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commandments; you, if you have conscientiously reduced to practice the truths which I have taught. Woe to you and woe to me in that terrible day, if during our lives we refused to bow our intelligences in simple faith before the mystery of the Trinity, or forgot the goodness of each divine person to us, or having admitted and believed these truths, failed to conform our lives thereto. Woe to us then if we have to confess to the Father that instead of loving and serving Him as our first beginning and our last end, we gave all our thoughts to and placed all our happiness in the creatures He intended to help rather than hinder us on the road of our earthly pilgrimage to heaven. Woe to us if we have to own to the Son that His incarnation, His lowly birth, and His humble life were for us all in vain; that His sacred body was bruised and His adorable blood shed only to make our guilt greater and our punishment more terrible. Woe to us then if we have to report to the Holy Ghost a neglect of all His inspirations, a contempt for His heavenly gifts, and a steady refusal to listen to His repeated warnings and invitations to return to repentance, and to God. For if such be our condition in the last day, we will then find that the day of mercy has given place to the night of wrath — that God the Father is as omnipotent in hell as in heaven; that God the Son is as all-wise in devising a hell of torture as He is in planning a heaven of delights; that the justice of God the Holy Ghost is as implacable as His mercy is infinite. " For they that shall believe and be baptized and keep My command-