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says St. Paul, and I have seen a man smile through
hie taus beside the grave of his son, because he knew
that afterward he himself would leave in another grave
the heatache begun at this me.
No, our faith daes not lack humor. It abounds in
humor; it is humor - the tenderest, most cheery, most
lasting humor.
St. Lawrencq directing the roasting of
his own body with the nicety of a cook; our Irish
peasant who says: "Thanks be to God, my rheumatism
is much worse to-day," our nuns who can be
merry in the a.bode of death; - these are some instances
of the humor of faith. In its fulness, perhaps only the
saints have it - those serene, large beings, beneath
whose awe-inspiring calmness runs an unbroken ripple
of laughter at th. follies and pettinesses that surround
them; whom no adversity disheartens and no sufferings
sour; whose eyes are bright with eternal merriment
looking on the fashion of this 'world which passeth
away.
I have before me, while writing, the picture of a young
man clad in cassock and surplice; a man of lean ascetic
face; who holds in his hand a crucifix, and stands by
a table on which rest a discarded coronet and a penitential
scourge. Beneath the picture are the words,
"Quid hoc ad ~ternitalem?" The picture is familiar
to all of us, and represents that great saint and universal
patron of Catholic youth, Aloysius Gonzaga The
legend under it is a pet saying of Aloysius, a pertinent
question applied by him to the thousand and one
minutia: of daily life - "How does this look in the
light of eternity?" We can imagine this boy saint, as
he passed through the streets of Rome on his way to or
from school, or to some hospital or church., An unbeliever
would be chilled at his constraint and austerity.
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