I was fully con scious of the great imperfection of the books which I wrote, while as yet I knew the revelation of the Day of Pentecosb only in a broken and fragmentary way. As I saw the truth, so I spoke it, not without cost to myself, but I had no choice. I could nob bub declare thab which'was evidently to me the truth 'as it is in Jesus.' The works which I then published, even without the private records which I have by me, are enough to mark the pro gressive, but slow and never-receding advance of my convictions from the firsb. conception of a visible Church, its succession and witness for Christ to the full perception and manifestation of its divine organisation of Head and members, and of its supernatural prerogatives,of inde fectable life, indissoluble unity, infallible discernment, and enunciation of the faith. Those books have a unity thab is of progress and a directness of' movemenb,"always affirming positively and definitely such truths of the perfect revela tion of God as successively rose upon me. I was one m'anu tentahus mer&dit ccccutiens, bub

A DIVINE GUIDE as yet unknown to me, always led me on. I can well remember at the outset of my 'life as a pastor, as I then already believed, the necessity of a divine commission forced itself upon me. Next, how the necessity of a divine certainty for the message I had to deliver, became, if possible, more evident. A divine — that is an infallible message by a human messenger—i 3 still tho truth of God, but a human, or fallible message by a messenger having a divine commis sion, would be a source of error, illusion and all evil I then perceived the principle of Christian tradition as an evi dence of the truth, and of the visible unity of the church as the guarantee of that tradition, but it was many years before I per ceived thac such a Christian tradition was no more than human, and therefore fallible. I had reached the last point to which human history could guide me towards the church of God. There remained one point more—to know that the church was not only ahuman witness in the order of history, bub a divine witness in the order of super natural facts." CHRISTIANITY IS CATHOLICISM. 