1 62 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



If men would consider the mass of 

 suffering which the sin of our first parents 

 has brought upon our race, and the sor- 

 row, disease, misery, and pain which have 

 followed in the train of that first fall, they 

 would be more industrious in seeking the 

 salvation of their neighbour, proffered at 

 so great a price by the Chief Ruler of 

 Heaven. But alas, great numbers of 

 men live on from day to day without thus 

 redeeming the time for the glory of God 

 and the good of their neighbours ! They 

 are afraid, forsooth, of soiling the very 

 tips of their fingers, just as if they 

 grudged the grocer the profits which he 

 derives from the sale of soap. But do 

 we not all live in this world as the vas- 

 sals of God, and are not all our goods 

 His feudal possessions, granted to us 

 during life only? Let us, therefore, 

 make a good and kindly use of them in 

 order that we may be able to render a 

 joyful account in the presence of the 

 Great Master, instead of being, by reason 

 of our ingratitude, cast into outer dark- 

 ness, where there is weeping and gnash- 



