This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...or through timidity, or through thinking more of popularity than of truth, --of what will please than of what will do lasting good, --we see on all sides of us. Fathers of families, masters of large establishments, holders of public offices, magistrates, statesmen, clergymen, and especially bishops and archbishops, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...or through timidity, or through thinking more of popularity than of truth, --of what will please than of what will do lasting good, --we see on all sides of us. Fathers of families, masters of large establishments, holders of public offices, magistrates, statesmen, clergymen, and especially bishops and archbishops, have, by the mere fact of their position, a great account to give. All who depend on them, all who might be reached by them, all the good that they might do, all the mischief that they might prevent, falls within their stewardship. Far more serious than the waste of either money or talent is the waste of grace. We do not see the invisible grace of God; it does not tell for so much in public life or in society as do property or ability; and therefore, walking, as so many of us do, by sight and experience and not by faith, we think less of it. But, in reality, the graces which God gives us through the mediation of His Blessed Son and the agency of His Spirit are incomparably more precious than our money or our talents. They have cost more, and they can do more. They were earned by the Blood of the Eternal Son freely shed for us upon the Cross of shame. They touch not our material but our immaterial life; not that which only belongs to us, but our real selves; not this world merely, but the next, --and the next especially. How piteous is the waste of opportunities of prayer, opportunities of instruction, opportunities, above all, of receiving the Holy Sacrament of our Lord's Body and Blood, which we see on all sides of us! Opportunities, let us observe, are morally possessions: they are ours to make the most of or to neglect; they must be either used or neglected, and after neglecting them, as after using them, we are not the men we were. Of all such o...
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