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The Pope commands the poor to hear their poverty “in tranquil resignation.”

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That again is just untrue enough to give a perfectly false impression. The Pope says that the worker may and should do all that is lawful in order to secure the fair treatment due to him. But even after a man has done all that he can, there will always be some troubles, and the Pope rightly says to the worker as to every Christian soul, “Such trials as you cannot remedy by lawful means, bear with resignation to the Will of God rather than try to secure relie^ by unlawful means at the price of sin.”

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