Three Ideals. 101 



The Church has no absolute necessity for property in 

 land, as past persecutions have abundantly demonstrated. 



The slaughter of bishops would but lead to the con- 

 secration of others desirous of shedding their blood for 

 the faith, while the monarchial constitution of the Church, 

 made still more marked since the Vatican Council, would 

 enable the government of the European missionary Church 

 to be carried on, if needful, without bishops, under the 

 direct episcopal jurisdiction of the pope. The Church of 

 Japan has survived through the rage of persecution with- 

 out the aid even of a single priest, native or foreign. 



The elevation of the artisan class, when once effected, 

 would put an end to their hostility to the Church, since 

 that hostility has mainly arisen from a belief that the 

 action of the Church was prejudicial to their elevation. 

 No inevitable antagonism divides the clergy as such from 

 the humblest classes, and the illustrious head of the English 

 Church has publicly shown in his own person how warm 

 are His Eminence's sympathies for the depressed agricul- 

 tural labourer. 



Unless, again, we hereafter find reason to think that 

 scientific and philosophical evolution will be fatal to the 

 Church, the action of compulsory secular instruction must 

 also ultimately result in such disappointment, since Chris- 

 tians would be forced once more, as of old, to give at 

 home that intelligent and emotional training in doctrine 

 and practice, the effect of which no public teaching can 



