THE FORCE OF GOOD EXAMPLE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 18 October 1900, Page 27

THE FORCE OF GOOD EXAMPLE.

The following ptory bears out the truth, of the adage that good example, even shown by little ones, can sometimes effect wonders. Some months ago (says the Catholic Times) a little girl of nonCathoiic parentage was sent to a Preston Catholic girls' higher grade school, and among other subjects she learned the Catholic Catechism. Anxious to acquit herself with honor at the examination, she requested her father in the evenings to test her in religious knowledge by getting him (Catechism in hand) to put the stated questions to her. After a time, the father (who had attended no place of worship for some years) began to be religiously impressed, and at last informed his wife of his determination to attend some place of worship on Sundays. Hia wife, of course, suggested a nonCatholic church, but her husband said he would go to the neighboring Catholic church and hear Mass and a sermon. The Sunday following his wife accompanied him, and this went on for several weeks. Meanwhile the child (who was the cause of this change in her parents) became distressed because her classmates were going to make their First Communion and she could not. Both father and mother took the child to witness the First Communion function, with the result that the father promised his little one that she should be instructed and have the privilege of making her First Holy Communion on the earliest possible occasion. Last week not only did the little child have her sacred wish gratified, but Bhe received Holy Communion along with her father and mother, while the younger children have also been received into the Catholic Church. .