![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It needs much courage to inspect the key each time and adapt it to one's own lock. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words. So many of us, supposedly standing for law and order, are merely clinging on to old habits, sometimes to a mere parrot vocabulary, its formulae worn so smooth by constant use that they justify everything and question none.Of course they yawn! You don’t expect the Church to teach them joy in one wretched half-hour a week, do you? And even if they knew all the articles of the Council of Trent by heart, I doubt it would cheer ‘em up very much.” But it ‘ud make some of those gentlemen think, that yawn all through mass on Sunday. You’ll be saying that isn’t a very theological definition. The opposite of a Christian people is a people grown sad and old. “Look: I’ll define you a Christian people by the opposite. ![]()
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