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The Review of Reviews. 



Xovember 1, 1906. 



an ideal, and if for lust, or gain, or ease, or friends, 

 or societv, or religion, or charit}', or his loved one, 

 or for anv other reason, he abandon or sell it, his 

 soul is eternally damned and lost. He shall wander 

 afar in the fields of darkness, and round his breast 

 he will ever wear the flaming wreath of remorse. 



" With God all things are possible,' but it is ques- 

 tionable if even He could forgive this sin ! 



HEE END. 



Her end, like her life, was very quiet and very 

 beautiful. It was not sudden. God is never a sur- 

 prise to such souls as hers. How sweet to come 

 away from the beautiful country home of beloved 

 ones, and, passing unsoiled through a city of strife 

 and sin, fall asleep with the perfume of the kisses 

 of vour best beloved on your lips, and wake in the 

 arms of God ! 



How beautiful that the last words which you pen- 

 ned should express loving care, and thought, and 

 devotion, to those who had given you life 1 



What an exquisitely graceful memorv and inspira- 

 tion for those left behind that they know that at 

 eventide you went into your oratory and there, hum- 

 blv stripping your soul of all worldliness, gave it 

 in happy confidence into the loving care of God, 

 and, falling asleep to the world, awoke to finil your- 

 jelf eternally in His presence! 



THE LESSON. 



Her life shames us, and teaches us many things. 

 First of all, she tells us that in these days if you 

 want to be a " Mary Teresa " you need not enter the. 

 cloister. 



You can live freely in the world. You can laugh 

 and sing and dance, and be merry, and marry and 

 bear children, and live happily in the world, and 

 be a saint. You can love and admire beauty, you 

 can wear beautiful clothes, and be surrounded by 

 beautiful things, and your soul can be as good and 

 pure as if you wore a shirt of hair. 



You can live in the social and intellectual en- 

 vironment to which your ability admits you ; you 

 can moderately enjoy the luxuries of life and still 

 be a friend, a brother, and a helper to the ugly, the 

 poor, the afflicted, and the distressed. 



Finding God in all things, you can follow beauty 

 afar and worship Him in Nature, in .\rt. in Litera- 

 ture, and in Life. 



Not being God's., and therefore not knowing ulti- 

 mate good from ultimate evil, you will search for 

 the scimething good which vou will inevitably find 

 in all things ; and you will shun the evil which you 

 will discover even in the most fair: remember- 

 ing that Christ stooped and wrote with His fingers 

 in the sand, you will be charitable to all men, and 

 judge not. Remembering that compared to God's 

 whiteness our fairness is but filth, we will help our 

 brother who faints bv the way. 



Remembering that life is a quest and not a con- 

 quest, we will not be disheartened by failure, or 

 sneer should our brother make mud-tracks in the 

 snow. It is the step forward that counts, and not 

 the ground conquered, because the end is ultimate 

 good, and ultimate good is God ; and no man can 

 by stri\ing find out God, but if you strive earnestly, 

 God can and will stretch out His hands and draw 

 vou to Himself. 



The writer of the splendid article on '■ The Totalisator in New Zealand," which appeared in the 

 last issue, desires us to make the following comment; — "I said that _;£40,ooo was a common 

 amount to go through the Totalisator at one meeting in a day. It should be ;^25,ooo. ^40.000 is 

 very common for two days' racing, but has never yet been reached in one day in New Zealand." 



Read Important Announcement on page 528. 



