ander, to change it into a virtue, and even into one
of the holiest virtues--that means is, zeal for the glory of
God.... We must humble those people, is the cry; and it is for the
good of the Church to tarnish their reputation and to diminish
their credit. That idea becomes, as it were, a principle; the
conscience is fashioned accordingly, and there is nothing that is
not permissible to a motive so noble. You fabricate, you
exaggerate, you give things a poisonous taint, you tell but half
the truth; you make your prejudices stand for indisputable facts;
you spread abroad a hundred falsehoods; you confound what is
individual with what is general; what one man has said that is bad,
you pretend that all have said; and what many have said that is
good, you pretend that nobody has said; and all that, once again,
for the glory of God. For such direction of the intention justifies
all that. Such direction of the intention will not suffice to
justify a prevarication, but it is more than sufficient to justify
calumny, provided only you are convinced that you are serving God
thereby.

In conclusion, we give a passage or two of Bourdaloue's sermon on "An
Eternity of Woe." Stanch orthodoxy the reader will find here. President
Edwards's discourse, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," is not more
unflinching. But what a relief of contrasted sweetness does Bourdaloue
interpose in the first part of the ensuing extract, to set off the grim
and grisly horror of that which is to follow! We draw, for this case,
from a translation, issued in Dublin under Roman-Catholic auspices, of
select sermons by Bourdaloue. The translator, throughout his volume, has
been highly loyal in spirit toward the great French preacher; but this
has not prevented much enfeebling by him of the style of his original:--

There are some just, fervent, perfect souls, who, like children in
the house of the Heavenly Father, strive to please and possess him,
in order only to possess and to love him; and who, incessantly
animated by this unselfish motive, inviolably adhere to his divine
precepts, and lay it down as a rigorous and unalterable rule, to
obey the least intimation of his will. They serve him with an
affection entirely filial. But there are also dastards, worldlings,
sinners, terrestrial and sensual men, who are scarcely susceptible