The "non-believer" is content to ignore it.

The "believer" is careful to exclude it from nine-tenths of his life.

It is to this pass that the gospel of salvation by machinery has brought the most "progressive" part of the human race.
The phase of non-religiousness through which the West is passing has, we may rest assured, a meaning and a purpose.

At the meetings of the Catholic Truth Society it is customary for the speakers to deplore the steady relapse of Christendom into paganism, which is going on before their eyes.

As the Church had things her own way for ten centuries or more, these complaints on the part of her champions are equivalent to a confession on her part of disastrous failure.