Excerpt from Father Hecker Religious condition of this country can fail to take hope and courage from even a little knowledge of Father Hecker' 3 heart soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of Father Hecker HE reader must indulge me with what I cannot help saying, that I have felt the joy of a son in telling the achieve ments and chronicling the virtues of Father Hecker. I loved him with the sacred fire of holy kinship, and love him still only the more that lapse of time has deepened by experience, inner and outer, the sense of truth and of purity he ever com municated to me in life, and courage and fidelity to conscience. I feel it to be honor. Enough and joy enough for a life-time that I am his first biographer, though but a late born child and of merit entirely insignificant. The literary work is, indeed, but of home-made quality, yet it serves to hold together what is the heaven-made wisdom of a great teacher of men. It will be found that Father Hecker has three words in this book to my one, though all my words I tried to make his. His journals, letters, and recorded sayings are the edifice into which I intro duce the reader, and my words are the hinges and latchets of its doors. I am glad of this, for it pleases me to dedicate my good will andx my poor work to swinging open the doors of that new House of God that Isaac Hecker was to me, and that I trust he will be to many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Occasional Essays T is now twenty-five years, since, encouraged by the kind' words of Very Rev. Father Hecker, I first put pen to paper to write for the public. During that time, as circumstances permitted, I sent to the Ca'z/zolz'c World, and to some other periodicals, articles on various subjects of current interest, with a view to keeping informed the young men of America, especially, of what it seemed to me important they should know. And, as the truth and the interests of the Church were what Isought to have them appreciate, I have judged it useful still to have the same things recalled to the mind of my former readers, and placed before the eyes of those who are now the young men of our country, as embodying a great deal which seems to me of the very first importance. With these few words of explanation, I publish this volume of occasional essays, submitting what I have written and my self, as I hope they will always in like manner do, to the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.