Dublin: Printed by J. T. Drought , 6, Bachelor’s-walk....

Beloved Brethren ,— For seven years and three months I laboured among you.  Thousands of you knew me in the Confessional; almost all of you have heard my voice from the pulpit; I have baptized not a few among you.  I have laboured in the four most populous centres in your diocese—Sligo, Strokestown, Roscommon, and Athlone—and from the day on which I entered upon my work to the day of my departure from the diocese, there has never been a word of disagreement between us.  I resided but four months