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 8. In general they roust bear a truly Christian charity for each other, and fly all animosity and aversion.

9. Let each one ask from time to time, through the merits of the Sacred Heart, that God would protect their fellow associates from all evils, spiritual and temporal, and that he would pour down his choicest blessings on them, not in life only, but more particularly at the hour of their death.

10. Nor must their charity end with life. This ought to continue even beyond the sepulchre, and the living endeavour to assist their deceased brethren by their holy prayers.

If, then, devout reader, this Sacred Heart of Jesus is really an object of your affections, as no doubt it ought to be, make up amongst those with whom you live, your family, friends, and domestics, a small association of this nature, and take my word for it, Almighty God will look with a propitious eye both on you, and this your assembly.