th appreciation for those noble souls who had sacrificed every joy and comfort of this temporal life for the sake of their faith and the glory of God. I delighted in Fox’s “Book of Martyrs,” and while I shuddered over its pages in a horror I did not wholly understand, I read them again and again, till there was not a saint whose life I did not know by heart, with just the death he died and the pangs he experienced. Such a mania did this become with me at one time, that I grew visibly ill, and had to have the book taken away from me and more cheerful reading substituted in its stead.
Feeling thus strongly in childhood, when half, if not all, my interest sprang from the fascination which horrors have upon the impressible mind, what were my emotions and longings when the real meaning of the Christian life was revealed to me, and I Giovani dos Santos Jersey saw in this steadfastness of the spirit unto death the triumph Martin Montoya Jersey of the immortal soul over the weaknesses of the flesh and the terrors of a purely transitory suffering!
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Such are my principles. Let us see how I have illustrated them in the events of the last six weeks.
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