Which Is It? (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. Dietary after Conflict. Many events have taken place since the dialogue between our Priest and his Sunday-scholar. The following evening's private interview signally failed in confirming the scholar in the faith of the two Priests. We must not, however, overlook the kind and gentle forbearance of the Priest, who found himself more harassed than he liked to own. There was a latent goodness of heart which brooded a better nature, to shine forth at some future time. The generality of men would have summarily cut short such reasoning with an inferior, whose powers of argument they found superior to their own. Hence we may see in the distance, what the Priest himself perceives not, a Catholic heart, smothered in confusion, needing only a clearer perception, to stimulate to immediate action. "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd." The unsearchable ways of the Sacred Heart are silent and imperceptible to the world, though flowing like the crystal stream into the deep waters of the soul, arousing at first disquietude, and fears, often succeeded by barrenness of soul, and wretchedness, broaching on despair; yet the silver cord which links together the number of the elect, to the one central object of the soul's adoration, shines silently beyond the dark water-floods of the soul, in its state of bereft agony and isolation--leading gently and imperceptibly to the living springs of eternal life. Sorrow, affliction, trial, and solitude, in this life, are as surely the portion of the saints of God, as it was of the Sacred Heart, when clothed in humanity. The white-robed saints in the Revelation of St. John, had come out of "great...