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 movemur et sumus." St. Paul's tenderness also had to face opposition, and it came from Peter, who in his turn was tender towards the timid scruples of the Pharisees. But the tenderness of Peter availed only to prolong for a little the agony of the Judæo-Christian community. The tenderness of St. Paul for the unbeliever infused into Christianity a force of permanent vitality.

Your programme. Holy Father, "Restaurare omnia in Christo," is a noble one; but reflect that, to give effect to it, pious wishes and holy intentions are not enough, and that the way you have chosen is in direct opposition to it. You have, as it were, shrunk in horror from science and democracy, which we have tried to lead back into the Church's fold; you have shut the gates against them.

You have thought well indeed to restore to Catholics, after more than thirty years of exclusion from public life, the sacred,