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THE ,, .
B’OYS’,AND:,GI1?.LS’
W. -J. CUNNINGHAM, PUBLISHER,
VOL. I.
THE ROSARY.
CIIIAPTER I. ,
A M -M A,” said
Blanche I-Ieniiell, a
little girl of about
ten years of age, to
x - her mother, “ Mam-
‘ 3 ma, Iliavejust been
' ‘3 telling Ella Roden,
2 that she will never
go to Heaven.”
. lookingmuehslioc ‘-
' , "don’t repeat
" anything sounchris-
tian-like and wick-
ed.” - I I
. d d“ “’hy, Mammlp,
;. i you not say 1 e
other (lay, that we
.. x . , should always tell
:.;.. fr'"r‘:'2$)W?t.R" the truth boldly?”
' ‘f Certainly, my dear; but how do you know
that you were then telling the truth?”
i “ Oh Mamma, stop until I tell you all my
story, and you will see I was quite right.”-
“ No, my cl1ll(l,>I, am sure I shall not think
you were right, nothing could justify such an
expression from your lips, but I hope you will
convince me ‘your motive in saying it was
good, and I trust God will pardon you.”
“Now ‘only listen,” said Blanche, with the
tone of one who evidently thought she had
done well. “You know my beautiful statue
"ofthe Blessed Virgin ivhieliuncle Basil brought
me from Rome. Well, Frank and I made an
alcove for it at the end of the garden, and we
plaeeda kind of altar in it, and decorated it
with flowers, and then I put my.statue on it,
and when it was all finished, I asked Ella,
who just then came in, to come and say the
Rosary with me, and what do you think she
said?” .= . - ' .
I
PHILA.l)ELPHIA, SA'I‘UItDA).(,jDECEMBER 12, 1846.
W‘EEi<LY CATHOLIC MAGAZINE.
104 SOUTH, THIRD STREET.
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NO.
, “I cannot guess, my dear,‘lier precise words
but I doubt not that she refused you.” “
“First, she said she did not know what the
Rosary was; and when I had repeated the
words over and over again, and asked her to
say it after me, she would not, and said she
did not know who ‘Hail Mary’ was.”
“ I am sorry any creature professing Chris-
tianity should be ignorant of the honor due to
the mother of her Saviour, but instead of getting
Engry, Blanche, you should have explained it to
er.” , . ,
“I did,” replied Blanche, tears filling her
eyes, “I did, and she only laughed, and said
she would not worship images.” -. is
“I hope you convinced her you did not de-
sire she should.” . v .,
“ I told her, Mamma, that I did not ask her
to worship the statue, that I knew it was only
marble, and did not know wliatwe said, that
I only placed it there to remind me of the
Blessed Virgin, but that the real person was in
Heaven, and heard what we said, and would
pray to her son Jesus for us if we asked her.”,
“You told her quite right,'my love, and as
clear an explanation as could be expected from
a child of your age. Ella is a sweet intelli-
gent and highly gifted child, but has not had
the happiness of being educated in the Catholic
faith, the only true religion; therefore is igno-
rant of all those pious observances and CCYQ7
monies so dear in the sight of God, because
‘done for his sake; she has never heard, per-
haps, tlie divine Mother ofher Saviour spoken
of, has never been taught that in loving and
honoring her, we love and honor IIim. We
must pity and pray for her, but not blame'hc:';
Tell me what she replied to yoiirexplanatioii. .
“ She said it might be all very true: 131” ‘hill
people could go to heaven without saying the
Rosary, and’ therefore she would never so)’ ‘iv
andthen it was that I told her she was very
wicked, and y.Ou1d-‘new,’-qgo to heaven; now
was that not quite right?- ‘
H No, my dear, wrong in every W3):--W.1‘(3ng
in.y01H' rash judgment, and wrong in giving
uttcrancc‘to words so uncharitable besides;