Nova Et Vetera Informal Meditations Author:George Tyrrell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green and co. Subjects: Meditations Religion / Meditations Religion / Devotional Religion / Meditations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When... more » you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LAZARUS. 243 It is greater skill which deals with more difficult . and stubborn matter, and detects a possible beauty latent in that which is crabbed and deformed. This skill carried to infinity exists in the Divine Artist who from nothing can draw forth all things " by that power wherewith He can subdue all things unto Himself." And as we love most what costs us most, so God's special love is for His specially difficult subjects in whose perfection He is most glorified. In their case what He loves is not merely the possibility of such faith, such happiness; but of such faith in one by nature so sceptical and narrow- minded ; such hope in one so pusillanimous and despondent; such love in one so weakly selfish ; such light in one so bewildered, confused, and darkened; Nam virtus in infirmitate perficitur. Our charity, therefore, is more akin to God's when we love others, not because they are lovable, but in order that they may become lovable. ecu. LAZARUS. Nemo illi dabat. " And no man gave unto him" (so., to the beggar Lazarus). Christ's suffering and poverty had no interest for the Jews. He lay at their doorstep, covered with sores, unknown, despised, neglected, hungering in vain for the crumbs of their faith, love, and kind compassion. Their temporal ambition, their legalist self-sufficiency, their world- liness caused them to forget God and His needs; 244 LAZARUS. even as we, when all goes well with us in body and soul, cease to enter into His passion and ...« less