Excerpt from Duquesne Monthly, Vol. 31: October, 1923 It was indeed what St. John the Baptist had foretold a baptism of fire consuming in them all that was impure, em kindling their hearts with zeal to do all things for Him who thus invested them with His rays. Thus was established the Church which Christ promised to institute when He chose one to whom He gave the symbolic name of Peter, Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. What the Church was in the morning of creation she shall con tinne to be during all eternity. In all that goes to make up her very essence and nature, she stands aloof from the mere accidents of earth and the changes of time. What the teachings of the Church were in the long ago, they shall be in the farthest time to come. With the evolution of human thought the doctrine of the Church may be more clearly defined, but, it is still the same doctrine that was in the deposit of faith when the Holy Ghost first breathed into the Church the breath of her supernatural life and constituted her the greatest living organism by which man is raised to the supernatural sphere of grace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.