“The Church of England would never have built such churches, though it is very proud of them now it has got them, and lately has taken to making a few others in imitation of the old ones. People never seem to think of this. They are always bragging about their fine old parish churches, and their venerable cathedrals, and all the while they were built by the Papists, as they call them; and if it had not been for the Papists they would never have had them to brag of. The sparrow stole into the martin’s nest, and said, See what a nice warm house I have got. He couldn’t say he had _made_ it, but he was quite as cocky as if he had.”—P. 11. “‘And what is this?’ said I again; and I pointed at a curious sort of niche with a hole at the bottom of it. ‘That,’ said he, ‘is a _piscina_; it was for pouring the water away after the priest had washed his hands.’ ‘Why should he wash his hands,’ said I, ‘more than our ministers?’ ‘Because,’ said Peter, ‘he had to touch the body of the Lord, and to lift Him up, as when He was raised on the cross. And your ministers have no need to wash theirs, because they have not got the body of our Lord there at all.’”—p. 14. “‘What was the use of saying mass for him,’ said I, ‘when he was dead and buried?’ Peter smiled, and answered, ‘It is said in the Scriptures, that it is a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, and it certainly must be so.’”—P. 15. Extracts from a tract, entitled, “_The Church of our Fathers_.” “St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, to whom our Lord himself gave the name of Peter, which signifies a rock, and told him at the same time that on that rock He would build His Church, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it,—this same Peter went to Rome and became its Bishop; and from that time the Church of Rome, as being the See of St. Peter, has ever been looked upon by the faithful as the mother and mistress of all churches, and each of his successors in turn as the visible head of the Church on earth.”—P. 5.