To come back to Father Rowley, you know the great cry of the
so-called Evangelical party "Jesus only"? Well, Father Rowley has
really managed to make out of what was becoming a sort of
ecclesiastical party cry something that really is evangelical and
at the same time Catholic. These people are taught to make the
Blessed Sacrament the central fact of their lives in a way that I
venture to say no Welsh revivalist or Salvation Army captain has
ever made Our Lord the central fact in the lives of his converts,
because with the Blessed Sacrament continually before them, Which
is Our Lord Jesus Christ, their conversion endures. I could fill a
book with stories of the wonderful behaviour of these poor souls.
The temptation is to say of a man like Father Rowley that he has
such a natural spring of human charity flowing from his heart that
by offering to the world a Christlike example he converts his
flock. Certainly he does give a Christlike example and undoubtedly
that must have a great influence on his people; but he does not
believe, and I don't believe, that a Christlike example is of any
use without Christ, and he gives them Christ. Even the Bishop of
Silchester had to admit the other day that Vespers of the Blessed
Sacrament as held at St.
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