Life of Father Hecker

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life of Father Hecker, by Walter ElliottThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: Life of Father HeckerAuthor: Walter ElliottRelease Date: April 29, 2006 [EBook #18283]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE OF FATHER HECKER ***Produced by David McClamrockTHE LIFE OF FATHER HECKERBY REV. WALTER ELLIOTT ________________________NEW YORK:THE COLUMBUS PRESS1891________________________Nihil obstat: AUGUSTINUS F. HEWIT, Censor Deputatus.Imprimatur: M. A. CORRIGAN, Archiepiscopus Neo-Ebor. ________________________AUTHOR'S PREFACETHE reader must indulge me with what I cannot help saying, that I have felt the joy of a son in telling the achievements andchronicling the virtues of Father Hecker. I loved him with the sacred fire of holy kinship, and love him still—only the morethat lapse of time has deepened by experience, inner and outer, the sense of truth and of purity he ever communicated tome in life, and courage and fidelity to conscience. I feel it to be honor enough and joy enough for a life-time that I am hisfirst biographer, though but a late born child and of merit entirely insignificant. The literary work is, indeed, but of home-made quality, yet it serves to hold together what is the ...