at which her
only message was that of reproof and condemnation of the others for
living on a low plane. At last she withdrew from fellowship with any
church. The writer found her living alone in a little room on the top
story of a cheap boarding-house quite out of touch with all human
relations, but apparently happy in the enjoyment of her own spiritual
blessings. Her time was occupied in writing booklets on
sanctification--page after page of dreamy rhapsody. She proved to be
one of a small group of persons who claim that entire salvation
involves three steps instead of two; not only must there be conversion
and sanctification, but a third, which they call 'crucifixion' or
'perfect redemption,' and which seems to bear the same relation to
sanctification that this bears to conversion. She related how the
Spirit had said to her, 'Stop going to church. Stop going to holiness
meetings. Go to your own room and I will teach you.' She professes to
care nothing for colleges, or preachers, or churches, but only cares to
listen to what God says to her. Her description of her experience
seemed entirely consistent; she is happy and contented, and her life is
entirely satisfactory to herself. While listening to her own story,
one was tempted to forget that it was from the life of a person who
could not live by it in conjunction with her fellows."

Our final judgment of the worth of such a life as this will depend
largely on our conception of God, and of the sort of conduct he is best
pleased with in his creatures. The Catholicism of the sixteenth
century paid little heed to social righteousness; and to leave the
world to the devil whilst saving one's own soul was then accounted no
discreditable scheme. To-day, rightly or wrongly, helpfulness in
general human affairs is, in consequence of one of those secular
mutations in moral sentiment of which I spoke, deemed an essential
element of worth in character; and to be of some public or private use
is also reckoned as a species of divine service. Other early Jesuits,
especially the missionaries among them, the Xaviers, Brebeufs, Jogues,
were objective minds, and fought in their way for the world's welfare;
so their lives to-day inspire us. But when the intellect, as in this
Louis, is originally no larger than a pin's head, and cherishes ideas
of God of corresponding smallness, the result, notwithstanding the
heroism put forth, is on the whole repulsive. Purity, we see in t