Our mind is a marvelous thing. It can do many, many things we do not even dream of. Let us use it to the full: and never, NEVER waste it or degrade it with rubbish. There is no greater folly, crime, or tragedy than perverting the mind from its one, great, intended, life-giving purpose. Cram it full of God, and of love, and of joy and hope, and of communion with the great host of the faithful of the past in the Divine Word. Cram it so full that it will keep welling up and running over. This is our wisdom and our duty, and no one can do it for us. It is done by study and thought and meditation and prayer -- stedfastly wrenching the mind ever back from all present emptiness, and disciplining it into profitable, productive, eternal channels. God has given to each of us the most marvelous computer in the world. Are we using it just to play tiddledywinks with death?

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