be misunderstood, nor the meaning of the wedges upon which she sat and refused to rise when the “custom of women was upon her” (Gen. 31:35). She was engaged in an act of devotion. General Forlong asserts that at this present day Queen Victoria of Christian England rules over more than one hundred millions of phallic worshippers! Indeed, more than half of the population of our globe still worship, as symbols of fertility and fecundity, the genital organs. A correspondent of the London Times, of April 8, 1875, says: “The Roman Catholic Church still keeps up certain suggestions of phallicism. As the ancient temple or dagoba was the womb or feminine principle of the god Siva or Bod and others, so the new cardinal, Archbishop Manning, was after his elevation conducted to his church, which is here entitled, in its relation to him, bride or spouse, he calling it _sponsa mea_. The cardinal was called the bridegroom, and the _actual building_ (the shrine of St. Gregory) _his_ spouse, and not the spiritual Church, which is called Chrises.” The _Times_’ correspondent further writes of this “sacerdos magnus,” as he is termed, going to meet his spouse, the Church: “He stood reverently at the door, when holy water was presented to him and clouds of incense spread around him, to symbolize that, inasmuch as before the bridegroom enters the bride-chamber he washes and is perfumed, so the cardinal, having been espoused to the Church with the putting on of a ring, of his title, holy water and incense were offered to him, when the choir burst forth with the antiphon, ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus’—‘Behold the great sacerdotal!’”