Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pearl Among the Virtues, or Words of Advice to Christian Youth
The law of the 4th of J uly, which suppressed the Society of Jesus within the new German empire, is well known. Being condemned to involuntary leisure by the unjust application of this law, being banished from the school-1oom, from the pulpit, from the confessional, yea, even driven away from the altar, and from the sphere of long continued activity, chased from place to place: writing is my only means of intercourse with those who once were so near to me. And yet, when could I have experienced greater pleasure. In communicating with you, my young friends, in directing kind words of warning, of advice, of consolation, and of eneou1 agement to you, than now? These pages are, therefore, dedicated to you to you whose youth is a Wit ness to so many struggles, to you who must be deeply impressed with the thought: this war fare around me is for interests which are also mine; it is a warfare in which, although young, I must, by a firm adherence to my faith, strive to obtain the mastery over my passions, and perfect myself in all things; I desire to be come a man in the full sense of the word; no storm, be it ever so violent, shall sweep me away from the immovable Rock of Christ, which is the One, Holy, Catholic Church.
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