Canon Sheehan by Rev. Herman J. Heuser

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he was recreating from what he considered his more serious whose personal qualities enable one not to forget , but to trans- his picture from real life . The biography is not a record , it is latter are but the mirrored image of himself , the adage that thoughtful critic in the February issue of " The North American that it was his religion . Father Sheehan demonstrated in his nscenery and action to the parish of Doneraile or that of the Seltic humor , the author fails to satisfy either the taste that saint . On the whole , ' Father Sheehan's writings are the diary plea that at all events clay lasts longer than ' Powers . I saw sacred worship in his little church - the question why the biox- corrected or revised his manuscript , that his calling as an author ketches ecclesiastical life across the English Channel . For the that which he habitually wore . In painting it I borrowed as a est , his plots are not only uncompromisingly Catholic , but they a likeness in which , as it were , only one consuming is used , olumes that possess no striking merit , not only deal with the duties as a pastor-visiting the schools and the sick ; studying Of these I wrote , mostly in his own terms , in the effort to paint eighboring town of Mallow : part of one volume . Luke Delmede . more enjoyable and beneficial than acquaintance with a man of a country pastor , connecting the incidents of parish life . by by daily contact the needs of his people . He farmers , the Canon Sheehan only once , and that visit to his home added little cent , differences of creed . A most religious man , a sincere personal relations , more even than in his writings , though the is , of his character , his aims , his methods , his hopes and ideals . man that digs for clay may not see the flower ; or may bury it conversed , because it gave him opportunity to instruct while up entirely of things which , as the documents show , he himself puzzling world there are few intellectual expressions that are by the scholarly men who sought him in his solitude , or met entre round the Irish priest's life . ' Here , too , while there is much young folk ; perfecting educational plans and attending to the was to him of wholly secondary interest : that he wrote , as he said or wrote and did . I am credited with having " discovered " finding his Goldsmith . But Canon Shechan's biography is made religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world . " A the Irish author . That is true in the sense only in which a Catholic . Canon Sheehan impresses the non-Catholic reader of or nothing to my knowledge or impression of him as derived uns to clerical gossip or the wish to read about a canonized Review " Admirably expresses this when he writes : " In this child going out on a spring morning discovers a cross . The cyond the limited sphere to which they were directly addressed local appreciation , presents a psychological problem . from a previous correspondence of many years , and the reading The answer is ano…