the son of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is indeed the Son of God.

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Jesus Our God will Come Again.

HE GOD of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof: out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him. He shall, call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people." Ps. 49:1-4.

"Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne. A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about. His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and trembled." Ps. 96:2-4,

"I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat." Joel 3:2. "Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about." Joel 3:12.

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God foretold His final coming. "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works." St. Matth. 16:27.

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"For as the lightning that lighteneth from under heaven, shineth unto the parts that are under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day." St Luke 17:24.

One day His disciples asked Jesus about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and about the signs that would precede His coming at the end of the world. "And Jesus answering, said to them: Take heed that no man seduce you: For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be pestilences, and famines, and earthquakes in places: Now all these are the beginnings of the sorrow. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be scandalized and shall betray one another: and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many. And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come." St. Matth. 24:4-14.

"And immediately after the tribulation of those

days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be moved: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power and majesty. And he shall send his angels with a trumpet, and a great voice: and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the farthest parts of the heavens to the utmost bounds of them." St. Matth. 24:29-31.

"For neither doth the Father judge any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son." St. John 5:22.

St. Peter, speaking of Jesus Christ, says: "And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God, to be judge of the living and of the dead." Acts 10:42. "Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead." 1 Peter 4:5.

St. Paul testifies: "And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men, that all should everywhere do penance. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed; giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead." Acts 17:30, 31. "God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel." Rom. 2:16. "For we must all be

manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil." II. Cor. 5:10. "I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom." II. Tim. 4:1. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming." II. Tim. 4:7, 8.

In his apocalypse St. John tells us: "Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him." Apoc. 1:7.

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CONCLUDING REMARKS.

IN THIS brief prophetic biography of Jesus

Christ, we have seen how from the very be

ginning of the human race, ere the Cherubim brandished their flaming swords before Paradise to keep the way of the tree of life, the Light of the World was seen like the dawn of a day; and as time wore on, it grew in splendor and brightness until it stood and stands like the bright noonday sun in the sight of an admiring world. "That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world." St. John 1:9.

As we stood upon the brink of time and watched the centuries, like racing waves, bouncing and tossing onward unto the ocean of eternity, we noticed the guides along the shores, the prophets of God, hopefully pointing to Him by Whom the world was made. The wayfarers who heard the inspired message bore the heat and the cold of the day more cheerfully as they passed through fleeting time into the house of their eternity. The days came when "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory, as it were, of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." St. John 1:14. The Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, the pious shepherds, the venerable Simeon, the holy matron Anna, and many others, beheld Jesus face to face. For three years people flocked to Him, listened to His divine message, and received innumerable benefits from Him. Amid the encircling gloom of Calvary, friends and foes looked into the pallid face of Jesus, who hung there, nailed to the cross, in agonizing pangs for three long dreary hours, covered with His precious blood, to save mankind. His apostles and disciples, together with many others of His faithful followers, saw Him again after His resurrection, and for the last time on earth, when He triumphantly ascended into Heaven. However, He remained with us in the Sacrament of Love. He is with us and will remain in and with His Church unto the consummation of the world. Let our heart and soul remain with Jesus Christ, our God