Excerpt from Religious Education and Its Failures

While God remains faithful to His promises the Catholic Church can never fail; but in no age have there been wanting dangers which seemed to presage its failure. From the days of Diocletian"s persecution, the "leakage" has filled the faithful with dismay and outsiders with exultation; yet historical calculations show a steady and great increase in every century. The advance of the Church at this day in numbers, in cohesion, in zeal, in up-to-date culture, is one of the marvels of a wonderful age; yet from every quarter rings the lament over the enormous "leakages" from her ranks.

There is an analogy to this in God"s other kingdom of Nature. The primeval forests grow in luxuriance and majesty and extent year by year, notwithstanding the countless multitudes of young shoots which appear and perish. But the analogy of Nature must not allow us to stand contented, as if it were inevitable that millions should fail to survive in the struggle for supernatural existence. It is the desire of the Almighty that not one should be lost, and He has provided that all should come to a knowledge of the truth.

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