Publisher's Synopsis
Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1874 edition. Extrait: ...that, Christian marriage is destroyed. The priest possesses the soul--the husband keeps only the body! III. Is there then no remedy? O God of our Salvation! wilt Thou not revisit Thy people? and wilt Thou not rebuild our ruins? It depends upon you, O fathers, to prepare this future for the whole world. It depends upon you to realize it under your own roof. Have wisdom to resolve upon it; know how to be in the full sense of the words fathers of your own families, masters in your own houses. Remand us, we entreat you, remand us priests back to the proper limits of our work in the exercise of our priesthood, and to this end resume the duties of your own. I remember that eighteen centuries ago twelve young men, gathered together by Jesus from the villages of Galilee, from the fishing-boats of the sea of Tiberius--twelve young men were constituted Apostles and regenerated the world. Bear in mind, my friends, my brethren, young men who hear me--bear in mind the work of the apostles, and at the same that of the patriarchs. O that my words might be blessed to-day, and that among you that hear them might be found twelve that should feel yourselves called of God to be true husbands and fathers! If this may be, they shall have done far more for France, and for the Church, than all the political and religious parties that divide and rend them! Ah, my friends, if each of you could say--"Yes, there "is a priesthood which has perished in the world; it is "the most ancient, and, in one sense, the most neces"sary of all--the priesthood of the husband and the "father, and I will, in my own person, restore it to "the world and to the Church. Henceforth, I put far "away from me the speculative seductions, ..."
