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48 48 IDEAL r:ouA.V!UO'y' great aims in life; the sfinte t]jom.~.f!vcr> could not have conceived precepts grander or wliicii would tend more tovsrards buUding character. She co;iveraed upon such themes as only a relined and educated woman could. She by acts, as well as by words, in- cessantly strove to inculcate into the character of her knight and lover such thoughts and desires as would make of him all that which he had been lec- tured to be, i. e., a man and gbiitleman. Had the Catholic parents stopped to conteniplAte and ask themselves, "What is the difference bV tween a good Catholic and a Mohammedan?" wljat would they have found? AUah, or God of the Moors, was a single deity. Their God was the same Jehovah that watched over the Jews. Our good Catholic's God is composed of three. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and they would assert that it took these three to constitute the one almigpity, (note the final one). So the Christian's God, like that of the Saracens and Moors, finally reached the same number, one. What kind of a syllogism would it make to say that there is but one God and then in the next breath proclaim that it took three persons to make this one power? The major and minor premises vsrould bring about a peculiar conclusion. There is a saying with men of a certain profession about like this: "None but Grod can create a soul,'^ (which is the major premise), "and nonebutakin^ can create a corporation," (which is the minor prenii.se); "therefore a corporation has no soul," (the last being th^ conclusion). Just try and arrange the three God-iieads to make a syllogis- tic proposition! But the cont^ntkm 'would sincerely