Meurin had special facilities for ascertaining how men diabolise; the island of Mauritius has enjoyed many privileges of Infernus.

There we lose sight of the Rosicrucians on the road to India; there the Comte de Chazal initiated Dr Bacstrom, and all this, of course, is diabolical from the standpoint of Anti-Masonry.
Moreover, it must not be forgotten that Mgr.

Meurin, in a series of wonderful conferences, has exhibited the superstitions of Mauritius, and, accepting the test of M.Huysman, the existence of Black Magic in this French colony is proved to hilt and handle by wholesale Eucharistic depredations, the sacrifice of cats at midnight upon the altars of rifled churches, and the discovery of the blood of the victims in the chalices used for the elements.

The Church does not stir in the matter; it deplores and prays, which seems, in some respects, an ineffectual method of protecting the _latens Deitas_.

If the Eucharist be liable to profanation, why reserve the Eucharist?
Surely the negligence which makes such profanations possible is the offer of opportunity to Deicide, and great carelessness is cousin to condonation.
However this may be, Mgr.