The Church of the Madeleine was filled with people of all kindsthe diplomatic corps in uniform, a very large representation of senators and deputies.

But who is consulting the Church in these concerns, except in reference to mere technical points?

'Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation Of peace for evermore; Till with the vision glorious Her longing eyes are blest, And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.

"You are going to church on Holy Thursday.

Who inflaming blessed Jane Frances with love, didst endow her with a marvellous fortitude of spirit to pursue the way of perfection In all the paths of life, and wast pleased through her to enrich Thy Church with a new offspring, grant by her merits and intercession that we, who, knowing our own weakness, trust in Thy strength, may by the help of Thy heavenly grace overcome all things that oppose us.

Who is looking to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual standards of the Church for guidance?

One felt all the time the strong antagonism of the church to the Republic.

It is not technical creeds for which the Church as a whole stands, but for certain vital principles which concern the life of the soul, and its relation to God and man.

It is to help free the Church from traditions and superstitions which scholarship cannot uphold.

And as it is the duty of ambassadors to study carefully, to watch and further the interests of the kings whom they represent, it is a priest's duty to study carefully and further the interests of Christ's Church by the devout fulfilment of the great daily duty, the recitation of the Divine Office.

No one certainly has ever come by the narrow way out of the High Street, down the avenue of limes to the West Front without being disappointed; but no one thus disappointed has ever entered into the church without astonishment, wonder and complete satisfaction.

Nearly all the prayers of this kind are the products of the Church during the storms of early heresy against the divinity, nature or personality of Christ.

In the church against the high altar was a great stone, four-square, like unto a marble stone.

And I think, I have thought long, that if we could see that St Paul's method with those Corinthians was actually the same as God's method with us, we should have far truer notions of God, and God's dealings with us; and should reverence and value far more that Holy Catholic Church into which we have been, by God's infinite mercy, baptized, and wherein we have been educated.

pt. i. 382), speaking of Waltham in Framland Hundred, says: "In this church under every arch a garland is suspended, one of which is customarily placed there whenever any young unmarried woman dies."

Among the great modern nations it was only Englandwhich in its political development had remained more independent of the Roman law and the Roman church than even the Teutonic fatherland itselfit was only England that came out of the mediæval crucible with its Teutonic self-government substantially intact.

Now these revelations were not addressed to the Church through Mother Juliana; but, as she says, were addressed to herself and were primarily for herself, though most that was said had reference to the human soul in general.

One must be bolstered up by a generation of convinced and believing men, before he can draw a Church after him.

He was intensely religious, with a profound sense of the supernatural; he certainly was a great example to very busy men in the way he always managed to find time for church, and even when called away to a distance he would, if possible, go to a church near where he happened to be."

I was too young to smile when I remembered that in the very place where St Thomas laid down his life in that cause, there sits to-day in his usurped place one who eagerly acknowledges the king as the "Supreme Governor of the Church within these realms."

It is said that the monks were wont to say a Pater Noster at each altar in the church before entering their stalls for Office recitation.

Its merits, in all civil or political matters, are certainly equal, if not superior, to those of the English Constitution, from which in great part it was borrowed; its faults are precisely those which resulted necessarily from the Pope's double character, as temporal sovereign of the Roman States and as head of the Catholic Church throughout the world.

Such control over the spirit of man is that of the Church over the social body; it stirs the spiritual aspiration of man, it directs his ambition.

Churches like beefsteaks are intended to benefit those around them.

Unhappily much is far later, the nave being really a modern building and even the central tower has been entirely taken down and rebuilt, and indeed all periods of English architecture would seem to have left their mark upon the church between the end of the twelfth century and our own day.