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The end then of this 'Society' is, that the members cultivate 

 the devotion due to St. Joseph; invoke his intercession, and 

 regulate their lives in such a way, as that they may be worthy 

 to adopt him as their Patron. In order the more fully to 

 attain this end, the devotion to the Blessed Virgin, styled 

 'full of grace,' is particularly recommended. Another end of 

 this 'Society' is, to collect together at convenient times the 

 pupils of the 'Academy,' and such boys and adults as frequent 

 the Sunday School kept there, that instructions may be given 

 them in the principles of the Religion they profess, and in the 

 doctrines of morality they are bound to practise." 



I have said, that he laboured for the spiritual 

 welfare of all his people. He laboured also for their 

 temporal welfare, and particularly for that of his 

 Irish fellow-citizens. His heart clung fondly, O, how 

 fondly! to the memories of the past. The associa- 

 tions of his young years were woven round that 

 heart, which yearned with the tenderest regard 

 towards the poor and persecuted exiles, that sought 

 beneath this happier clime a home and a resting- 

 place. He laboured earnestly and zealously to 

 improve their condition in this country of their 

 adoption, in order to make them worthy the glorious 

 privileges they here enjoyed. He saw them, having 

 escaped the blood-hounds of power, met as they 

 landed upon the shores of the New World, by the 

 harpies that watched for them. He knew the 

 feelings of their generous hearts, and that they had 

 learned at home to love America, her institutions, 

 amd her people : but I say he saw them met, as they 

 landed, by the sharpers, and plundered by them of 

 the little left them; and where they had hoped for 



