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8. One of the main helps to success received by St. Vincent de Paul in all his enterprises, was the cordial co-operation in his plans of women of every grade of society. Ladies of the city or the court, like Madame de Legnas and Madame de Miramion, gave their wealth, their presence, their prayers and their time to second all his charitable undertakings; others volunteered for service in pestilential places, in besieged cities, and even among the galley-slaves.

9. If the follies and weaknesses of the sex were conspicuously exhibited at the court of Louis XIV., never had the moral courage and the pure self-sacrifice of woman more splendid illustrations than in that same age and country. We should be ungrateful, indeed, in Canada, for the sound basis of Christian civilization which we enjoy here, if we were to overlook that fact; if we were not to recall that we were speaking of the age and country of Madame d'Aiguillon, of Madame d'Youville, of Mademoiselle Manse, and of that glorious pioneer of religious education on this island-Sister Marguerritte Bourgeoys!

McGER

110. MENTAL AND MORAL DESTITUTION OF DEAF-MUTES.

BUT

UT the peculiar merit of this charity is to be estimated, not merely by quantity, but also by quality.

Usually, the visit is a penalty for the violation of some natural law, such as the intermarriage of cousins; and sometimes it swallows up a whole family; we have had here three and four sisters all similarly afflicted. But it is not alone that the natural avenues to the heart and brain are closed against the sufferers-that they can never hear a mother's voice, or the prattle of playmates, or the measured breathings of sweet music, or the voice of psalm, or organ, or sermon, or vespers; but it is, that this which Johnson calls "one of the most desperate of human calamities," leaves those on whom it falls, mentally and morally, mere savages, while born in the midst of civili.

zation, they feel the physical wants, and are subject to the temptations of civilized life.

2. It is a melancholy fact, that of all the deaf-mutes who have been examined, after instruction, as to their previous state, not one in ten thousand had any previous idea of the existence of a God. As to the history of man's redemption, of course they knew nothing of it whatever. Some, who had observed speaking people pray, thought they prayed to the sun or the sky. With the exception of Mussieu, the celebrated pupil of Abbé Sicard-a man of uncommon geniusthere is hardly a case in which a deaf-mute, so born, had the faintest natural idea of God. Those, therefore, who rescue one such creature from the darkness of the soul, find their heathen in the midst of civilization, and make a conquest not less glorious than if they had sought proselytes at the ends of the earth.

3. It may show us how much we ought to value and reverence language-the ripener, if not the sower of ideas,—the conductor, if not the producer of thought,—that it was only when a substitute was found for language-or, perhaps I should say, when the sign-language was invented for the relief of the deaf and dumb, that they began to be conscious of such ideas as God, heaven, hell, soul, judgment, right and wrong. So that those who devote themselves to the educa tion of deaf-mutes, do not, as other teachers do, improve upon Nature, by making the most of the materials at hand; they actually create their own materials; they rescue so many Christian children-by seven years' painful seeking and striving for it takes seven years-from a forlorn state of interior savagery, in which no God reigns, and no law binds.

4. In ancient times, even in the palmy days of Roman civilization, the born mute was outcast and outlawed as a monster beyond the pale of law; in modern times, until recently, they had in most countries-France excepted-no protection whatever, as to their natural rights, from the civil law: but it will be one of the purest glories of the eighteenth century

that it produced such men as the Abbé de l'Epée and Abbe Sicard, who sought out the victims of this calamity, so to speak, in the cradle, and filled the darkened chambers of their minds with the glorious images of God and His Saviour Son before the dangerous days of puberty and passion came upon them.

5. In this heroic charity, I say it not aggressively nor in a spirit of controversy, but I say it thankfully, as a Catholic, that we find the Church always in the van, from the old Spanish Benedictine, De Buce, to the living French Jesuit, Castel, the inventor of the clavier oculaire, the Catholic clergy have been among the most studious, most constant, and most successful instructors of the deaf and the dumb. They have wrought miracles in this behalf-not, indeed, by supernatural means-but miracles of patience, of industry, and of persever ance in well-doing!

MOGEL

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All rapture, through and through,
In God's most holy sight?

3. O Paradise! O Paradise!

Wherefore doth death delay;

Bright death, that is the welcome dawn

Of our eternal day;
Where loyal hearts and true

Stand ever in the light,

All rapture, through and through,
In God's most holy sight?

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5. O Paradise!

O Paradise!

I want to sin no more:

I want to be as pure on earth
As on thy spotless shore,
Where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light,

All rapture, through and through,
In God's most holy sight.

6. O Paradise! O Paradise!
I greatly long to see

The special place my dearest Lord
Is destining for me;

Where loyal hearts and true

Stand ever in the light,

All rapture, through and through,
In God's most holy sight.

7. O Paradise!

O Paradise!

I feel 'twill not be long:

Patience! I almost think I hear
Faint fragments of thy song;
Where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light,

All rapture, through and through,

In God's most holy light.

FABER

112. THE SONG OF THE COSSACK.

[Rev. Francis Mahony is a native of Cork, and after some years spent in the ministry as a Catholic clergyman, devoted himself to literature, and was long a prized contributor to English magazines and journals, where his keen wit, his intimate acquaintance with ancient and modern literature, no less than great versatility of power, made his articles of the greatest interest. His renderings of modern poems into Latin and Greek are inimitable, and those into English, like the following from Beranger, are distinguished by ease and grace, retaining all the vigor of the original.]

COME,

OME, arouse thee up, my gallant horse, and bear thy rider on!

The comrade thou, and the friend, I trow, of the dweller on

the Don.

Pillage and Death have spread their wings! 'tis the hour to hie thee forth,

And with thy hoofs an echo wake to the trumpets of the
North!

Nor gems nor gold do men behold upon thy saddle-tree ;
But earth affords the wealth of lords for thy master and for

thee.

Then fiercely neigh, my charger gray !-thy chest is proud

and ample;

Thy hoofs shall prance o'er the fields of France, and the pride of her heroes trample!

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