It is not national with us, hence it does not meet our wants, nor does it fully understand and sympathize with the experience and dispositions of our people.

It is principally made up of adopted and foreign individuals." To us this is exceedingly instructive, for it tells us how _not_ to meet the earnest seeker after Catholic truth.

Even a good-natured dog does not show his teeth when caressed, nor is an artillery salute the only show of amity between even warlike powers.

Yet the repellant attitude of the great controversialist was that of very many representative Catholics of his time, especially those holding his high office.

For although he really did know the American people, and although their country was fully his own, and was by him deeply and intelligently loved, yet he did not understand or sympathize with the religious movements of which his strange young visitor was the truest type.