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PERPETUAL INTERCESSION TO

sorrow for ever! there is no alternative. The third motive is your own interest. If you can make some of your fellow-creatures happy for ever, will you not be amply re- warded? But there are many other advan- tages for members of this Confraternity; precious indulgences are attached to it, the excellent virtues of charity, zeal, confidence in God, and fear of His judgments, are called into practice; the spirit of faith and prayer is strengthened; the intention is purified; it opens to you an inexhaustible spring of grace and merit. The members of your families will experience its happy influ- ence; and, above all, you will have great consolation at the hour of your death. How many hands and voices will there be raised, imploring God to grant the grace of a holy death to the charitable Christian who has often sought it for others! Do you think that the souls, to whom the gates of heaven have been opened by your prayers, can forget you in your last struggle? Oh! no, their intercession in heaven will be joined to those made for you by the Confraternity on earth. And how joyfully will they welcome you to join their blessed company for all eternity! dear reader, one of your surest means of