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 commandments; you,  if  you  have  conscientiously  reduced to  practice  the  truths  which  I  have  taught. Woe to  you  and  woe  to  me  in  that  terrible  day,  if during  our  lives  we  refused  to  bow  our  intelligences in simple  faith  before  the  mystery  of  the  Trinity,  or forgot  the  goodness  of  each  divine  person  to  us,  or having  admitted  and  believed  these  truths,  failed  to conform  our  lives  thereto. Woe to  us  then  if  we  have to confess  to  the  Father  that  instead  of  loving  and serving Him  as  our  first  beginning  and  our  last  end, we gave  all  our  thoughts  to  and  placed  all  our  happiness in  the  creatures  He  intended  to  help  rather than hinder  us  on  the  road  of  our  earthly  pilgrimage to heaven. Woe to  us  if  we  have  to  own  to  the  Son that His  incarnation,  His  lowly  birth,  and  His  humble life  were  for  us  all  in  vain;  that  His  sacred  body was bruised  and  His  adorable  blood  shed  only  to make  our  guilt  greater  and  our  punishment  more terrible. Woe to  us  then  if  we  have  to  report  to  the Holy Ghost  a  neglect  of  all  His  inspirations,  a  contempt for  His  heavenly  gifts,  and  a  steady  refusal  to listen  to  His  repeated  warnings  and  invitations  to  return to  repentance,  and  to  God. For if  such  be  our condition in  the  last  day,  we  will  then  find  that  the day of  mercy  has  given  place  to  the  night  of  wrath — that God  the  Father  is  as  omnipotent  in  hell  as  in heaven;  that  God  the  Son  is  as  all-wise  in  devising  a hell  of  torture  as  He  is  in  planning  a  heaven  of  delights; that  the  justice  of  God  the  Holy  Ghost  is  as implacable  as  His  mercy  is  infinite. " For  they  that shall  believe  and  be  baptized  and  keep  My  command-