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Show HAPPY THOUGHTS. To look upon the fair face of a child FcpIh like a resurrection -o-the hearts P J. Bailey. The happiness of human kind . Consists in rectitude of miad; -A will subdued to reason's sway. And passions practiced to obey; An open and generous heart. Refined from selfishness and aru Patience, which mocks a fortune s power And wisdom neitherad nor sour. Oh, the beauty of God;s'way of for-' sweness by which sins are covered: Cov-;J"efl- Hidden as you would tenderly hide tne disfigurement of one you loved. Cov-Te(i Cov-Te(i as 5'011 f ently cover the faces of your oead. Banished with increasing kindness and compassion, pot with lingering bitterness bit-terness of feeling. Even sosdoes God put away from his sight the past sins of his repentant children. - ?me Pcoue do so much to-gain - . The prizes to be won That they forget the King of Kings May sometimes grant men grace for things . Which they have left undone. Whatever manner of death mav take us from .earth, let us make sure of God's mercy, which alone can save us in the : hour of dissolution, whether foreseen or j unexpected. ' j j We shall never be" at peace with ourselves our-selves until we yield with glad supremacy , to our brighter faculties. Joseph Cook. ! Humility is, t0 say" the least, always safe, "if you go through the world ; stooping," said Benjamin Franklin, "vou j will save yourself many a hard knock." That is the true perfection of man to iind out his imperfections. St. Augustine. Augus-tine. I found a heartvPecho,' ' A gladsome heart's echo, With notes of Jov How it answered each throb. I lost a heart's echo. A faithless heart's eeho. 'Twas silenced and hushed By a tear-laden sob. ' Teresa Beatrice O'Hare. The world has only begun to see that no country is great and no cause jiist that does not help on the world's happiness happi-ness and the world's good. The Churchman. Church-man. . ( ..... . . . . Oh, that we had hearts to feel and eyes i in our souls to sec where wc really are! There are good angels round us, and graces are raining down upon us great and small, oil our lives long, and inspirations inspira-tions are falling upon us thick as snow-flakes snow-flakes and almost as softly and as silently, si-lently, as we are fastened with a thousand thous-and fasteniiifcs to sreat unknown eternal purposes, and we feel them no more than a strong man feels the cobweb and the gossamer on the autumnal grass, and all ; the while we are closed all round and walled in, not so much with the sun and moon and stars, with the air and floor ot our own planet, as with the living, inevitable, in-evitable, tremendous presence of our omnipotent om-nipotent all-holy God, who will not spare up one moment from his sight, and who, even while we sleep, expects us to do his work; whose love of us, and therefore jealousy of us, is as everlasting as himself. him-self. Father Faber. ? The "practice of the presence of God" will bring to every man the habit of seeing see-ing God in the mist, the cloud, and curling curl-ing wave; of hearing him in every sound, of resting in his arms when we are tired; and exulting in his 'Strength when we are at work. 1 am always obliged to any j man, who instead of saying "Good-bye" to me says "God bless you." which means just the same-thing. 1 am glad to have him recognize with me that here there ate not two-of us, but three. Edward Everett Hale. - - : . Do vou wish that each of your com- rminlnna cVinnlrV muUn i-nn a litfln hpttpr. la little more like to-Jeesus Christ, a little more in love with the heavenly things, less fond of the things of this world? 'Think again, that. Jesus -whom.. you receive re-ceive is God's living goodness to all men. Therefore, if you ask-him each new communion com-munion will certainly do -this in your heart; it will give you more hatred to sin, more goodness to all men. He has promised it for he has said: "He tha-t eateth me the same also . shall live by me." Father Dignan, ' S. J.. ' - |