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your esteem and respect. It has also
been suggested by an eminent prelate
and patron of the society that it would
greatly promote its success if a cler gyman should be appointed in each
diocese by the ecclesiastical authority,
to take charge of the society's interests,
and to act as its agent.
We trust as the enterprise becomes
more extensively known that gener ous hearts will be found to feel a
voluntary interest in this work and
prompted to aid it without further
solicitation. Let it not be forgotten
that one of the objects of this society
is to supply religious reading to the
inmates of hospitals, almshouses, asy lums, and prisons —a class of persons
whose spiritual welfare requires to be
specially looked after. Benevolence
has no more sacred field than among
this unfortunate class; and we hope
that those who have so often proved
themselves worthy of their faith by
relieving the physical wants of their
fellow-creatures, will not be found
indifferent to the spiritual. In short,
what we desire of our fellow-Cath olies is, that an interest in this matter
should become general throughout
the country; and that each one
should assist as he is able, either
alone or in conjunction with his neighbors. Several prelates have already
become patrons of this society, and
the venerable Archbishop of Baltimore has honored it by contributing
the first tract.
While treating of the practical
part of this subject, we desire to say
that priests residing in the remote
parts of the country can be furnished
with the society's publications on
precisely the same terms as those
living near at hand. They will be
supplied at prices never exceeding cost,
postage prepaid. All Catholics, in
every section of our land, have an
equal interest in its success.
Upon the co-operation of the clergy
we, of course, confidently rely. To
aid them in their arduous duties is
one of the objects of the society. It
will be a most powerful auxiliary to
the priesthood in spreading instruction among our own people and the
truths of the Catholic faith amongr
all classes of our community. If
they should ask us what we would
have them do, we reply-" Reflect
upon the immense importance of this
enterprise to the souls of men; and,
when you have comprehended what
a vast work of usefulness lies before
this society, your own intelligence
and good dispositions will best suggest
the manner in which you can most
successfully lend your aid."
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THE CnU1cH OF ENGLAND A PORTION
OF CHRIST'S ONE IHIOLY CATHOLIC
CHURCH, ANLD A MEAN,S OF RESTORIING
VISIBLE UNITY. An Eirenicon, in a
Letter to the Author of "The Chlris tian Year." By E. B. Pusey, D.D.,
Regius Professor of HIebrew and
Canlon of Christ Church, Oxford.
Neiv York: D. Appleton & Co.
1866. (Reprint from the English
edition.)
Dr. Pusey's "Eirenicon" has been extensively commented on by the Catholic
press both in England end on the Continent. Some of his critics have regarded it with favorable eyes, as a sign of
approach toward the Catholic Church,
and otherswithl marked hostility, as an
evidence of determined opposition. Wo
concur with the former class most decidedly. The most remarkable of all the
answers it has called oibrth is that of Dr.
Newman, republished in our April number, and since then issued in a separate
form,,with all the notes, lby Mir. Kehoe. Dr. Newman confines himself to
one point, however-the defence of the
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