There Is A Grace Of

Many A Friendship - Long, Loyal, And Self-sacrificing - Rested At First Upon No Thicker A Foundation Than A Kind Word.

Now This Spirit Is Admirably Mortified By The Exercise Of Patience. It Involves Also A Continual Practice Of The Presence Of God; For We May Be Come Upon At Any Moment For An Almost Heroic Display Of Good Temper. It Is A Short Road To Unselfishness; For Nothing Is Left To Self. All That Seems To Belong Most Intimately To Self, To Be Self's Private Property, Such As Time, Home, And Rest, Are Invaded By These Continual Trials Of Patience.

For Right Is Right, Since God Is God And Right The Day Must Win. To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.

He Draws Us To Himself By Grace, By Example, By Power, By Lovingness, By Beauty, By Pardon, And Above All By The Blessed Sacrament. Every One Who Has Had Anything To Do With Ministering To Souls Has Seen The Power Which Jesus Has. Talent Is Not Needed. Eloquence Is Comparatively Unattractive. Learning Is Often Beside The Mark. Controversy Simply Repels... All The Attraction Of The Church Is In Jesus, And His Chief Attraction Is The Blessed Sacrament

God Always Fills In All Hearts All The Room Which Is Left Him There.