That is the way to appeal to the hearts of men! Such are the joys of the sacred ministry! They are the only joys vouchsafed to us: and yet can we dare to complain? Are they not the most delectable joys which earth can afford? To have committed to him the souls of poor sinners to save, to love, and to bless; to be charged with condescending toward his erring brethren; gathering them in his arms amidst the miseries and sufferings of this life, and of leading them to the truth, to virtue, and to heaven, is not this the sweetest enjoyment which a priest's heart can desire? Was it not to that end that he bade adieu to the world and left his father and his mother in tears? ... O holy joys of the sacred ministry, how little are they known and felt by any of us! It is painful, doubtless, to have to stir up sin-sick souls; but when at the cost of much self-sacrifice we are able to benefit but one such soul, with what overflowing gratitude shall we thank God, and say: "May All My Days Be Like This Day!" -------- {309} Books Published By The Catholic Publication Society. The Life And Sermons Of The Rev. Francis A. Baker, Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul, Edited by Rev. F. A. Hewit. One volume, crown octavo, pp. 504, $2.50 Extracts From Notices Of The Press. "Father Baker was a lovely boy, a wise and thoughtful youth, and a devout servant of Christ. The son of a Methodist, the graduate of a Presbyterian college, he became first an Episcopal clergyman, and then a Catholic priest. In all these changes, he everywhere won love; and whatever were the peculiarities of his character, he was a sincerely good and thoroughly pure man, and deserved the tribute which this remarkably appreciative and tender biography pays him."-- --_New-York Watchman_. "After Newman's Apologia and Robertson's 'Life', the memoir contained in this volume is perhaps the most respectable clerical biography that we have met for a long time. We recommend such persons as have already attained to settled principles, and who may have an opportunity, to give the Memoir itself a thorough perusal. It is rich in personal reminiscences. It is, at the same time, like the 'Apologia', both an argument and a biography." --_Christian Times_.