Opis: The Review, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) - Preuss Arthur

Excerpt from The Review, Vol. 8

The review has been of some help to the Catholic cause; yet I am well and painfully aware that it has not been what it should have been; and I am free to confess that it has fallen infinitely short of my own ideal of a Catholic journal. Its temper has not been uniformly - I except many valuable contributions of wise and excellent men and speak of my own work only - the truly Catholic temper: noble, majestic, calm, charitable; but, on the contrary, it was often, I fear, violent, vainglorious, uncharitable.

In spite of these failings its circulation and influence have grown, probably because discriminating: readers perceived that beneath the excrescenses there was the taproot of a good will and a growing zeal for the glory of God and the honor of His Holy Church; because they felt that the editor was honestly endeavoring to improve himself and his paper; because, knowing how responsibility and power often change men, they hoped that with increased experience and opportunities there would come to him a larger degree of wisdom, knowledge, prudence, and humility, especially under the influence of the supernal graces which the prayers of many devoted friends were bringing down upon him.

It is owing, under God, to these kind friends above all, - and their number must have been greater than I imagined - that I have received light and strength and courage to strive with ever-increasing zeal and, I trow, growing sagacity and discernment, for the realisation of my high ideal. To them, in the first place, and more especially to those of them who added much-needed material, to the indispensable spiritual, support, I must on this occasion offer my most cordial thanks.

If I had been compelled to conduct this journal single-handed all these seven years - occupied as I have been constantly with other work to eke out a living, especially during the weary period when my only emolumentum from The Review was a weekly deficit, which, lacking capital, I had to make up from my outside earnings this paper would have been little more than a crazy-quilt of more or less well-selected clippings, a journal frequently at sea in many burning questions of the greatest importance, on which my defective training does not enable me to put forth even an opinion. As it was, Providence made it possible for me to enlist in the good work a number of self-sacrificing collaborators, especially from among the reverend clergy, who with their deeper knowledge of theological and other subjects supplied what was lacking in the editors intellectual make-up, and gave the paper tone and thoroughness and a certain standing in the community.

These, too, zealous and unselfish helpmates in a sacred cause, deserve and have my sincere gratitude. Nor must I omit to include in the list of benefactors those few who, by regular or occasional financial gifts, have helped me to make a weekly review without advertisements a reality; nor the large host of those who take the paper and pay the subscription price regularly, for they likewise have a share in the good work.

My physical constitution is not such as to encourage me in the hope that I shall be able for many years more to stand that wear and tear of mind, that distressful grind and toil, which Cardinal Newman has so well described,) of those whose profession compels them to "flaunt their intellects daily before the public in full dress, and that dress ever new and varied, and spun, like the silk-worm's, out of themselves." But as long as I can wield a pen, I faithfully promise, with the grace of God, that I will turn it to good uses and with all the power at my command and all the light that prayerful and conscientious study can bring me, untiringly champion the sacred cause of Catholic truth and justice, to defend which, even with limited ability and in a narrow circle, I consider a greater thing than to occupy the Presidential chair.

The older I grow,

Szczegóły: The Review, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) - Preuss Arthur

Nazwa: The Review, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Preuss Arthur
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331765486
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 630
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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