Thus the Psalter is ours, for it is the new song of gratitude to Him Who has given us the {21} Catholic Faith; it is ours because it is the book of Him Who has redeemed us by making Himself one with us, and "taking the manhood into God"; it is ours because it has not merely the human consecration of ages of Christian use, but it is the channel which the Holy Spirit, Who dwells in the Church, seems deliberately to have chosen in which to make His ineffable intercession for the sons of God who wait for their adoption, "the redemption of the body" (Rom. viii. 19-27). Appreciation of the Psalter grows with the devout use of it. The obligation to recite it month by month in the daily office is one of the best gifts the Church has given to her priests; and both priest and laity alike will find increasingly that the Psalms need no apology. They are the noblest and most comprehensive form of public worship; they are the most truly satisfying book of private devotion. [1] Note A, p. 101. [2] Note B, p. 102. [3] "Concerning the Service of the Church," the original Preface to the Prayer Book. [4] xli. 13, lxxii. 18-19, lxxxix. 50, cvi. 46, cl. [5] Walter Pater, _Gaston de Latour_. [6] Virgil, _eclogue_ iv. [7] Virgil, _Aeneid_, vi. 313, 314 (_cf._ Heb. xi. 13): Praying, they stood with hands of love outspread, If but that farther shore each might be first to tread. {22} PART II. DIFFICULTIES Servus tuus sum ego: Da mihi intellectum ut sciam testimonia tua.