and progressed from childhood to youth and from youth to manhood by the same stages of bodily development as you or I. But we cannot suppose, without grave irreverence to His sacred personality, that He was less rich in wisdom and grace while in the womb of His Mother or the crib at Bethlehem, than when disputing in the Temple with the Doctors, or enunciating sublime truth in His Sermon on the Mount. Much less can we suppose Him to have ever suffered the indignity of having a mere mortal for His teacher. The mind and soul of the merely mortal, newly-born, is a virgin page — an unblown flower that opens slowly under the light and heat of the Sun of justice and truth. But even after the burden of the day and the heat, the most profound philosopher or zealous worker in the Lord's vineyard has succeeded, at best, in acquiring only a measure of wisdom and sanctity. But not so Our Lord; Abraham and Isaac and John the Baptist testified that, to Christ, wisdom and grace were given not according to measure, but that, being heir by Nature, He had a clear title from the beginning to the fulness of His divine inheritance. We, on the contrary, are heirs only by adoption and receive our talents, five, two, or one, at Our Master's option and each according to his proper ability. Christ was the head wherein are focused all the senses; we are but the members of His mystical body, endowed with one or other sense, and that imperfectly. From the first moment of its creation, Christ's human mind was in the actual possession and exercise of every branch of human knowledge, and
