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Show Conference From St. Ignatius Loyola. Man was created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. All the other things on the face of the earth were created for man's sake, and in order to aid him in the prosecution prose-cution of the end for which he was created. Whence it follows that man must make use of them, in so far as they help him to attain, his end. And in the same way he ought to withdraw himself from them in so far as they hinder him from it. It is, therefore; necessary that we should make ourselves indifferent to all created things, in so far as it i i left to our free will to do so, and it is not forbidden. In such sort that we do not for our part wish for health rather than sickness, sick-ness, for wealth rather than poverty, for honor rather than dishonor, for a . long life rather than a short one. And so in all other things, desiring , and choosing only those which most I conduce to the end for which we were created. From Loyola Calendar, Loy- o!a College, Baltimore, Md. I |