The race of such souls has not died out in the Christian Church.

The one truth, spoken once for all by the Incarnate Word, takes on for them new aspects and new tones.
They are the pioneers of great movements.

Nurtured in the Church, their ardor burns away mere conventionalities; born outside the Church, the light she carries is a beacon, and the voice she utters is felt as that of the true Mother.

To adapt once more a pregnant sentence from young Hecker, of the truth of which he was himself an example: "It is God in them which believes in God." But to return to Brownson.

An entry in the journal, made nearly a year later, sums up the total impression which Brownson had made upon his young disciple: "June 22, 1845 .-- 0.