to a trench which he had dug. St. Augustine stopped and asked the child what he was doing. He answered: “I want to empty all the water of the ocean into this pit.” The saint shook his head, and said: “ My child, that is impossible! ” The boy looked up and smiled. “It would be easier,” he replied, “ to empty all the sea into this trench than to fathom the mystery of the Holy Trinity.” Our finite intelligence can no more comprehend the nature of the infinite Deity than the waters of the ocean can be confined in a vessel of human manufacture.
Q. What is a mystery?
A. A mystery is a truth which we cannot fully understand.
The Word of a Missionary
If we believe man, how much the more ought we to believe God! A missionary from Europe went to preach the Gospel in a heathen country situated in the tropics. Once upon a time he told the natives that in his country during winter the water became so hard that an elephant could walk on it. The natives, who only knew water as always warm and even boiling in certain springs, could not imagine such a thing to be possible. Yet as they knew the missionary to be an upright and honorable man, they did not doubt him but believed his statement. If we give credence to the word of a man of known integrity, how much more ought we unhesitatingly to believe the word of God.
