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kinds of sufferings borne for us by our Blessed Redeemer; but perhaps, if we consider a moment, we shall most of us confess, that the one we think of least often, the one we compassionate least of all, is the only one of which he deigned to tell us himself, and for which he himself appealed to our pity in the Divine complaint,—"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has not where to lay his head."
A. A. P.
May, 1862.