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The hidden life of Jesus : a lesson and model to Christians

CONTENTS. ADVERTISEMENT page y DEDICATION TO THE HOLY FAMILY. Xii DEDICATION TO THE HOLY BISHOPS OF THE DIOCESE OF EVREUX PART I. CHAPTER I. JESUS HIDDEN IN HIS GENERAL SELF-ANNIHILATION. Jesus hidden as He is God. God everywhere present, yet everywhere forgotten and ignored. Creatures alone re- garded ; the Creator disregarded and offended. How little fear of His Divine Majesty even among Christians and Catholics. Jesus hidden as He is man; whilst men delight in display page 3 CHAPTER II. JESUS HIDDEN AS TO HIS GENERATION — ETERNAL AND TEMPORAL. The value set upon birth, and rank, and state in the world ; and that even by ecclesiastics. Contrast : the Crib of Bethlehem. Christians the disciples of the carpenter's Son page 10 CHAPTER III. JESUS HIDDEN AS TO HIS NATURAL QUALITIES. His natural gifts sublime, yet concealed. Father De Condren's answer when urged to write. The Gospels and their writers. Our Lord's teaching by parables a lesson to the learned and the intellectual. His concealment of His personal beauty a warning to the vain and self-com- placent. His withdrawal of His sensible presence from His disoiples contrasted with men's desire to display their natural advantages; a

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