' The Church and the World'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 3

' The Church and the World '

t The Very Rev. Father Le Menant des Chesnais, V.G., Christchurch, has received the following letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Gallagher, Bishop of Goulburn :— Bishop's House, Goulburn, December 20, 1905. Very Rev. and Dear Father des Chesnais,— I owe you an apology for not having written sooner to acknowledge receipt of and thank you sincerely for the copy of your excellent book, ' The Church and the World,' which you were so good as to send me. I have read it through and through with pleasure and profit. 'It is truly a mine of information tor our own Catholic people first of all, and perhaps especially for those who, anxious to become Catholics, would wish to have all their difficulties briefly, clearly, and satisfactorily answered. It will be also most useful for our hard-worked priests as a handy book of reference on subjects most necessary to be explained to the people. I doubt whether any more opportune and useful little book of instruction has hitherto been given by any of our clergy to our young Church of Australasia. Hence it will be a source of pride and pleasure for me to call the attention of our Goulburn priests to it when they assemble for our annual Retreat at St. Patrick's College on the 23rd of January. With renewed thanks and good warm greetings of the holy Christmas season, I am, dear Father des Chesnais, Gratefully and sincerely yours, *h JOHN GALLAGHER.