letters for my prince, and have not employed a single one to help me to examine my sins and prepare for good confession.
But of what use to him then were those sighs and intentions? They served at best only to increase his despair. But, made wise at the cost of others, O Christian, to live mindful of your eternal salvation, if you would not fall into the same despair, and remember that everything you do, say, or think, that is not for God, is lost. [ Reflect again on your sin .] It is indeed time for you to change your life. What! will you wait for the moment of death to awake you from your delusion — at the door of eternity, on the borders of the abyss? There is yet time, yet opportunity to correct your error. My God ! spare me! I love thee above all things! I sorry for having offended thee more than for any other evil. Mary, my hope, pray to Jesus for me.
[Excite your will to contrition , and make a firm resolution.]
MEDITATION FOR MONDAY.
On the importance of securing our End.
CONSIDER, O man! how much depends upon gaining your great end, that is, your salvation, everything is at stake; for if you reach it, then you saved, then you will be for ever blessed, and will ?y for ever every possible good of soul and body: if you fail, you will lose soul and body, paradise God; you will be for ever miserable; you will be lost eternally. Behold here the greatest of all affairs, the only important, the only necessary business: to love God and save your soul. Then say no longer, Christian: I will live now for my own pleasure, after that I will give myself to God, and hope
