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Life of Father Hecker

CHAPTER XVII
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It certainly seems to me absolute: if any error arises it will be from my disobedience." "July 30 .-- The inward voice becomes more and more audible.

It says: 'I am--obey!' "The new clothes itself in new dress.
"What proof does a man give that _he is_ if he does only what has been done?
"Can a man repeat the past with genius?
"One true act opens the passage to ten more.
"Man is left to his own destiny; religion but sanctifies it." When the day comes at last, the Sacrament itself gets only the briefest chronicle.

The door seems but a door.

Passing through it, he finds himself at home, and apparently without one quickening of the pulse, or any cessation of his desire to penetrate all its secret chambers.

The explanation of this is to be looked for in the presumption that his baptism in infancy had been valid.


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