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The Stations of the Cross  \u003Cbr>285.   Christ upon the Waters.  \u003Cbr>286.  Illuminating Grace.  \u003Cbr>Do 110.Mary and her Glories.  \u003Cbr>C 227.My Mind as a Catholic.   |\n| --- |\n| NARRATIVES of CONVERSION  \u003Cbr>TWOPENCE EACH  \u003Cbr>C 39.The Conversion of James Britten,K.C.S.G.,Founcdler of the  \u003Cbr>Catholic Truth Society.  \u003Cbr>82.  How I Became a Catholic.   Bv Dr.G.I.Bull  \u003Cbr>32   23.   How I Came Home.  By Lady Herbert  \u003Cbr>18.  The Conversion of Miss Drane.   Bv Rev.B.Wilberforce.O.P  \u003Cbr>,252.The Conversion of a Modernist.  Bv André de Bavier,D.L  \u003Cbr>,236.  My Religious Experiences.  By Rev.H.Wvman,C.S.P  \u003Cbr>213.  The Conversion of Jules Lewel and Isidore Goschler.  \u003Cbr>,262.The Conversion of H.H.the Dayang Muda of Sarawak.WVith  \u003Cbr>a Foreword by Rev.C.C.Martindale,S.J.·  \u003Cbr>B141.From Synagogue to Church:The Ratisbonne Brothers.  \u003Cbr>125.   Cardinal Newman.   Bv Mgr.Barrv.D.D  \u003Cbr>,280.Cardinal Manning.  \u003Cbr>,227.  Monsignor Hugh Benson.   Bv Rev.Allan Ross   |\n| CATHOLIC TRUTH SoCIETY,38/40 EcCLESTON SQUARE,LonDOn,S.W.I   |\n\nTHE SECOND SPRING  \n# A SERMON\n\nBY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,D.D.1  \nSurge,propera,amica mea,columba mea,formosa mea,et veni.Jam enim hiems transiit,imber abiit et recessit.Flores apparue-runt in terra nostra.—CANT.,c.ii.v.IO-I2.  \nArise,make haste,my love,my dove,my beautiful one,andcome.For the winter is now past,the rain is over and gone.The flowers have appeared in our land.  \nWE have familiar experience of the order,theconstancy,the perpetual renovation of thematerial world which surrounds us.  Frail andtransitory as is every part of it,restless and migra-tory as are its elements,never-ceasing as are itschanges,still it abides.It is bound together by alaw of permanence,it is set up in unity;and,though it is ever dying,it is ever coming to lifeagain.Dissolution does but give birth to fresh  \nThe Second Spring.  \nmodes of organization,and one death is the parentof a thousand lives.Each hour,as it comes,is buta testimony,how fleeting,yet how secure,howcertain,is the great whole.It is like an image onthe waters,which is ever the same,though thewaters ever flow.Change upon change,—yet onechange cries out to another,like the alternateSeraphim,in praise and in glory of their Maker.The sun sinks to rise again;the day is swallowedup in the gloom of the night,to be born out of it,as fresh as if it had never been quenched.Springpasses into summer,and through summer andautumn into winter,only the more surely,by itsown ultimate return,to triumph over that grave,towards which it resolutely hastened from its firsthour.  We mourn over the blossoms of May,because they are to wither;but we know,withal,that May is one day to have its revenge uponNovember,by the revolution of that solemn circlewhich never stops,—which teaches us in our heightof hope,ever to be sober,and in our depth ofdesolation,never to despair.  \nAnd forcibly as this comes home to every one ofus,not less forcible is the contrast which existsbetween this material world,so vigorous,so repro-ductive,amid all its changes,and the moral world,so feeble,so downward,so resourceless,amid all itsaspirations.That which ought to come to nought,endures;that which promises a future,disappointsand is no more.The same sun shines in heavenfrom first to last,and the blue firmament,the ever-lasting mountains,reflect his rays;but where isthere upon earth the champion,the hero,the law-giver,the body politic,the sovereign race,which  \n## The Second Spring.\n\nwas great three hundred years ago,and is greatnow?Moralists and poets,often do they descantupon this innate vitality of matter,this innateperishableness of mind.  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