The Duty of Happiness

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Excerpt from The Duty of Happiness: Thoughts on Hope Many times, notwithstanding our unworthiness, we have been invited to address "those many souls whom God wants to embrace the religious life and who know it not." Reluctant as we are to comply with such request, because we believe that when God calls a soul, His voice is mighty enough to dispense with a human echo, we however offer the following pages, wherein we have tried to prove that by listening to God's call and fulfilling God's desire, souls merely bind themselves to the Duty of Happiness, here-now and here-after. Far from endeavoring "to compel them to come in, " we simply tell them: "O, taste and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed are those that hope in Him." We believe that this is the only permissible way to awaken a vocation and to dis play the Happiness of Duty. "To-day, perhaps more than ever, recently said "The Boston Pilot, "we are dealing with the problem of vocations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.