OF The Catholic Church, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE RT. REV. JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF VERMONT. BY FRANCIS PATRICK KENRICK, ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE. "Tacere ultra non oportet, ne jam non verecundiæ, sed diffidentiæ esse BALTIMORE: PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO. No. 178 MARKET STREET. PITTSBURG-GEORGE QUIGLEY. Sold by the Principal Catholic Booksellers. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, BY JOHN MURPHY & COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland. Preface. HE following pages have been hastily written in reply to the late work of the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, styled "The End of Controversy Controverted." The letters of which it is composed are addressed to me, and a special challenge to refute them is given, towards the end, in these words: "I commit the care of Dr. Milner's reputation to you, as his special admirer and friend." Yet I should not have noticed them, could I hope that the work of Dr. Milner would be perused generally by those who read the letters of Dr. Hopkins; for I have entire confidence that every intelligent reader must feel that the Catholic controvertist is immeasurably superior in argument, and authorities, as well as style. At this time of public |