The Jeffersonian (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 1, 1951 Page: 3 of 12
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MAY, 1951
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Pace S
U. S. Once Paid Foi Religions Schools
Promised Real Flesh
(Continued from page one)
"I am the living bread that
has come down from heaven. If
anyone eat of this bread he
shall live forever; and the bread
that I will give is my flesh for
the life of the world."
This remarkable statement Je-
sus made in the course of His
response to the question put
to Him by the crowd: "What
are we to do In order that we
may perform the works of God?"
"This is the work of God, that
you believe in him whom he has
sent," Our Lord answered.
MANY WERE UNBELIEVING
'Most of those who listened to
the words of Christ were not wil-
ling to .believe in Him Whom
God had sent into the world.
With good reason had Jesus just
upbraided them in these words:
"Amen, amen, I say to you, you
seek me, not because you have
seen signs, but because you
have eaten of the loaves and
have been filled."
These curiosity-seekers when
told by Christ that they must
believe in Him were not dispos-
ed to believe. Because they fol-
lowed Him on account of the
material food which He had
placed in their stomachs the day
before and not on account of
the fact that He had demonstrat-
ed His Divinity, these creatures
iaid to their Creator: "Wha\
sign, then, dost thou, that we
may see and believe thee? Your
fathers ate the manna in the de-
sert, even as It is written,
'Bread from hedven he gave
them to eat.'"
Jesus replied that Moses did
not give the bread from heaven
but His father & that the bread
cf God is that which comes
down from heaven and «ives life
to the world.
"Lord, give us always this
bread," replied the Jews.
PEW SHORTAGE REMEDIED
These thoughts on the sac-
red reality of the Presence of
Jesus in the consecrated
Bread of the altar were deliv
ered in sermon form on April
22 in St. Mary's Church, New
Boston, and on May 6th in St,
Joseph's Church, Clarksville.
Because this sacred treasure
of the Catrolic Church would
be loved by more if only it
were known, we reproduce
here this commentary on the
historic belief of the Apos-
tles, the martyrs and of the
2,000 year old Catholic
Church.
CALLS HIMSELF BREAD
Then Our Lord Identified Him-
self with this bread. "I am the
bread ot life. He who comes to
me shall not hunger, and he
who believes in me shall never
• thirst."
This Identification by Jesus of
Himself with the bread that
coi4es down from Heaven did
not meet with favor from the
Jews. St. John, our Inspired
narrator of this significant ser-
mon by Christ, declares that the
Jews murmured about Christ be-
cause 'He had said, "I am the
bread that has come down from
heaven." They argued amongst
themselves, saying "Is this not
Jesus the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know?
How, then, does He say, I' have
down from Heaven'?"
The Jews clearly did not be-
lieve In the divine origin of Je-
sus. They resented the claim to
heavenly origin of one Whom
they mistakingly thought was
the son of the carpenter Joseph.
REITERATED HIS CLAIM
Our Lord, however, left them
in no doubt as to His origin. He
reiterated with emphasis His
claim to be the bread of life and
SCHOOLS OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ATTENDED
TAUGHT RELIGION, PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS IN
U. S. ARE VITAL, PROTESTANT TELLS MEET
When a growing congregation necessitated more seating space
for Sunday Mass at the Hughes Springs Legion Hall, Seymour Mc-
Daniel, Jr., Hughes Springs convert to the faith, drove his truck,
pictured above, to Jefferson and returned with two extra pews. At
tl:c direction of the pastor these two pews were temporarily bor-
rowed (rom Immaculate Conception Church. JEFFERSONIAN photo.
bluntly announced that the
bread that He would give would
be His very flesh for the life of
the world.
"Dj not murmur among your-
selves," He told His listeners.
"I am the bread of life. Your
fathers ate the manna in the
desert, and have died. This ig
the bread that comes down from
heaven, so that if anyone eat ot
it he will not die. I am the liv-
ing bread that has come down
from heaven. If anyone eat of
this bread he shall live foiever;*
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the
world."
