AUTHOR'S PREFACE.


The following chapters were not intended originally for publication.
If they are now offered to the public in book form, it is only in
response to the expressed request of many, who listened to them when
delivered _viva voce_, and who now wish to possess a more permanent
record of what was said.

In the hope that they may help, in some slight measure at least, to
promote the sacred cause of truth, we wish them Godspeed.

[cross] JOHN S. VAUGHAN,
_Bishop of Sebastopolis_.

XAVERIAN COLLEGE,
MANCHESTER _January_, 1910.





CONTENTS.


CHAP. PAGE

I. GENERAL NOTIONS 3

II. THE POPE'S GREAT PREROGATIVE 18