The Revival of the Religious Mendicant Orders (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Revival of the Religious Mendicant Orders 'Our chief object is not to assist the poor. No! that is for us only a means - our object is to keep them in the Catholic Faith, and to propagate it amongst others by means of charities.' - Works of F. Ozonam, Founder of the Society of St. Vincent-de-Paul, vol. viii. p. 45. No one can fail to remark the very large increase in the number of Sisters of Mercy, met with in the course of our daily walks through London, indeed, if it were possible not to remark them as casual passers-by, their repeated visits at our doors asking for aid in their works would in itself compel us to acknowledge their presence among us as an 'accomplished fact, ' for it is impossible to walk for half-an-hour through the Metropolis without seeing some of these Sisters standing at a street door 'asking an alms, ' and neither house, shop, nor office, is long free from their persevering calls. Whether the revival of the Religious Mendicants in our midst is likely to be beneficial to this country is of course a matter of opinion, but one thing is certain - viz., that every country which has had any practical experience of them has successively suppressed them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.