o continue its
ordinary functions.

"How far will the body regain its former strength? What will be the
relation of the soul with its former occupations? Will this
additional light require other conditions? Was this light given for
another and wider field of labor? These and many other questions must
arise in the soul, which in due season will be answered. Its present
duty is to practise conformity to God's will, patience, detachment,
discretion, and confidence."

There is hardly any part of this Life which does not assist one in
understanding the Exposition, especially the chapters on the idea of
a religious community and that giving his spiritual doctrine. Many
leading spirits hailed it with joy, among them Margotti, the editor
of the _Unita Cattolica_ of Turin, and Cardinal Deschamps. The former
made Father Hecker's acquaintance during a visit to Turin, and became
a warm admirer of him and his views. He compelled him to leave the
hotel and lodge at his house during his stay in that city. When the
Exposition came out he gave it two long and highly commendatory
notices in his journal, at the time the most influential Catholic one
in Italy, and published three chapters entire.

We have a copy of the Exposition annotated, at Father Hecker's
request, by the late distinguished Jesuit, Father H. Ramiere. These
comments are valuable and suggestive. While modifying Father Hecker's
judgment as to the causes of the deterioration of Catholic manliness,
Father Ramiere recognizes the fact. The remedies receive his emphatic
approval, as also the author's explanation of the synthesis of the
inner and outer action of the Holy Ghost in the Church.

When _The Church and the Age_ appeared the English Jesuit magazine,
_The Month,_ in its issue of July, 1888, gave the book a very full
and favorable review, endorsing all the principles of the Exposition.
After saying that the Vatican decrees mark a special epoch in the
evolution of Christianity, and close a period of attack--one of the
sharpest which the Church has ever sustained--upon her external
authority, the reviewer continues:

"It completed the Church's defence, and left her free to continue
unimpeded her normal course of internal development. . . . The author
displays remarkable breadth of thought, and the book contains many
passages which are not only eloquent as a defence of Catholicity, but
which cannot fail to impart instruction to the reflecting reader. We
think it dese