efforts and bear untold privations for worldly ends, and neglect to cultivate the love of God and their neighbor. They cull life's flowers but lose its fruits; they fish the world through and dine well on their catch, but they fling back the pearls of great price the shells contain. Faith, hope, humility, and the other virtues are as so many coins wherewith we purchase heaven. But charity alone is golden, and, as only gold is currency in heaven, we must pay our entrance fee in love or in some baser metal washed in the gold of charity. It must be a coin, too, that has the genuine ring to it — coined in the mint of a heart that loves not in word and tongue alone, but in deed and in truth.
Brethren, this is the month and Friday was the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — that heart wherein human love and love divine met and mingled and became one. That is our model, that is the central fire from which each and every one of us should enkindle the flames of the love of God and humanity in the sanctuaries of our own hearts In all religion there is no more significant picture than that of the Evangelist John at the Last Supper reclining his head on the breast of the Saviour. It indicates to us the source of all good things. It interprets Christ's words: " Whoever loves Me, dwells in Me and I in him," for if we have a Christlike love in our hearts we need no more — we dwell in a celestial paradise surrounded with every luxury, with the King of kings for our guest. Nay more, be we ever so wretched, ever so friendless, ever so sinful, we can
