WE SING WHILE THERES VOICE LEFT WE SING WHILE THERES VOICE LEFT by
DOM HUBERT VAN ZELLER I mil proclaim Thy renown, to my brethren
where Thy people gather, I will pin in sing ing Thy praises. PSALM
and, 23 Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will be happy
on account of them. You will bless life and cause others to bless
it. SHEED AND WARD NEW YORK For Brian WMtlock and Christopher Hull
who - will recognise bits of this book though not, I add hastily,
the same bits. INTRODUCTION CRITICS tell me that the world, life,
problems of relation ship between God and man are not so clear-cut
as 1 seem to make them. It isnt simply a question of right and
wrong, I am reminded black is never wholly black, nor white wholly
white. There must always be a good deal of grey Certainly, but if
you look at the space in between, you begin to see grey. The point
about books like this is that you are invited to break up the all
too prevalent grey into its com ponent bkck and white. Man can so
easily fool himself about the grey. Where in earlier books of the
present sequence it was the darker side of the world, of life, of
human relationship that was mostly discussed, in this one it is
chiefly the lighter and more hopeful. Presumably it is the purpose
of every ideology to save the world. Unless you know both what you
are saving it from and what you are saving it for, the process will
not get you very far. The Christian ideology is clear on both
points the world is being saved from itself and for God. It is the
absurdly ambitious aim of this book to help in the operation. Few
would deny that the world has moved very fast and very far in the
last ten years the question is, however, whether it has movedin the
right direction. Fear of missing the train and being left on the
platform has blinded us yes, us Catholics to the fact that the
train may be going the wrong way. It is no good having a ticket on
the train, knowing all about the train, enjoying ones journey in
the VH1 INTRODUCTION train, favourably comparing the time and the
upholstery and the view out of the window with other trains, if one
fails to reach ones destination. It is better to miss the right
train than to catch the wrong one in the same way that it is better
to back the wrong horse than to be the wrong horse because at least
the situation can be remedied. The whole matter is what the soul is
going towards. The present essays do not make up a spiritual
Bradshaw, but they do attempt to show the over-confident as well as
the hesitant traveller how to read the signals. If there are
accidents on the line it wont be my fault. Two of the chapters in
this book have appeared in The Key, to the editor of which I
express my thanks for allowing me to include them here, and the
sequence on Communism represents the substance of a course
delivered on this subject to the Oratory School. In reading about
Communism I made notes from a number of sources, but since I had
then no thought of publication I am afraid I did not bother to
specify names. The only authority whom I can remember is Mr. Hyde,
of whose excellent writings I certainly made a study, and to him,
as to any other whose work is reflected in these pages, I tender
most grateful acknowledgements. CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION .......
vii WHAT RELIGION DOES FOR US .... I WHAT WE DO FOR RELIGION .... 5
JOY OF A SORT 9 IS SIN SO JOLLY ...... 14 SELF-PITY 18 EXPERIENCE
....... 21HUMILITY AND RETICENCE 26 OBEDIENCE AND LIBERTY 3D HOW
THIS AFFECTS OTHERS 36 THIS POWER FOR GOOD OR EVIL .... 39 THE
POLICY OF TAKING 45 AFFECTION, PASSION, AND SUFFERING ... 48 THE
WIDE INWARD SPACES ..... 53 SPIRITUAL WRITERS CRAMP 56 THE WEDDING
WILL TAKE PLACE 6l THE SUITABLE MATCH 64 CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
..... 69 I REMAIN, INDIRECTLY YOURS .... 72 UNEVEN RESPONSE ......
76 THE OPPOSITE SEXES 79 HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF ..... 84
RESTLESSNESS 88 X CONTENTS Page A NOTE ON PRAYER 91 A PRAYER WHICH
15 HEARD. .... 94 RESPONSIBILITY 98 DISINTERESTEDNESS ........
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