THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 257, 5 April 1878, Page 9

THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

SS S S t P wa°s Sllows^ ° f Lacordaire ' s " Conferences" on Jesus "Our age commenced with a man who outstripped all Iris conton, poraries, and whom we who have followed have not equalled A rrS" queror, a soldier, a founder of empire, his name and his ideas art Si' 3 Wh / r p 5? 6n £ After 2*** consciously accoSshed Ve work of God he disappeared, that work being done, and waned like a setting sun in the deep waters of the ocean. There upon I f ren xock he loved to recall the events of his own life • and fSm \fm* self going back to others who had lived beforThS^ 'and towbm he had a light to compare himself, he could not fail to pTrceivTa form greater than his own upon that illustrious stage wiS^tJkK place. He often contemplated it ; misfortune opens the soul toiiS sojourn in the world to think about the question." ThSpfoaSdVX Lacordaire speakragfrom the pulpitof Notre Dame," " hf fNapoleonl was not a man ! ' These words sum up all I would saY to you £?t£ inner Me of Jesus Christ, and express the conclusion which evSv man arrives at who reads the Gospel with just attention/ And 3 the great preacher, immediately before descending that day from tt£ pulpit of Notre Dame-" The day will come when the yoimJest am™S you will say from the experiences of life, when Me fsSng to ?l C }°f'.u Voo'V 00 ' kQoW . men . I say that Jesus Christ was not f mw And the day also will come when, upon the tomb of he^reat CaX,' France will grave these words, and they will shinp with tnr. • P ' tal lustre thin the sun of the PymmidfaXiSiS moreim *<*-