PREDICTIONS OF THE GOSPEL.

No one is a prophet in his own land. — Death and passion of Jesus.

— Persecution of the apostles.

— Impenitent cities.

— Ruin of the Temple and of Jerusalem.

— Curse upon the Pharisees. — My words shall not pass away.

— The cornerstone. — Parable of the murderous vineyard-keepers. — One single flock and one single shepherd. — Advent of Elijah. — Announcement of the Comforter. — Second advent of the Christ.

— Precursory signs.

— Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.

— Final judgment.

MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.

— Then, drawing near to him, his disciples said to him: Do you know that, on hearing what you have just said, the Pharisees were scandalized?

He answered: Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted. Leave them; they are blind leading the blind; if one blind man guides another blind man, both shall fall into the ditch. (Saint Matthew, chapter XV, vv. 12 to 14.)

— Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

(Saint Matthew, chapter XXIV, v. 35.)

— The words of Jesus shall not pass away, because they shall be true in all times; his moral code shall be eternal, because it consecrates the conditions of the good that leads man to his eternal destiny.

But, have his words reached us pure of all dross and of false interpretations?

Have all the Christian sects grasped their spirit?

Has none of them turned them away from their true meaning, in consequence of the prejudices and ignorance of the laws of Nature?

Has none transformed them into an instrument of domination, to serve their ambitions and their material interests, as a step, not to rise to heaven, but to raise themselves on Earth?

Have all of them adopted as a rule of conduct the practice of the virtues, a practice that Jesus made an express condition of salvation?

Are all of them free from the apostrophes that he addressed to the Pharisees of his time?

Will all of them, finally, be, both in theory and in practice, the pure expression of his doctrine?

Being one, and unique, truth cannot be contained in contrary affirmations, and Jesus did not intend to give a double meaning to his words.

If, then, the different sects contradict one another; if some consider true what others condemn as heresies, it is impossible that all are with the truth.

If all of them had grasped the true meaning of the evangelical teaching, all would have met on the same ground and there would be no sects.

What shall not pass away is the true meaning of the words of Jesus; 13 what shall pass away is what men have built upon the false meaning they gave to those same words.

Having for his mission the transmission to men of the thought of God, only his doctrine, in all its purity, can express that thought; that is why he said: Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted.