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BEST WISHES BRUMBY FURNITURE COMPANY COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS TELEPHONE 8-1581 MARIETTA, GEORGIA MAYES WARD FUNERAL HOME FUNERAL DIRECTORS ■: Ambulance Service Dial 8-1511 408 Church Street Marietta, Ga. MARIETTA TRADE-MARK REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. BOTTLING COMPANY 506 ROSWELL STREET MARIETTA, GEORGIA Theology for The Layman (Continued From Page Four) perience is of one nature being possessed by one person, we cannot honestly say that we know enough even of person and nature in man to assert that one to one is the only possible relation. Of the infinite being we have no experience at all: if God tells us that in Him there are three Persons, we have no reason to question, we must simply try to understand. Now tor the objection — the commonest of all from the in telligent atheist — that if each of the three Persons is God, then there must be three Gods. Perhaps the quickest way to show the fallacy here is to take the phrase “Three Men.” Brown and Jones and Robinson are three distinct persons each possessing human nature. So far, you say, there is a complete parallel. Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct persons, each possessing divine nature. But observe the difference. Brown and Jones and Robinson each has his own allotment of human nature: Brown does no1 understand with Jones’s intel lect; Jones does not love with Robinson’s will: each has his own. The phrase three men, then, means three distinct per sons, each with his own separate human nature, his own separate equipment as man. The phrase three Gods could only mean three distinct persons, each with His own separate Divine nature, His own separate equipment as God. But this is not so. They possess one single nature; they do in fact what our three men could not do — they know with the same intel lect, love with the same will. They are three Persons and each is God; but they are one God. not three. If this were all, we could saj that at least we saw no contra diction in the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. But we should probably say that we saw noth ing else either. To learn that the infinite divine nature, already mysterious enough to us, is possessed by three entities more mysterious still, merely triples the darkness. It is in learning about the personalities of the Persons that we begin to find ourselves growing in the light. We must, God aiding, bring our minds to bear upon that infinite act of generation by which God the Father begets His Son; and upon that infinite union in love by which the Holy Spirit proceeds from Father and Son. With that we are coming nearer the answer to our ques tion — in what does God’s life consist? Confirmation In Navy Chapel THE BULLETIN, July 26, 1958—PAGE 5 NEAL’S GRILL & BAR-B-Q BEST HOME COOKING IN ATLANTA Open Week Days 5:30 A. M.-Midnight Friday, Saturday Open Until 2:30 A. M. Reaular Dinners • Lunches • Breakfasts 932 McDaniel st„ n. e. Atlanta ALBERT M. BOBBINS FUNERAL HOME 306 Cherokee Street Phone 8-2636 MARIETTA, GEORGIA • AIR CONDITIONED CHAPEL • OXYGEN EQUIPPED AMBULANCE Bishop Luke K. Aral of Yokohama, administers the sacra ment of Confirmation to Cpl. Milton Morris of Waquoit, Mass., and 13 others at a camp .chapel in the U. S. Naval Air Station in Atsugi, Japan. Standing in rear is Father Gerald J. Ryan, of New York an Augustinian Missionary in Japan. (NC Photos) Dennis Ludwig Sr. Services In Augusta AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for Denis Sebastian Ludwig Sr. were held July 1st at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. Jos- . eph L. LeRoy, S.J., officiating. Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Louise Ludwig Daniels of North Augusta, S. C., one son, Denis Ludwig Jr., of North Au gusta; two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Oetjen Sr., and Miss Helen Lud wig, both of Augusta; three bro thers, James Ludwig of Augus ta, Edward Ludwig of Edgefield, S. C. and Alphonse Ludwig of Atlanta; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. Question Box (Continued From Page Four) continual prayers to God that His kingdom may flourish . . . but who also atone for the sins of other men, still more than for their own, by mortification, pre scribed or voluntary, of mind and body — such must be said to have chosen the better part.” THE PHRASE “the better part,” was used by our Divine Lord in admonishing Martha of Bethany, who was “distracted by waiting on many needs”: “Martha, Martha, how many cares and troubles thou hast! But only one thing is necessary; and Mary has chosen the better part of all, that which shall never be taken from her.” (St. Luke X: 42) Here Christ singled out Mar tha as a type of the active life; Mary, of the contemplative. And, although the former is good, the latter is of its nature more noble, for it will not cease with death but will last forever. BESIDES objectively trans cending the active life in rank, the contemplative life is in itself of greater meritorious and prac tical value. OF GREATER MERITORI OUS value, because the love of God is generically more meri torious than love of neighbor for God’s sake. But the contem plative life pertains more im mediately to love of God. Thus, it is of more merit. OF GREATER PRACTICAL value, simply because the con templative lives in constant in timate union with the First Cause of all g r a c e, without whom even the most skilled preacher (who is but an instru ment of divine favor) could not possibly win a single soul to good. “Hands uplifted,” wrote Bos- suet, “rout more battalions than hands that strike.” “I want Trappists,” demanded a famed Chinese bishop; “I even want them to abstain from all exterior ministry in order that nothing may distract them from the SERVICES FOR V. W. SHARP SAVANNAH — Funeral serv ices for Vincent W. Sharp were held July 5th at the Sacred Heart Church. He was an honorary member of the Knights of Columbus, member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, No. 803, and a member of the Holy Name Society. work of prayer, penance, and sacred studies.” “Ten Carmelite nuns, praying,” declared another missionary bishop, “will be of greater help to me than twenty missionaries, preaching.” NO ONE REALLY KNOWS the reason underlying the con version of a heathen, for ex ample, in the darkest corner of the world. Yet surely linked to every such conversion, or to the heroic suffering of another soul under persecution for his faith, are the silent prayers and sac rifices of an obscure cloistered monk or nun. Coggins Shoe Store E. REID GEIGER, Pres. 46 WEST PARK SQUARE MARIETTA, GA. MARLER & THOMAS SERVICE STATION GASOLINE AND OILS Wholesale and Retail Distributor: U. S. Royal Tires ATLANTA ROAD MARIETTA, GA. Service You Can't Forget — Especially Our Tire Recapping WILI .1 AMS DRU C 1C 0. "A Complete Drug Store" Phone 9-9088 Marietta, Ga. SERVICES FOR JAMES J. JOYCE DECATUR — Funeral servic es for James J. Joyce were held July 3rd at St. Thomas More Church, Rev. T. J. Roshetko, officiating. Survivors are his wife, the former Irene A. Cassidy, of At lanta; son, Don T. Joyce, Hay ward, Calif.; daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Joyce, Hayward, Calif., and sisters, Mrs. James McCabe, Cleveland; Mrs. E. L. Kimes, Chicago; Sister M. Thomasina, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Robert Bowman, Chicago, and Mrs. Don McDonnell of Cleveland. MARIETTA LUMBER COMPANY Phone 9-9068 Post Office Box 3 Lumber ® IVlillwork • Building Materials ATLANTA ROAD AT SOUTH COBB DRIVE MARIETTA, GEORGIA