Between God and Mammon there is no compromise, no mediator.

Lord, make me fully sensible of this, and strengthen my resolution to follow Thee.

I do look to the Church of Christ for help.

Oh, may I find in it that which the Apostles found in Jesus!" We cannot refrain from reminding the reader of the immature age, and almost total lack of education--in the ordinary meaning of the term--of the man who wrote these lofty and inspiring sentences.

He was ignorant of everything but the most rudimentary truths of Catholicity; had never read an ascetic work; had never spoken on ascetical subjects with Catholics; had never read the life of a saint; and had no experience to draw from except his own.