. Life and letters of Henry Van Rensselaer : priest of the Society of Jesus . if JJ lin i3 HENRY VAN RENSSELAER AT OXFORD LETTERS FROM OXFORD 31 Iffley Road, Oxford, December 13, 1875. My Dear Francis : . . I left London on Monday, at which time Bar-tholomew expected to sail during the week for was my surprise to get a telegram from him the sameevening, saying that he had changed his plans and wasgoing to the East, and asking me to accompany him, but Ideclined. It was a little tempting, for I wanted to go tothe Holy Land, but I had made up my mind that one oughtto practise a little s
. Life and letters of Henry Van Rensselaer : priest of the Society of Jesus . if JJ lin i3 HENRY VAN RENSSELAER AT OXFORD LETTERS FROM OXFORD 31 Iffley Road, Oxford, December 13, 1875. My Dear Francis : . . I left London on Monday, at which time Bar-tholomew expected to sail during the week for was my surprise to get a telegram from him the sameevening, saying that he had changed his plans and wasgoing to the East, and asking me to accompany him, but Ideclined. It was a little tempting, for I wanted to go tothe Holy Land, but I had made up my mind that one oughtto practise a little self-denial and not do everything onewishes. Besides, I have a great deal to learn yet, so I wasfirm, and telegraphed back, No. Fancy me, if you can, soresolute. I, who- last Spring needed so much whole life is so completely changed by being here I canreally feel now that I am alive; before I was merely pass-ively existing; before I did not know what it was to think;now my faculties are being developed. Father Bensongave me a shake mentally and set me vibrat
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