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Title: What Shall I Be?
A Chat With Young People

Author: Rev. Francis Cassily

Other: A. J. Burrows
Remegius Lafort
Cardinal John Murphy Farley

Release Date: March 18, 2010 [EBook #31688]

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[Illustration: Christ and the rich young man]

If thou wilt be perfect go sell what thou hast and give to the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven and come follow Me.
--Matt. xix: 21.

WHAT SHALL I BE?
A CHAT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE

BY THE
REVEREND FRANCIS CASSILLY, S.J.

"And every one that hath left house, or brothers, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My name, shall
receive a hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting." (Matt.
xix: 29)

NEW YORK
THE AMERICA PRESS
1914

IMPRIMI POTEST
A. J. BURROWES, S.J.
_Provincial Missouri Province_

NIHIL OBSTAT
REMEGIUS LAFORT
_Censor_

IMPRIMATUR
JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY
_Archbishop of New York_

COPYRIGHT 1914
BY
THE AMERICA PRESS

LETTER TO THE AUTHOR
FROM REVEREND A. VERMEERSCH, S.J.

Louvain, le 23 fevrier, 1914.

Mon Reverend Pere: P. C.

Votre petit livre me plait extremement. Il expose une doctrine tres
solide avec une merveilleuse clarte. D' une lecture agreable, il
interessera la jeunesse des ecoles, et l'encouragera a faire un choix
genereux d' etat de vie. J' estime que, traduit en flamand et en
francais, il ferait egalement du bien a nos collegiens de Belgique.

Votre devoue en N. S. et M. I.
A. Vermeersch.

TRANSLATION

My Reverend Father:

Your little book pleases me exceedingly. Its doctrine is very sound
and set forth with wonderful clearness. It makes pleasant reading, and
will interest the young of school age, and encourage them to make a
generous choice of a sta