for
their incredulity. Should the world
at any time not be convinced of the
Resurrection, the foundation of all re-
ligion, what would induce men to en-
Trace Christianity? eff Christ be not
risen again." says st. Paul, your
faith is vain" 1 Cor. Is, II. Had
Christ remained buried in the tomb,
His entire work would have been frus-
trated. The brightest genitses, that
ever shone in the intellectual sphere,
affirmed the fact of the Resurrection,
but erroneous minds in their wander
ings deny it. The luxurious, the
wicked, the infdels, say no, but the
infallible God says yes.
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... The Character of Christ.
No character exists or ever existed
Like unto that of Christ. No genius,
no conqueror, no being, no life can
be compared with Christ in holiness,
in unselfishness, in humility, in meek