of the New Jerusalem, and the feelings that at times, in your better moments, come over you — feelings of fear of God, of disgust for sin, of desire for something higher and purer and nobler than your present life, of love for God — these are as the moving of the waters by the angel of the Lord. Delay not, I beg of you; delay not to avail yourself of this means of sanctification. Consider how Christ has labored to make it easy for you. Justification under the law was almost as painful, almost as impossible, as it was for the cripple to reach first the waters of Probatica, but under the Gospel you have but to turn penitently to Christ, and by a word of His mouth you will be made whole. Lay your sin-palsied soul before Him, then, in the tribunal of penance, and doubt not the blessed result. Your spiritual, aye your physical life and health will be restored; your fellow-sinners will be comforted and encouraged and ultimately led to God by your example; and God's glory will be promoted, for the multitudes, seeing your conversion and your restoration to the friendship of God and God's Church through the Sacrament of Penance, will fear and glorify God who hath given such power to men.
