Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
Father Goepfert's Casket.
written for the EAGLE RIVER DEMOCRACY

210. He who foresees calamltles suffers
them twice over Neverdread the future
but live on every day in virtue and inno-
cence, ever illumined bv the light OF the
grace of God in whom you may safely
trust and on whose power and goodness
you may firmly and confidently rely.
"Be not, therefore, solicitous for tomor-
row, for the morrow will be solicitous
for itself Sufficient for the day is the
evil thereof"
211. til right and just to labor for
our daily bread and to gather what is
necessary for the sustenance OF our child
rem. Still, we must FIRST seek the king
dom of God, and His Justice" and clay
up for ourselves not treasures on earth,
where the rust and moth consume, and
where thieves break through and steal,
but lay up for Ourselves treasures in heav-
en-; where neither the rust nor moth doth
consume, and where thieves do not break
through nor steal.'
PIP. The Lord provides for all our
wants. Therefore" says our divine Re-
deemer, ''be not solicitous for your life,
what you shall eat, nor for your body,
what you shall put on, is not the life
more than the meat; and the body more
than the raiment? Behold the birds OF
the air, for they neither SOW, nor do they
reap, nor gather into barns; and your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not
you of much more value than they? And
which of you. by taking thought, can
add to his stature one cubit? And for
raiment why are you solicitous? Consid-
er the lilies OF the field, how they grow;
they labor not, neither do they spin
But say to you, that not even Solomon
in all his glory was arrayed as one of
these Your Father knoweth that
you have need of all these things
213. Fishing for fish is pleasurable and
profitable and worth being praised and
encouraged. Fishing for compliments
is selfish, vain and ridiculous; it may Sc
cure a few bites, but is certain of many
back-bites. What is caught that way is
not worth stringing, but worth being
piteously laughed at, and strongly dis.
couraged.
PA. Self-wiIl is the first thing we love
and adhere to. and the last thing we
abandon; what IL nearest is also dearest.
To renounce seIf-wiIl is, therefore the
greatest sacrifice 1t is much easier to
give up what is ours than to give up
ourselves. Which In the most painful,
for one who enters the religious state to
give up the world, his fortune, hisfriends
or himself? TO forsake parents, home.
earthly possessions and friends, it takes
but little time, to forsake
215. A soul cleansed in the Blood of
Christ crucified ardently loves to walk
on the path of suffering, considering all
earthly joys and consultations as perish
able food, and Affections as medicines OF
salvation whose taste may be bitter, but
whose fruits are sweet.
PIG. Each day the wise man studies in
retreat. silence and prayer, how to die
well. He never forgets i'll what condition
he would wish to be IN at the hour of
death. nor the terrible punichments, nor
the rewards which will follow, when
each action of his life will be submitted
to rigid scrutiny after which no fault
will remain UNPUBLISHED and no virtuous
deed unrewarded. God is just. Let us
be prudent.