Conquests of our holy faith

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The centuried history of the Church is a history of grand, glorious, and marvellous Conquests. With the Banner of the Cross gleaming before her, and the Torch of Truth shining in her hand, she marches through the ages, a real, though unbloody conqueror. On and on she moves, spreading around her joy, peace, and unity, — advancing civilization — encouraging and embellishing art — taming and even refining the savage children of the forest — directing and helping Science — purifying and elevating the standard of human morality, and lifting fallen men from earth to heaven. Now she is bathed in the blood — the holy blood — of her martyrs ; now she is refulgent with the light — the beautiful and sacred light — of her virgins and scholars. In almost every land, from the rising to the setting of the sun, the red storms of persecution have swept over her, again and again, only to find her coming out of the conflict — coming out of the fiery furnace — coming down from her Cross — unstained, un-

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weakened, unconquered, — mightier, brighter, purer, holier. The Ten Persecutions utterly failed to subdue her. The Csesars — the proud and haughty Caesars — fell powerless at her approach, or, in the person of Constantine the Great, bowed humbly and lovingly before her august presence. The heresiarchs, from Simon Magus to Martin Luther — Her enemies from Luther's time till now — have always felt in their souls that her origin was Divine, that her mission was Divine, that her teaching was Divine. Scoffers and mockers, and false prophets, — Pantheists, Materialists, and Atheists, — all, all the unfortunate children of error, may speak and write as they will, but the Roman Church — One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic — guided and protected by the Spirit of Truth — blessed by the i-iglit hand of the God of all Power and Majesty — remains, and will ever remain, undefiled, unchangeable, united, and ever victorious. Amidst the clianges and crumbling of dynasties — amirl tlie dismemberment of empires — amid the destruction of nations — her triumphant song of victory has never for an instant been hushed, the loud and solemn ring of her exultant Te Deum has never been silenced !

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Not to refer to the early stages of her miraculous march, when many of the greatest philosophers, artists, poets, and orators of Pagan Rome and classic Greece acknowledged that Truth, and Beauty, and Inspiration were hers, what must we think of her triumphs for the last three hundred years ? Has she gained no new Conquest^ I Has the sway of her sceptre been lessened I Has the number of her children diminished? Have the glory, the purity, the majesty of her Apostolic Youth departed, or even paled ?

Answer these questions, O Newman of the deep but crystal intellect — answer them, thou Sage, whose pen has been touched with celestial fire — answer them, thou, who, Samsonlike, couldst tear down the pillars of a false and haughty temple ! Answer them, Manning, thou fearless champion of every just cause ! Answer them, Faber, thou delight and inspiration of pure and holy souls ! Answer them, O Parsons, from the depths of thy prison-cells or from the sacred heights of thy Novice-Home on the classic banks of the Dyle ! Answer them, De Vere, thou chastest of chaste poets ! Answer them. Hay, Digby, Dalgairns, Challoner, Marshall ! Answer them, Schlegel, thou

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poet, critic, philosopher — answer them, thou glory of European Literature ! Answer them, O iStolberg, De Haller, Hurter, Papin, Latour, Brunswick, Ratisbonne ! Answer them, Lucas, Ward, Brownson — ye dauntless and mighty crusaders of the Catholic Press ! Answer them, Ives, and Hecker, and Stone, and Hewit, Preston and Doane ! Answer them, ye favored millions who, in every age and clime, having been led by the Spirit of God out of the coldness, and uncertainty, and darkness of error and heresy, found rest, and light, and peace, and joy in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church,

Contents

The Church the Champion of the People 1

Trials of a Mind 11

Catholic Ireland 22

Index To Names Of Authors, Etc

Addis and Aknold —

Franciscan Order 262

Agnew, Miss —

Edward the Confessor 322

Allies, Commendatore Thomas William —

The See of St Peter 55

Barber, Rey. Daniel —

Letter 279

BowYER, Sir George —

The Origin and Necessity of Law 221

Browne, Edward George Kirwan —

Breathing the Spirit of God 228

The Church the Champion of the People 1

Brunswick, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of —

Conversion 425

The Convert 30

BussiiJRES, Baron Theodore De —

Conversion of Marie- Alphonse Ratisbonne 73

Capes, J. M.—

Influence of Catholicism on the Intellectual Faculties. 370 Challoner, Eight Rey. and Venerable Richard —

