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He was not, therefore, surprised at the distrust 

 with which Protestants look upon the Catholic 

 Church; and he on this account treated their 

 prejudices with becoming charity, confident that 

 their distrust did not proceed from the heart, but 

 from the errors of their early education; and he 

 endeavoured, whenever an opportunity offered, to 

 remove the cause of this prejudice by explaining to 

 them what were truly and really the doctrines of the 

 Catholic Church. The increased liberality of the 

 community now so remarkable in Chicago, demon- 

 strates the wisdom of the course that seemed to him 

 so correct. 



Protestants, he often remarked, do not in reality 

 hate Catholic doctrines. They hate only what the 

 enemies, the malicious ignorant enemies of the 

 Church for which Christ died, represent as belonging 

 to Catholics and Catholic doctrines. But when the 

 veil defiled by these slanders is removed from the 

 face of the beautiful SpDuse of Jesus Christ, when 

 the light of her lovely countenance, beaming with 

 a heavenly radiance, falls upon their hearts; they 

 can, even as ourselves, appreciate that loveliness 

 which time cannot dim, but which increases for ever. 



It has been frequently asked, how, with so little 

 means. Bishop Quarter accomplished so much. 

 None but a Catholic Bishop, aided by zealous 

 Catholic priests, could have done the same. They 

 had no families to support, no worldly appearances 

 to keep up; and they imitated the poverty of their 

 divine Master, contented to live in need, often upon 



