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better ages, before the fiends of heresy and schism had been let loose for the scourging of the Church.
To this I will only add that as I have the satisfaction to know that some have found pleasure and edification in my first series, if this also should raise one good thought, or one holy feeling in any reader's breast, it's end will be more than answered, and I shall find therein further incouragement to go on.
A. D. W.
P.S. Words or letters inclosed thus [ ] have been put in by me on guess.
