of the third letter in the Rev. Canon Wordsworth’s ‘Sequel to Letters to M. Gordon,’ where this very Constitution and this same objection are fully discussed and disposed of. Supposing, however, that the criticism, the logic, and the historical research of that eminently learned divine should fail to satisfy the Roman Catholic reader, let him substitute for the above _supposed_ doubtful passage the following, respecting which there can be no dispute: ‘They should permit themselves to be moved and directed, under Divine Providence, by their Superiors, just as if they were a corpse, which allows itself to be moved and handled in any way, or as the staff of an old man, which serves him whenever and in whatever thing he who holds it in his hand pleases to use it.—_Const._, part vi, chap. i.’” {7} Vide Summa, 2. 2. quœst. clxxxvi, art. ix, where St. Thomas, in treating of this very question of the obligatory force of the rules of Religious, uses the phrase nine times. {8} There is a Review of Dr. Wordsworth’s “Sequel,” in the _Dublin Review_ for July, 1848. {14} “Thou shalt hear a voice behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.”