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 precept, most important for all the affairs of life, is especially so in the affair of our salvation. There are people who will torment themselves, and think ' Yes: this is all very well! I have been to confession, and have begun to be converted: but what trouble, temptation, and weariness are yet to come! I shall never be able to resist them; life is long, and I shall inevitably give way before such labours.’

Go forth, my son — or my daughter! overcome to-day’s difficulties, and do not trouble yourself about to-morrow’s. One after the other you will conquer them all. ' Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.’ He who has helped you to-day will not desert you to-morrow: but too much forethought and anxiety may be your destruction.