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people, the vast importance to Religion of contributing towards 

 the support of our Ecclesiastical Seminary, — you know the 

 wants of the people — you have discovered how fast irreligion is 

 spreading, where religious instruction is not imparted — you 

 have heard, with aching heart, the God of Heaven blasphemed 

 — you have witnessed with sorrow the contempt shown for the 

 sacred institutions of Christ — you have seen with hrror and 

 dismay, the blood of Calvary that was shed for the redemption 

 of the world, impiously trodden under foot — your remonstrances 

 might have been fruitless, and you could only pray in the 

 words of your Divine Master: 'O Heavenly Father, forgive 

 them, for they know not what they do;' — you have seen Christians 

 transgress against all the commandments of God, and of his Holy 

 Church, and indulge in crimes, from the commission of which, 

 even Pagans would recoil — you discovered that the sacraments, 

 the channels through which the Grace of God was to be com- 

 municated to the souls of Christians, were neglected, and that 

 the Sinner, hardened in guilt, would rather suffer his immortal 

 soul to perish eternally, than forsake the evil of his ways. At 

 the sight of these evils your soul melted in anguish, and you 

 desired and prayed that you might behold, in the midst of this 

 erring people, an Apostolic Priesthood, who by their pious, 

 assiduous, and disinterested labours, might reclaim them again 

 to God, and give them back sightly plants to the vineyard of his 

 Holy Church; you have experienced, moreover, how great are 

 the toils, how many the privations, and how few the earthly 

 consolations of our small but very zealous body of Clergymen; 

 you felt that an increase of numbers was much needed, needed 

 to aid and assist those already engaged in the toilsome labours 

 of the missions, that their valuable lives may not be shortened 

 by over-exertion, and that the vineyard of the Lord may be 

 cultivated properly, and in every part, that for heaven may be 

 reaped hereafter a rich harvest of those souls for whose salvation 

 Christ shed his precious blood. 



"Because of these motives, you will concur, and heartily 

 aid in the success of this holy work. 



