=Introductory Note.= This discourse was given in St. Mary's, Oscott, on the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy to England. It furnishes an excellent specimen of the simplicity and grace of Newman's style. The climax is reached in the glory of the last pages. =229=: 17. =Alternate Seraphim.= The angelic choirs whom St. John in vision heard crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty." Apocalypse iv. 8. =231=: 24. =How beautiful....= A strong presentation of the weakness of human nature left to itself. "Without me you can do nothing," says Christ. John xv. 5. =233=: 12. =Roman conqueror.= Scipio Africanus, victor of the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War. =235=: 22. =The English Church.= The Catholic Church in England was virtually destroyed by Henry VIII, restored by Mary I, and officially re-destroyed by Elizabeth, who attempted, through Matthew Parker, to create new orders. The Second Spring is the resuscitation of the Church in England, 1850. =237=: 11. =Cumber the ground.= "Why doth it (the barren fig tree) cumber the ground?" Newman's writings, like St. Augustine's, are saturated with Scripture. =240=: 23. (_a_) =St. Augustine.= (_b_) =St. Thomas.= (_a_) Called St. Austin, sent by Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxons, 597 A.D. (_b_) Martyred at Canterbury by the nobles of Henry II because of his fearless defense of the rights of the Church. The Pilgrims in Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_ are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket. =241=: 10. =Arian Goths and Lombards.= Barbarians that successively conquered and occupied Italy; from the fifth to the eighth century their power was felt. They embraced the heresy of Arius instead of true Christianity. =242=: 29. =That building.= Cathedral of Westminster, built in Gothic style. =243=: 11. =Prince of the Church.= Cardinal Archbishop Wiseman, clad in purple as bishop; in red, as cardinal. In his person the hierarchy was restored to England. =243=: 16. =St. Benedict.= Founder of monasticism in the West. Europe owes much of its progress in early centuries to the zeal and intelligence of the Benedictine monks,--builders of churches and schools, makers of laws, tillers of lands. =244=: 15. =The shepherds.= They who heard from angels the tidings of Christ's birth in Bethlehem. =244=: 22. =Arise, Jerusalem....= Quotations from _Isaias_ and the _Canticle of Canticles_. =245=: 6. =Thy visitation.= Allusion to Mary's going over the hill country to visit her cousin Elisabeth. At the presence of Mary, the unborn child of Elisabeth, John the Baptist, leaped for joy and was sanctified by the grace of Christ. =247=: 1. =Regular and secular priests.= The first are those bound by vows to observe a religious rule, as the Dominicans; the second are those under obedience to their bishop, and bound only by the vow of celibacy. =247=: 18. =Thy first Martyr.= St. Stephen, whose death won the conversion of St. Paul. Note the beauty of the apostrophe.