By Mary B. Welch n.d. Since we visited St. Peter's and the Pope before we will pass them by this time and go at once to St. John Lateran, in church fully as old, though not quite so magnificent as St. Peters. The Palace adjourning it was for several centuries the residence of the Pope, and belongs still, like the Vatican, to the small temporal domain now under his exclusive rule. We went there first to Vespers for we had heard the music was as good as could be found in Rome. The service had begun when we reached the church. The singing was indeed superb. We thought we were enjoying it to the full until we saw the expression on the faces of a group of Italians near by. They listened with their very souls. As the glorious rhythm rose and fell on the throbbing air they manifested such emotion as