can find innumerable
things with which we can compare, and by which correct, the conclusions
of our study of the principles of the warfare.

These are especially valuable when found in the biographies of the
great servants of God, for in such records we find the theory actually
worked out in the lives of men of like passions with ourselves.

A beautiful illustration of this is recalled from the life of that
great champion of the Faith, Bishop Gray of Capetown. When in the
midst of his contest with the heretic Colenso, when the Church and the
world seemed combined against him, from one of his long wagon-journeys
across the lonely African veldt, he writes, "I find great comfort in
repeating the first three petitions of the Lord's Prayer." What a
mighty weapon was that! Have we used it as did this servant of God?

[1] Ps. xxv, 8.

[2] Ps. xxxii, 9.

[3] Isa. liv, 13.

[4] St. John xiv, 26.

[5] St. John xvi, 13.

[6] "One does not arrive at virtue except through knowledge of self and
knowledge of Me, which knowledge is more perfectly acquired in time of
temptation, because then man knows himself to be nothing, being unable
to lift off himself the pains and vexations which he would flee."--St.
Catherine of Siena, _Dialogue_, p. 119. (Thorold Trans., London, 1907.)

[7] _Imitation_, I, xiii.

[8] Rom. vii, 15 and 19.

[9] _Imitation_, I, xiii.

[10] St. Matt. xi, 29.

[11] _Imitation_, I, ii.

[12] Heb. iv, 15.

[13] St. Luke says, "When the devil had ended every kind of temptation,
he departed from Him until a convenient season."--Chap, iv, 13. "He
was tempted throughout the forty days, and that what is recorded is
merely an illustration of what took place. The enemy tried all his
weapons, and was at all points defeated."--Plummer, _Internal. Crit.
Comment_, in loc.

[14] St. Jerome, Epistle to Heliodorus.

[15] H. E. Manning, _Sin and its Consequences_, p. 173.

[16] St. Matt. vi, 20.

[17] Phil. ii, 12.

[18] St. John xix, 30.

[19] 2 Cor. vi, 2; Ps. xliii, 5; St. Luke xxi, 28.

[20] Heb. v, 14. The words of the author of the Epistle may be
paraphrased somewhat as follows: "Who by reason of the possession of
perfected habit have the mental faculties exercised (by a course of
spiritual gymnastics), for discriminating between good and evil." See
Westcott and Alford _in loc_. St. Macarius, speaking of these
spiritual gymnastics, says, "We have need of many and great efforts, of
mu