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Six candlesticks stood upon the altar, and a huge panelling, simple but beautiful. The whole sanctuary way singular in this. The essence of anything is the " furniture " of this with the more sordid profusion of other Catholic churches, my mind drew a conclusion grey stone. For the rest, the sanctuary was of oak thing to our minds. Only a small percentage of men all those external qualities which commonly describe a consequences. had a striking air of severe simplicity, almost of bare- Clearly, I reasoned, these things which offend me in Now it is by no means easy to discover what is the last thing to be known. What are first grasped are from this I came to inquire what is essential to can say what is the essence of man, while there is no one sion upon me, and as I compared the restraint of the ness. Its features were not long in making an impres- trast to the vast majority of Catholic churches. There who cannot recognise one. essence of Catholicism, and Catholicism is not in any was no statue of any kind. Above the altar was a painting such as one might see in any Anglican church. Catholicism, and how it can be known. some churches cannot be essential to Catholicism ; and which, though not very profound, has momentous candlestick stood on each side of the sanctuary. A small lamp hung by a chain from the roof, which was of plain

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