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New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1919, Page 28

Honesty is one of the foundation stones of character, but honor is finer than honesty, because it transforms honesty into a spiritual quality by lifting it above all considerations of policy or advantage. There is no limit in the demands of the Christ when character is at stake; everything else is mere dross. Life itself does -not count in the balance when character is in the other scale. There are great joys by the way in this life, but society will become safe only as it becomes just and merciful and self-sacrificing. To recognise a duty and fail to do it means the decay of the sense of obligation and results in personal ruin. One ought to be afraid of not doing what he ought to do. : —Selected. A humble prayer, made with confidence and true love, obtains for us the grace necessary for the present moment, and it is then easy to sanctify all that we offer to the Divine Heart of Jesus. —Mother M. of the Sacred Heart. '