ality, and the admirable organization of
their priests peculiarly fits them for aggressive purposes. I believe
they are most successful in the low neighbourhoods, in the guilt gardens,
in which a great metropolis like ours abounds. Their charities in London
are very extensive. There is a Catholic Poor School Committee, a
Westminster Diocesan Education Fund, an Aged Poor Society, an Association
for the Propagation of the Faith, a Society of St. Anselm, for the
Diffusion of Good Books. The Associated Catholic Charities, for
educating and apprenticing the children of poor Catholics, have six
schools in London. The Immaculate Conception Charity assists the clergy
in providing for children whose faith or morals are exposed to imminent
danger through the death or helplessness of their parents. The Society
of St. Vincent de Paul, whose chief object is visiting poor families at
their own homes, has sixteen branches in London, besides a large
Orphanage, at this time containing eighty boys, and a Catholic Shoeblack
Brigade. The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul have an
establishment in Westminster. The oldest Roman Catholic charitable
institution is the Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and
Infirm Poor, founded in the year 1761. During the six winters the
Providence Row Night Refuge for Homeless Women and Children has been in
existence, 92,194 nights' lodgings, with suppers and breakfasts, have
been given gratuitously. The only condition requisite for admission is
that the applicant be homeless and without food and money. Such are the
charities in London of the Roman Church.

As regards the pulpit, the Romanists are not wise in their generation.
In London, where oratory can do so much, they fail to provide themselves
with a grand and effective preacher. They have no Father Hyacinthe in
London. Surely Italy might have sent us a Roman Catholic Gavazzi.
Ireland supplies us with orators in abundance, but where are her eloquent
priests? Cardinal Wiseman was florid and heavy. Archbishop Manning is
more than sixty years old; and oratory, unlike wine, does not improve
with age. His position, his talents, his zeal, incline you to hear him
with respect, nothing more. As I have listened in some of the fine old
cathedrals of the Continent to fiery priests, thundering away to crowded
and attentive audiences, it has often occurred to me that it is just as
well we have no such preachers in London to bring the