used in popular devotion, even though tolerated by authority, and honours their bones ; he knows quite well that expressions these bind in varying degrees and for different reasons and in times go by, remain for ever the substance of that Divine of mere atmosphere or popular assumption. It is for the leading to some minds. He knows, that is to say, that the which, tolerated by the Church, are found devoutly useful to been done in the past, between the " official " Church and the whatever to do with the authenticity of any particular relic, different directions. But all are not theologians; and it is unchangeable truths which, expressed more and more fully as confusion whatever ; he knows perfectly well, for example, that the Church's faith on the subject of relics has nothing and that the evidence for the latter rests upon completely intentions, to become confused as to what is "of faith" of the character and mind of the Church, so to say and what is Infallible, but rather to distinguish some of those beliefs this admirable book not to draw false oppositions, as has some minds, though not to all, from those imperishable and be used about them. Of course, to the theologian there is no different grounds from those on which she invokes the saints are not necessarily exact, scientifically, and may even be mis- Revelation, by the knowledge of which, and by correspondence another, and her tolerating power (so to say) is a third that perfectly possible for those who are not, even with the best clearing of some of these issues that the author has compiled Infallibility of the Church is one thing, her explicit authority