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come from' be heart, fmm the "understanding
heart."
St. Paul bids us "rejoice in the Lord always: again,
I say, rejoice!' 1 For owis is the heritage of joy; since
it is given us to kww what God knows, and to love all
that He loves, tofee1 the prewnce of His angels round
about us, to consider life in its completeness, and ,to
look forward unavertedly, beholding the brightuess of
eternal peace and the sea which is about the throne of
God, where the world looks out upon only chaos and
the night. Our faith has a higher purpse than merely
to make us wise and patiei~t and kindly. The humor
af life is not its object, but it is its true and certain concomitant;
growing as it grows, waning as it wanes.
If it can with truth be wid of us that we lack humor,
we must blame the lack of it not upon our religion, our
faith, but upon our unfai*, and our irreligion. - WILL-
IAM T. &&, S. J., in The American Ecclesiastical
Rev&.
Apropos of tbls subject, the following item is interesting
and instructive:
" Dr. A. B. Richardson, for many years in charge of
institutions for the insane - among others, the United
States Hospital at Washingtsn - was recently asked
about the amount of insanity in his institutions that
could fairly be attributed to religion. His answer is
interesting:
" You have aked me a very easy question. I have
tested that matter thoroughly. There 'are only two
patients in this bospital whose insanity has any relation
to religion; and I think, from their predisposition to
insanity, that they would probably have become insane
on some other subject, if they had not on religion.
Now, if you had asked me how many people in Ohio
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