Monsignor Bonomelli, in a letter read at the World Missionary
Conference held in Edinburgh, June, 1910, said:
Jesus has, in reality, not vanished either from history, or from
the life of Christianity. He lives at all times in millions of
souls, He is enthroned as King in all hearts. The figure of
Christ has not the cold splendor of a distant star, but the
warmth of a heart which is near us, a flame burning in the soul
of believers and keeping alive their consciences. Putting aside
certain opinions, which, honored at the moment, may possibly be
abandoned to-morrow, criticism had hoped to effect a complete
demolition of the conception of Christ, but what criticism
really demolished was merely irrelevant matter. The figure of
Christ, after all the onslaughts of criticism, now stands forth
more pure and divine than ever and compels our adoration.
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