2. THE LEGION MUST DIRECT ITSELF TO THE
INDIVIDUAL SOUL
“We must not allow the crowded altar-rails at the morning’s Mass to blind us to the existence of horrible contrasts: entire families where things are wrong, or even whole neighbourhoods corrupted and abominable, where evil is, as it were, enthroned with its court all around it. Second, we should remember that although sin is in such places congested and doubly repulsive, it is none the less vile where it is more spread out. Third, though we see there the matured fruit — the Dead Sea fruit of evil — the roots lie in the soil of CHAPTER 40 GO PREACH THE GOSPEL 309 every corner of the country. Wherever neglect is creeping in or venial sin putting up its head, there is a preparation for abominations. Wheresoever the worker may be, there i...