[121]. Philipp, ii. 8-11.
[122]. Rom. viii. 19-23.
[123]. Rom. ix. 19-21.
[124]. The writer, for whose opinion we have all respect, has the advantage over us of a personal knowledge of Mr. Bright, and an acquaintance with his public career to which we cannot pretend. So far, however, as our knowledge goes, our estimate of Mr. Bright is far from agreeing altogether with that of the writer. We always believed Mr. Bright to be a man of large heart, of generous impulse, and of large mind, circumscribed by certain defects of education and inherited prejudice; but always a man wishing to see right done and to do right.—Ed. C. W.
[125]. A lecture by the Rev. Dr. F. C. Ewer, “Catholic Truth and Protestant Error,” reported in the New York Tribune of May 11, 1878.
[126]. The largest number at the Exhibition was on a Sunday, when upwards of 111,000 entered the building.
[127]. For a full description of these excellent associations see The Catholic World, January, 1878, “Catholic Circles for Working-men in France.”
[128]. The Place des Pyramides in the Rue de Rivoli is on the site of the ancient ditch of the fortification in the Faubourg St. Honoré, and is known to be the spot where Joan of Arc was wounded.
[129]. Ecclesiasticus xxiv.
[130]. It was published in France in 1684 under the title of L’Ecole Chrétienne.