Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 1867, Vol. 4 I fear that the friends of the Church will think - that many of them at least will think - that I should have done more wisely for the Church, if I had made it more an object to conciliate its enemies. I do not think so. I I do not think that the motives by which the assailants of the Church are animated leave them accessible to the inw uenee of soft words. If I did - if I thought that the interests of the Church required that its enemies should be addressed with 'bated breath and in a bondsman's key', -though I could not do this good office for it myself, yet I should have been very careful to avoid every thing that was calculated to deter those who could from undertaking it, or calqulated to throw an hindrance in the way of its being done effectively by them. But, as I said, I do not think that it would avail. When Hector sees his terrible foe approaching, 'he thinks for a moment of propitiating him rather than resisting him but the thought is but for a moment. And so I believe it is with us. The time for suchlamenities is past, and the friends of the Church must not think of sobthing its enemies, but of resisting them as best they can. 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."