Excerpt from The Christian Examiner: January, 1865 The Paulists, if we understand them, admit that it is vain to think of bringing the people of the United States into the Church of the Middle Age; but it is not vain, they contend, to entertain the idea of bringing them into the Church of the nineteenth century. They cannot be dragged back into the Church, but the Church may be brought forward to them; nay, the Church must be brought forward to them if it is to embrace them. It must show itself their friend by meeting them on their own ground, by taking up the thoughts that lie open in their minds, by responding to their aspirations, by sympathizing with their cravings, by answering the questions they raise, falling in with the purposes they cherish, and fur thering the ends they have at heart. Taking you on your own terms, they say to our people, We will prove that you are logically bound to be Catholics; we will show you that your fundamental positions commit you to this Church; it offers you the one form of religion you have a right to accept, and it furnishes for your social institutions the only basis on which they can rest securely. 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.