splendor of His rising. Into the dark aisles of the Temple and abroad through all the land until, lo! the zenith is reached and the world is amazed and men say, one to another, " never did man speak as this man." Such was Christ's manifestation of Himself — such His progress in wisdom and grace. And just as men, like roots under the sun, were beginning to rise heavenward, there came the dark hours of the Passion and death — the sun declined and sank and the mists settled down again; some, until the coming of the Paraclete, and some, alas! forever.
And Jesus increased in age and wisdom and grace with God and men. Brethren, it is deeply significant that in this model of all youth, youth's three graces — age, learning, and piety — are linked together as inseparable companions. It is an essentially imperfect system of education that proposes the development of only one faculty. If the body alone be educated,, the result is, at best, an ignoble modern gladiator. More pernicious still is a mind illumined by knowledge with a heart uninflamed by the love of God and humanity. The light of the sun without its heat would be a positive curse, serving only, as it would, to reveal the horrors of a frozen world; and what heat, alone, would be without light may be judged from a concept of hell. St. Bernard, speaking of the coeducation of mind and heart, says: "To be brilliant is vain; to be ardent is little; but to be both brilliant and ardent is perfect." John the Baptist, because he was a shining and burning light, was eulogized by Our Lord as the greatest born of woman; more than
