O sailor, tempest-tossed on life's rough tide,
Seek Peter's bark and gladly there abide;
Fear not though waves run high and wild winds
rage:
She who has storms outlived from age to age
Will bear thee to the shore
Where tempests are no more.
XXXV. A Few Objections
1. FALLEN man is ever reluctant to submit to the will of another, to obey authority; to do this is irksome to him. This is why so many young people seek to shake off the yoke of obedience. Especially does obedience to the laws and precepts of the Church often appear to them extremely difficult, and often impossible.
As soon as such a command is to be obeyed or such a precept is to be carried out, self-love hunts out every imaginable pretext which can excuse disobedience; meanwhile the evil world with its fatal axioms fails not to aid and abet the disloyal. Let us now examine some of these objections.
2. For instance, people say: "But the Catholic Church gives so very many admonitions and precepts that one can not always remember them all, much less carry them out into practise."
Now as far as remembering them is concerned, Almighty God has taken care that as soon as any precept is to be observed, any doctrine carried out, it should at once recur
