has caused men to forget the great religious movement in the reign of Louis XIII.

Learned and mystic in the hands of Cardinal Berulle, humane and charitable with St.Vincent de Paul, bold and saintly with M.de Saint Cyran, the church underwent from all quarters quickening influences which roused her from her dangerous lethargy.
The effort was attempted at all points at once.

The priests had sunk into an ignorance as perilous as their lukewarmness.

Mid all the diplomatic negotiations which he undertook in Richelieu's name, and the intrigues he, with the queen-mother, often hatched against him, Cardinal Berulle founded the con gregation of the Oratory, designed to train up well-informed and pious young priests with a capacity for devoting themselves to the education of children as well as the edification of the people.

" It is a body," said Bossizet, " in which everybody obeys and nobody commands." No vow fettered the members of this celebrated congregation, which gave to the world Malebranche and Massillon.