least strive to retain within the influence of Christianity. For the well-being of this country and the salvation of its people depend, above all other human things, UPON THE VIEW THAT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CAN BE GOT TO TAKE OF ITS DUTY--to respect and obey the law of Christ. What we want is to get the House of Commons to maintain the Christian laws of marriage as the basis of society, and to secure to parents and their children a true and proper liberty in the matter of Christian education. And in this, remember well, THAT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS DEPENDS NOT UPON THE KING, WHATEVER HIS RELIGION, BUT UPON OURSELVES. The people of this country must work out their own salvation. And here let me point out to you, in passing, that the next Session of Parliament may settle for ever the position of Christianity in this country. Secondary and middle-class education will be thrown into the melting-pot. In the process of the devolution of educational authority upon county councils, Christianity will run the risk of losing rights which it seems to have almost secured under the working of the Education Department. The adoption of a single clause or principle will have far-reaching and most vital results. There will be another educational struggle. Struggles will be inevitable until the Christian cause which is becoming more and more openly the cause of the majority has permanently triumphed.” Here we have four distinct “moves” on the plan of campaign. 1. “It is the Parliament, the House of Commons, that we must convert.” This means, that wherever influence can be brought to bear on the return of Roman Catholic members to the House, that influence will not be lacking. 2. “The next Session of Parliament may settle for ever the position of Christianity in this country.” Not CHRISTIANITY, for that is above all “settling,”--save with its Founder--but that the next or other Sessions may open the way to a more complete Roman Catholic domination is what is here hoped for. 3. “The adoption of a _single clause_ or principle will have far-reaching and most vital results.” Precisely;--so far-reaching and vital that England must be on her guard against even a “single clause or principle” which endangers the liberty of the subject. 4. “Struggles will be inevitable until the Christian cause which is becoming more and more openly the cause of the majority has permanently triumphed.” For Cardinal Vaughan there was only one “Christian” cause--viz., the Roman Catholic, and he who runs may read the meaning of the above phrase without much difficulty. Concerning the King’s Declaration Oath, said the Cardinal:--