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ADDRESSED TO

MIXED CONGREGATION S.

ADDRESSED TO

MIXED CONGREGATIONS

BY

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

NEW IMPRESSION

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK

BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1921

Made in Great Britain

TO THE

RIGHT REV. NICHOLAS WISEMAN, D.D.,

BISHOP OF MELIPOTAMUS,

AND VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE LONDON DISTRICT,

ETC., ETC., ETC.

MY DEAR LORD,

I present for your Lordship's kind acceptance and patronage the first work which I publish as a Father of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. I have a sort of claim upon your permission to do so, as a token of my affection and gratitude toward your Lordship, since it is to you principally that I owe it, under God, that I am a client and subject, however unworthy, of so great a Saint.

When I found myself a Catholic, I also found myself in your Lordship's district; and, at your suggestion, I first moved into your immediate neighbourhood, and then, when your Lordship further desired it, I left you for Rome. There it was my blessedness to be allowed to offer myself, with the

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