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"Go"HE RETURNS ROME. 3)seldom absent from such among them as have been enableddeeply to stir and win the hearts of men. It was consecrated by the Divine tears which fellupon the grave ofLazarus ; it burned in the fervid words poured forth fromSt. Bernard s bursting heart over his brother s bier; itmakes the name of thedear St. Elizabeth" to be still ahousehold word in Protestant itGermany; draws us tolove St. Teresa even more than we reverence her; andattracts the alien and the heretic of our days, no less thanof his own, to the sweet spirit of St. Francis of Sales. Itis the cord of Adam, by which the human heart is drawnand bound to the Son of man, through those who haveborne most visibly the image of His Divine humanity.The long absence of Jean Marie, and their painful sus*pense as to his fate, had weighed heavily on his parents.His poor mother fell sick with sorrow and anxiety; shesought for consolation from the good Cure of Ecully; butstrong in his own assurance of the purposesthat elect soul, he grew half angry with what he conof God forsidered her want of confidence, and sent her away with areproof, which bore notwithstanding encouragement withit. away, go away; one day your son will be aThepriest."trouble of Matthieu Vianney was aggravatedby the vexatious inquiries and threats of the recruitingofficer,who could not be persuaded that he was ignorantof the place of his son s concealment.Meanwhile the widow Fayot, who had been orderedto drink the waters at Charbonniere, a village not far fromEcully, paid a visit to the parents of her protege, andassured them of his safety and well-being. The poormother s heart revived again, and overflowed with gratitude to God, and to those who had been His instrumentsef good to her beloved child. He was alive and well.