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The Catechism in Examples THE CATECHISM IN EXAMPLES By the REV. D. CHISHOLM Priest of the Diocese of Aberdeen THIRD EDITION IN FIVE VOLUMES VOL. I. FAITH: THE CREED R. & T. WASHBOURNE, LTD. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.G. AND AT MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM, AND GLASGOW All reserved. I g j Q rights Uhil <0b*tai. FHANCISCUS M. WYNDHAM, CENSOR DEPUTATUS -Imprimatur. ^ GULIELMUS EPISCOPDS ARINDELENSIS, VJCARIUS GENERALIS. Die 28 Oct., 1908. TO THE MOST HOLY AND IMMACULATE VIRGIN MOTHER OF GOD "OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS" THE EVER-LOVING MOTHER OF HER DIVINE SON S LITTLE CHILDREN ON EARTH -THE LAMBS OF THE FLOCK OF CHRIST" THIS LITTLE BOOK, WRITTEN FOR THEIR INSTRUCTION IS HUMBLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION THE unprecedented success which attended the " publication of the First Edition of The Catechism in Examples," and the demand which is now being constantly made for the book, has induced the author to undertake the publication of an entirely new edition, in which, while adhering to the original plan, he has not only thoroughly revised, but also considerably developed, the contents of the work. The book in its first form found its way literally into every part of the world, and demands for a re issue have recently reached the author from almost every country in the Continent of Europe, as well as from America, Australia, Africa, North and has most zealous in South ; Ireland especially been its propagation in the past, and in present demands for its reappearance. His late Holiness, Leo XIII., not only gave the book his special approbation and blessing, when brought to his notice by two Archbishops, but asked the author to furnish a copy of it for the Papal Library (see Tablet, February 25, 1888, p. 300). Many members of the Hierarchy have also given it their approbation and commendation, and the teaching Orders of the Church, as well as the clergy viii PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION in charge of schools, have distributed it in profusion among the prizes they gave to the children under their care and in a Catholic home it is the ; many favourite book for pious reading in the family. The new edition consists of five volumes, corre to five of each sponding the parts the Catechism ; volume contains about 400 examples, interspersed with moral reflections, so that each part of the Catechism is gradually set before the mind of the child in such a way as to captivate his attention in a practical and pleasing manner, and enable him to understand more easily and more clearly the ex planations given him by his pastor and parents. Feast of Our Lady s Assumption, 1908. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION ST. GREGORY THE GREAT tells us that more men are drawn towards Heaven by the force of example than by the effects of argument. If this be true in refer ence to mankind in general, it is especially so with regard to the child. The child is formed on ex ample. The truths of faith learned in the Catechism are for the most part unintelligible to him. He requires to have them sketched out as in a picture before he can take in their meaning. Children de light in stories, and they are not slow to catch the moral these are intended to convey. If these stories are lifelike, and within reach of their own practice, they try to imitate what is told in them. Long experience and the example of great and holy men, who have in this, as in other things, followed the example of Our Blessed Lord Himself, have con vinced the author of this book of the necessity of bringing out in bold relief, by means of examples, the truths contained in the Catechism. It was this that induced him to undertake this work. Each example has been carefully chosen to bring home to the mind of the child some one of the great truths of our holy Faith, and to fix it there. Each line of his book has been penned with scrupu- ix x PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION lous care, and in the simplest language, that religion might be made attractive, and that the child might see that it was in its power to do much for God in a humble way. He is conscious of many defects in his but he that the result of unpretending work ; hopes his leisure moments, snatched from the continual turmoil of a laborious missionary life, may not be without its fruits. He had but one end in view the greater glory of God and the sanctification of souls. If the perusal of this little work will make even one child more holy, or love our dear Lord more fervently, he will consider that he has not laboured in vain. ABERDEEN, Easter Sunday, 1886. CONTENTS OF VOL. I PAGE . WHY WE ARE MADE i I. GOD MADE You - i St. Domnina and Her Father in Heaven - i II. GOD MADE You TO KNOW HIM - 3 The Little Boy in the Snow - - 3 The Little Boy at the Exhibition - - 4 The Two Little Boys in America - 4 - III. GOD MADE You TO LOVE HIM 5 How much a Little Child Loved God - 6 Marina de Escobar - - 7 " - O Jesus, My Love !" 