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 Thoughts for All Times

BY MONSIGNOR VAUGHAN.

A Wonderful Book of Over 400 Pages at the Remarkably Low Price of 72 Cents.

"This great work of Monsignor Vaughan needs only to be known in order to be appreciated. I should be glad to see a copy of it in every household in the land."—Cardinal Gibbons.

A missionary priest says: "Next after the sacred Scriptures, I never read a book so helpful towards leading a good life as Monsignor Vaughan's Thoughts for All Times. From it I have derived much benefit for my own soul, as well as for the enlightenment and encouragement of others."

A few extracts from the work itself will make this clear. From the chapter on Infinite Love we take the following:

"What the sun is in the material order, that love is in the social and moral order."

"We all turn as naturally and as eagerly towards a devoted friend as the sunflower is said to turn towards the sun."

"Of all topics that can engross the mind, the only one of which men never seem to tire or weary is love Under its influence the weak become strong, the despondent hopeful, and the niggardly generous. It changes, transforms and ameliorates whatever it touches, and infuses a nobler and higher impulse wherever its influence penetrates.

"This would prove a sad and dreary world but for the bright, warm sunshine shed by loving hearts. For love illuminates our darkness; it causes the desert itself to blossom as a garden, weaves a thread of golden splendor into the dull texture of a cheerless life, and creates a veritable paradise even on the confines of hell. It is sweet to be loved even by the dumb, unconscious beast."

"Yes, even human love is full of beauty and of gladness. And why? Simply and solely (as it seems to me) because it is a shadow, indeed, but yet a real shadow of one of the most tremendous and sublime realities, viz.: God's overpowering love of us."