tianity
rapidly over the whole world.

"In the Exposition I follow simply the footsteps of the Church as
indicated in her history, in the Encyclicals of Pius IX., and the
Vatican Council. The Church is God acting directly on the human race,
guiding it to its true destiny, the road of all true progress."

The Exposition, as already said, had been talked to all comers by
Father Hecker, and in various parts of Europe, but was put into shape
in the autumn of 1874, while he was in the north of Italy. He took it
to Rome and offered it to the Propaganda Press. No fault was found
with it; many high dignitaries, some of them members of the
Congregation of the Sacred Palace, which has charge of the
censorship, heartily approved of it and would have it published at
once; but at the last moment this was decided by the authorities to
be inexpedient. It was then sent to London, and Pickering brought it
out anonymously, and it was at once put into French by Mrs. Craven.
It was published as a leader in _The Catholic World_ about the same
time, and in 1887 formed the first chapter of _The Church and the
Age,_ a compilation of Father Hecker's more important later essays.

The Exposition contributes to the solution of the race problem as it
affects religion. A glance at Europe shows the radical difference
which is symbolized by the terms Transalpine and Cisalpine, Latin and
Teutonic. The one group of races most readily clings to the interior
virtues of religion, the other to external institutions. The problem
is how to reconcile them, how to bring both into unity. Father Hecker
believed that the Latin race had crowned its work in the Vatican
Council and done it gloriously, and that the time had arrived to
invite the Teutonic race to develop its force in the interior life of
the Church. There are passages in the following letter which indicate
the weight of this racial problem to him, as well as the supernatural
earnestness which he brought to the study of it. It serves to explain
a remark he once made: "I wrote the Exposition while I was having
very many lights about the Holy Ghost--I couldn't help but write it."

"PARIS, June 11, 1874.

"DEAR GEORGE AND JOSEPHINE: There is not much for me to add to my
letter of the third of this month. My preparations are made to go to
Mayence during the Catholic Assembly, which commences on the
fifteenth and lasts three days. There I shall meet several persons
whom I am interested in and wish to s