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means of print. And, happily, it can not be pretended
that there is nothing to read. If we consider, for example,
the list of the publications of the Catholic Tmth
Society, we hd among them instructions of every kind:
exposition of doctrine, controversy, history, biography,
devotion, moral and social papers, besides tales and
verse.
"No one is too poor to be able to afford the halfpenny
or the penny which is the price of most of these
brochures and leaflets; whilst there are books and
larger pamphlets for those who look for something more
extended, and the bound volumes of the series form a
small library of the handiest and the most useful kind.
For readers of gxeater education and leisure there are
materials in abundance which it is unnecessary to specify
at this moment. A catalogue of any of our Catholic
publishers will suggest to every one how many subjects
there are on which it would be useful to be well-informed,
and how much there is to be known in the grand and
wide kingdom of the holy Catholic faith. No one can
love Our Lord who does not know about Him, and
no one can be truly loyal to the Church who does not
take the trouble to study her.
"If instruction is so deeply important, devotion and
piety are not less so. With most of us prayer is very
short and very slight. There is one means which will
both make us more regular in our daily prayers and
deepen our earnestness in that sacred duty. This is,
spiritual reading.
"No one should be without a book about Our Lord,
His sacred Heart, His blessed Mother, or the saints.
No one should be without a book on the Mass. Besides
one's prayer-book, one should have manuals of meditation
and of instruction on Christian virtues. More
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