Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FOUNDATION OF THE REIGN OF JESUS CHRIST. My Lord?Gentlemen, We have seen that in his public as well as in his inner life, Jesus Christ lived as God. But to live is only the first act of life, the second act of life is that of outliving ourselves. For all life has an object, and it is the accomplishment of that object which judges the life. Consequently, it is not enough for me to have proved to you even with the highest evidence that the inner life of Jesus Christ, and his public life, possessed a divine character; for if that life has not attained its object, if it has left no traces, whatever else we may think of it, it has been vain. It is needful then that Jesus Christ, after having lived as God, should have perpetuated himself as God; if he has not done this, all the conclusion we should be able to draw from that disproportion between his life and the effects ofhis life, would be that he was the most magnificent and the most inexplicable nothing that the world has ever seen. But what had Jesus Christ to do in order to perpetuate himself as God ? He had to fulfil the object of his life, such as he had publicly announced and represented it, which was to found here below the kingdom of God. After John was put in prison, says the evangelist St. Mark, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying: The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye and believe the gospel? And, sending forth his disciples to take their part in the apostolate, he thus set forth their mission: Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. and heal the sick that are therein, and say to them: The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive yo...