The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-17

leaves us power to pray. When tn,
heart is sick with longing, it is not onl!
faith but nature which cries: "Eterna
rest give unto them, o Lord. and lie
perpetual light shine upon theml"
o
Have great, great trust and grea
gratitude. When we see all we have
to be grateful for. it will be too late.
Charity should never become a tax
Unless there be in it the sweetness ant
tenderness of free impulse and human
inclination it loses its value and pur-
pose.
Unworldliness is this-to hold things
from God in the perpetual conviction
that they will not last; to have the
| world and not to let the world have
us; to be the worlds masters and not
the worlds slaves.
o
The sad, discouraged Christian who
/ feels his shortcomings and the degen-
eracy of the tinres in which he lives so
overwhelmingly as to take away his
peace and joy needs to get out into
! Gods pure air on some errand of
mercy.
1t is said there is nothing which diff
| fuses itself more quickly in a family
/ than the GOODNESS. indifference and dis
] content which manifest themselves in
the countenances of one of its men,
! bers. This thought is not absolutely
| true. There are some things which
communicate themselves with as much
rapidity and more force; they are a
bright smile, frank and open man
ner, cheerful face, a happy heart.
o.
Just as a stone, even if you fling it
into the air. will fall down to the
earth by its own gravitating force, so
also noble nature, in proportion as it
is repulsed, in that proportion tends
more in its own natural direction.
The Sacred Heart of the Babe of
Bethlehem has come to the vast central
fire of the frozen world It is to break
the bands of the long frost, to loosen
the bosom of the earth and to cover it
with fruits and fiowers-Faber.
No peace was ever won from fate by
subterfuge.-Ruskin.
.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile
seem ile.-Shakespeare.
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Music washes away from the soul the
dust of everyday life.-Auerbach.
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever
perseveres will be crowned.-Herder.
In a.cottage there may be found more
real happiness than kings or their fam
lilies enjoy in palaceS.-Horace.
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We seldom regret having been too
mild, too cautious, or too modest; but
we often repent having been too vio-
lent too precipitate or too proud.
God expects man to cooperate with
the graces he gives him.
Our Redeemer was born poor The |
poor will always be his dearest friends. |
Read all history; the despotism of |
kings, the revels of wealth and luxury |
wrung from the toll of the poor can |
never be glorified. The good, the NOR
ally sublime, those who have blessed |
the world, live in the memory and love |
Of mankind.
Beware of judging hastily; it is better
to suspend an opinion than to retract
an assertion.
God is ever drawing like toward like
and making them acquainted.
The tale of the divine pity was never
yet believed from lips that were not
,elt to be moved by human pity.
Sorrow is not given to us alone that
we may mourn; it is given us that,
having felt, suffered, wept, we may be
able to understand, love, bless.
TTnworIdineSs ;S +I,;S 10 bold tI;,oe
rom God in the perpetual conviction
hat they will not last. to have the
world and not to let the world have
IS, to be the worlds masters and not
he worlds slaves.
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Short is the little that remains to
hee of life. Live as on a mountain,
or it makes no difference whether a
nan lives there or here. Be like the
against which the waves
ontinually break, but which stands
lrm and tames the fury of the water
ound it,.