Evening Examination of Conscience
From The Parochial Hymn Book, compiled by Anatole Police Tools
Evening Exercise, or Examination of Conscience
Source
| Printed in | The Parochial Hymn Book |
|---|---|
| Imprint | New York; London; Dublin (as printed on the title page; no single place of publication named), No single publisher named. Title page lists four booksellers: P. J. Kenedy, 5 Barclay St., New York; Burns & Oates, 28 Orchard St., London W.; R. Washbourne, 18 Pater Noster Row, London E.C.; M. H. Gill & Son, 50 O'Connell St., Dublin. |
| Scan | the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: O. Renaudier, S.M., Provincial. No date printed. Imprimatur: + Joannes Josephus, Archiep. Boston. No date printed. |
| Transcription | Transcribed from the scan. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- contrition, mercy
Jacopo de' Barbari, The Guardian Angel, about 1509. Art Institute of Chicago.
1 Cor. xi. 31: "If we should judge ourselves, we would not be judged."
Rev. A. POLICE, S.M.
Light dies away! another sun is setting!
How short has been the day that is now done!
O fleeting life! how soon we are forgetting
How days and days thus hurry one by one!
Eternity is drawing close around us;
Labor we hard our conscience to prepare?
How do the stains of guilt or sin confound us?
To practise virtue, has it been our care?
If on this night our Sovereign Maker call us
To stand before His dreadful judgment seat:
Ah! would His voice with stern reproach appal us?
Or with meek eyes and tones of kindness greet?
Oh, let our hearts o'erflow with true repentance;
And while we weep o'er sin and guilt we've done,
We shall from us avert the direful vengeance—
Of endless joys the right we shall have won.
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