The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-02-23

Iiously accorded me through His minister
| This is not the occasion to give any ex
petition of my thought tending to make
manifest the Intellectual consistency
which has coexisted with my moral in
cossistencies, but some will read these
words 10 whom owe a world OF explana
tion regarding what has seemed to them
a. further and moro personal offense
About the time that incurred the cen.
sure Of the Church I contracted mum.
ber. of monetary obligations, either in the
ways of sums borrowed or of goods re.
ceiYed on credit, ard these obligations
amounting to many hundred dollars, re.
main to this day unmet. IT there are
nywho suppose that had eny intention
to defraud, or that carelessly contract.
ed debts which I could have 10 reason.
able expectation of soon paying, they
anVittingly do me a wrong. There had
come into my hands certain securities
which an expert ar d disinterested bust
ness adviser assured me, after some in
vestigatlon, would not, If turned into cash
ut once, or, If held for few months,
! probably double or treble that sum.
II is Unnecessary to specify any more
exactly before the public the source and
nature OF this property; suffice it to say
that it was it's totally unexpected and
unforeseeable loss that compelled me to
stop the publication of the Oriental
Review and left me hopelessly debtor.
Since then, although I have received
some public honors, Ihave had an income
too irregular and meagre to enable me, to
do more at most than meet my current
expenses, and it was nay desire to &C.
cuuaulate the means Of paying my debts
and myself square with the world, before
| ret,rning to the Church, which has been
the bhief cause Of OF this prolonged delay.
But partly because 7 would not throw
nagssliits wholly into the hands Of any
eectarian body, and partly, I believe, be-
| cause of the retributive justice or correc-
tive humiliation Of heaven, have not
thus far succeeded in making any head
way.
[ desire in this public manner to thank
from the bottom of my heart those many
kind friends, chiefly Catholics and Jews,
who have borne patiently with me in my
misfortunee, and to assure them and all
men that my most earnest desire and
most solid intention has been and is to
meet every obligation to the full ss soon
as Divine Providence makes it possible,
and 10 begin to do SO as soon as by the
most rigid economy ] am able to sat
aside something for that purpose from
my current income. I am happy to &C.
knowledge that most Of my creditors
have shown me uniform and touching
courtesy, which I SHALL never forget; and
have no ill-will towards those who,
being personally strangers to me and
doubling my good faith, have brought a
sometimes harassing though necessarily
fruitless pressure to bear upon me, both
before and since my departure from
Washington There are some, who IT
they had known through what maze of
perplexities and what whirl OF neces-
sary and painful preoccnpations I was
passing, would have pardoned more
readily my frequent inattention to bills
and communications which should at
least have reca1ved the courtesy Of let.
ter of explanation and apology.
The preceding paragraphs are too per.
sonal, yet I fear that the matter to which
they relate has been enough within the
public knowledge to justify, if not de-
mand, an explanation, aud in making it
only fulfill what believe to be duty,
albeit naturally painful and humiliat-
! ing one,
have further acknowledgment to
make, which no language IS tender
enough to express. Throughout my
Catholic life, and especially at The Uni
versity, was constantly in 9 position to
observe and admire the type of oharac-
ter-pure, noble virtue, yet wholly ungs-
suming and full Of celestial grace aud
! universal good will-which the Catholic
faith develops in those whose spirit it
permeates and dominates; but, even
though thus prepared, have been as
tonished and touched to my heart by the
uniform aud unchanged kindness which
every single one OF my Catholic friends
OF old has shown to me during the. PEI
|riod Of my prevarication when by any
chance We have been brought into con-
tact. With one accord they have had
the delicacy men and women, priests
and laymen alike with the exception
TOT one dear convert friend, whose affec-
| tionate zeal was more than pardonable)
Ito make no reference to my fall or my
lstate Of separation from the Church and
lno efforts to lead mo to return to It. ]
Continued On Kighth Pare.