e course
is run, thus address his surviving comrade, Sir Bedivere:

"I have lived my life, and that which I have done
May He within Himself make pure; but thou,
If thou shouldst never see my face again,
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
For what are men better than sheep or goats
That nourish a blind life within the brain,
If knowing God they lift not hands of prayer
Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every way
Bound by gold chains about the feet of God."(298)

Oh! it is this thought that robs death of its sting and makes the
separation of friends endurable. If your departed friend needs not your
prayers, they are not lost, but, like the rain absorbed by the sun, and
descending again in fruitful showers on our fields, they will be gathered
by the Sun of justice, and will fall in refreshing showers of grace upon
your head: "Cast thy bread upon the running waters; for, after a long
time, thou shalt find it again."(299)

Chapter XVII.

CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

A man enjoys _religious_ liberty when he possesses the free right of
worshiping God according to the dictates of a right conscience, and of
practicing a form of religion most in accordance with his duties to God.
Every act infringing on his freedom of conscience is justly styled
religious intolerance. This religious liberty is the true right of every
man because it corresponds with a most certain duty which God has put upon
him.

A man enjoys _civil_ liberty when he is exempt from the arbitrary will of
others, and when he is governed by equitable laws established for the
general welfare of society. So long as, in common with his
fellow-citizens, he observes the laws of the state, any exceptional
restraint imposed upon him, in the exercise of his rights as a citizen, is
so far an infringement on his civil liberty.

I here assert the proposition, which I hope to confirm by historical
evidence, that the Catholic Church has always been the zealous promoter of
religious and civil liberty; and that whenever any encroachments on these
sacred privileges of man were perpetrated by professing members of the
Catholic faith, these wrongs, far from being sanctioned by the Church,
were committed in palpable violat