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word need be said. Good will it be for us if we, too, have at least the sacred Scripture and perpetually meditate upon it. S. Charles called the Holy Scripture the Bishop's garden. Few walk in it, and fewer dress it. And for that cause so much of the word of man, and so little of the Word of God, is preached to the people. S. Teresa said that one chief cause of the evils of her day was ignorance of the Holy Scripture. "Sal etenim terræ non sumus si corda audientium non condimus. Quia dum nos ab orationis et eruditionis sanctæ usu cessamus sal infatuatum est."[1] By whose fault is this, but of priests who do not study, and therefore do not teach, the Word of God to the people? Have we not reason to ask, "Lord, is it I?"
- ↑ S. Greg. M. in Evang. tom. i. pp. 1396-1399.
