towards the Church, calling for spiritual attractions
in accordance with the independence of character peculiar to those
races; the hopeless failure of the post-Reformation methods to meet
the needs of the hour; and especially the Vatican decrees, which have
set at rest all controversy on authority among Catholics. The needs
of the times, therefore, call for virtues among Catholics which shall
display the personal force of Catholic life no less than that which
is organic. These must all centre around the cultivation of the Holy
Spirit in the individual soul.

"The light the age requires for its renewal," says the Exposition,
"can only come from the same source. The renewal of the age depends
on the renewal of religion. The renewal of religion depends upon the
greater effusion of the creative and renewing power of the Holy
Spirit. The greater effusion of the Holy Spirit depends on the giving
of increased attention to His movements and inspirations in the soul.
The radical and adequate remedy for all the evils of our age, and the
source of all true progress, consist in increased attention and
fidelity to the action of the Holy Spirit in the soul. 'Thou shalt
send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created: and Thou shalt renew
the face of the earth.'"

The following extract gives the synthesis of the twofold action of
the Holy Spirit, showing how external authority and obedience to it
are amply secured by the interior virtues:

"The Holy Spirit in the external authority of the Church acts as the
infallible interpreter and criterion of divine revelation. The Holy
Spirit in the soul acts as the Divine Life-giver and Sanctifier. It
is of the highest importance that these two distinct offices of the
Holy Spirit should not be confounded. The supposition that there can
be any opposition, or contradiction, between the action of the Holy
Spirit in the supreme decisions of the authority of the Church, and
the inspirations of the Holy Spirit in the soul, can never enter the
mind of an enlightened and sincere Christian. The Holy Spirit, which
through the authority of the Church teaches divine truth, is the same
Spirit which prompts the soul to receive the divine truths which He
teaches. The measure of our love for the Holy Spirit is the measure
of our obedience to the authority of the Church. . . . There is one
Spirit, which acts in two different offices concurring to the same
end, the regeneration and sanctification of the soul