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Our Faith Our Dearest Treasure.
[Many of our little readers know that an acrostic is a poem in which the initial letters
of the lines form the name of some person or place. They may not know, however,
that a telestich is a poem in which the final letters of the lines make a name. Here is a
poem which is both an acrostic and telestich, and which is the more of a curiosity be-
cause it was composed when its author was little more than a school-girl. ‘The first
letters of the lines form the name of Father Ambrose A. Mullen, O.S.A., once President
of Villanova College, Pennsylvania; the final letters give the name of Father William
Harnett, of the same Order, who was a bosom friend of Father Mullen, and, also, a Pro-
fessor in Villanova College. Father Harnett’s angelic piety and sweetness of disposition
caused him to be called the “Angel of the House,’’ when he was a novice in the Convent
of Our Lady of Good Counsel, at Genazzano. United in their lives, they were not long
divided in death; for Father Harnett died at I.awrence, Mass., March 28, 1875; and
Father Ambrose, at Andover, in the same State, July 7, 1876. KR. 1. P.J
Fond and consoling is the Christian’s belieF,
A potent charm in Life’s bewildering dramA ;
The sacred power which maketh Marah sweeT,
Hushes the wailing wretchedness of RamaH ;—
Ever the same, though storms or sunshine liE
Round the rude path that leadeth to Our FatheR.
An angel calls, —and we, too weak to folloW,
Moan with our dying Lord, ‘‘Z/oi/ £lo1!’’.
But ’tis a passing weakness, and the wilL,
Ready to conquer, bids all trembling fears be stilL.
‘ Ojoy! to have our God, our great £/oI,
So far above all other nations’,—yeA,
E’en as the reality is to the dreaM.
A God to save, a God to us most nigH !
May hearts and lips send forth their glad HosannA
Unto this Lord, this Chief, whose glorious banneR,
Like some strong magnet, draws exultant meN
Lost to the world, to earth’s enchanting scenE,
Ever to dwell with Thee, O God! in rapture sweeT,
Never to quit again Thy sacked, worinded feeT.
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