[3] St. Luke vi. 20.
[4] St. Matt. xix. 24, 26.
[5] St. Luke xvi. 19, 25.
[6] St. Luke xii. 20.
[7] St. Mark x. 23.
[8] The question of how to furnish one's rooms must be always a personal one for each priest to settle. To some, the advantage of an attractive room, artistically decorated, both as to furniture and pictures, may be a help towards their work, and induce them to spend time among their books which might otherwise be frittered away. But the effeminate or even luxurious method of furnishing that one has occasionally seen is hard to defend in a priest's room. Cardinal Vaughan ends his book on The Young Priest by this advice:—
"We have but one caution to offer, and that is, not to furnish your room as though it were a lady's boudoir. Indulgence in this kind of taste tells unfavourably upon a Priest's own character and stamps the man in the judgment of others" (The Young Priest, p. 34).
[9] Ps. ciii. 23.
[CONFERENCE IV]
CHASTITY