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age of dogmatism is past, and to-day is the era of love and benevolence. To preach to a sinner, even to convince him, is little gained, but do him an act of kindness through love of God and immediately you persuade him into virtuous action. For man's soul, illumined merely by the mind, is like a bright midwinter day, cold and unproductive; warmed by the heart, it resembles a lively summer scene, rich and fruitful. Such fruit indeed is being daily produced by this latest phase of Christianity, this religion of the heart, that to-day it is the basis of the Church's fondest hopes and sweetest consolation. See the immense throng of our separated brethren, what sacrifices they endure for Christ's sake, their boundless charity to the poor and ignorant at home and abroad, their ever-ready sympathy with the ills of suffering humanity. Whence comes the undeniable goodness of these people? Whence their success? They succeed because theirs is a religion entirely of the heart which suits the spirit of the age. Have they the true faith? They lack, alas! one half of it, their minds being darkened by heresy, but they possess, thank God! the other and more essential half — they have a Christlike spirit of love in their hearts. The Church, I say, is consoled and rejoices, for she foresees salvation for the majority of even her erring children, remembering that charity covereth a multitude of sins, and that the Lord judgeth not as man judgeth, for the Lord looketh on the heart. The Church rejoices again because in this religion of the heart she sees begun a solution of those