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(Sxardcmy*. 
A silicious stone or gem, nearly allied to onyx, of a reddish-yellow, 
or nearly orange color. 
Conformity to the Divine Will, which is the Christian’s Sweetest 
Pleasure. 
E VEN amongst men, with whom love is imperfect, there is no sweeter 
enjoyment than that of conforming ourselves to the good pleasure 
of the person who is beloved. Therefore, to please God is the whole am¬ 
bition of the heart wherein holy love reigns; it is its sole ambition in this 
•world, the one aim of all its actions as well as of all its projects. 
We live then only to say with the Apostle : “Lord, what wilt Thou 
have me to doV’ (Acts ix. 6), or with the Psalmist: “What have I in 
Heaven f and, besides Thee, what do I desire upon earth V’ (Ps. 73, 25). 
“Celestial Sweetness unalloyd, 
Who eat Thee hunger still; 
Who drink of Thee still feel a void 
Which Thou alone canst fill.” 
— St. Bernard. 
“Make up, therefore, your mind,” says the gentle Fenelon, “ever to 
conform your will to the most holy will of the all-wise God, and you, too, 
shall “taste, and see that the Lord is siveet ” (Ps. xxxiii. *9). 
’Tis Thy good pleasure, not my own, 
In Thee, my God, I live alone; 
And nothing I desire of Thee 
But what Thy Goodness wills for me. 
O will of God! O will divine! 
All, all our love be ever Thine. 
