ust be silent if men feed them
profanely. It is because the Church has not done her duty that there
are so many secular societies for Reformation, Temperance, and so on.
The Church has provided for the salvation of the sinner's soul by
means of spiritual acts, such as prayer, penance, the Eucharist and
other sacraments. But now she must provide terrestrial sacraments for
the salvation and transfiguration of the body."

"We should strive constantly to actualize the ideal we perceive. When
we do realize all the beauty and holiness that we see, we are not
called to deny ourselves, for then we are living as fully on all
sides as we have capacity to do. Are we not in this state? Then, if
we are sincere, we will give up lower and unnecessary gratifications
for the sake of the ideal we have in view.

"I would die to prove my immortality."

"At times we are called to rely on Providence, to be imprudent and
reckless according to the wisdom of the world. So I am willing to be
thought. Each of us has an individual character to act out, _under
the inspiration of God,_ and this is the highest and noblest we can
do. We are forms differing from one another, and if we are acting
under the inspirations of the Highest, we are doing our uttermost;
more the angels do not. What tends to hinder us from realizing the
ideal which our vision sees must be denied, be it self, wealth,
opinion, or death."

"The Heart says, 'Be all that you can.' The Intellect says, 'When you
are all that you can be--what then?'"

"Infinite love is the basis of the smallest act of love, and when we
love with our whole being, we are in and one with God."

"To love is to lose one's self and gain God. To be all in love is to
be one with God."

"When the Spirit begets us, we are no more; the Spirit is, and there
is nothing else."

"There is much debauchery in speaking wilfully.

"Every act of self is sin, is a lie.

"The Spirit will lead you into solitude and silence if it has
something to teach you.

"You must be born again to know the truth. It cannot be inculcated.

"To educate is to bring forth, not to put in. To put in is death;
to flow out is life."

Lest the reader may have got an impression, from any of the extracts
already given, that Isaac Hecker was puffed up by the pride of his
own innocence, we transcribe what follows. It shows that he did not
fall under the Apostle's condemnation: "If we say that we have no
sin, we deceive ourselves, and