it. Moreover, the Holy Spirit does not come to take the place of an absent Lord, but to make Christ, who dwells in the Church, an ever present source of life and blessing. Christ is the Church's Head, and the Holy Ghost is its heart. It needs no other Head, and as the Church Militant on earth is only a portion of the Church, it cannot have one. It is this glorious conception of what the Catholic Church is that you have entered into and enjoy.

Christ revealed through St. John the characteristics of the worship of the Church. It was to be in two kinds: by word and act. As in the old Jewish Dispensation there were the Synagogue and the Temple services, so it was to be in the Catholic Church.

In the recitation of the Divine Office in the Prayer Book we have a continuance of the worship by word. In the Holy Eucharistic Sacrifice on the altar we have a continuation, in a higher degree, of worship by sacrifice. In respect of the latter, a superficial objection has been raised that Christ on the Cross did away with all sacrifice. The Church has not so understood her Master, and has ever regarded the Holy Eucharist as a sacrifice, and also as a communion. We can the better understand this doctrine of Christian sacrifice by a remembrance of the Jewish Day of Atonement. On the Day of Atonement all the Jewish daily sacrifices cease. God deals with us as a race and as nations. At the Day of Atonement the Jewish nation, as a nation, was reconciled to God. It had to be done yearly. When it

was done the power to offer the daily sacrifice was restored. So, on Calvary, Christ offered a sacrifice for the whole race, of humanity as a whole, and did away with the barrier which hindered the free love of God to His creature. This being done, Christ engifted His Church with the power to offer a continuous memorial of that sacrifice. Thus the Holy Eucharist is the Church's great act of worship, wherein she sets forth and pleads before the Eternal Father the death of Christ. While this is her great act of worship, she surrounds it with dignified ceremonial and the beauty of lights and incense and holy song. If asked for her authority, she shows that, as God took Moses up into the Mount in the Old Dispensation, He took St. John in the new one up into heaven, and showed him the heavenly worship, where God is worshipped in spirit and in truth, and that allglorious vision of liturgical ceremonial and choral worship became the directory of the Christian Church. This is our answer to degenerate Protestantism.

And what shall the end be? I am not one of those who are looking for the Church's triumph over the world. Christ is forming out of the present race a glorious world, sinless, pure, beautiful, which will last forever. Ere He comes His Gospel must be preached as a witness to all nations. But I read of no promised victory or conversion of the world as a whole to Christ. Rather, as the unveiling of Christ draws nigh, the world will become more worldly, unbelieving and rejecting of the Gospel. It will try to form a religion of its own, with the God-man

practically left out. But it is our blessed privilege, who have inherited the Faith received from the beginning, to work and labor for the building up of Christ's Kingdom. Our first especial duty is to labor for union within our own communion. There is no reason why the Evangelicals and the High Churchmen, all Conservative, Broad, and Catholic, should not draw together. Oh, if we only would do this, and present unitedly to the world our Catholic heritage, our Catholic faith and worship, we could do a marvellous work for God! It is union, union, that we need amongst ourselves. God can bring it about if we will cultivate humility of mind and love towards one another.

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POSTSCRIPT

N Friday, August 30, 1912, the Right Reverend Charles Chapman Grafton, S.T.D., LL.D., the second Bishop of Fond du Lac, fell on sleep.

The end was peaceful. The Sisters and nurses knelt, as a priest recited the Litany for the Dying and then read the commendatory prayers. The breathing stopped and the tired body was at rest. Two weeks before he had been told that the physicians thought his end was near. He took the word with perfect composure. "I have had a hard battle. If it is the Lord's will, I am ready to go," were his words of resignation. Bishop Weller administered Extreme Unction, and, two days before his death, Canon Rogers gave him his viaticum.

He had given away all his own estate and all that friends had given him, and died a poor man.

His obsequies were most impressive. The body was reverently prepared in priestly vestments and white mitre, and a simple plated chalice was placed in his hand. His constant prayer had been that he might be restored to the Altar, now so fully realized. Six priests led by Bishop Weller acted as pall bearers and walked on either side of the hearse bringing the body to the Cathedral, where it lay in state with a watch of clergy from Monday noon until Tuesday morning. Six lighted tapers surrounded the casket, and litanies and offices for the dead were recited continually, and multitudes passed by to pay their last token of respect to one whom they had learned to love. There was no distinction of creed or color.

At ten o'clock Tuesday morning the casket was closed. The procession for the service formed in the Cathedral garth: the Business Men's Association, the Twilight Club, the Members of the Bar, the Mayor and Council, the Lay members of Grafton Hall, the Lay officers of the Diocese and Cathedral, the choir, the visiting clergy, the clergy of the Diocese, the Bishops, in cope and mitre, and the sacred ministers. The opening sentences were read by the Bishop of Western Michigan, the choir intoned the Psalms, and the lesson was read by Bishop Toll. Bishop Weller sang the Solemn Requiem with deacon and subdeacon using holy water and incense at the absolution of the dead. Father Huntington, O.H.C., preached a stirring sermon. One could feel a thrill of affirmation pass over the crowded congregation when he declared: "You all know that Bishop Grafton would have died rather than deny the Catholic Religion." The Bishop of Milwaukee read the service at the grave. The interment was in the Sisters' lot in Rienzi Cemetery at the foot of the stone crucifix.

May he rest in peace!