Reminiscences of Edgar P Wadhams First Bishop of Ogdensburg
The book Reminiscences of Edgar P Wadhams First Bishop of Ogdensburg was written by author Walworth, Clarence A. (Clarence Augustus), 1820-1900 Here you can read free online of Reminiscences of Edgar P Wadhams First Bishop of Ogdensburg book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Reminiscences of Edgar P Wadhams First Bishop of Ogdensburg a good or bad book?
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He would believe readily what Father Rumpler told me at New York, that the Puseyites have found only the carcass of Catholicism, while the soul, the life, the breath of God, the spirit of holiness is hidden from them. You remember our many conversations of last winter, how we lamented the want of religious system, and of guidance for the conscience, and how we magnified the happi- ness of Catholics and especially the religious who live under direction. I can ansv/er for it we were both sincere ...and earnest. But for myself I con- fess I scarcely knew what I talked about. Judge B thought us not a little romantic. I wish he might see the reality. Romance would seem tame. I deny that I had any romantic thoughts when I came here; but, if I had, a few months' routine would dissipate that. To get up at half- past four every morning at the sound of bell, precisely, neither before nor after ; to go to bed at half-past nine of necessity, and all day long in the mean time to sit or stand or move at the sound of the convent clock, the remorseless clock which makes no account of the particular inspira- A Genuine Cloister.
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