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THE AGONIZING HEART OF JESUS.

are very profitable, and well calculated to promote the objects in view. We hope that where it is possible, the Directors will en- courage their observance.

The first is visiting the sick and dying. We need not enlarge on the excellence of this holy work of mercy, which is not only corporal but spiritual, since it directly pro- motes the eternal salvation of the dying.

This indeed should always be the chief ob- ject, and every means for its attainment should be used. The visitors should be un- wearied in good counsels, and generous and devoted services; they should also inform the priest of the state of the sick and dying, and endeavor to ensure their reception of the Sacraments, overcoming all difficulties which the negligence of relations and neigh- bours, or any other circumstances, may put in their way. They should mutually sus- tain and assist one another, so that where one has failed another may attempt the good work, and by God's blessing they will often have the consolation of seeing their efforts crowned with success. Let them constantly have recourse to the guardian angels of the Bick and dying, to their patron saints, to the Compassionate Heart of our Lady, to St.