16 DISCOURSES OF FATHER HYACINTHE. 



more loving", in a "word, grander, than our own. '•' x\nd 

 this man shall be the peace !" Et erit iste Pax:^' 



Over the cradle of our Lord Jesus Christ the angels 

 sung, in tlie majestic beauty of that Christmas night, 

 ^•' Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, 

 good-will to men." And over tlic tomb from which ho 

 rose, the cradle of his new life, Christ says himself, "' I 

 have overcome the world ! My peace I give to you I" 

 The future shall receive that promise of the angels, and 

 that gift of Christ — the double hosanna of his cradle 

 and his tomb. The future is the inheritance, not of 

 the violent, but of the meek. Then shall be brought 

 to pass that other saying, w^ritten among the words that 

 shall never pass away, " Blessed are the meek, for they 

 sliall inherit the earth." \^Loud and long-continued 

 applause.] 



* Micah, V. 5. 



