"Omnia autem probate: Quod bonum est, tenete" [pp. 642]

642 OMNIA A UTEMPROBA TE: QUOD BONLMEST, TENETE. [Feb.,
creatures with a merely human love, and wished in that spirit
to lessen their burdens of sorrow; but if their truly meritorious
undertakings have often proved abortive, it is purely and simply
because philanthropy rashly attempted what charity alone can
achieve. If the condition of human society can ever be improved and its tone exalted, those only who make a religion of
their brotherly love can bring about such a happy result. Those
who love poor, sinful humanity well enough to sacrifice home
and friends and every worldly prospect in life to devote themselves to the care of the hungry and the naked, the sick and the
suffering, to bringing back the lost sheep to the fold and to
the Shepherd, all in a spirit of the kindest solicitude and with
the most merciful consideration for the weakness of our nature,
are the best friends of civilization as well as of religion. To instruct the ignorant in those things Which serve man's temporal
interests without menacing his eternal welfare, to befriend the
homeless and the outcast, to patrol the dark byways and hidingplaces of vice, and snatch women and children from a fate worse
by far than death, and to do it all for the pure love of their
immortal souls, is the highest vocation known to sanctity. It
was the vocation of Madame D'Youville and is that of her community. K. MADELINE BARRY.
Ottawa, Canada.
"OMNIA AUTEM PROBATE; QUOD BONUM EST,
TENETE."- i Thess. v. 2I.
MASTER! all else for use, Thou for desire:
Thanksgiving for the good, but thirst for Thee!
Up from the best, whereof no man need tire,
Impel Thou me.
Delight is menace, if Thou be not by;
Power a quicksand; fame a golden jeer.
Oh! yet on earth bid no true heart deny
Earth's boons are dear!
Keep me of these, though lover, server, friend,
Austere, alone, wed only to Thy call;
And first, while lord of all that life can lend,
Thy fool, Thy thrall.
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY.