Lord Jesus Christ, cast myself upon Him, and know that “I have peace with God, being justified by faith.” God spared not His own Son. “He made Him to be sin for us,” therefore for me. “We were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.” This blessed acceptance has flooded my very soul with spiritual joy and gratitude, and as the perennial fountain spreads its waters over the surrounding meadows, so, my friends, do I long to impart to others the riches with which Christ has endowed me. I have nothing to say, except what Paul said to his own countrymen after his conversion: “But this I confess to thee, that according to the sect which they call heresy, so I serve the Father and my God, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets” (Acts xxiv. 14). I have written nothing that I have not grounded upon God’s Word. Christ bids us “Search the Scriptures.” I hope to meet you all again, and to prove to you from God’s book, admitted by your own Church to be inspired, that I have followed God’s guidance. Your priest may denounce me, but I am quite willing to discuss the matter with him, and accept you, his own flock, as the judges. Meanwhile, may God bless you all, and may you “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Your obedient Servant, THOMAS CONNELLAN, Late Roman Catholic Curate, St. Peter’s, Athlone.