e apt to forget that the second
Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jehovah-Jesus came to complete
the 'law and the prophets.' Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is
nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism
is incomplete; without Christianity. What has Rome to do with its
completion; what with its commencement? The law was not thundered forth
from the Capitolian mount; the divine atonement was not fulfilled upon
Mons Sacer. No; the order of our priesthood comes directly from Jehovah;
and the forms and ceremonies of His church are the regulations of His
supreme intelligence. Rome indeed boasts that the authenticity of the
second Testament depends upon the recognition of her infallibility. The
authenticity of the second Testament depends upon its congruity with the
first. Did Rome preserve that? I recognize in the church an institution
thoroughly, sincerely, catholic: adapted to all climes and to all ages.
I do not bow to the necessity of a visible head in a defined locality;
but were I to seek for such, it would not be at Rome. I cannot discover
in its history however memorable any testimony of a mission so sublime.
When Omnipotence deigned to be incarnate, the Ineffable Word did not
select a Roman frame. The prophets were not Romans; the apostles were
not Romans; she, who was blessed above all women, I never heard she was
a Roman maiden. No, I should look to a land more distant than Italy, to
a city more sacred even than Rome."

Book 2 Chapter 13

It was a cloudy, glimmering dawn. A cold withering east wind blew
through the silent streets of Mowbray. The sounds of the night had died
away, the voices of the day had not commenced. There reigned a stillness
complete and absorbing.

Suddenly there is a voice, there is movement. The first footstep of the
new week of toil is heard. A man muffled up in a thick coat, and bearing
in his hand what would seem at the first glance to be a shepherd's
crook, only its handle is much longer, appears upon the pavement. He
touches a number of windows with great quickness as he moves rapidly
along. A rattling noise sounds upon each pane. The use of the long
handle of his instrument becomes apparent as he proceeds, enabling him
as it does to reach the upper windows of the dwellings whose inmates
he has to rouse. Those inmates are the factory girls, who subscribe
in districts to engage these heralds of the dawn; and by a strict
observance o