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Why Deny Ydlf ? - Wmlh While Now 159
A d , found guilty, d condemned, dying the death
of a felon and of a slave, deserted by His friends,
mocked by His enemies, apparently forsaken by God,
and His wonder-working powers taken away from
Him -would He not have come down from the cross,
if He could? -in this plight our blessed Saviour
closed His eyes, beholding with His last glance what
appeared to be the ruin of His work and the failure of
His mission. After such an example, no Christian
need be surprised at disaster. There must be other
avenues to heaven than the way of the "prosperous
gentleman." I will work hard to succeed in my profession;
and if, with all my hard work, I fail and die
r ruined man, still tkis ha* is stad up in my brad
(Job six. 27), that my Saviour will love me the better
for my failure, and that I &all be the nearer Him in
that account in par&. - FR. JOSEPH RICKABY, S, J.,
in Ye Are Christ's.
X m s deny ~ myself, because many of the things that
I desire can not go together: to have one is to give
up another. No great end in life is gained without a11
active and watchful resistance, now to one distracting
impulse, now to another. The name for that repressive
vigilance is self-denial. Self-denial is continually
practised in view of mere worldly success. -4 good
oarsman is made by self-denja a god marksman,
a good musician, and a good scholar. It takes selfdenial
to write even a novel of any merit. Self-denial,
then, is needful because of the variety of our desires;
and that variety arises out of the composition of our
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