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PEEFACE.
Persecution, which has not yet relented in our
re-
gard, under the ever varying depositaries of secular
power, has retarded the publication of this Volume,
beyond our worst expectations. Our readers will, we trust, be good enough to believe that we regret far
these forced delays as
much
as they do.
May we
hope that they will please to remember us and our Monastic brethren, in their prayers to God, and thus aid us to bear the brunt of hell's violence, so particularly directed against the sons of
Dom
Grue-
We
implore Our Lord to vouchsafe, in re-
turn, to pour
upon our readers a share in those blessby Him to those who suffer for Justice
ranger.
ings promised sake.
Ft. L. F. 0. S. B.
Solesmes.
May
8,
1888.