HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 14, 2 August 1873, Page 14

HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

/T 1. * * By the Abb 6*• B - DAKBAB. 1-i.ranelated from th. French for the New Zbaxamd Tabibt.) T -. ni . 34; Jmto, Saviotte in Modern Histoby. £M our incredulous Rationalist make the trial ! Shaking, the earth to «b centre from pole to pole, let him set ont, through torrents of blood, «eapuig rum on ruin, to pluck out from the world the name of Jesus Christy and the belief in His divinity! This, trial hazarded, he will ««?« ?- notl ll 11l ID 6 new - Modera history ia nothing else than the vl™ gatl ?" Qf \ Bimilap Bt '«ggle, with a success differing widely, / owever, from what was anticipated. Thus we approach another fact not lew incontestable. It is that during eighteen centuries, £ZZ * Ba .? dßh , aT . c dled for «»• divinity of Jesus Christ ; and that the mow tins diTimty has counted martyrs, the more conquests has it made. Deny, if you can, that tl»e Twelve Apostle.— going out from r£ S ? P i reach to the world tlle foith in the divinifc y of Je8«»J e8 «» *»™?a !i 0W ? their Hves in ite caUB « ? One alone amongst them Z £Z ' u W B " bnuftln g *° *he most barbarous torments. It was von aimi » 8 '; In P"»«pio" assumes the privilege of displeasing bvfiVprt e-°te -° th f9f 9 Perißhed the Bword, the-etake.the cros.,cUrZJ P6Cie \° { t ° rtu , re thttt tho imagination of the executioner, almost ~ n S ,!r^*i an T- h W i ltn the apt of P uttin S ™n to dettth h » d oultiL !k d * he lumtß of human indention. Attempt to call in nes !?.;„! maß * ac «? organised by Pagan Rome, during three centuXrX , « VV hh u fc fe '> namo of Christian. You will hare to SurtE 3 ?*'" I *^ hl t° iun9 ' Oreek » nd **tin,from Tacitus and ;ouSel?nf n to . Eu9tbiu ? of Cesarea. Destroy their works, to rid do tht i-i "convenient witnesses. You neither can nor will thousand, > ' yy u U ™ ust « plam how it is that men have died by bwS I a P ? ant °u m ° hriafc ' fl chime ?*> a nothing t And when Ltl&n haye f"t«™hed yoimelf behind what you believe to be a beernW 17 /! 11 * 7 '^ Crying oufc there will yet remain to eutorf ♦ " ° W %t Wa9 thttt tlle «ecutioners tbemselves-the perseond nrn!l S riT-'f' 6 Bmitten with the fanaticism of their .victims, »nd prostrated themselves at tho foot of a cross. OV*S™ AVIOtm ""a™ FAOB °* THAT MUST BK OV*&TOBNE» BEFORE STRIKE AT THB DITOIK OP JkBT7S CHBIST. of J,., g n?! 4Ct .,f the aversion of the Pagan world, by the eros, to infer £"f;>T *"**? ' v**" f ° r yOUf Btudv > and TO « will httVo ° infer from it the very palpable reasons which raised the divinity of Christ from the obscurity of the catacombs to the summit of the Capitol. You will tell us how a succession of men, who were put to death without intermission, founded an immortal society ; how prwoners, convicts, martyrs-rejuicing in being stoned, burned, slaughtered— met death without a murmur, and caused the seed of new Chnstians to spring from their blood. An inviting prospect, truly, to ent.ee men to embrace a new religion— the certainty of being clothed »xth a arred mantle, and set up as a living torch in the gardens of Nero ! Who couid resist the touching fate of being cast into the ureua, to the jaws of N umidian Ho Q s : of being sent to the mines ; of being flayed alive ;of havi«g the nails plucked out ; all the joints chopped off one after the other; of being stretched on a burn, ing gridiron, or of being plunged into a bath of molten lead ? Explain to us how a single conversion could be effected by the allurements of ■ucha propaganda And yet the world is Ohnrtiw : Paganism is vanqu.shed Seek ia the world of to-day a worshipper, of Jupiter, Venus and Saturn ! Papuism was conquered once «nd«r Consta^ tine; but one hundred times, fron> Constantino to Clovis. Do you even know the names of all the barbarous tribes who came within the grasp of the Roman world during the space of three centuri-s ? The Church of Jesus Christ conquered all those Pagans, and always by the same method-suffering, prayer, death. Even to this d.-,y men euff,r, pray, die, for the dmnity of Jesus Christ; and it will be so t.ll the end of ages. Here are facts which must be denied before you can strip Jesus Christ of His divine mantle. Now, to deny tb^m, rr v h-t°o?r yy M hh h Hgl *»* the sun « to subvert au •^ncy.ss late all history, and bury the WO rld in profound darkness. Let him arise ; now, the audacious Erostratus, ambitious to destroy the ediQee of the dmmty of Jesus Christ! The foundations of this immortal f Z 1 U Z I?' hei t ro "ci» in Eden. Each period of ancient history forms one of its strata. Christ is the hope of lour thousand years, the sacred flower of the Old Testament, tho Kodeemer expected ?ir t wnw^ Dted pr oUtby rallr all age8 ' Jesus a^ eaM onthesuSmitof the two worlds^ He realises in His person all the prophecies ; Ho p\V£l "IT- i ° f A Hi9 . WOBB i the head of the serpent is crushed ; laj-amsm expires! Au mwnense revolution working salvation il a-con.phshed throughout the universe; it embraces all times, all ! S ip a , >?' I' 1"*1 "* «***** d without interruption for eighteen »ii ™T i "« b an -f 6d aU 5 renewed a11 5 spiritualised all ; sanctified all upon the earth ,j it never ceases raising humanity towards God. Iv a word Jesus Christ ,„ hwtory, is the world itself, from Adam down to the present t«... He i s eternal royalty passing along the touv s e of ages, to lead man from tho hands of his Creator to the tribunal of his judge ! Chnstus heri, ho die, ipse et in sacula.*

The monks of the Order of St. Benedict are building a monastery in Minnesota Ihe Benedictine monks, all through thf midd We? were the custodians of whateVer literature remained to the world Two hundred pupils attend a Catholic College for the study of I "ropeai. languages *t Yeddo, in Japan. Mgr. Petijean will 32 STokiwi ° mtßblC and educatio "^ institutions at Yeddo and The new hospitnl of the Sisters of Chnrity, St Louis, will b« one of the finest of the kind in the United States, and will cost $175 00?

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