The Clergy and the Pulpit in Their Relations to the People.

by Isidore Mullois

"'I change not.'

"'But every thing in the world has changed. Astronomy has changed; philosophy has changed; empire has changed; why are you always the same?'

"'Because I come from God, and God is always the same.'

"'But know this, that we are masters. We have a million of men under arms, we will draw the sword, and the sword which demolishes thrones may easily be made to behead an old man like yourself, and to tear into fragments the leaves of a book.'

"'Attempt it. Blood is the aroma which gives me new youth.'

"'Well, then, accept half of my purple; join in a sacrifice to peace, and let us go shares.'

"'Keep thy purple, O Caesar; to-morrow we will bury you in it, and will chant over you the Alleluia and De profundis, which never change.'"

This is something which everybody can understand, and which will always be listened to with pleasure, and with profit to the truth.

But further: It is not enough to speak to the mind. That goes a very little way, however powerful our speech may be; for the mind is merely the vestibule of the soul. We must penetrate to the sanctuary of the temple, namely, to the heart. The heart is nearly the whole man, and we are hardly any thing apart from the heart. It is the heart which believes—"with the heart man believeth"—and it is the heart which begets virtues. Moreover, the heart is what God demands from us.