LITERAL MEANING TAKEN
The Jews understood Jesus
literally. They understood Him
to mean that the bread that He
was promising would be His
very flesh. They revolted at the
idea.
"How can this man give us his
flesh to eat?," they argued a-
mong themselves.
Jesus Christ heard these words
of His audience. He saw that
they had understood Him to
mean that the bread He would
give would be His flesh as He
had said. Jesus possessed the
greatest amount of common
sense. He had no reason to de-
ceive nor could He be deceived.
His answer then to the Jewish
question, "How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?," Is
then very interesting.
INSISTS ON REAL EATING
Said Our Lord: "Amen, amen,
I say to you, UNLESS you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man, and
DRINK his blood, you shall NOT
have life in you. He who eats
my flesh and drinks my blooi
has life everlasting and I '
raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is FOOD INDEED,
and my blood is DRINK IN-
DEED. He who eats my flesh,
and drinks my blood, abides in
me and I in him. As the living
Father has sent me, and as I
live because of the Father, so
he who eats me, he also shall
live because of me. This is the
bread that has c:me down from
heaven; not as your fathers ate
the manna, and died. He who
eats this 'bread shall live for-
ever."
Christ in these words made
Himself unmistakably clear.
Given the opportunity to clarify
Himself to an audience that had
definitely understood Him to
promise a bread which would be
flesh, Jesus left no doubt of His
intentions. Using strong langu-
age, He bluntly observed that
unless one ate of His flesh and
drank of His blood, he would
have no life in him. Again He
stated frankly that the reward
for those who would eat H i s
flesh and drink His blood would
be everlasting life. He identified
His flesh as food and His Blood
as drink.
SOME DISCIPLES TOOK A
WALK; LORD LET THEM GO
This identification was too
much not only for the crowd but
also even for some of Jenus's
own disciples. Their comment on
Our Lord's statement that su-
pernatural life was Impossible
unless one literally ate His flesh
and drank His Blood was brief
and rebellious. "This is a hard
saying. Who can listen to it?,"
they exclaimed and they walked
out on Christ.
Our Savior let the unbelieving
disciples go. He did not call
them back to explain that He
was just talking to be talking
and that He didn't mean the
words He had spoken..He didn't
retract the 'blunt finality of HI*
words: "Unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and
lood drink his hlood, you shall not
hare life In yon." He didn't
day: summon the unbelieving disciples
back and tell them that His ref-
erence to eating and drinking
His flesh and blood as a prelude
for eternal resurrection was only
an allegory. No, Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, let the unbeliev-
ing disciples go. He willingly
(Continued on page 7, col. 1)
Henderson — "All through our
history we have 'been deleting
more and more of God's teach-
ings from our school curricula.
Our nation's philosophy and
standard of living is failing in
direct ratio to the above fact."
Speaking as a Pi<otestant to
150 Catholic women of the East
Texas Council of the National
Council of Catholic Women, E.
H. Campbell, prominent Hender-
son civic leader, deplored the
trend In American educational
history which has made Ameri-
cans forget that the first Ameri-
can schools which trained the
leaders who gave us our Consti-
tution and our Ideals were reli-
gious schools kept up by U. S.
taxes.
NOT ORIGINAL SCHOOL
The public school as we know
it today was not the original
American school, 'Mr. Campbell
said. It originated around 1840
or about 62 years after this
country had been founded. Tha
development of the public school
as it is today with religion and
God kept out began about 100
years ago. Though recognizing
the inability of Protestants to
agree on religion as the reason
for this trend, Mr. Campbell in-
dicated that many liberal Pro-
testants are thinking that the
exclusion of even the basic re-
ligious teachings from the public
school has not been good for
America.
RELIGION IS NEEDED
''Only when the teaching of
sound religion and teaching of
God's Word enters back Into all
of our school systems, will we
have patriotic, sound and healthy
minds in our children — and
beneficial national and interna-
tioal policies In the world again,"
Mrs. Campbell said.
