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