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A VOICE FROM
Henry, Bishop of Liege, could unblushingly
boast the birth of twenty-two children in
fourteen years.*
It may help us under some of the perplexi¬
ties which beset our way in " the one Catholic
and Apostolic Church " to-day, to recall some
of the corruptions and incongruities against
which the Bride of Christ has had to struggle
in her past history and in spite of which she
has kept, through many vicissitudes, the faith
once delivered to the saints. Individuals, or¬
ganizations, whole sections of the Church mil¬
itant may outrage the Christ whom they pro¬
fess, may ruthlessly trample under foot both
the spirit and the letter of his precepts, yet
not till we hear the voices audibly saying
" Come let us depart hence," shall we cease to
believe and cling to the promise, " 1 am with
you to the end of the world."
" Yet saints their watch are keeping,
The cry goes up ' How long!'
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song."
However much then the facts of any particu¬
lar period of history may seem to deny it, I
for one do not doubt that the source of the
vitalizing principle of woman's development
•Bascom.
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