the little Chapel off Buckingham Palace Road, kneeling beside Mr.
Gladstone, he worshipped for the last time as an Anglican. Thirty
years later the Cardinal told how, just before the Communion
service commenced, he turned to his friends with the words: 'I
can no longer take the Communion in the Church of England.' 'I
rose up, and laying my hand on Mr. Gladstone's shoulder, said
"Come". It was the parting of the ways. Mr. Gladstone remained;
and I went my way. Mr. Gladstone still remains where I left him.'

On April 6th, 1851, the final step was taken: Manning was
received into the Roman Catholic Church. Now at last, after the
long struggle, his mind was at rest. 'I know what you mean,' he
wrote to Robert Wilberforce, 'by saying that one sometimes feels
as if all this might turn out to be only another "Land of
Shadows". I have felt it in time past, but not now. The theologia
from Nice to St. Thomas Aquinas, and the undivided unity suffused
throughout the world, of which the Cathedra Petri is the centre,
isnow 1800 years old, and mightier in every power now than ever--
in intellect, in science, in separation from the world; and purer
too, refined by 300 years of conflict with the modern infidel
civilisation--all of this is a fact more solid than the earth.'

V.

WHEN Manning joined the Church of Rome, he acted under the
combined impulse of the two dominating forces in his nature. His
preoccupation with the supernatural might, alone, have been
satisfied within the fold of the Anglican communion; and so might
his preoccupation with himself-- the one might have found vent in
the elaborations of High Church ritual, and the other in the