The love of the angels and saints,
And the chance of our getting to heaven.”
The Protestant editor objects to
“The love of the angels and saints,”
for which he substitutes
“We gave away Jesus and God,”
a line that belongs to the third verse. This third verse of course disappears, because it sings of “Mary and grace” and “prayer and confession and Mass.”
Why the last verse of “Conversion” is condemned, even by so tender a conscience as that of our editor, it is impossible to conceive.
“Jesus, Mary, love, and peace”
sang Father Faber in “The Work of Grace”;