7 " - Oh ! How Ungrateful !" 8 Why a Little Girl Loved Her Mother - - 10 St. Mary Magdalen and the Flowers - - 1 1 A Holy Man Ashamed of His Little Love for God - ii The Little Boy and the Rich Lady - - 12 Jesus Asks Us to Love Him - -13 IV. GOD MADE You TO SERVE HIM - 13 St. Gertrude s Recompense - 14 " - O My God, Thou hast Deceived Me!" 15 St. Antony s Great Book - 16 " " God says I Mustn t 17 The Mother and Her Four Children - 18 " - - Auvergne, Auvergne, the Foe !" 19 V. GOD MADE You TO BE HAPPY IN HEAVEN 21 " " I was Born for Greater Things - 21 St. Teresa Sighs for Heaven - The Monk and the Bird - 23 VI. GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A SOUL AND A BODY 2$ 26 Scipio s Medal xi xii CONTENTS OF VOL. I FACE VII. YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY 26 St. Leonidas and His Son - - 27 The Old Man and the Young Solitary 27 VIII. YOU MUST TAKE MOST CARE OF YOUR SOUL - 29 " Save your Soul " - 29 St. Macedonius and the Hunter - 30 A Great Mistake - 3 2 St. Agnes - 32 St. Bernard s Little Brother Nivard - - 34 IX. WHAT WE MUST DO TO SAVE OUR SOULS - 35 The Saint who was Afraid to Die - - 35 The Three Great Words - - 36 [I. GOD S GREAT GIFT OF FAITH - - 38 I. FAITH A SUPERNATURAL GIFT OF GOD TO Us 38 The Children-Slaves of Algeria - 38 II. BY FAITH WE BELIEVE WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED - 40 The Dream of the Princess - - 41 III. How GOD BESTOWS ON Us THE GIFT OF FAITH 42 The Little Indian Boy - 42 The Battle of Tolbiac - 44 IV. VALUE OF THE GIFT OF FAITH : How WE SHOULD ESTEEM IT - 47 Oskiloe, the Savage Prince - - 48 V. THE GIFT OF FAITH MUST NEVER BE REFUSED 48 SS. Barlaam and Josaphat - 49 Radbod, King of Friesland - - 52 VI. WE MUST NEVER BE ASHAMED OF OUR FAITH, MUCH LESS DENY IT - 54 The Colonel Disgraced - 54 Frederick of Prussia and General Zeithen - 56 A Girl who Lost Her Faith - 58 VII. THE MARTYRS DIE RATHER THAN RENOUNCE THEIR FAITH 59 St. Vitus Dies for Jesus Christ - 59 VIII. FAITH NOT SUFFICIENT WITHOUT GOOD WORKS 61 Sermon of St. James the Apostle - - 61 The Arab and the Catholic - - - 62 CONTENTS OF VOL. I xiii IX. THE GREAT SIN OF UNBELIEF - - 63 St. Jane Frances and the Heretic - 63 - X. HERESY - - 64 The Hermit Accused of Heresy - 64 XL APOSTASY . 66 Tried, and Found Faithful - - -66 XII. THE APOSTLES CREED - - 69 The Apostles Compose the Creed - - 69 St. Peter of Verona - 70 III. ONE GOD IN THREE PERSONS - - 73 I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD - 73 The God Whom St. Patrick Adored - 73 The Atheist in Danger of Death - 75 " - I Adore One only God," said the Martyr 76 II. WHO is GOD ? - 77 " " Come Back in Eight Days - 77 The Countryman Going to Church - 78 III. GOD is THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS- - 79 How a Savage came to Know God - 79 God in the Fields - 81 IV. GOD is ALMIGHTY - 81 Canute s Answer to His Courtiers - 82 St. Prisca among the Lions - 82 The Three Young Men in the Fiery Furnace 84 The Great Conqueror and the Indian Chief - 88 V. GOD is EVERYWHERE - - 89 St. Athanasia s Vision of Jesus - 89 The Empress and the Bishop - - 90 " " Silence ! Here is Bernardine 91 Augustine and His Sister Sophia - 91 Boleslaus and His Father s Likeness - - 92 St. Francis of Sales and the Child at Catechism - - 93 St. Antony in Temptation - 94 " God Sees Me " - 95 Blessed Crispin of Viterbo - - 95 VI. GOD KNOWS AND SEES ALL THINGS - - 97 - St. Philip Neri s Great Gift - 97 St. Lidvina s Consolation - - - 98 - - A. Little Unknown Soul 98 xii CONTENTS OF VOL. I FACE VII. YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY 26 St. Leonidas and His Son - -27 The Old Man and the Young Solitary 27 VIII. YOU MUST TAKE MOST CARE OF YOUR SOUL - 29 " Save your Soul " - 29 St. Macedonius and the Hunter - 30 A Great Mistake - 3 2 St.
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