Faber has said somewhere that the Church is the touchstone of rational humanity, and that probably no adult passes out of life without having once, at least, been brought squarely face to face with it and made to understand and shoulder the tremendous responsibility which its claims impose.

There would be no need of a touchstone if there were no alloy in human nature, no feebleness in man's will, no darkness in his understanding.

Were that the condition of humanity, the call to the supernatural order would be simply the summons to come up higher, its symbol a beacon torch upon the heights.

As it is, the path may be mistaken.

He whose feet have been set in it from birth by Christian training may wilfully forsake it.