by Rev. L. F. McGreal, S.J. n Sunday in the Catholic Hour Series ich are coming to you through the courtesy of Catholic Radio League, we lay no claims to We do not come to you with a new doctrine, a new problems of the human-race. Anything that we or can say has been said in a thousand different ways by different people in thousands of different places dur-years. Christianity is old, very old, but who y that it-is antiquated The sunrise and the sunset are old; old too, are the mountains, the seas, the starlit d the budding rose, but they are still beautiful, still "sway human emotions, still inspire the human mind a words and poetic fancy. They are old but never anti-then, is not to propose earthly paradise to those who follow in His footsteps. His history is a history of trials, sufferings and per-sections, and yet He dared to so "I am the way. Follow Me." And what is true of Christ is true of His Church. It is not the business of Christianity to make men physically happy and materially pro-sporous. The Church does not directly set out to make the world econo-tically perfect. Her primary purpose is to make men serve God, subfnit to God's' wall and follow God's we fail in our understanding of Christianity and the Church because we fail to understand the nature and purpose of Christ. We build up our own Christ, instead of accepting His wholly and entirely as God gave Him to us. We, even those of us who call ourselves Christians, make the same mistake that the chosen people made with regard to the Messiah. When man first rose up in rebellion against the expressed will of God, he was punished for his crime. But God
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