candlesticks, and the abbey lands into the bargain, what will it all be but an empty pageant, like the Tournament of Eglington Castle, separated from the reality of Catholic truth and unity, by the abyss of three hundred years of schism?  The question then is, have you, the Church of England, got the picture for your frame? have you got the truth, the one truth; the same truth as the men of the middle ages?  The Camden Society says yes; but the whole Christian world, both Protestant and Catholic, says no; and the Catholic world adds that there is no truth but in unity, and this unity you most certainly have not.  Once more; every Catholic will repeat to you the words of Manzoni, as quoted by M. Faber:  ’The greatest deviations are none if the main point be recognised; the smallest are damnable heresies, if it be denied.  That main point is the infallibility of the Church, or rather of the Pope.’

Our Anti-Romish priests would have us think the more and more we have of-faith, the more and more we have of happiness.  Faith they exalt far, very far, above hope or even charity.  ‘Oh Lord, increase our faith,’ is the text on which they love to enlarge.  Faith is their panacea for all human ills:  but their faith is worse than useless if it be not true faith.  And how can we so test conflicting faiths as to distinguish the true from the false?  Aye, there’s the rub!  Undoubtedly faith is to religion what the root is to the tree; and men in search of ’saving faith’ are naturally anxious to find it.  No one desires to be eternally punished; and therefore, if any one embrace a false faith it is because he makes the mistake of supposing it the true one.  The three sets of Christians just adverted to, may all be equally sincere, but cannot all have the true faith.  Protestant principles as taught by the Dublin Operative Association, may be true.  Anglo-Catholic principles, as taught by the Oxford Tractmen, may be true.  Roman Catholic principles, as taught by the Count de Montalambert, may be true; but they cannot all be true.  It is impossible to reconcile that orthodox Papists’ ‘main point’, i.e. the infallability of the (Romish) Church, or rather of the Pope, with the ‘main point’ of orthodox protestants, who denounce ’the great harlot of Babylon,’ that ’scarlet lady who sitteth upon the seven hills, in the most unmeasured and virulent terms.  Anti-Christ is the name they ‘blasphemously’ apply to the actual ‘old chimera of a Pope.’  Puseyite Divines treat his Holiness with more tenderness; but even they boggle at his infallibility, and seem to occupy a position between the rival churches of Rome and England analogous to that of Captain Macheath when singing between two favourite doxies—­

How happy could I be with either,
Were t’other dear charmer away;
But while you thus teaze me together,
The devil a word can I say.

The Infallibility of Popes is the doctrine insisted upon by Count De Montalambert as essential—­as doctrine, the smallest deviation from which is damnable heresy.  Believe and admit ‘Antichrist’ is not Antichrist, but God’s accredited vicegerent upon earth, infinite is the mercy in store for you; but woe to those who either cannot or will not believe and admit anything of the kind.  On them every sincere Roman Catholic is sure God will pour out the vials of his wrath, as if the ‘Great Perhaps,’