Life of Father Hecker
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Chapter 1 CHILDHOOD
Chapter 2 YOUTH
Chapter 3 THE TURNING-POINT
Chapter 4 LED BY THE SPIRIT
Chapter 5 AT BROOK FARM
Chapter 6 INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM
Chapter 7 On its second page occurs the following account of his impressions while in church on Easter Sunday
Chapter 8 STRUGGLES
Chapter 9 FRUITLANDS
Chapter 10 SELF-QUESTIONINGS
Chapter 11 AT HOME AGAIN
Chapter 12 STUDYING AND WAITING
Chapter 13 THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER
Chapter 14 HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS
Chapter 15 HIS LIFE AT CONCORD
Chapter 16 AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 17 AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH-CONTINUED
Chapter 18 ACROSS THE THRESHOLD
Chapter 19 NEW INFLUENCES
Chapter 20 YEARNINGS AFTER CONTEMPLATION
Chapter 21 FROM NEW YORK TO ST. TROND
Chapter 22 BROTHER HECKER
Chapter 23 HOW BROTHER HECKER MADE HIS STUDIES AND WAS ORDAINED PRIEST
Chapter 24 A REDEMPTORIST MISSIONARY
Chapter 25 SEPARATION FROM THE REDEMPTORISTS
Chapter 26 BEGINNINGS OF THE PAULIST COMMUNITY
Chapter 27 FATHER HECKER'S IDEA OF A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY
Chapter 28 FATHER HECKER'S SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE
Chapter 29 No.29
Chapter 30 THE PAULIST PARISH AND MISSIONS
Chapter 31 FATHER HECKER'S LECTURES
Chapter 32 THE APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS
Chapter 33 THE VATICAN COUNCIL
Chapter 34 THE LONG ILLNESS
Chapter 35 On this occasion he suffered much pain, for which, he says, the joy of the final agreement amply repaid him.
Chapter 36 THE EXPOSITION OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 37 IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
Chapter 38 CONCLUSION
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Chapter 16 AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH

THE first effect of Brownson's letter was to throw its recipient into a state of great though brief perplexity. That final struggle, strange and painful, in which the soul for the last time contends against its happiness; in which it is drawn by an invincible attraction, knowing that it will yield yet striving still to resist; is one that must rema

             
            

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