sion upon me, and as I compared the restraint of the trast to the vast majority of Catholic churches. There which, though not very profound, has momentous candlestick stood on each side of the sanctuary. A small last thing to be known. What are first grasped are Six candlesticks stood upon the altar, and a huge Clearly, I reasoned, these things which offend me in lamp hung by a chain from the roof, which was of plain can say what is the essence of man, while there is no one all those external qualities which commonly describe a ness. Its features were not long in making an impres- was no statue of any kind. Above the altar was a other Catholic churches, my mind drew a conclusion grey stone. For the rest, the sanctuary was of oak thing to our minds. Only a small percentage of men essence of Catholicism, and Catholicism is not in any Catholicism, and how it can be known. consequences. Now it is by no means easy to discover what is the " furniture " of this with the more sordid profusion of some churches cannot be essential to Catholicism ; and from this I came to inquire what is essential to painting such as one might see in any Anglican church. panelling, simple but beautiful. The whole sanctuary who cannot recognise one. had a striking air of severe simplicity, almost of bare- way singular in this. The essence of anything is the