Leonard wishes he could help, but his acquaintance with Orestes A. Brownson was very slight. Leonard was very young when he lived in Chelsea, too young to come into the range of such a man. Dr. Langworthy and Rev. Samuel Robins knew him well. Both of these men are dead. Leonard can only tell Brownson how awed he used to be by the "man of power" as some used to call him, and how he longed to know him. One thing shows his faith in things: Brownson was the center of little gatherings on the ferry boats, in the early days when they were the only means of conveyance to and from Boston. He was full of the motive of the Catholic faith and loved to talk of it to twenty or more persons who were to gather about him. Leonard heard him on one such occasion when his subject was the work of Missions by the Church among the Indians. He knew the facts, told the sacrifices, the denials taken up on the part of the missionaries. He pleaded for the naturalness of the instruments which the Church uses in such missions, the way she approaches the ignorant through the sensuous imagination, the care she takes of her children, the ample provision for all their needs, and her persistence in progressive Christian education. Leonard remembers the array—for he had no data—the results of all the grand work. He remembers too the logic of his talk for he never lost sight of the consecutive sequence of things, nor the cause when he had faithfully presented the effects, as he did in this case. They were made to see and feel that such great and good results came from what is great and good in itself. Leonard recalls a short talk to a few persons in one of the shops of Chelsea on the mental rest which the Roman Church promises and actually gives. Matthew Hale Smith was then preaching in Chelsea for Dr. Langworthy, who was in Europe. Smith had said some things in his superficial way about the Catholic Church and some words about this by the shopman to Dr. Brownson was the occasion for the little talk. Smith had travelled in a circle—if indeed he could be said to have done anything from the point of view of thought. Dr. Brownson took the little man up and snapped him from his thumbs; then he quietly talked of the real rest to mind and heart which the Church gives—not the rest of passivity but of activity. "She does not stultify minds," he roared out, as he peered from the shop to speak to a friend and neighbor. Brownson sees that Leonard has to speak of simple things. He wishes he could have got at and into the great man. He was always stimulating to him even when he could not believe. His style was so strong—grand, idiomatic English—as pure as John Henry Cardinal Newman's, with more imagination, perhaps. Leonard respects the loving offices of a son who wants to set in order the events in the life of such a father and sincerely regrets that he is so poor a helper. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 15pp. 8vo.