Catholic World Volume 74 (Paperback)

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. 1902 Excerpt: ...rallying "to the colors" of the army of the Prince of Peace--a mobilization of the Christian forces for this great effort, this grand purpose, this auspicious triumph: the baptism of modern democracy, and the adaptation of its lawful progress, aims, hopes, thoughts and speech, to the everlasting Truth. With these great truths in view the New Year brings to every Christian heart newer duties and higher responsibilities. It is necessary to translate into the language of the age the old truths of Christianity so that the "modern mind may so assimilate them that they will become a part of its very nature. It is by methods such as these that its regeneration will come. THE THABOR OF PRAYER. "Lord, it is good for us to be here." SWEET Presence that attends our prayers, Invisible yet near; O patient Listener, awaiting ever, And never aweary to hear--On the breath of petition my spirit upsoars, To be lost in the love of the God it adores. Lip-words are tokens for men: for Thee, Lord, Form the speech in my heart. Read there what Thou likest, as Thou likest--content I, to be where Thou art; To be as Thou wiliest, these few moments at least, When, with Thee communing, all things else have ceased. Has flesh been dissolved; or is Heaven a-leaning, With its Court and its splendor, To the soul that is led to the mountain of prayer, To the will no longer defiant offender?--To this worm that is man, to this slime of the earth, Doth worship bring Eden, and God speak as at birth? Is it Peter that says: let us build an abode; It is good to be here? Nay, sweeter than Thabor is Thy whisper, O Lord: "It is I, do not fear." And I feel as I kneel at the call of Thy voice All my being rejoice--At the glow of Thy grace, at the flow of Thy peace, All...