A Lost Cause. Thorne Guy

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066205027

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       A LOST CAUSE

       CHAPTER I

       THE INTERRUPTED EUCHARIST

       CHAPTER II

       MR. HAMLYN AND SON AT HOME

       CHAPTER III

       LORD HUDDERSFIELD AND THE GUESTS AT SCARNING COURT

       CHAPTER IV

       LUCY BLANTYRE AT THE CLERGY-HOUSE

       CHAPTER V

       WEALTHY MISS PRITCHETT AND POOR GUSSIE DAVIES ENTER THE VICARAGE GARDEN

       CHAPTER VI

       BOADICEA, JOAN OF ARC, CHARLOTTE CORDAY, JAEL, AND MISS PRITCHETT OF HORNHAM

       CHAPTER VII

       THE OFFICES OF THE "LUTHER LEAGUE"—AN INTERIOR

       CHAPTER VIII

       A PRIVATE CONFERENCE AT MIDNIGHT A YEAR LATER

       CHAPTER IX

       A UNION OF FORCES

       CHAPTER X

       LOW WATER AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS

       CHAPTER XI

       THE NEWS THAT CARR BROUGHT

       CHAPTER XII

       THE REPARATION OF JANE PRITCHETT, EX-PROTESTANT

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE HAMLYNS

       "PROTESTANT TRUTH!"

       When It Was Dark

       The Scarlet Pimpernel

       At the Sign of The Jack o' Lantern

       Love Alone is Lord

PREFACE

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      A few words are necessary in preface to this story. After When It Was Dark made its appearance, the writer received a great number of letters from his readers, and up to the present moment he still continues to receive them.

      Out of nearly two hundred communications, a large proportion are concerned not so much with the main issue of the tale, as with controversial matters in the Church of England arising from it.

The definitely Catholic[1] tone of the first book aroused, as might be expected, vigorous protest, and no less vigorous commendation. The five or six Bishops—and many other dignitaries—who preached or lectured about the story avoided the controversial sides of it. But the writer has received innumerable letters from the clergy and others to the following effect.

      It was pointed out to him that while the extreme "Protestant" party was constantly employing fiction as a method of propaganda, churchmen were almost unrepresented in this way. The Catholic Faith has been bitterly assailed over and over again in books which are well enough written, and have sufficient general interest to appeal to the man of the world, who is often indifferent to the points debated.

      After considerable discussion, the writing of A Lost Cause was resolved upon. The author desires to thank those priests who have assisted him with their counsel and experience, and begs leave to explain here something of his aims in publishing the tale.

      At no period in modern Church history has the Church been assailed with such malignance, slander, and untruth as at the present. "Protestantism" within the Church is a lost cause, it is dying, and for just this reason the clamour is loudest, the misrepresentation more furious СКАЧАТЬ