came under his influence to pray constantly; "for prayer," he said, "is the strength which saves, the courage which perseveres, the mystic bridge thrown over the abyss, which joins the soul to God."
"More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of." — Tennyson.
This book of prayer might also be called "Manna of the Soul," inasmuch as it is the result of at least a conscientious effort to furnish devout souls with substantial spiritual nutriment in such abundance and variety as to satisfy all reasonable demands, but without any highly-seasoned condiment or sauce of mawkish sentiment.
There are devotions and devotions. In regard to this we read in one of the Sacred Heart League Leaflets, entitled Points for Promoters:
"Are we drifting away from our moorings? Is it true that we are abandoning time-honored Catholic customs and practices? Are the good old devotions disappearing, the solid and enduring ones that inspired the faithful for ages, to make way for a newfangled piety more emotional than substantial? What has become of St. Joseph?
"Even to St. Joseph there are devotions and devotions, some of them sensible, a number of them not very sensible, and it is no wonder, nor any loss, if the latter have disappeared as they should; only it is a pity that those who have never practised solid devotion to the saint should be deprived of it utterly in every form when they grow out of the puerile and sometimes unreasonable practices they were taught to follow in his honor.
"There is no need of specifying any of these prac-