This nation needs Its religious
schools, the speaker told the
NCCW. Parochial schools are
vital to the health of our nation,
Mr. Campbell declared, adding
that they are a part of the great
American educational syBtem.
He praised Catholics for being
interested in the religious train-
ing of their children & voiced the
hope that public schools will
eventually remedy what many
Americans consider a weakness
in a great system, namely, the
lack of even basis religious in-
struction.
HISTORY SHOCK TO 80ME
Reviewing early American his-
tory, the speaker noted that it
was interesting to recall a fact
which is n o w so little known
that it would shock many who
believe separation of Church and
State means separating religion
and its wonderful influence from
the training and lives of young-
sters except for a few minutes
on Sunday. That fact noted by
the speaker was this: in early
America the Government of
the United States believed in
helping all religions, for it paid
out of tax money for the support
of schools conducted by the vari-
ous churches. In these schools
fell the Presidents for many
years and all the sons of the sig-
ners of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence as well as framers of
the Constitution received the ed-
ucation which made them treat
Americans.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOLLOW
OUR EARLY TRADITIONS
Catholic schools, Mr. Campbell
concluded, follow the early trad-
itions of this great country and
by giving children a religious
training build tremendously for
the future of America.
Said Mr. Campbell to the
Catholic ladies:
"Let's have more parochial
schools — let's increase the vig-
or of those already in operation
and put more Holy Catholic
teaching Into our every day liv-
ing."
COMMENT: Orchids to Epis-
copalian Campbell for a broad-
minded, liberal and progressive
Protestant viewpoint on the part
played by the religious schools
of America In our American ed-
ucational system. Would that
other Protestants In positions of
public Influence would realize,
as does Mr. Campbell, that the
Founding Fathers of this coun-
try, in the horrible violation of
the Constitution which they al-
lowed by uniting Church and
State through the tax support of
religious schools, actually did a
good thing, for religion Is vital
in the education ot the child.
OTHER8 NOT SO LIBERAL
About the time Episcopalian
Campbell was making his state-
ment two other Protestants ot
note were saying. In effect, that
the tough time religious schools
have In staying open 1 s just
their hard luck, for the benefit
of the U. S. school tax dollar
can go only to those taxpayers
who believe either that there is
no God or that children's educa-
tion is better when the teaching of
God, His Bible, His Command-
ments, dtc., Is left out of the
school room. At the time Mr.
Campbell was making his fair-
minded, liberal statement these
two prominent Protestants, in
positions where they can influ-
ence people, said in effect that
It is horribly wrong fo tax athi-
eats to support religion, even in
such an Indirect way as to have
public money spent to protect the
lives of religious school children on
the highway, but perfectly all
right to tax 35,000,000 Americans
who believe in religious schools
to support a system of non-rell-
glous education in which they
don't believe. These advocates
of an unjust and unfair discrim-
ination of schools which teach
religion were Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt ot New York and col-
umnist Lynn Landrum ot Dal-
las, Texos.
ENGLAND 18 BROADMINDED
Though Columnist Roosevelt
and Civic Leader Campbell pro-
fess the same faith, Episcopal-
ianism, the latter seems to be
much closer to the belief of the
Mother Church In England a-
gainst religious discrimination.
England with its Protestant
State Church has for over 40
years paid even the salaries of
the teachers In Catholic schools.
The people there believe In
freedom of religion for the other
fellow ahd — to be practical —
they believe that English Catho-
lics have /just as much right un-
der God to get some benefit of
the school tax dollars they pay
as have English athlests, Indif-
ferentlsts and secularists.
MOST PROTESTANTS FAIR
The American people being
fair-minded for the most Part, It
1* believed that, despite the pro-
paganda of secularists who have
abandoned belief In the Ameri-
can tradition, the American peo-
ple will eventually readopt the
view of the first President of the
United States that school tax
money can not only be apent to
educate the children of people
who want no dally religious
(Continued on page 6, Col. 6)
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