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HE author  of  "Where  Saints  Have  Trod" writes on  the  subject  of  devotion  and devotions: The Church  reserves  to  herself  a certain  right  of  discrimination  in  this  matter. She meets  the  various  devotions  that  arise with approval,  or  toleration,  or  condemnation, according as  she  judges  them  sound  in  doctrine or  the  reverse,  and  helpful  or  harmful  or indifferent  to  the  spiritual  life. By her  approval she  guarantees  that  they  are  sound  in doctrine  and  have  it,  at  least,  in  them  to  be helpful  to  salvation  and  sanctification;  by her  toleration  she  ensures  to  them  a  certain negative virtue  and  harmlessness,  without any assertion  as  to  their  being  actually  ennobling and  useful. But here  her  mission ends. It is  not  as  with  the  sacraments, which she  presses  on  the  use  of  the  faithful; it is  not  as  with  her  doctrinal  definitions, which are  to  help  on  the  life  of  spiritual knowledge as  the  sacraments  that  of  grace; in this  other  field  she  assumes  to  herself  no final  responsibility,  except  in  the  merely  negative manner  which  we  have  indicated;  she approves in  the  name  of  doctrine,  she  permits