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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 179, 1 September 1876, Page 12

A lecture was delivered in the Eotundo, Dublin, recently, by Dr Hammond, formerly a Protestant clergyman in America, but now a convert to the Catholic religion. The lecturer first gave an in -cresting account of several places in America in very eloquent language. He next described his former ignorance on the subject of the Catholic religion. Though he had the Bible almost by heart he never knew its true meaning till he examined it side by side with a Catholic Catechism, which a Jesuit Father lent him. The concluding part of the lecture contained a bold denunciation of thecruelty of Bismarck and an eloquent tribute to the persecuted German priesthood. The lecturer spoke with much feeling about nil that Ireland had suffered for the faith, and her steadfastness as a Catholic nation. At the close of the lecture he was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.