The Young Converts; Or, Memoirs of the Three Sisters, Debbie, Helen and Anna Barlow (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 5 creatures of smiles and tears, subject to joys and sorrows, to suffering and to death, in common with frail humanity. To the best of my ability I have given their simple record, and whether it shall be accepted as truth or not, " It shall be my pride, " That I have dared to tread this holy ground, " Speaking no dream, but things oracular." COMPILER. chapter{Section 4PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. TO THE YOUNG CATHOLICS OF THE DIOCESE OF BURLINGTON, Vt. My Dear Young Friends: Soon after the death of Debbie Barlow in April, I received a letter from our venerated Bishop, requesting me to prepare and present for your perusal a little sketch of the edifying lives of the three sisters, of whom she was the oldest. I could not hesitate to comply, though 1 distrusted my own ability to perform what was required in a satisfactory manner. Feeling at once the need of more material than I could have access to here, I went to the Convent in Montreal, where I found it in greater abundance than I could have expected. The recollections of my sojourn at the delightful boarding-school retreat of the Congregation de Notre Dame at Villa Maria, (formerly Monklands,) on Montreal Mountain?of the 7 8 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. polite hospitality with which I was entertained ?of my enjoyment in the society of the pious and intelligent sisters, and participation in the religious privileges of that favored abode, will be gratefully cherished while I live. By the aid of the copious subject-matter there obtained?her letters written to her parents at various intervals, when she was absent from home, and those with which I have been furnished from other sources?my task has been a light one in comparison with what I expected: the compilation and arr...