“To restrain anger assimilates man to his Creator.”—Ibid.
“The man who forgives his enemy is like God.”—S. Augustine.
“He is a true Christian who carries with him the whole belief of Christ, who acts virtuously through the spirit of Christ, and who dies to sin through the following of Christ.”—S. Thomas.
“No one is lost without knowing it; and no one is deceived without wishing to be deceived.”—S. Thomas.
The Progressionists.
From The German Of Conrad Von Bolanden.
Chapter VII. An Ultramontane Son.
Greifmann and Gerlach had driven to the railway station. The express train thundered along. As the doors of the carriages flew open, Seraphin peered through them with eyes full of eager joy. He thought no more of the fate that threatened him as the sequel of his father's arrival; his youthful heart exulted solely in the anticipation of the meeting. A tall, broad-shouldered gentleman, with severe features and tanned complexion, alighted from a coupé. It was Mr. Conrad Gerlach. Seraphin threw his arms around his father's neck and kissed him. The banker made a polite bow to the wealthiest landed proprietor of the country, in return for which Mr. Conrad bestowed on him a cordial shake of the hand.
“Has your father returned?”