The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-12-12

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Myself, arch-traitor to myself;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe:
My clog whatever way L 60"
Yet One there is can curb myself.
Can roll the strangling load from me;
Break off the yoke and set me free. e
Christina Rossetti.
Love is led by faith and hope, which
with eager step at last outrunS them
both when they faint and falter.
with weight of cares
Upon the great worlds altar stairs
That spole through darkness up to
God"
Many a wreck drifting sin-driven
through the years floats DER the tide
of repentant tears to the golden shore
OF penance and there finds solace.
peace and calm.
So lightly are the judgments Of God
esteemed that men in their fatal blind
ness seem TO think ii hardly worth
while to stir hand or foot to escape
them
Our hearts are like those exquisite
thermometers where the slightest Va
ration in the temperature occasions an
instant rise or fall in the quicksilver.
Through the wide portal OF a moth
er's heart have come the noble train
of human virtues that have raised the
race from we know not how crude and
degraded a stage in physical and mo-
raj being up to that high estate which
IN its perfect Towering in the souls OF
the redeemed has made men only a lit
tie less than angels.
The greatest strength and nobility of
character lies always in taking n firm
stand on the side of right and allow
ing outsef to be Influenced by moth
ing that will weaken this stand
When the soul is elevated above the
things Of this world. avs St Basil. and
the minds eye is directed toward the
true good, 1t is no longer exposed to
envy, because it no longer believes in
the excellence Of the treasures of this
earth.
The envious man is always uneasy.
always agitated by a thousand differ
ent passions like vessel tossed about
on the restless waves; he Is eaten up
by an eternal cancer. and his life as
one Of the saints expresses ii. an
apprenticeship TO the torrents o. hell.
Whatever you do. son. you cannot es-
cape the judgment of men. 1t Is Il per
secution common TO all. whether it
springs from thoughtlessness or malice. !
The soul that meets sorrow fairly
f1llh ~ hcaltlN 1llu dNNeJlS lltT DuIueU dS
coming from God. is preparing well for
that day when the stream mas reached
a dark. deep sea. and sorrow, dim and
crowned. is waiting" for her
Mediation is the key which opens the |
doors Of heaven and of hell so that we
may see the unending bliss or the un- |
ending woe of the saint or the sinner |
For one who seriously medidates each |
day. for that one it is we'll night i'm !
possible to be lost.
Mere earthly friendships are not |
wont t. last, their origin being so frail |
that the slightest contradiction chills |
and bights them: a change which cam
not come over those friendships which |
are built up in God and are conse-
quently solid and endurinE,-St Fran
els de Sales.
Truth itself has assured us that we
cannot serve two masters NeVerthe-
less there are persons who think other
wise: who discover no difficulty in
what our Redeeemer declares 70 be i'm
possible: who endeavor to aSsimilate
the vicious maXims Of the world with
the sublime truths Of the Gospel
Mortal sins are the children Of veniaI
which, though they be not deadly
You may think you have killed the
giants who had possession of your
hearts. and that YOU have nothing to
fear, but the giants will live again.
they viii rise from the dust, and be-
fore you know where you are. you will f.,
be taken captive and slaughtered by !
the fierce, powerful and eternal enc {
mics Of God. /
Holy Writ is treasure Of priceless {
value. IN reading the Holy Scriptures {
afflicted souls find consolation, tempt I
I'd souls secure a sure weapon against t
sin; wearied souls and Disguised find
delicious suavity; darkened souls re-
Give light; cold and tepid souls get !
ire which warns. and all souls find :
sweet repOse. Take up and read.
God attaches His graces to homes.
'eaSons. places and objects, 20 a num- I
Ter of circumstances which but rare I
Y coincide. Not to profit, then, by
traces is to expose ourselves never
gain to receive them.
Ejaculatory prayers are like spiritual Il
Wings wherewith the soul flies TO God,
mites itself to Him and lives para
isaical life in Him. ?