and divine mysteries? Will we refuse to accept on faith a truth which the voice of God asserts in Scripture and Tradition, which God's infallible Church teaches, and in the presence of which the sublime intelligence of an Augustine, an Aquinas, and even the angels themselves bend in lowly homage? We cannot prove this truth to be false; we have God's word for it that it is true, and therefore though we cannot understand, we believe and beg God to help our unbelief. In fact if we look around us we see that many of the things God has made bear His likeness in that they are at the same time one and three. A triangular tower is one of these, because as we view it from three different sides it is ever the same tower we behold. St. Patrick used the shamrock to illustrate the Trinity. As the Son proceeds from the Father and the Holy Ghost from both, so the blossom comes from the tree, and the fruit from tree and blossom. The brute beast is a complete being and in himself he contains two other distinct beings; his soul and his body. The soul of man which God made to His own image and likeness — that too, and in a special manner bears the impress of the Trinity, for while it is one soul, it possesses the three faculties of memory, understanding, and free will. It was precisely on account of this wonderful combination of unity and multiplicity in natural objects that men, even before the coming of Christ, were led to conclude some kind of a plurality in the Divinity. Hence, while the unlettered throng held to the doctrine of one God in nature and person, the Pagan philos-
