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 splendor of  His  rising. Into the  dark  aisles  of  the Temple and  abroad  through  all  the  land  until,  lo! the zenith is  reached  and  the  world  is  amazed  and  men say, one  to  another,  "  never  did  man  speak  as  this man." Such was  Christ's  manifestation  of  Himself — such His  progress  in  wisdom  and  grace. And just as men,  like  roots  under  the  sun,  were  beginning  to rise  heavenward,  there  came  the  dark  hours  of  the Passion and  death — the  sun  declined  and  sank  and the mists  settled  down  again;  some,  until  the  coming of the  Paraclete,  and  some,  alas! forever.

And Jesus  increased  in  age  and  wisdom  and  grace with God  and  men. Brethren, it  is  deeply  significant that in  this  model  of  all  youth,  youth's  three  graces — age, learning,  and  piety — are  linked  together  as  inseparable companions. It is  an  essentially  imperfect system of  education  that  proposes  the  development  of only  one  faculty. If the  body  alone  be  educated,, the result  is,  at  best,  an  ignoble  modern  gladiator. More pernicious  still  is  a  mind  illumined  by  knowledge with  a  heart  uninflamed  by  the  love  of  God  and humanity. The light  of  the  sun  without  its  heat would be  a  positive  curse,  serving  only,  as  it  would,  to reveal  the  horrors  of  a  frozen  world;  and  what  heat, alone, would  be  without  light  may  be  judged  from  a concept  of  hell. St. Bernard,  speaking  of  the  coeducation of  mind  and  heart,  says:  "To  be  brilliant is  vain;  to  be  ardent  is  little;  but  to  be  both  brilliant and  ardent  is  perfect." John the  Baptist,  because  he was  a  shining  and  burning  light,  was  eulogized  by Our  Lord  as  the  greatest  born  of  woman;  more  than