Yes, they can get on, but after what fashion! Do you, therefore, repeat with heart and voice the following lines:
Come, sacred Light, from Heaven above
With power the heart of man to raise
And teach to hymn his Maker's praise.
And with thy brightness let him shine
In presence of the King divine.
III. The Music of the Soul
1.A PEASANT betook himself to a priest in Rome, and laid before him the following extraordinary doubt. "Your Reverence," he said, "I can scarcely believe that I have a soul !" It may readily be imagined that this unexpected statement caused the priest no slight astonishment. It cost him an effort to discover how he could, in a brief and clear manner, convince the foolish man that he really had a soul. The Spirit of God taught him what to say.
He questioned the doubter thus: "Now, my good man, why can not you believe that you have a soul?" "Because I can not see it!" "Well, then, think of whatever you like"; and after the lapse of a few' minutes he inquired : "Have you really thought of something?" " Yes, I have done as your Reverence bade me." "But," continued the priest, "I cannot believe that you have thought of anything." "And why not, may I ask?" "Because I can not see your thought." In this convincing manner was the man freed from his doubt.
For, indeed, it would be unreasonable to
