test whether the Beatitudes of the Gospel, austere, heroic, and superhuman laws as they appear to be, do not really contain a hidden sweetness; whether the manna of happiness does not fall on their apparently dreary teaching, and a fresh and abundant fountain spring from the rock that seems so rugged and so bare. Before studying the Beatitudes in detail we must discuss three questions: 1. Did our divine Master intend them to be really a code of happiness? 2. Do they form a truly systematical, logical,