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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 31

You may kill a man with anxiety very qaickly bat it is difficult to kill him with work, says the Speaker, especially if he retains the power, which most men of intellectual occupations more or lea* possess, of sleeping nearly at will, and without torpor. The man who has used his brain all his life, say for six hours • day, has, in fact, trained his nerve-power and placed it beyond tbe reach of early decay, or that kind of feebleness which makes so many apparently healthy men Buccumb bo readily to attacks of disease. Doctors koow the differences among men in this respect quite well] and did; of them acknowledge that tbe '' habit of surviving " which they find in their best patients arises from two causes one, which used to be alwayß pleaded, being that soundness of physical constitution which some men eDJoy by hereditajy right, and the other, some recondite form of brain power, seldom exhibited, except under strong excitement, by any but those who throughout lie have been compelled to tbiok and, bo to speak, use their thoughts as other men use their ligaments and muscles. If such a man ia tired of life, medicine will not save him ; but, as a rule, his will, consciously or unconsciously, compels the trained nerve-power to struggle on. Whether the brain can actually give power to the muscles ia not certain, though the enormous strength sometimes developed in a last rally looks very like it ; but that it can materially affdet vitality is quite certain, aud has been acknowledged by the experienced in all ages.

The recent conversion of two Protestant clergymen in this cify has been made into a "sensation" by the newspapers. Otherwise the general public would never have known of their change of faith. For it is not the way of the Catholic Church to make a noise every time it receives a new member, and it is quietly welcoming tens of thousands right here in the United States every ytar. As that sterling paper, The Catholic Universe of Cleveland, 0., says : "In our own diocese there are thousands of devout Catholics who were once among the flower of the denominational brethren in their respective localities— honest men and women, whose intellectual gropings after a logical and unchangeable system of belief and practice brought them gradually within the benign influence of Catholic truth. The grace of God supplementing the right use of reason and conviction crowned their quest with tbe peace end certainty of true faith During his recent Episcopal tour of the diocese, our Right Rev Bishop confirmed with the sacramental corism more than one hundrtd of these newly recruited soldiers of tbe cross. That is the story of the Church in all parts of our great country! Annually, thousands enter tbe true fold from tbe best informed and beat disposed among non-Catholic Christians." The Church is fulfilling its miss on here— sanctifying its own and attracting to its fold those who waot the truth. Converts will not find themselves strangers when they enter it— they will meet in it many old friends who have entered before them. They will shorty feel quite at home. —Brooklyn Catholic Review,