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 me that it may be so for Thine own glory. O angels of heaven! O most blessed saints! that have attained the end for which you were created, beseech this our Lord whom you enjoy that I may also obtain Him, ascending up to enjoy "Him in your company, world without end. Amen.

In concluding the first point I must pass to the second, which is, to call to memory the end for which all the other things of the earth were created, that is to say, that they might help man to attain to the final end of his creation, taking them for a means to serve Almighty God our Lord and to save himself, according to that which the royal prophet David said of his people, God "gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and they possessed the labours of the people, that they might observe His justifications" or holy commandments, " and seek after His" holy " law."

1. Upon this truth I am to consider first* how liberal Almighty God has showed himself towards me in creating such a multitude of creatures, so fair and so admirable for my sake, and not only created things necessary to preserve my life, but also many others for my delicacy and delight, and for the recreation of my sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching, for which I am to give Him infinite thanks; seeing that the good which He did to these creatures He did it more to me than to them, for that He did it to them in respect of me.

Colloquy. — Let all these Thy creatures bless Thee, O Lord, and let my soul praise and glorify Thee for them all. I give Thee thanks for the being which Thou givest to the heavens and to the elements, to beasts and to plants, and to all the other bodies of the earth. I give Thee thanks also for the beauty of