and are still being used, for the religious instruction of American Catholics . The words of Father John A. Conway, S.J. (in the preface to Fr. von Hammerstein's work, "Edgar, or from Atheism to the Full Truth ") may well be quoted in this connection: "Who can read the words that teem from the German Catholic press without feeling that the defence of Catholic truth is in brave and fearless hands? It is in Germany that the fiercest onslaughts are made upon revealed truth by rationalists , materialists , pantheists , Kantians , Hegelians , evolutionists , etc. But it is from Germany , too, that we get our best defence and our ablest expositions of Catholic doctrines ." Thus we see that, although the efforts of the German Catholics , naturally , are concerned in the first place, with the religious affairs of their own people, still their activity has produced beneficial results for the Catholic body in general. The German Catholics in America. ? SHEA, History of the Catholic Church in the United States (New York, 1886-1892); BURNS, The Catholic School System in the United States (New York, 1908); ENGELHARDT, A True History of the Missions and Missionaries of California (Watsonville, California); SCHWICKERATH, Jesuits as Missionaries in The Review (St. Louis, 1901); WILTZIUS, Catholic Directory (Milwaukee, annual); HAMMER, Die Katholische Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten Nordamerikas (New York, 1897); SCHAEFER and HERBERMANN, Records and studies in U.S. Cath. Historical Society , I, 110; HERBERMANN, A Catholic German Colony