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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 11, 14 March 1901, Page 15

A beautiful human soul always suggests God, as the shining in the still waters at night makes us instantly aware that a star is above us. We do not need to look at it ; we know that it is there. When a great lord seeks hospitality of a poor countryman, with what eagerness does he not give him the place of honor in his house, taking the lowest place himself ! Even so should the body treat the soul. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look etraighter as we approach the end. It is said that Savonarola applied to St. Francis de Paul for counsel soon after entering the Dominican Order, and in a letter to a friend St. Francis alluded to this, and predicted that Savonarola would be ' a reformer in the Church, that he would convert many, and die the martyr's death.'