It is eternal truth, the faith which we profess, Which gives us hope in life, and peace when death is near.
XII. Your Most Precious Treasure
1. A SHORT time since I read in a Swiss newspaper the following account from the pen of a teacher of theology. A celebrated operatic singer during a stay which he made on the Rigi, said to the professor in the course of a conversation, that three things contributed to human happiness; love, useful occupation, especially in the realm of art, and religion — a firmly rooted faith. - He confessed that the two first factors are followed frequently by disenchantment. In like manner, he said, fame and applause never confer true happiness.
He had experienced genuine happiness — true peace and contentment — on the day of his first communion, at the time when he possessed deep religious convictions. He had been brought up in a strictly religious manner; now, he said, though in a vague manner he believed in God, he could scarcely be called a believer.
2. If even this famous singer, whose artistic skill was the admiration of half Europe, and who was loaded with praise and honors, if he regarded as his brightest and happiest days, not those of his success upon the stage, but those of his youth, when he possessed
