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 ruin both the faith and the innocence of a young man.

2. But I comfort myself with the thought that I have every reason to say, with the aged father of Tobias: "I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him."

This good angel, I know, is your guardian angel, and this little book also, I trust, will serve as your guardian and your guide also. It will accompany you when you go forth into the world, and remain always at your side. It depends only upon you that this companion should remind you what fa to be done, and what is to be left undone; you must simply take counsel with it by leading this little volume attentively.

I will now, in taking farewell, briefly recapitulate under five resolutions all that has been said. You must impress these resolutions indelibly on your memory, and adhere to them faithfully.

3. First Resolution. I will be careful to say my daily prayers regularly, and never to omit hearing Mass on Sundays and holidays without absolute necessity.

This resolution may be epitomized in one word: Prayer. Prayer is the pivot on which the spiritual life of every Christian, and certainly of every Catholic young man, revolves; prayer is the very breath of the soul, its vital breath. And bear in mind that by