Pain Is No Evil, Unless It Conquers

What Is The Commonest, And Yet The Least Remembered Form Of Heroism? The Heroism Of An Average Mother. Ah! When I Think Of That Broad Fact I Gather Hope Again For Poor Humanity, And This Dark World Looks Bright, This Diseased World Looks Wholesome To Me Once More, Because, Whatever Else It Is Or Is Not Full Of, It Is At Least Full Of Mothers.

Do Today's Duty, Fight To-day's Temptation; And Do Not Weaken And Distract Yourself By Looking Forward To Things Which You Cannot See, And Could Not Understand If You Saw Them.

Do You Feel That You Have Lost Your Way In Life? Then God Himself Will Show You Your Way. Are You Utterly Helpless, Worn Out, Body And Soul? Then God's Eternal Love Is Ready And Willing To Help You Up, And Revive You. Are You Wearied With Doubts And Terrors? Then God's Eternal Light Is Ready To Show You Your Way; God's Eternal Peace Ready To Give You Peace. Do You Feel Yourself Full Of Sins And Faults? Then Take Heart; For God's Unchangeable Will Is, To Take Away Those Sins, And Purge You From Those Faults.

Take Comfort, And Recollect However Little You And I May Know, God Knows; He Knows Himself And You And Me And All Things; And His Mercy Is Over All His Works.

Truth, For Its Own Sake, Had Never Been A Virtue With The Roman Clergy.