He can send him at his leisure." "Yes, Eminence." "But he must not come till January.

That will be time enough, unless there is urgent reason." "Yes, Eminence." * * * * * The development of the Order of Christ Crucified had gone forward with almost miraculous success.

The appeal issued by the Holy Father throughout Christendom had been as fire among stubble.

It seemed as if the Christian world had reached exactly that point of tension at which a new organisation of this nature was needed, and the response had startled even the most sanguine.

Practically the whole of Rome with its suburbs--three millions in all--had run to the enrolling stations in St.Peter's as starving men run to food, and desperate to the storming of a breach.