Dr. Manning delivered a parting lecture to the Pilgrims on
the previous night, the main point of which we have noticed elsewhere. We may, however, add here that he made much of the ancient history of pilgrimages, and was careful—much more careful than other preachers have been—not to deny that the whole transaction may have been a vision; but he elevated the devotion of the Sacred Heart almost to an equality with devotion to Christ himself. His peroration telling the pilgrims that they were defying a world which scorned them and rebuking a world which rejected prayer, and his exhortation to pray for the land in which the light of faith had once more to rise, were both of them • very fine, though the speech itself was injured by reasoning which, to Protestants at least, seems utterly inconclusive, such as that the multitude of believers is a proof of truth. That argu- ment would make Buddha the only object of worship.
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