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The intimate connection between the conclusions to which the views of Tauler tended, and the principles from which Luther started, is shown further by the superior attraction which those sermons, so warmly recommended by Luther, continued to exercise upon members of the Evangelical, compared with those of the Catholic Church.
"Yes ... it's because I've become a Catholic! I expect you've heard that, sir." Mr. "Mr. Guiseley, kindly tell me all about it. I had not heard one word not one word." Frank made a great effort, and told the story, quite fairly and quite politely. He described his convictions as well as he could, the various steps he had taken, and the climax of the letter from his father.
They were manned by loyal subjects, the business of whose lives had been to meet the enemies of their land and faith on the wide ocean not by those who had been watching with divided hearts for a Catholic revolution. March went by, and sure intelligence came that the Armada was not dissolving.
More than all this, there was a school in the town kept by a Catholic, and Adrian van der Werff himself the renowned burgomaster, who had sustained the city during the dreadful leaguer of 1574, and who had told the famishing burghers that they might eat him if they liked, but that they should never surrender to the Spaniards while he remained alive even Adrian van der Werff had sent his son to this very school?
Yet his Britannic Majesty had made haste to exonerate the great criminal from all complicity in the crime; and had ever since been fawning upon the Catholic king, and hankering for a family alliance with him.
In France, so strong had been the Catholic reaction that Henry the Fourth found it necessary to choose between his religion and his crown.
The head-mistress was a Catholic, and though she must have been sixty, she looked keen, witty, and as if she knew the ways of the world. She had received an introduction from Lady Harrington, and so welcomed the young lady in the most cordial manner. She had about fifteen young boarders of thirteen or fourteen years of age.
But I must now pass on to a more definite consideration of the present action and attitude of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy towards the economic, educational, and other issues discussed in this book. The reasons which render such a consideration necessary are obvious.
In the place of those who departed have come others, to fill the total population. There were in 1905 on the Hill twenty-five old families with seventy-five persons, and twenty-five Irish Catholic families with one hundred persons. The response to economic opportunity has often been too keen, and the attempt too grasping.
I beg you to give your best attention to it, and to so act that the adversaries steal no march on us and get no advantage over us. Nevertheless, I mean to abide by what I have promised them." Mayenne was quite right: it was certainly the chiefest of all matters. The head of the Protestants of France, the ally of all the Protestants in Europe should he become a Catholic and King of France?
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