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Are Proof 9

That Christ Alone Is Divine

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CHAPTER 1

HISTORY IS FULL OF 3MEN who said that they came from God, or that they were gods, or that they bore a message from God. Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Christ, Socrates, Lao-tze and thousands o f others, including the one who founded a new religion today in Los Angeles — each has a right to be heard for his claims. As the' yardstick* must be outside the cloth, otherwise it cannot measure It, so there must be some tests outside of the "claim-aals „and available to all men? all civilisations and all igeavto decide whether any one ofthem Is right In his claims, These

He will teach, the enemies He will make, the prog-ram He will adopt lor the future, and the manner of His death. By His conformity with these announce-ments, we could judge Him.

Reason further tells us that if Cjod doejf not do this, then there is nothing to prevent any fool from appearing- In—history and saying;: "I am Jfrom God", or "An

tests are two-fold — reason and angel appeared

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were born, that you were com-ing?"

Other Claimants With this test in mind, line up

the claimants. Put in anyone you please, for at the moment Christ Is no bigger than any of them, We now address them: "Socnsrfes; (lid anyone know you were com-ing?" "Gotama, didjmyorie ever preannounce you and your m i -lage, and predict that one day you would sit under the Buddha tree?" "Confucius, was the name of your mother, the place of.your birth recorded, and given to men centuries before, so that when you did come, men would know you were a messenger" tronv Cod?" "Christ, did anyone know of .your comfaigr—the—clrtmmr stances of your life, where yo.il would live?"

AH are silent—but one, There w e r e no predictions about Buddha, Confucius, Tad, :Mo-hammed, or anyone else — ex-cept Christ. Others Just caune and said: "Here I am, believe me.?* They were, therefore, men among men, and not the Divine in the human, whkh 1s the fcdnd o( leader we want for these hard times'. Christ alone steps out of that line and answers: "My com-ing was foretold even to the smallest detail."

H e tell»ns to search the writ-ings of the Jewish people anil the correlated history of the

'mr^ ? t y f M k M j i f i ^ ^ tar - A DijrSWiaT youth i > t h 4 ^ 1 I O ^ I I I « the Marian- Year and slated for, Sunday, March 3 In Nawrejh Academy Hochesler,.^Mtecfta sji»*ln* poster are (teft to right): MARGARET WMlJafc'St. Agnes High School; A^Sj* aUWJ^Nauireih Academy; and ELLEN \VARD, Otir tady of Mercy High

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Of ail eWaae«te Automobile mariufacturera tell us wnen to expect a, new,; model.' If God i s sending anyone frwh HInweTf with i n m o s t Inripertant message for ali meri, He owes it to ui: to let us know wa*a He is «nnlng, .jrMra Hfe firlJbje born, wfcsr* He will,live, the dsttekss

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:&Mtt. and gave me this mes:-aage." In auch a case there Is no, e*Jecttve, historical test for such! 'a messenger. We have just his •word for it, and he could be suf-fering a delusion. '. . If a visitor came' from a for-eipi country. Jo Washington, and; .a»kf?l!e/was':.; a;'rdlpterna"t, -we •wtouldaisk- fo^bQut-hljvpaTilsport' and-h i s ..documents testifying, that he came from a certain eov-

and Rotoans, and for mens, to regard their merely- as histori

', ~.wfo%9 ii»RlieskJ^.such proofs -of.- identity; from . diplomata,, we -certainly' ought to do so'In the allimpor-tant subject.,of religion, asking: ^WbaSdfe^affls there before yoff.

V l r g | * ^ ^ l ^ ^ ] h a i l , r̂SDft cehreiafla" bring forth-a )ipn;-an9 His tiame shaU becalled tinman' ueL* About seven hundred year* before t^warb^rn-, it waft iort-told that'the Kings of thff East would, ;tefng g|id^ and- ffirtkln-

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Mist "K«.py»" W h a m ^ s * rtt NSarch XI st the deadline fotr-aalfe ad registration tsgs. •? ; ^

THE' TTAGS,. serit? ihis -we*k% a3l school Mid parochial sodality groups, cost *5150and"*ntitle stu-d*nt|.to..the fulLactivities . •Mtudy-aBd-devotion 'day- incluf^teg ltaniheon arranged by catertrsirr tfce Nazareth cafeteria.

Delegations from ^farishos .to A^ulbyrn. Elmira .am>CorntogjL pau* school group* Wojn.:I>Sales Hligh In here1hejfe,v>-M* pfonsus I*. Crimhiens, #sfofe. re-ported a total ht- fit >,iub>^M' tions, a gain of 623 over year. -- . , - , . . -

The Sev. 1fidward"K. Sail, pas-tor, of :St» Francis He, Sales Church, Geneva, has enrolled: his parish for iull family cuvesafe •with, 607 subscriber* a. gprtrttKE '218 oyer last year. ."«•'•;*

- St-SiW's Church, ltoriielieads, taktet lull coyerag&Mijr w i i n j i tlhie,.has xejp>ied ; ;m\ub«»iii4

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Wmmmm .f*heCatholic trterary Foundation, ^ilesf the dtoyV*s*dhjeiule wllfcf ^Suhtitled :*'The Story of ^aul include two geM|»l;flfeniblle«•">&&%» the tibojc marks the final o n the theme ot "MaryjS Xear,' ata open-forum and a'series of •lecilves arranged so that each student ntoy alfend &$. *»all-^roup dlscussloiis vo**fjeclial aoplcs that interest Wnt̂ . ,

The luftcheon periodrwin be divided Into one sitting for Collegians, Seniors, «nd-Niir»es-> auid tile other for Jniilors, Sophonrkre and FreshmeflvThe "JP foptehrwltt «I«SefaH^gW. -

-The4iev^iyfih*rir)libdheyf S.Jsfi"T? natidnal drrectorbf-Sotlailups o f r>ur Lady anaT- well-Jkn^wn atuthqr aaid retreat- master, ..heads the 'raster of parish p^ieitS'iiid-feacrF ea-s schedule* to speakxpft; doc-trines an^ aevotipn^-*|issocratett vs?Jth o te»Blo^ed-Mo#fe f4—-

AMONd TtfE iGwiy&mm oai the twelve ele^ilvk^ubjectf offered dutiitf tHftiMary Daiyi-th'et. Rev. Charles? B. Gorinell o f ̂ ifaJS* aa-eth AcadernQf' wilt bifheard* on salary in the Pages-, c-i .'Hlstoryf'. aoid "Consecration" Meansf: T « Mary, For'-Life*."

r«on. professor _„, . , Nazareth College) will ta%^| M , tfeeology of the Slessed^othgj. to "The Church Pays Trittt|fe'-*f Mary." Assisted by aqjsiiMfe^ pwmel o f Nazareth c o « e | t i M i m ahe? 'afifemboh s e s s i o n ' l ^ i f e f Shahn6r?s topic \v,iU. bfenWtJ?

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THE SOX of a Presbyterian SKiMster, Mr. "Pettis ehtered the Church in 1348 after taking' in-I'tructlphs from the Faulifit Fa-

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