was confirmed when He was baptized in the Jordan, by a voice from heaven which declared: "This is My beloved Son, in whom 1 am well pleased."
The adversaries of Christ affirm miracles to be impossible; therefore, say they, there were no miracles at all. Hence I might simply say to any one who had fallen from a ladder: "It is not possible to fall, therefore you have not fallen!" Thus it is utterly foolish to deny the possibility of any fact, the existence of which is self-evident. Therefore even Rousseau, who did not believe in Christ, declared that he who denies the possibility of miracles ought to be placed in a lunatic asylum.
7. Thus do we perceive that our faith rests upon the most solid basis; Christ is truly God, He has indisputably attested Himself to be such by means of His sinless life and His glorious miracles. Wherefore gaze upon your Saviour with the eye of faith, and say :
My Lord and God I Thee confess to be, Though foes deride, and will know naught of Thee.
Thy wondrous works reveal to human sight Thy love divine, Thy glory, and Thy might.
VIII. Christ Conquers
1.IN FRONT of St. Peter's in Rome there stands a lofty obelisk which the ancient Romans brought over from Egypt. For cen-
