No one need remind me that immigration has brought us inestimable blessings, or that without it the Church in America would be of small stature.

The remembrance of a precious fact is not put aside, if I recall an accidental evil attaching to it.

Priests foreign in disposition and work were not fitted to make favorable impressions upon the non-Catholic American population, and the American-born children of Catholic immigrants were likely to escape their action.

And, lest I be misunderstood, I assert all this is as true of priests coming from Ireland as from any other foreign country.

Even priests of American ancestry, ministering to immigrants, not unfrequently fell into the lines of those around them, and did but little to make the Church in America throb with American life.