he disciplinary means of which the bishops disposed are,
however, lacking in the United Nations secretariat. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5253: "Moniteur," session of March 14 1865. (Speech of
Cardinal de Bonnechose.) "What would we do without our monks, Jesuits,
Dominicans, Carmelites, etc., to preach at Advent and during Lent,
and act as missionaries in the country? The (parochial) clergy is not
numerous enough to do this daily work."]

[Footnote 5254: Praelectiones juris canonici, II., 305 and following
pages.]

[Footnote 5255: "La Charite a Nancy," by Abbe Girard, 1890, I. vol.--"La
Charite a Angers," by Leon Cosnier, 1890, 2 vols.--"Manuel des
oeuvres et institutions charitable a Paris," by Lacour, I vol.--"Les
Congregations religieuses en France," by Emile Keller, 1880, 1 vol,]

[Footnote 5256: "Vie de Mgr. Dupanloup," I., 506 (1853). "More than one
hundred free ecclesiastical establishments for secondary education have
been founded since the law of 1850."--"Statistique de l'enseignement
secondaire." In 1865, there were 276 free ecclesiastical schools for
secondary instruction with 34,897 pupils, of which 23.549 were boarders
and 11,348 day-scholars. In 1876, there were 390 with 46,816 pupils, of
which 33,092 were boarders and 13,724 day-scholars.]

[Footnote 5257: "La Charite a Nancy," by Abbe Girard, p.87.--"Vie du
Cardinal Mathieu," by Mgr. Besson, 2 vols.]

[Footnote 5258: December, 1890.]

[Footnote 5259: Cf., in the above-mentioned biographies, the public and
political discourses of the leading prelates, especially those of M.
Mathieu (of Besancon), M. Dupanloup (of Orleans), Mgr. de Bonnechose (of
Rouen), and particularly Mgr. Pie (of Poitiers).]

[Footnote 5260: A fact told me by a lady, an eye-witness. In the
seventeenth century it is probable that Fenelon or Bossuet would have
regarded such a response as extravagant and even sacrilegious.]

[Footnote 5261: Imagine the impression this might have had on ambitious
men dreaming of establishing their own faithful parties. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5262: Abbe Elie Meric, in the "Correspondant" of January 10,
1890, p. 18.]

[Footnote 5263: "De l'Etat actuel du clerge en France" (1839), p.248, by
the brothers Allignol. Careers of every kind are too crowded; "only the
ecclesiastical is in want of subjects; willing youths are the only
ones wanted and none are found." This is due, say these authors, to
the profession of assistant-priest being too gloomy--eight years of
p