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REFASHIONING THE WORLD.

THE REV. G. BYRNE'S LECTURE AT THE

ST. PATRICK'S CLUB,

The following is an outline of the lecture delivered by the Rev. G. Byrne, S.J., D.Ph., at St. Patrick's Club on Thursday evening:

his neck and to be cast into the sea than that he should sully the purity of a child.

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The Fullness Of Fatherhood. "What think you of Christ t'

From His teaching on childhood This question is as living and com- pelling a question to-day as it was Christ naturally arrested the mind when Christ Himself asked to the One Wao alone can claim nearly two thousand years ago. In the fullness of fatherhood, God fact it is much more living a quesities of the held and the birds of Whose providenco is marked by the tion; then it was asked in Galilee; now it is asked all over the world, the air. Any one who has read the A mare list of books, written in all Gospe. and who, at the same time, languages and by all types of mind, is familiar with the pre-Christian would in itself make a formidable literature, whether Jewish volume. The answera necessarily Pagan, feels duce into what a fall into two broad divisions for world of infinitely tender love or "against." Within these divi- Christ has introduced us. Some sions we find endless shades of where in the bottom of the heart of man must be found the cry the millioná thought. There are

"shew us the Father and it is who accept Him as their God and smaller groups who are content to enough," at least a dim hope that reverence Him as the moat perfect somewhere behind the limited veil of human teachers, whilst in the of beauty and love there ought to eamp of those who refuse in any be a heart of infinite beauty and of sense to follow Him there are men infinite love. But somehow, in who admire Him from afar, and spite of prophetic utterances, man who range Him with other great knew little of what was behind the teachers; and there are men, who veil and he was half afraid to voice pursue Him with a spirit of hatred his hope:

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trace of His teaching and of His life. In fact, a few writers of the school of the shallow philosophy of i the eighteenth century even ven-!

Christ took him by the hand and tured to question the historical led Him to the Father,. The" Son existence of Christ. Of such efforts of man" and the little children of the distinguished rationalist Housman roamed the daisied fields to. ton Stewart Chamberlain wrote: gether murmuring Our Father." "The fact that the nineteenth cen- admiring the beauty of His mind in tury has fed itself on books in the flowers and His never failing which it was shown that Chris- cara for the birds feeding amongit The children laughed with tianity originated quite casually, them. by chance, as a phase of mythology Christ and there was pure joy in their laughter. Later they, or or a dialectical antithesis, or I

rather some of them, left Him. They know not what, or again a necessary product of Judaisim, etc., went very far from the Father's will give in later ages eloquent home into a land where one hears testimony to the childishness of our no longer, the innocent laughter of childhood. Christ followed them judgment."

there, not only in parable but in deed and He did not rest content until He had satisfied the Father's yearning that the son who was lost should be found again, and that the love of home should be kindled again in a heart where it had ceased to burn. This indeed was a refashioning of man's outlook on God and on life.

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No Christian can be surprised at this divergence of view. The claims made by Christ are not only great, they are unique. He is God and He is man all power is Hin in Heaven and upon earth. He has a code of ethics, a code of morality: many will be found who are un willing to shape their lives by this code, but their failure to do so means failure in His kingdom, for

A religion which left man's social He is a King, and it will be fraught problems autobed would have with consequences that are eternal. done little for the distracted world No wonder, then, that men should which Christ came to save and so challenge these claims. If false to refashion.. Men were tired of they are preposterous; if true no the cold formalism or empty ritual- other claims on human life can via ism which their High-Priests had with them. In the crowds which to offer them. Christ came to fill Christ addressed were Jews and the void. The following words of Pagans. Both had their teachera: Professor Harnack tell us what was these teachers did not know the accomplished: "What a richness true way. He came to replaco and what a fullness! Each point! them and their schools: "he that seems to be the principle point, one followeth Me walketh not in dark- had almost, said the only one! ness,' You have heard that it Christianity is the announcement of was said to them of old... but I God the Almighty Father, of His say to you." In other words He Son Jesus Christ," and of the res came to refashion the world. The surection. It is the Gospel of the world was in sore need of being Saviour and of salvation, of re refashioned. Those who have read demption and of the new creation. the dialogues of Plato, will remem. It is the Gospel of love and of her the efforts of this Philosopher charitable works. It is the religion to try and got some order into the of the Spirit and of strength, of chaos of opinions prevailing in a serious moral code and of sanc- Greece, the mistress of Pagan cul tity. It is the religion of authority ture. Fundamental notions of right and of absolute faith, but its and wrong. were open topics of the religion of reason and of clear debate amongst those trained by knowledge. All that can claim to the Sophists. But the greatcet die be religion it possesses; all that order of all was the universal sold can be called religionows that, in tem of slavery, by which untold student of history knows millions of men and women were three centuries, the Pagan empire the chattels of the few who hap of Rome had become Christian very pened to have the power and the largely in fact: He knows also that wealth All this bad to be changed the conversion of Rome to Chris and Christ was to change it. He tinuity is an event of outstanding did change it, not by grafting importance in all history. He political revolution on religious re knows that it gave a character to form. He laid down principles such the development of civilization, that, once they should have pene- which refashioned man's, social trated the human mind, they would ideals and outlook. The old Roman uproot the evils from which empire, with its dead weight of humanity was suffering." "A merely | paganism, gave way to the quicken- human reformer would have eming spirit of Christianity, It had phasised the evil and tried to frame new ideals to offer to the world and a law compelling masters to, eman it quickly found a living language cipate their slavea, or he would in which to clothe theng Those have invited the slaves to rise who stand afar and criticise have against the unjust oppression. I not read the pages of an Augustine, Christ did neither, but to master a Basil, Chrysostoma Bonaven and slave alike He said "You are ture, a Bernard Christ came brothere, and He added -the speaking with authority and speak- magnetism of a personal appealing to the heart... "that those who led the hungry fed Him, and those who visited the prisoner visited Him." He spoke To-day His authoritative message of love, a pure love that can work is still offered His appeal, to the even for one's enemies, and He heart is still honoured. He appeal. Do. made men understand that the ed to men se to refashion their lives beauty of Heaven, ebone in hearts that their fellows seeing the fruits that were so fashioned upon earth. might glorify their Father in Hea : Ho who would refashion the van. A long line of martyrs and world should begin with ita cradles, confessors have answered the call This Christ has done. As Chateau- Most have heard of a Francis of briand reminds us the Ancients, did Assisi, a Vincentde Paula not keep their eyes fixed on child- Dominic, a Xavier, Many have hood for long; the language of the never reflected that the Church of cradle szemed too simple and Christ has never been without her naive in its expression. 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