Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

144 Defects and their Remedy in Re-union.
the only one that has come direct
\f from GOD, j
and is free from the
corruptions of man.
There is no doubt a difference between saying
"
It is the best because it is
mine,"
" and It is
mine because it is the best," but the two ideas
are more closely interwoven than men are dis
posed to allow, and show themselves very clearly
at times to
bystander.
be so, in the
eyes
of an impartial
"
My father loves me better than
he loves you/ is a domestic heresy which every
Christian parent summarily puts down ; its
theological counterpart has been too often
encouraged and sanctioned. We see it in its
O
most glaring form among those who can derive
t~5 O O
a selfish enjoyment from the thought that they
are safe for eternity, an enjoyment which is
actually- heightened O by the remembrance that
the majority of those around them are lost souls.
Onlv u We are among the blessed < ?
few."
"
t/
people in England
diamonds as mine ;
six
can show as fine a set of
"
or,
"
only myself and
/ I/ V
three more were admitted to that privilege."
Is not the basis of all alike selfish and unsound ?
Catholic Christianity teaches the reverse of all
this. Our object is not to save our own souls,
and if possible be among the happy few for our
own sakes. Our object is to carry out our
Redeemer s will, by adding in our own person
one more to the multitude in whom His Nature
is reproduced, and one more to the members of