Plain Scriptures ; Or the Scripture Doctrine of the Church,

and its Perpetual Visibility and Infallibility 234

Clare, Sister Mary Francis —

Duties of a Christian Mother 215

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Cohen, Hermann —

Conversion. 126

Coleridge, Rev. Henry James, S. J. —

The Law of God 421

Dalgairns, Rev. John Bernard —

The Spirit of Jansenism 272

DiGBY, Kenelm H. —

The Beneficent Influences of the Catholic Religion, .. 429 DoANE, Rt. Rev. Monstgnor G. H. —

The Happiness of being a Catholic 178

Drane, Augusta Theodosia —

The Relief of Vienna 180

Dryden, John —

The Huguenots 417

Faber, Rev. Frederick William —

The Feast of Corpus Christi in Catholic Europe 95

FoRMBY, Rev. Henry —

The Eternal City 199

FULLERTON, LaDY GeORGIANA —

The Convent of the Helpers of Holy Souls at Zi-ka-wei,

China 248

Hahn Hahn, Ida, Countess —

Her Conversion 46

Haller, M. Charles Lewis d:e —

Letter 61

Hay, Right Rev. George —

The Supreme Dominion of God 348

Hecker, Very Rev. I. T. —

Reason 266

Herbert, Lady —

Christian Mother 69

Hewit, Rev. Augustine F. —

St. Augustine 84

Index To Names Of Authors, Etc. XV

HovEN, H. A. Des Amrie Va.n der —

The Church and the Bible 151

HuRTER, Frederick Emmanuel —

Letter . 328

Ives, Dr. L. Silliman —

Trials of a Mind 11

Jarcke, Dr. Charles Ernest —

The Bureaucratic State , , , . , 148

Knox, Key. Thomas Francis —

Infallibility 391

Ljemmer, Hugh —

Conversion 452

Latour, Rev. Paul —

Recantation 27

Laval, Rev. M. —

Letter 105

Libermann, Venerable Francis Mary Paul —

Conversion 398

Lilly, William Samuel —

Philosophes and Autocrats 310

Lindsay, Hon. Colin —

Catholic Ireland 22

Lucas, Frederick —

The Catholic Pilgrim 145

MACLEOD, Rev. Xavier Donald —

The Reverend Father, Prince Gallitzin 303

Manning, Cardinal —

The Church in Scotland 136

Marshall, T. W. M. —

Missionary Triumphs of the Catholic Church 465

Marshall, Arthur F. —

Anglican Orders 316

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Narischkin, Natalie —

Letter 207

Newman, Cardinal —

The Religious History of England 154

NoRTHCOTE, Very Rev. Provost J. Spencer —

The Devotion to the Blessed Virgin in the Early Ages of

the Church 410

Oakeley, Very Rev. Frederick Canon —

The Love of God in Creation 287

Papin, Monsieur —

Characteristics of the Church 81

Parsons, Rev. Robert, S. J. —

God's Existence Proved by the Heathen Philosophers. 33 Phillips, Dr. George —

The Spiritual and Secular Power 230

Preston, Right Rev. Monsignor T. S. —

Unity of the Church 338

PuGiN, A. Welby —

The Memorials of Catholicity in England 299

Ramsey, Chevalier dk —

The Establishment of the Old Law 169

Ratisbonne, M. L'Abbe—

Principal Heresies of the Twelfth Century. 282

Richard, David —

Letter 254

Robertson, Professor James Burton —

Revival of Catholicism in Germany 50

Christian Art .... 89

ScHouvALOFP, The Reverend, Father Count Gregory —

Letter 457

Seton, Mrs. Elizabeth Bayley —

Letter 133