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 O sailor,  tempest-tossed  on  life's  rough  tide, Seek Peter's  bark  and  gladly  there  abide; Fear not  though  waves  run  high  and  wild  winds rage: She who  has  storms  outlived  from  age  to  age Will bear  thee  to  the  shore Where tempests  are  no  more.

ALLEN man  is  ever  reluctant  to submit  to  the  will  of  another,  to obey  authority;  to  do  this  is  irksome  to  him. This is  why  so  many  young  people  seek  to shake  off  the  yoke  of  obedience. Especially does obedience  to  the  laws  and  precepts  of the  Church  often  appear  to  them  extremely difficult, and  often  impossible.

As soon  as  such  a  command  is  to  be  obeyed or such  a  precept  is  to  be  carried  out,  self-love hunts out  every  imaginable  pretext  which can excuse  disobedience;  meanwhile  the evil world  with  its  fatal  axioms  fails  not  to aid  and  abet  the  disloyal. Let us  now  examine some  of  these  objections.

2. For  instance,  people  say:  "But  the Catholic  Church  gives  so  very  many  admonitions and  precepts  that  one  can  not  always remember  them  all,  much  less  carry  them out  into  practise."

Now as  far  as  remembering  them  is  concerned, Almighty  God  has  taken  care  that  as soon  as  any  precept  is  to  be  observed,  any doctrine carried  out,  it  should  at  once  recur