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Excerpt from Fifteen Years Behind the Curtains: Embodying a Personal Experience of So Many Years in the Roman Catholic Priesthood
However, these phases of Rome are but lightly touched upon in this volume. What is written is given particularly and especially for Romanists. The author was for many years one Of her priests, and knows whereof he speaks. He knows that the strength of Rome is in the belief of her people. He is a man of strong sym pathics and tender spirit. Moreover, he is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and writes with won derful and comprehensive clearness. He has been'lbe hind the scenes, and knows right well what is going on, among the shifting scenes the dusty ¿ies and dingy rooms of all this grand ecclesiastical pageantry. Speak ing from practical experience, he is well fitted to write to those from out of whose ranks he came. Not to ma lign, to asperse, to discredit, the church or her officials, but to enlighten and help her followers does he Speak, to the end that they may no longer walk in darkness, but in light.
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