4. I must see JESUS in all whom I command. If they are thankless and unruly, they are nevertheless amongst His "least brethren," and He wants them trained to live with their Elder Brother in His Father's house. If they are already so like Him in their docility and humility that the very sight of them makes me adore GOD in them, I will remember that Mary gave her orders to JESUS because GOD wished it; and that thought will give me courage to be His faithful representative and to give those under my care every possible opportunity of advancing in wisdom and grace by the submission of their will. 5. I must be firmly persuaded that GOD never puts anyone into a position without giving the grace to fill it. Mary needed far more grace to command JESUS than ever I shall need! _Point II._--MARY A WIDOW Neither sacred nor profane history gives the exact date of that sad day in Mary's life when death deprived her of her beloved spouse. Joseph had shared all Mary's sacred joys and sorrows from her school-days. He it was who had trained her Son in His work as a carpenter; and to him alone could she speak freely of Him. What a wonderfully happy and blessed death must have been St Joseph's--the last people he saw, JESUS and Mary; his last messages given to JESUS and Mary; all he had to leave, left to JESUS and Mary; the last words he heard, those of JESUS and Mary! He is the _Patron of a good death_: that is, he will help those who invoke him, to die with JESUS and Mary.