J. D. Ricards
Published: 2015-09-27
Total Pages: 414
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Excerpt from Catholic Christianity and Modern Unbelief This work was suggested to me by a man of more than ordinary powers of observation and intelligence, who had travelled over every part of the United States, and through most of the British colonies. His was not superficial travelling; his duties led him to stay for weeks, and months, and even years, in some of the States, and in particular districts; and the same duties gave him an insight into the religious wants of the people he visited. He told me that a book which would treat, in a popular way, the religious theories now so fashionable outside the Catholic Church, and contrast them with orthodox teaching, would be welcome and useful to many. I distrusted exceedingly my powers to accomplish a task, not altogether foreign to my experience; but on consideration that it might help in a small way even to promote the honor and glory of God, I accepted it. It will be manifest to any one who reads the introduction or glances over the headings of the chapters, that I make no pretensions whatever to scholarship: the life of a missionary Bishop is almost an effectual barrier to careful and prolonged study and to the means of gratifying such tastes. 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.