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 little they  have! Thank God,  Christ  has  promised that the  poor  we  shall  have  always  with  us,  for,  to me,  they  seem  as  angels  pointing  out  the  way  to heaven! And God  bless  this  fair  land  where  each brawny youth  is  a  king  and  each  lowly  maiden  is  a queen,  even  though  their  palaces  may  be  a  workshop or a  hovel! And God  bless  the  Church,  whose  gentle, motherly influence  represses  alike  the  rash  uprisings of her  poorer  children  and  the  greed  and  tyranny  of her  richer  and  more  powerful  subjects! It is  she  and she alone,  that  can  ever  settle  this  vexed  question  by leading  men  to  look  at  the  matter  from  a  Christian standpoint and  in  the  light  of  Christian  principles. " Time,"  she  says  to  the  poor  man,  "  time  is  but  a moment  compared  to  eternity;  and  what  matters  it if  you  are  poor  and  wretched  as  Lazarus  here,  if  you have  it  in  your  power  to  be  rich  and  happy  forever hereafter." "Time," she  says  to  the  rich  man, " time  is  but  a  moment  compared  to  eternity;  and  it availeth  you  nothing  if  you  gain  the  whole  world here,  if  you  suffer  the  loss  of  your  immortal  soul hereafter." It is  the  Church  and  the  Church  alone that can  preserve  the  equilibrium  of  society — reducing the  richest  to  the  level  of  the  poorest  by  preaching "  Blessed  are  the  poor  in  spirit,"  and  exalting the very  poorest  infinitely  above  the  very  richest  by promising  or  securing  them  possession  of  the  kingdom of  heaven.