Strange as it may seem to
have to say it, so it is. Jesus Christ showed that howsoever sin and
sorrow came into the world, it is God's will and purpose to root them
out of the world, and that He is righteous, He is loving, He is
merciful, He does and will fight against evil, for those who are
crushed by it; and help poor sufferers always when they call upon
Him, and often, often, of His most undeserved condescension and free
grace, when they are forgetting and disobeying Him. And so by the
good, and loving, and just spirit which Jesus showed, God was
justified before men, and showed to be a God of goodness and justice.
The next puzzle, I said, was about angels and spirits, whether we
need to pray to them to help us, and not to hurt us. St. Paul
answers: God, when He was manifested in the flesh of a man, was seen
by these angels. And that is enough for us. They saw the Lord God
condescend to be born in a stable, to live as a poor man, to die on
the cross. They saw that His will to man was love. And they do His
will. And therefore they love men, they help men, they minister to
men, because they follow the Lord's example, and do the will of their
Father in Heaven, even as we ought to do it on earth. Therefore we
have no need to fear them, for they love us already.
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