SOLVES EVERY PROBLEM.

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1918, Page 45

SOLVES EVERY PROBLEM.

It can not be said of the Catholic Church, at least, that she is more concerned with the sweet by-and-bye than about the bitter here-and-uow, says Rev. Doctor Downey in the Catholic Times, London. There is no problem of life so ephemeral, no scruple of morals so personal, but she is ready with her solution or her relief. Unfortunately, many, even of her children, are ignorant of the full extent of the treasures that she has to offer.

As every problem of mathematics is worked out by correct manipulation of the figures from one to ten, so, too, every problem affecting the soul of man is soluble on Christian principles. To plead for more figuies to work out a sum would be to plead for an absurdity. If we can not work the sum, the fault is not in the figures, but in our ignorance of their application. And if we can not see our way clear through the problem;* that disturb our souls, the fault is not in the principles of Christianity but in our ignorance of their application.