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Walter Elliott. Life of Father Hecker
Life of Father Hecker
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II
YOUTH
CHAPTER III
THE TURNING-POINT
CHAPTER IV
LED BY THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER V
AT BROOK FARM
"GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS."
CHAPTER VI
INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM
CHAPTER of the present biography. On its second page occurs the following account of his impressions while in church on Easter Sunday:
CHAPTER VII
STRUGGLES
CHAPTER VIII
FRUITLANDS
"A. BRONSON ALCOTT."
"GEORGE RIPLEY."
"CHARLES LANE
CHAPTER IX
SELF-QUESTIONINGS
CHAPTER X
AT HOME AGAIN
CHAPTER XI
STUDYING AND WAITING
CHAPTER XII
THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER XIII
HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS
CHAPTER XIV
HIS LIFE AT CONCORD
"O. A. BROWNSON."
CHAPTER XV
AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER XVI
AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH—CONTINUED
CHAPTER XVII
ACROSS THE THRESHOLD
CHAPTER XVIII
NEW INFLUENCES
CHAPTER XIX
YEARNINGS AFTER CONTEMPLATION
CHAPTER XX
FROM NEW YORK TO ST. TROND
CHAPTER XXI
BROTHER HECKER
CHAPTER XXII
HOW BROTHER HECKER MADE HIS STUDIES AND WAS ORDAINED PRIEST
CHAPTER XXIII
A REDEMPTORIST MISSIONARY
CHAPTER XXIV
SEPARATION FROM THE REDEMPTORISTS
"+ THOMAS L. CONNOLLY,
"EPIPHANY, 1858, ROME
CHAPTER XXV
BEGINNINGS OF THE PAULIST COMMUNITY
CHAPTER XXVI
FATHER HECKER'S IDEA OF A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
CHAPTER XXVII
FATHER HECKER'S SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE
CHAPTER to fill a volume. Let us hope for its publication some day
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE PAULIST PARISH AND MISSIONS
CHAPTER XXIX
FATHER HECKER'S LECTURES
CHAPTER XXX
THE APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS
CHAPTER XXXI
THE VATICAN COUNCIL
CHAPTER XXXII
THE LONG ILLNESS
CHAPTER XXXIII
"THE EXPOSITION OF THE CHURCH"
CHAPTER XXXIV
IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
CHAPTER XXXV
CONCLUSION
THE END
APPENDIX
LETTERS FROM CARDINAL NEWMAN. I
II
RECOLLECTIONS OF FATHER HECKER BY THE ABBÉ XAVIER DUFRESNE, OF GENEVA
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Walter Elliott
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"We hoped," writes Dr. Brownson, "by linking our cause with the ultra-democratic sentiment of the country, which had had from the time of Jefferson and Tom Paine something of an anti-Christian character; by professing ourselves the bold and uncompromising champions of equality; by expressing a great love for the people and a deep sympathy with the laborer, whom we represented as defrauded and oppressed by his employer; by denouncing all proprietors as aristocrats, and by keeping the more unpopular features of our plan as far in the background as possible, to enlist the majority of the American people under the banner of the Workingman's party; nothing doubting that, if we could once raise that party to power, we could use it to secure the adoption of our educational system."
This party, however, both as an engine in politics and as a fitting embodiment of his private views, Dr. Brownson soon abandoned. He was not truly radical, in the evil sense of that word, at any period of his career, and the theories of the leaders soon became insupportable to his moral sense. But he remained true to the cause of the workingmen while abandoning the organization which assumed to voice their needs and their wishes. Probably these more ulterior aims of their leaders were never fully appreciated by the rank and file of those who followed them. Yet the genesis of the present purely secular school system, against whose workings and results nearly all Christian denominations are too late beginning to protest, is clearly traceable to the propaganda carried on half a century ago by men and women whose only half-veiled warfare against Christianity, property, and marriage was then an offence in the nostrils of our people at large. It is fair to predict that this generation, or another which shall succeed it, will yet have the good sense to regret, and the courage to atone for, the fact that hatred to the Catholic Church, and a desire to cripple her hands where her own children were concerned, should have been a more powerful agent in dragging them and theirs into the abyss of secularism than was their love of Christianity in deterring them from it.
