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Though the world has no particular hold upon me, I give it up once and for all.

It gives me pain to feel my perfect want of faith in myself as being in any way useful." Meantime, on Trinity Sunday, he had been confirmed with his brother George, whose entrance into the Church is here first indicated; no other member of the family became a Catholic.

Isaac took the additional name of Thomas on receiving this sacrament, in honor of St.Thomas Aquinas.
Again he writes: "I have tried to study to-day, but I cannot.

Is it not the business of man to save his own soul, and this before all things?
Does the study of Greek and Latin help a soul towards its salvation?
Is it not quite a different thing from grace?
Sometimes I feel strongly inclined to set aside all study, all reading, as superficial and not so important as contemplation and silence." The time was coming when the Holy Spirit would do this in spite of him and in a way the reverse of pleasant.