In another twenty years there will be no Irish people--at least, none in Ireland.

Then the English and Scotch will come and make something of the country.' From Canon Beecher he met with scarcely more sympathy or understanding.
'Yes,' he admitted, 'no doubt we ought to make more efforts than we do to convert our fellow-countrymen.

But it is very difficult to see how we are to go to work.

There is one society which exists for this purpose.
Its friends are full of the very kind of enthusiasm which you describe.
I could point you out plenty of its agents whose whole souls are in their work, but you know as well as I do how completely they are failing.' 'But,' said Hyacinth, 'I do not in the least mean that we should start more missions to Roman Catholics.

It does not seem to me to matter much what kind of religion a man professes, and I should be most unwilling to uproot anyone's belief.