The Carmelite Review, Vol. 6
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Excerpt from The Carmelite Review, Vol. 6: A Catholic Monthly Magazine Devoted to Our Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel The little King. By Rev. Philip A. Best, 0. C. C. "If there is any thing that will endure The eyes of God, because it still is pure, It is the spirit of a little child, Fresh from His hands, and therefore undefiled, Nearer the gates of Paradise than we, Our children breathe its airs, its angels see; And when they pray, God hears their simple prayer; - Yea, even sheathes his sword, in judgment bare." - R. H. Stoddard. "It is childish!" "Very true, my friend, and therefore praise-worthy, and good for our souls did we follow it, for unless you be converted, and become as little children you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." This was the prelude to a discussion of divers devotions. My subject is then, literally, "childish." It is in season too. The old year, with its good and bad, its joy and pain, is dead and buried. Holy Church takes it for granted that we, too, are all born again, so to speak - or, in other words, that the Babe of Bethlehem is again King of our hearts. With the new year, the holy Infant should grow within us from day to day. This is the lesson of the Christmas celebration. We felt strong after eating of the heavenly Bread and we resolved. Today we put our resolutions to the test. The world with its deceit, sham and hypocrisy is ready to entrap us. You shrink backwards. You dare not take the first step. No wonder! You mistrust your so-called friends. "Have courage, my child!" says holy Church. Your best friend and pastor of your soul - the priest - loves to call you by the endearing name of child. "My little children!" repeated the Apostle of love. Have courage, then, and go forth to-day in that sweet name which was given to your King. Hell and all that is in it will tremble at that holy Name. Not long ago 1 heard of a hardened criminal being suddenly moved to tears by the words and looks of a little child. This brings us more to the point. The fact that I am trying to drive home is that we ought to try to become children again. The world says, go ahead! Heed it not, but go backwards. Go back to the open, honest, simple and candid ways of your early days - in a word, be a child! People are becoming very unnatural. We seem to be afraid of one another. We are slaves to conventionalities. We often feel disposed to throw off all restraint and act like children. Why, we are so accustomed to this guarded way of ours, that we have our doubts as to the sanity of a person who acts naturally. I think it was Emerson who said that whilst alone we are natural, but let a second person enter the room and we become unnatural, as if perpetually posing for our photographs. I might be paradoxical and say we naturally become unnatural. We are shocked if we hear an object called by its right name. We all love and admire innocence and simplicity. 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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