have allowed
Science thus to obscure the issue. We have fatuously thought to
surrender the sin of Adam, and still to keep a Saviour--not perceiving
that we must keep both or neither.

"There is the issue. The Church says that man is born under the curse of
God and so remains until redeemed, through the sacraments of the Church,
by the blood of God's only begotten Son.

"Science says man is not fallen, but has risen steadily from remote
brute ancestors. If science be right--and by _mere evidence_ its
contention is plausible--then original sin is a figment and natural man
is a glorious triumph over brutehood, not only requiring no
saviour--since he is under no curse of God--but having every reason to
believe that the divine favour has ever attended him in his upward
trend.

"But if one finds _mere evidence_ insufficient to outweigh that most
glorious death on Calvary, if one regards that crucifixion as a tear of
faith on the world's cold cheek of doubt to make it burn forever, then
one must turn to the only church that safeguards this rock of Original
Sin upon which the Christ is builded. For the ramparts of Protestantism
are honeycombed with infidelity--and what is most saddening, they are
giving way to blows from within. Protestantism need no longer fear the
onslaughts of atheistic outlaws: what concerns it is the fact that the
stronghold of destructive criticism is now within its own ranks--a
stronghold manned by teachers professedly orthodox.

"It need cause little wonder, then, that I have found safety in the
Mother Church. Only there is one compelled by adequate authority to
believe. There alone does it seem to be divined that Christianity cannot
relinquish the first of its dogmas without invalidating those that rest
upon it.

"For another vital matter, only in the Catholic Church do I find
combated with uncompromising boldness that peculiarly modern and vicious
sentimentality which is preached as 'universal brotherhood.' It is a
doctrine spreading insidiously among the godless masses outside the true
Church, a chimera of visionaries who must be admitted to be dishonest,
since again and again has it been pointed out to them that their
doctrine is unchristian--impiously and preposterously unchristian.
Witness the very late utterance of His Holiness, Pope Pius X, as to
God's divine ordinance of prince and subject, noble and plebeian, master
and proletariat, learned and ignorant, all united, indeed, but not in
_