There is in that alone the touch of a revolution,
as of the world turnedupside down.
For instance, there is that long stretchof silence
in the life of Christ up to the age of thirty.
I only say that if the rationalists refuse to
satisfy it,the pagans will not be satisfied.
Where is the Holy childamid the Stoics and the
ancestor-worshippers?
However mildly, there was a ring like
iron.
Where is the Holy childamid the Stoics and the
ancestor-worshippers?
The first is the human instinct for a heaventhat
shall be as literal and almost as local as a home. There are many evidences of this
presenceof a spirit at once universal and unique. It dared to lookright through it
as though the gold and marble had been glass.
It had risenout of the ground to wreck the heaven
and earth of heathenism. The first is the human instinct for a heaventhat shall be
as literal and almost as local as a home. But the two ideas are not naturally or
necessarily combined. The secondhalf of human history, which was like a new creation
of the world,also begins in a cave.
They were important enough to be
ignored.
The popular imagery carriesa great deal to excess
the sentiment of Gentle Jesus, meek and mild.
But like all the truthsof that tradition, it is in
another sense a very complex thing.
Where is the Holy childamid the Stoics and the
ancestor-worshippers? The philosophy of thephilosophers was not
universal.
It dared to lookright through it as though the gold
and marble had been glass. We have already noted that this paradox appeared also in
thetreatment of the early Church. It was important while it wasstill insignificant,
and certainly while it was still impotent. Bethlehem is emphatically a place where
extremes meet. And this is the light;that the Catholic creed is catholic and that
nothing else is catholic.
Here begins, it is needless to say, another mighty
influencefor the humanisation of Christendom. And this is the light;that the
Catholic creed is catholic and that nothing else is catholic.
It is not at all easy to realisethe good news as
new. New tortures have been invented for the madmen who have broughtgood
news.
Yet any number of Catholic saints have spent their
lives in preachingpeace and preventing wars. There are many evidences of this
presenceof a spirit at once universal and unique.
The Church contains what the world does not
contain. Yet any number of Catholic saints have spent their lives in preachingpeace
and preventing wars.
One of the Eclogues has even been claimed as a
prophecy of whatdid happen.