beautiful, for what went before that wreckage is in some respects lovelier than anything that has come after. Twelfth-century Catholicism has in it more of beauty than nineteenth-century Protestantism. The Cathedral of Rouen is more pleasant to the eye than the railway station of Paris; the monastery has a charm which is lacking in the hotel. But what shall we do? shall we bring back again the monk and his missal, the knight and his sword, the pope and his curse? No, we will not, because we cannot. Time goes not back, but forward. We are to look not for the old, but for the new day. I said awhile ago that the reign of Philip Fair was the midnight hour of a new day. That day has not dawned, it is dawning. With us it is about five o'clock in the morning. Under Philip Fair the three forces which dominate the modern world came to the front and won their first victory. Secular wealth, human learning, and the spirit of nationalism were then arrayed against ecclesiastical wealth and priestly learning, and the spirit of Catholicism; from that battle they came forth flushed with success, and now we see them everywhere triumphant. But they are doomed in their turn to be conquered. Men will not forever worship the golden calf which their own hands have made, their reason will not forever move within the narrow limits of an exact but partial science, nor will they keep their sympathies within the bounds of their own little country. Secular wealth is doomed to be consecrated to spiritual uses, human learning to be irradiated by divine wisdom, and nationalism to merge into a higher universalism. These things are in the air; coming like fresh winds with the morning light. It is the part of every true man to look toward the light and to welcome the morning. The great task of the coming time is to disentangle our holy religion, both from papalism and Protestantism. To teach that as the Church is one body, it can have only one head. It is not a monster that can lose its head and grow a new one five times a century, but it has One "who is made head over all things to His Church "—even the Lord Jesus Christ, whose head is in the heavens and His body is in heaven with him and extending from heaven, through Paradise, even to the earth. Nor is the Church that more awful monster, one head with many bodies, bodies with hands that do not help but rend each other. The present state of discord and disunion cannot last because it is anti-Christian, and whatever is antiChristian is doomed to perish. The papal system was anti-Christian, and it fell; the Protestant system is anti-Christian, and it must fall also. In some way or other the prayer of Christ will prevail, and we shall all be one, even as He and the Father are one. The centre of unity is not the earth, but the sun; not man, but God. And now, gentlemen, let us beware how we linger, like Lot's wife, in the shadow of a doomed past; how we look back on a Church of earthly dignity and worldly power, and think to live in that Church again. Shall we repeat the shame of the olden time without its glory? Wherever in priestly heart to-day there lurks the love of power, there is Anagni without Anagni's strength; and wherever there hides the love of ease there is Avignon without Avignon's wealth. What our Bishops need is not power, but light. When they see to lead, men will gladly follow. And our priests need to be clothed, not with authority, but love. The powers of the Church are not earthly, but heavenly; they are the guiding power of light and the expanding powers of heat. When the Church trusts to these, and these alone, then will she come again to her peace. Her priests will be clothed with righteousness and her saints. shall rejoice and sing. When men recognize without reserve the power of truth and the power of love, and when they begin to speak that truth in that love, then "will they grow up into Him in all things which is the head, even Christ "-from whom the whole body, |