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 THE DIRECTION OF SOULS

Our Lord allowed me the consolation of closely studying the souls of children.

Considering these innocent souls I used to compare them to soft wax, upon which any impression may be stamped the bad, alas! like the good; and I understood those words of Jesus: "But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Oh! how many souls might attain to a high degree of holiness if wisely guided from the very first.

I well know that to accomplish His