PEE FACE. 



The following pages contain a translation, by tho 

 hand of a Protestant minister, of some of the most 

 eloquent and powerful utterances of the Eoman 

 Catholic pulpit. They are translated with aljsolute 

 honesty and fidelity — I will not say with elegance, 

 for the work has been driven through at the utmost 

 possible speed of the jDcn — and there has been no 

 culling nor retrenchment to suit the volume to the 

 American or the Protestant public. The only prin- 

 ciple of selection and arrangement has been to take 

 all the pubHshed works of Father Hyacinthe which I 

 could find, in the order in which they came to hand, 

 and bring them out in one volume, while waiting for 

 an arrival from Paris for the materials for another. 



I have no sort of apology to offer to any one for 

 thus putting in wide circulation, among Protestants 

 as well as Roman Catholics, these most charming 

 discourses, w^hich contain, with so much that will 

 commend itself to the universal heart of Christen- 

 dom, some things which I assuredly believe to be 



