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A PRESENT NEED.* LET us turn from the turmoil of our day, its failures and sins, and excessive nervous excitement, to consider for awhile a boy's brief life in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Of all the volumes put forth in the admirable "Quarterly Series,' conducted by the managers of The Month, we have chosen The Story of St. Stanislaus Kostka, because of its marked bearing upon our own time and country. Stanislaus Kostka was born in the month of September, 1550. His parents were of the high nobility of Poland, and to his father's house belonged an honor higher than that of noble birth, it had never been tainted by heresy or schism. Stanislaus was the second of five children, the manner of whose home training is given in the words of Paul, the eldest son. "They were resolved," he says of his parents, to train us in the true faith, to have us well instructed in Catholic doctrine, and to keep us from all luxury and selfindulgence. They were rather severe and strict with us, and their own example, as well as that of their The Story of St. Stanislaus Kostka. Edited by Henry James Coleridge, of the Society of Jesus. London: Burns & Oates. 1875. VOL. XII.-9 dependents, was an inducement to piety, modesty, and temperance, so that not one of our numerous servants might have cause of complaint against us. Every one had as much liberty as our parents to instruct us in our duty, and to administer correction. The result was that we showed respect to every one as to our parents, and were loved by all.” In 1564 the two brothers were sent to Vienna to study in a school conducted by Jesuit Fathers, whose order had then been but twenty-four years in existence. In this city Stanislaus pursued his studies for two or three years, and then, in the December of 1566, a severe illness brought him to the doors of death. Marvellously restored to life again, a great longing, which for some time had possessed his soul, increased to such a degree that he could not resist it, a desire to give himself to his Lord's service in the company of Jesus. In vain did he apply to the Fathers at Vienna. John Kostka had intrusted his son to them; Stanislaus declared that it was useless to ask permission in regard to the step he wished to take, for he was sure it would not be |