child born again in the Sacrament of Baptism is the building up of God's spiritual work in the soul. You are called to be fellow-workers with God in the transforming of your children into the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I might also have added how precious life is, if only from our infancy we had all been faithful, if only from our childhood we had persevered in the brightness and freshness of grace in which the Holy Ghost planted us at the font. If now, in the vigour and strength of our manhood, or in the maturity of our older years, we were, not only what we are by the experience of life, but also that which we were in the innocence of our early childhood, we should be nearer to the Sacred Heart, weak and sinful as we may be. Nevertheless, see how great a charity our Heavenly Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, and we shall see Him as He is."6 6 S. John iii. 1, 2. THE SIGNS OF THE SACRED HEART. If our heart reprehend us not, then we have confidence towards God. Dearly beloved, if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 1 S. JOHN iii. 20, 21. WE have already seen in what conformity consists. S. Paul, writing to the Romans, says, 'Be not conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in the newness of your minds;' that is to say, 'Put off the world, for they that love the world are at enmity with God be reformed, made over again, recreated, become new creatures.' Our reformation is nothing less than a new creation; and conformity consists, as we have seen, chiefly in humility, which lays the axe to the root of our pride; and in charity, which quenches our natural anger; and in forgetfulness of self, which is the direct contrary to the passion that governs most men-the love of self. We have also considered the means whereby this transformation into conformity is to be effected; and we saw, as you will remember, that these means consist in a |