But it will not always last.

The day of reckoning will come--nay, is already coming when men shall find that the Blessed and Holy Church may not be defiled and downtrodden with impunity for ever.

Ah yes! the day will come--it is even at the door--when God shall arise and his enemies be scattered.
Scattered--scattered! verily that is the word.

And the sons of the true faith throughout the length and breadth of the land shall arise and rejoice, and the heretics shall stand amazed and confounded!" As he spoke these words his figure seemed to expand, and he raised his right hand to heaven with a peculiar gesture of mingled menace and appeal.

Cuthbert was silent and amazed.