advantage. Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases." God can not be deceived and we may rest assured that what He determines will be best for us. Can there be a better prayer than this?
"All that is bitter," says St. Ignatius Loyola, 'as well as all that is sweet in this life, comes from the love of God for us.'"
XVIII. Resurrection and Recognition
I. WHEN a socialistic pamphlet is intended for distribution among the working classes, the author frequently depicts their misery in harrowing terms. It Is true that the lot of the laboring man is a hard one, and the modern, impious socialist tells him this over and over again, but hear what sort of comfort he offers him.
Your Church points you, as a Catholic, to a better life than this, to a life where you will find rest after your toil, if you, while on earth, have served God with a clean heart, and have applied yourself to your daily tasks with a pure intention. But the writer of a pamphlet such as I allude to, leaves the unfortunate laborer, whose lot upon earth is so full of hardship, in doubt whether there is any resurrection and recognition, any "Wiedersehen" of our loved ones, any better life. Who is right, you with your blissful hope, or this newspaper writer with his cold and miserable comfort — despair? The
