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He spoke as it were to hiotten the presence of Lady Kingswood, as gazing at him in a rapture of attention

"Oh, if I could only think as you do!" she said, in a low tone--"Is it truly the Catholic Church that teaches these things?"

"The Catholic Church is the sign and ord of all these things!" he answered--"Not only that, but its sacred syh to have been adopted from Babylonia and Chaldea, are actually the symbols of our nise this Like a blind child stuht it has FELT the discoveries of science long before discovery In our sacraments there are the hints of the transests wireless telegraphy or telepathy, that is to say, communication between ourselves and the divine Unseen,--and if we are pero deeper, we shall unravel thefrom the dead' which means renewed life I aravely--"but with all its mistakes, errors, crimes (if you will) that it is answerable for since its institution, through the sins of unworthy servants, Catholicism is the only creed with the true seed of spiritual life within it--the only creed left standing on a fir world!"

He uttered these words with passionate eloquence and added-"There are only three things that can reat,--the love of God, the truth of reatest civilisation existing must perish,--no norant or vulgar persons may sneer at this as 'the obvious'--but it is the 'obvious' sun alone that rules the day"

Lady Kingswood's lips trembled; there were tears in her eyes

"How truly you speak!" she murmured--"And yet we live in a time when such truths appear to have no influence with people at all Every one is bent on pleasure--on self--"

"As every one was in the 'Cities of the Plain,'"--he said, "and wehis eyes, he saw in the soft blush rose of the approaching sunset a s homeward across the sea

"Here it co reeable! I told you, did I not, er? See!"