friends to go from bad to worse rather than risk offending them by a timely warning or a gentle reproof. These are cases where duty is to be done at any sacrifice, and duty once done, rest assured good will follow, and your sorrow be turned into joy. The Apostles' love for Christ, because imperfect, clung to the present good of His presence among them; but Christ's love for them, being perfect, looked rather to what good the future held in store. " It is expedient," He says, " that I go, for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go I will send Him to you." How often we see this illustrated in every-day life! There is, for example, in the family an infant, a boy or girl, a young man or woman — the idol of the family, one of God's living saints; too good, no doubt, for this world, so that the hand of death descends on him and God claims him for His own. In our short-sighted selfishness we wail and lament, but if our love were of the true kind we would look across time into eternity and hear the beloved voice assure us: " It is expedient, not only for myself but for you, that I go." For very often in that family is a careless Christian, a careless Catholic, whose soul, by affliction, is brought back to God; whose intercessor before God that saintly relative becomes; to whom that blessed soul may justly say: " It is expedient for you that I go, for if I go not, the grace of God will not come to you, but if I go I will send it to you." The Apostles must have realized this, if not then and there, at least soon afterwards, for St. Luke tells us that after witnessing the Ascen-
