We're delighted to bring back this rare Catholic work from Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. Excerpt: 1. Abbot Antony said: The days are coming when men will go mad; and, when they meet a man who has kept his senses, they will rise up against him, saying, "You are mad, because you are not like us." 2. While Arsenius was still employed in the imperial court, he asked of God to lead him in the way by which he might be saved. Then a voice came to him: "Arsenius, flee the company of men, and thou art in that saving way." 3. Abbot Agatho said: Unless a man begin with the observance of the...

Excerpt: Virtue and vice, A knave's pretence. 'Tis all the same; Ha ha Dread of hell-fire, Of the venomous flame, A coward's plea. Give him his price, Saint though he be, Ha ha From shrewd good sense He'll slave for hire; Ha ha And does but aspire To the heaven above With sordid aim, Not from love. Ha ha SOUL. I see not those false spirits; shall I see My dearest Master, when I reach his throne? Or hear, at least, his awful judgment-word With personal intonation, as I now Hear thee, not see thee, angel? Hitherto All has been darkness since I left the earth; Shall I remain thus...