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Irish Jesuit Province

My Lord, My God!Author(s): Lewis DrummondSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 24, No. 277 (Jul., 1896), pp. 379-380Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499000 .

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My Lord, my God! 379

look very black and we feel as if there was no use trying again, if

we raise our hearts to God earnestly with effort, with two or three words for two or three seconds of intensity, whether we feel earnest or not, often all the better for not feeling, a wonderful change will come without any wonderful emotion; but we hope again, we begin again, we seem to ourselves able again to cope with our difficulties, to use our lives aright, to strive to set right what had gonle wrong or was going wrong; and because it seems to our selves that we can manage, somehow we actually can. Possunt quiaposse videntur. It is grace, given in response to a fervent or earnest aspiration, that works that marvellous change.

28. "I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me" (Phil. iv., 13) that is, by the help of grace. " Give me grace "

should be our constant desire and prayer, above all in times of trial and discouragement; and grace will come and make us hope again and always try again.

WILLIAM A. SUTTON, S.J.

MY LORD, MY GOD!

* HE octave 'tis of Easter night,

A week since Jesus rose;

A week of witnesses in sight

To question if one chose.

The doubting Thomas doubteth still,

Demandeth special proof,

As if Jehovah must His will

Adapt to man's behoof.

Shalt thou, 0 Lord! this sceptic win

By yielding to his claim ?

Or shalt thou punish his great sin

By blotting out his name ?

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380 7he Irish 1Monwthly.

Oh, no; " the Master sweet replies,

" From evil I draw good :

"Unfaith shall open all men's eyes

And give them certitude."

And so he comes with smile divine

To doubting Didymus:

"Touch, Thomas, touch these wounds of mine, " Be not incredulous."

As Thomas feels these tokens fresh,

These gates of saving pain,

le knows that in His glorious flesh

The Christ has come again.

Athwart those stubborn lips there spring,

Aflame from riven heart,

The words the echoing ages sing:

" My Lord, my God thou art !"

As Lord, He claims by sovereign right

Our every thought and deed;

As God, He is our life, our light,

Our help in every need.

May Thomas our belief increase

In Jesu's natures twain,

Whose blending brings us glad release

From sin's tyrannic reign.

"My Lord, my God!" 0 joy of joys

For soul by truth set right

0 cr,y whose sweetness never clovs

The spirit's appetite !

LEwis DnRUMMOND, S. J.

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