Quietly, without excitement, I come with an immovable determination to be joined to the Roman Catholic Church.

There is a conviction which lies deeper than all thought or speech, which moves me with an irresistible influence to take this step, which arguments cannot reach, nor any visible power make to falter.

Words are powerless against it and inexpressive of it; to attempt to explain, or give to the intellectual mind the reasons why and wherefore, would be as impossible as to paint the heavens or to utter the eternal Word, the centre of all existence.

It would be like asking, 'Wherefore is that which is ?' the finite questioning the infinite; an impossibility.

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