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SATURDAY.
NIA IWEI
In and Around the Home 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces though we may roam, Bd it ever so humble, there's no place like home ries a Protestant-if he can find one who will have him-and he sends
Labor Labour makes the Palace rise, Labour builds the mill Labour at the throttle flies, Through the tunneled hill. Labour spreads the tireless wing Of the ship that soars. Round the seven seas to bring, Commerce to our doors,
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choosing a partner in business, and a partnership is subject to revocation, how vigilant should you be in selecting a partner for life ? If you are cautious in the choice of transitory friends, how discreet ought you to be in the selection of an enduring helpmate ? You would not care to undertake even a brief voyage, with persons whose companionship, and would he uncongenial to you, will you thoughtlessly embark upon the voyage through life with a consort whose incompatibility of temper will make your earthly pilgrimage an intolerant burden ?
A Prayer List to my Prayer, Oh, Father ! Re thou my strength and guide,
In Life's unending battle Be ever by my side.
Guide my faltering footsteps
On Life's uncertain path, oh, Almighty Father SI are me from Thy wrath.
his children to some Groton school, Fill me with strength, for I need it, if the school will take them in. Help me to work and to pray, is almost He has the faith-but he Be with me Oh, my Father ! sorry he has. He goes through life Until my dying day. without once standing up for his reHe is not conligious principles. Help me when nights are lonely, scious of doing harm. He would Help me when days are gray. Grind Daily The he amazed to learn that his milkOh, Omnipotent Father I All Lis are afflicted more or less scandal. of is a -water Catholicity and Labour is no pallid wight. Be Thou my strength and stay. acHe would rather (lie than be guilty with the feeling that we have Cringing o'er its loom ; world, much the in complished less dishonesty, of conscious of an act With its forehead to the light Guide me safe through the struggle. than we might have accomplished s et his hole life is nothing else. It is weaving bloom. And when the fighting is done, We have done harder. had we tried decision with the never agree He will Not with coughing and with pain Take Thou my soul in keeping, nothing of to attract the attention of the Church nor of his the head of In the name of Jesus, Thy Son. Do the cities toil ; head of his diocese, nor of the head mankind we are filling day by day, Nurtured of the sun and rain, -Horace W. Amphlett. humble as as they are aPof his Positions parish. would And yet he be Crops rejoice the soil. parently unimportant ; we have lookgenuinely wounded if yon said he was No man ever got any good out of for ed constantly, daily, hourly, a rebel to his faith and practice. Labour makes the morning break giving, who did it with an eye sinSuch men are a weight upon the some great work or noble opportunIn a golden sky gle to his own glory. Church's life and an impediment to ity for brilliant service, and it has Happy for the toiling's save, so her progress ten thousand times not come; we fear that we are almost With a Purpose high. not more than the poor sinner who falls failures. And yet, if we have Prayer is absolutely necessary for Labour is beneath the throne, occasionally, but who loves his attracted the attention of the world, those who labour for the salvation Hand in hand with fate Church and stands straight up to be we have at least by our care in do- of souls, both to maintain their ferIt has seen the forest grown counted with her in all that she says ing our *duty, led the man who has vour, and to inspire them with new To a sovereign State. and does, unquestioning, uncompro- the desk next to us to do his, when zeal and courage in serving their he would probably have mising, loyal and true, through and otherwise neighbour.-St. Vincent de Paul. Labour is the common guild through. The Catholic Church is a failed. Our positions may be humManhood makes of men ; ble, but in them we are like pieces of fond mother to even the weakest of Lay your poor little head down at Labour is the strength to build her children ; hot the Puritan or the the mechinistr of a great machine. Our Lord's feet and ask Him to lift And rebuild again. toady have never been at home under If we were not there and did not do it up to His heart. Own your Battle laughs along the sword, our Part, then the work of the maher roof. weakness cheerfully, and tell Him Labour sings and smiles, chine would be imperfect. No man you are so little to offend Him greaAs a thing that loves the Lord, need be termed an absolute failure tly and that He must wash everyon Entering Wedlock King of seas and isles. thing wrong away in the floods of The candidates for wedlock, says this side of the grave. His love. Labour, and the rest will come, Cardinal Gibbons, should first of all 0 Is Christianity What Peace- and joy, and song ; samit the matter to God, imploring Battle-cries are dust and dumb Hole Writ is a treasure of priceless Christianity in a nutshell is simthe Father of Light to guide them value. In reading the Holy Scrip'Heath the toiling throng. in their choice. For a virtuous ply : " Love thy God ; love thy Labour and the wheels will turn, consort is eminently the gift of Hea- neighbour." We can only prove that ture afflicted souls find consolation ; Driven light and steam, ven. " Houses and riches," says we love God, by loving our neigh- tempted souls secure a sure weapon While the happy nations burn the Book of Proverbs, " are given hour. While we are commanded to asainst sin wearied souls and disgusted find a delicious suavity darWith the golden dream. fear God, I maintain that love by Parents, but a Prudent wife is is the most important motive force in kened souls receive light : cold and properly from the Lord." The "Nice" Catholic tepid souls get lire which warms ; The great difference in The aspirants to marriage like To- Christianity. There is a type of time -serving, bias and his bride, ought to ask the religion is that while the pagan and all souls find a sweet repose. Catholic, apologetic fortunately God beforehand to give His blessing feared and worshipped his gods, he Take up and read. to their union, saying with that mo- did not love them. They were too growing less numerous, yet, unfortuIf we have lost Jesus, we who at Christ, del couple : " We are the children of fer away and too vague. nately, still among us, says the Bostimes are not as careful of Him and ton " Pilot." He is, to his own the saints and we must not be join- on the other hand, not only loves, manner of thinking, always better ed together like heathens who know and came to save the world, but He His teachings as we might be, like loves every man and every woman His blessed Mother and St. .loseph, than the Church. He is never to be not God." let us seek Him sorrowing, and when found among his own people, You will readily admit the necessi- individually-He loves each of you hut _ever and eternally lingering about the ty of this forecast when you reflect just as if you were the only person we have found Him take Him to our hearts and resolve for the future to outer circle of those who have that matrimony is not a trivial cere- in the world.-Cardinal Gibbons. no guard Him so jealously that neither faith, or at least, no Catholic faith. mony, hut a solemn and momentous Where there is no faith in life nor death, nor anything else, will He is not a had fellow-he is sim- covenant which seals your future man, there can be no faith in be able to separate us from our lovply a toady by nature. His mental happiness or misery for time or eterGod. ing Saviour. attitude is constantly that of one nity. If a merchant is wary in who is always wondering how his Protestant friends will look at this, or that action of his Church-never that of one, who knowing his Church to be always right is fearless and heedless of what others in their ignorance may think. He is always wishing that the Pope would not condemn Modernism, or that his Bishop would not speak openly against heresy, or that his Pastor would not denounce mixed marriages. His mind is forever in mortal fear of hurting the eneno -never upon the & Church's defense. fie habitually shuns his own Parish church, where the plain, true -hearted Contractors to the W.A. and Commonwealth Governm,nts Catholics go to he nurtured with the strong bread of straight Catholic truth. He seeks some Church which Head Office : enlievours to attract the elegants ;
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dear, separated brethren ; ' altar boys are cherubs of "nice" families, and where nothing will Jar upon the over -sensitive, halfhearted Catholic when he brings one of his non-Catholic friends. He never reads a Catholic paperits plain talk hurts him. He mar where the
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