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Show I ' ; How am I to obtain devotion to the Sacred Heart? Only by the remembrance of the "nimia dileetio qua dilexit nos:" that He loved me so much that He died for me, and in having died for me, He lives for me, and in living for me. longs for me; dwelling on it, that He does long for me, that He is always living to make intercession for me, and I tlien from this to say: "And what can I do for Him How can I love Him ?" While a great many persons probably take them- j selves too seriously, entertaining an altogether exaggerated ex-aggerated opinion of their ability and worth, not j many nowadays go to the extreme length of the German whom the English poet Coleridge met at Frankfort. He always took off his hat when he ventured to speak of himself. Were this practice to become general, what a number of people would be permanently bareheaded! It is sometimes much harder and more meritorious meritor-ious to ask another to do a charitable thing than do it ourselves when it is in our power. MJR. Since we must all take time to die. why should wc not take time to live to live in the large sense of a life begun here for eternity. God's will done on earth as it is in Heaven alone can make Heaven on earth. Fiction has no right to exist unless it is more beautiful than reality. Joubert. |