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man's salvation, the Church militant can never even for a moment cease to be a tangible, visible reality. " How narrow is the gate," says Christ, " and straight the path that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it." But not even a few — no, not one — could He expect to find an invisible portal or trace out an unseen path. Or are we to conclude that Christ has ever mocked man's blindness? Are we to suppose Christ was unheard of the Father when He prayed Him to keep us from evil, to sanctify us in truth, to give us eternal life? No, there is to-day, as there ever has been, a Church whose history proves her to have been and to be all that Christ intended. True, composed of mortals as she is, with men, not angels for her ministers, her seamy human side has been at times unduly evidenced, but still while never wholly forfeiting her claim to holiness, she has been in her dogma and her discipline always one, Catholic in her dimensions, and apostolic in duration. No need of a fictitious invisibility to trace her history back to the days of Christ. She alone is the kingdom that has never been delivered up to her enemies, but has broken in pieces and consumed all other kingdoms. She alone has proven herself to be the pillar and the ground of truth. Her numberless saints and martyrs attest the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Her miraculous preservation against the united attacks of earth and hell proves that Christ is still mindful of His spouse. She alone is founded, not on the shifting sand but on the firm rock — on Peter. She alone can say now, and she alone shall be left to say to her