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 of the  young  and  of  the  sick. In the  sound  of  the clock, the  irrevocable  progress  of  time.

"We can  meditate  by  adoring  the  presence  of God  all  around  us,  as  we  walk  in  the  midst  of  Him, or  as  causing  by  His  presence  in  each  object  we behold,  its  continued  existence  and  its  qualities of  good."

St. Francis  of  Sales  says:  "As  they  that  are enamored  with  human  and  natural  love  have almost  always  their  thoughts  fixed  on  the  person beloved,  their  heart  full  of  affection  toward  her, their  mouth  filled  with  her  praise,  and  when  their beloved  is  absent  they  lose  no  occasion  to  testify their  passion  by  letters,  and  on  every  tree  they meet  they  engrave  the  name  of  their  beloved;  — even  so,  such  as  love  God  can  never  cease  to  think upon  Him,  they  breathe  only  for  Him,  they  aspire only  to  Him,  and  speak  only  of  Him,  and,  if  k were  possible,  they  would  grave  the  sacred  name of  Our  Lord  Jesus  on  the  breasts  of  all  men  in the  world."

And all  creatures  invite  them  to  this,  each  one in its  kind  declaring  to  them  the  praises  of  their Beloved; and,  as  St.  Augustine  says,  "all  things in  this  world  speak  to  us  in  a  kind  of  dumb  language, yet  intelligible  enough,  in  praise  of  our  Love;  all things  provoke  us  to  good  thoughts,  from  whence afterward  arise  many  motions  and  aspirations  of our  soul  to  God."

St. Francis  of  Assisi,  for  instance,  seeing  a  sheep all alone  amidst  a  herd  of  goats,  remarked  to