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Life of Father Hecker

CHAPTER XVIII
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He never submitted until his submission was full and not to be withdrawn.

So, once in the Church, and enjoying her divine guarantee of external authority, he had few if any disquieting recollections of error to breed distrust of the light that shone within him.

His soul was of that order to which truth speaks authoritatively and at first hand; of that soil from which institutions which are to stand spring by a true process of development, because it is the soil which first received their germs.

Always it is the soul of man which is inspired, the mind of man that is enlightened.

Then the teaching comes as record of the fact and the doctrine; then the institution solidifies about them, a perpetual witness that to many men and ages of men the same message has been handed down by its first recipients and has produced in them its proper results.


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