wherefore didst thou doubt?" And these words ought to be for ever in our ears. If we begin to sink it is because we have begun to doubt. And then we begin to look here and there, backwards and forwards, and to think that safety and rest and sanctity is to be found in this state and the other, and anywhere but in our own. This is want of humble faith. If we would only use the grace we have we should never fail; and in using it the grace would be increased, or doubled, or multiplied tenfold in reward of humility and fidelity, and simple trust in our Divine Master. No man has so many talents to trade with till his Master comes again as a priest. And no man can therefore lay up for himself so great a reward. Of our Blessed Mother alone it can be said that she corresponded with every light and inspiration and grace of the Holy Ghost; and that promptly and adequately, so that the increase of her grace cannot be measured, and is called an immensity. But every priest, though far below Her because of our original sin and faults and falls, and of our tardy and inadequate correspondence with our great and innumerable graces—every priest may gain and store up in himself a great depth of sanctification, always increasing through life, and accumulating more and more unto the end.
