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would have the character of the man, so must we 

 have the character of the child. This truth, which 

 the experience of ages confirms — which is written on 

 temples and palaces, on upturned altars and ruined 

 shrines — on all the monuments of the earth — in 

 letters of blood upon every page of the history of 

 man — is so familiar, that it ceases to command our 

 attention. 



"The Pastor of St. Mary's Church, anxious for 

 the spiritual advancement of the congregation com- 

 mitted to his charge, thought it advisable, as soon as 

 convenient, to establish confraternities and pious 

 sodalities of the Rosary and the Scapular. When 

 the members of a congregation are attached to some 

 religious society or confraternity, they are more 

 likely to attend to their religious obligations. They 

 find occupation in prayer on Sundays and festivals, 

 and other leisure hours; whereas if they were not 

 attached to such societies, much of their time might 

 be wasted in vice and dissipation, in slander and 

 calumny, especially on those days when their 

 worldly occupations do not claim their attention, 

 and when, forgetting that the greater part of these 

 days should be spent in the service of God, they 

 seem to think they can idle them away or spend them 

 in frivolous amusements or in sin. The poor 

 especially experience much consolation in attaching 

 themselves to any pious sodality or confraternity: 

 while the rich seldom attach themselves to these 

 associations. The least sacrifice of ease or of pleasure 

 seems too much for them, and hence it is that their 



