t famous seats of learning in England, which were
established under Catholic auspices centuries before the Reformation.

The Church also founded three of the four universities now existing in
Scotland, viz: St. Andrew's in 1411, Glasgow in 1450 and Aberdeen in 1494.

Without her we should be deprived to-day of the priceless treasures of
ancient literature; for, in preserving the languages of Greece and Rome
from destruction, she rescued classical writers of those countries from
oblivion. Hallam justly observes that, were it not for the diligent labors
of the monks in the Middle Ages, our knowledge of the history of ancient
Greece and Rome would be as vague today as our information regarding the
Pyramids of Egypt.

And as for works of art, there are more valuable monuments of art
contained in the single museum of the Vatican than are to be found in all
our country. Artists are obliged to go to Rome to consult their best
models. Our churches are not only temples of worship, but depositories of
sacred art. For our intellectual progress we are in no small measure
indebted to the much-abused Middle Ages. Tyndall has the candor to observe
that "The nineteenth century strikes its roots into the centuries gone by
and draws nutriment from them."(110)

VI. Is it liberty that will destroy the Church? The Church breathes freely
and expands with giant growth, where true liberty is found. She is always
cramped in her operations wherever despotism casts its dark shadow.
Nowhere does she enjoy more independence than here; nowhere is she more
vigorous and more prosperous.

Children of the Church, fear nothing, happen what will to her. Christ is
with her and therefore she cannot sink. Caesar, in crossing the Adriatic,
said to the troubled oarsman: "Quid times? Caesarem vehis." What Caesar said
in presumption Jesus says with truth: What fearest thou? Christ is in the
ship. Are we not positive that the sun will rise tomorrow and next day,
and so on to the end of the world? Why? Because God so ordained when He
established it in the heavens; and because it has never failed to run its
course from the beginning. Has not Christ promised that the Church should
always enlighten the world? Has He not, so far, fulfilled His promise
concerning His Church? Has she not gone steadily on her course amid storm
and sunshine? The fulfilment of the past is the best security for the
future.

Amid the continual changes in human institutions she is the on