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 by constant and useful occupation. Let it be your ambition by indefatigable industry, unremitting activity, and endurance, to become a useful member of society, and thus be a credit to your faith, a source of joy to your parents, and a benefactor to your fellow-men.

That man should work is God's good will And man's own welfare too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

f WHAT avail would the most impregnable fortifications and the most powerful weapons be to a general besieged by enemies, and shut up in a fortress, if provisions, the means of life, were wanting to him? He could maintain no permanent resistance, b« could not possibly conquer, and there would remain for him no alternative except either to see the garrison perish from hunger, or to surrender at discretion to the enemy.

Such a disaster can never fall to your lot in the war which you wage against the enemy of chastity; for never can spiritual means of support be wanting to you, since well-furnished storehouses stand open to you at all times, from which you may always draw fresh spiritual strength, invincible power, and inexhaustible grace. I understand by these storehouses, the sacraments of Penance and of the Altar.

2. In confession and communion our merciful Redeemer has bequeathed to the young inexhaustible treasures of grace, which may always