The Rambler, Vol. 5
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Excerpt from The Rambler, Vol. 5: A Catholic Journal and Review of Home and Foreign Literature, Politics, Science, Music and the Fine Arts It is a wonderful thing to be a Catholic. It is more than wonderful: it is so awful, that, were it not for the consolations which the Catholic religion confers, it would be overwhelming and appalling. What Catholic can realise, even in a faint measure, all that is involved in the fact that he, personally, is a Catholic, and not tremble at the thoughts on which he dwells? Take any one of us - the writer of these lines, or any one Catholic who reads them - and think for a few moments what that person is, and the spiritual condition in which he is at this moment existing. On every side he touches on the Infinite and the Eternal. Himself a mote in the sunbeam, a speck in the universe, his past, his present, and his future are all bound up in ineffable intimacy with the will and the glory of the everlasting God. From the most venial of his sins, with which he, the mere breath of his Creator, is permitted to insult the majesty of the Omnipotent, to the never-ending chant of praise with which he hopes to make the very heavens resound hereafter - all that he does, all that he thinks, all that he is, begins, is carried on, and is ended in incomprehensible connexion with the attributes of the Eternal. Oh, wonderful thought! mysterious, indescribable, unfathomable destiny! A few years ago this creature had no existence; he simply was ¬ and now, what is he? Think only upon one of the circumstances of his present state - look at him as he kneels before the little tabernacle upon a humble altar. What is it that this poor, helpless, sorrowing, sinning one is engaged in? He is adoring God; he is commencing the occupations of eternity. Nothingness is resting upon Omnipotence; a sinner is bathing in the blood of God. Who can comprehend it? We can but believe, and believing, while we tremble, rejoice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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