t on one occasion to chase the buyers and
sellers out of the Temple, and though it is not recorded that He
boxed the ears of any Pharisee, it seems to me quite permissible to
believe that He did! He lashed them with scorn anyway.

To come back to Father Rowley, you know the great cry of the
so-called Evangelical party "Jesus only"? Well, Father Rowley has
really managed to make out of what was becoming a sort of
ecclesiastical party cry something that really is evangelical and
at the same time Catholic. These people are taught to make the
Blessed Sacrament the central fact of their lives in a way that I
venture to say no Welsh revivalist or Salvation Army captain has
ever made Our Lord the central fact in the lives of his converts,
because with the Blessed Sacrament continually before them, Which
is Our Lord Jesus Christ, their conversion endures. I could fill a
book with stories of the wonderful behaviour of these poor souls.
The temptation is to say of a man like Father Rowley that he has
such a natural spring of human charity flowing from his heart that
by offering to the world a Christlike example he converts his
flock. Certainly he does give a Christlike example and undoubtedly
that must have a great influence on his people; but he does not
believe, and I don't believe, that a Christlike example is of any
use without Christ, and he gives them Christ. Even the Bishop of
Silchester had to admit the other day that Vespers of the Blessed
Sacrament as held at St. Agnes' is a perfectly scriptural service.
Father Rowley makes of the Blessed Sacrament Christ Himself, so
that the poor people may flock round Him. He does not go round
arguing with them, persuading them, but in the crises of their
lives, as the answer to every question, as the solution of every
difficulty and doubt, as the consolation in every sorrow, he offers
them the Blessed Sacrament. All his prayers (and he makes a great
use of extempore prayer, much to the annoyance of the Bishop, who
considers it ungrammatical), all his sermons, all his actions
revolve round that one great fact. "Jesus Christ is what you need,"
he says, "and Jesus Christ is here in your church, here upon your
altar."

You can't go into the little church without finding fifty people
praying before the Blessed