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Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.-MATT. V. 9.Do not think that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but the sword.-MATT. X. 34.We have considered how the key to the Paradoxes of the Gospel and the key to the Paradoxes ofCatholicism is one and the same-that the Life that produces them is at once Divine and Human.Let us go on to consider how this resolves those of Catholicism, especially those charged against usby our adversaries.For we live in a day when Catholicism is no longer considered by intelligent men to be too evidentlyabsurd to be argued with. Definite reasons are given by those who stand outside our borders for theattitude they maintain; definite accusations are made which must either be allowed or refuted.Now those who stand without the walls of the City of Peace know nothing, it is true, of the life thatits citizens lead within, nothing of the harmony and consolation that Catholicism alone can give. Yetof certain points, it may be, in the large outlines of that city against the sky, of the place it occupiesin the world, of its wide effect upon human life in general, it may very well be that these detachedobservers may know more than the devout who dwell at peace within. Let us, then, consider theirreflections not necessarily as wholly false; it may be that they have caught glimpses which we havemissed and relations which either we take too much for granted or have failed altogether to see. Itmay be that these accusations will turn out to be our credentials in disguise.I. Every world-religion, we are told, worthy of the name has as its principal object and its chief claimto consideration its establishing or its fostering of peace among men. Supremely this was so in thefirst days of Christianity. It was this that its great prophet predicted of its work when its DivineFounder should come on earth. Nature shall recover its lost harmony and the dissensions of menshall cease when He, the Prince of Peace, shall approach. The very beasts shall lie down together inamity, the lion and the lamb and the leopard and the kid. Further, it was the Message of Peace that theangels proclaimed over His cradle in Bethlehem; it was the Gift of Peace which He Himselfpromised to His disciples; it was the Peace of God which passeth knowledge to which the great Apostlecommended his converts. This then, we are told, is of the very essence of Christianity; this is thesupreme benediction on the peacemakers that they shall be called the children of God.

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