The Church of England has something in her liturgy of the spiritual
treadmill. It is a very nice treadmill no doubt, but Sunday after Sunday
we keep step with the same old “We have left undone that which we ought
to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have
done” without making any progress. With the Church of Rome, I understand
that those whose piety is sufficiently approved are told they may
consider themselves as a finished article and that, except on some few
rare festivals, they need no longer keep on going to church and
confessing. The picture is completed and may be framed, glazed and hung
up.