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"let There Be Light"; Or, "why I Withdrew From the Church of My Fathers"
let There Be Light Or why I Withdrew From the Church of My Fathers Author:John Enright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Lothian book publishing co. pty., ltd. Subjects: Protestant converts Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Spirituality Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing ... more »text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter IV. "lead Kindly Light." THIS attitude of mine towards the formidable "Index" will be something new for my late Colleagues to learn. Had they repaired more frequently to the reading rooms of the Public Libraries of the cities wherever I was stationed they would have caught me devouring certain delectable "Forbidden Fruit" in the philosophical, historical and Biblical garden. I feared meeting Father , who occasionally resorted to these places, but for, I believe, purely literary matters only. Besides these secret "sedes Sapientiae" I had made the acquaintance of certain cultured Protestant friends, who generously threw open the doors of their hospitality and library to the happy, laughing Monk who apparently had not a care nor a worry in life. For reasons which are very obvious I dared not bring to the Monastery any one of these publications, though my little brown or black bag, without which I scarcely ever travelled, was under the broad-minded suspicion of Superior "No. 2." However, I do earnestly believe why it was not "commandeered" was because of my well-known abstemious habits. The little brown or black bag was engaged in neither of these missions, either in importing dangerous literature or in fetching home "ardent spirits," but in one peculiarly dear to the Human Heart of Him who declared that He will reward even the "cup of water given in His name." As I read on and observed more and more the inner workings of Protestant life in all ...« less