"The Czar wishes to extirpate Catholicism"; we will uphold it.--"He would drag the whole of his people into this wretched schism"; we will lend them our aid.--"He prohibits writings that are propitious to Catholicism"; we will print them.--"He impedes the communications with the Holy See"; we will free them from difficulty.--"He forbids showing, either by preaching or instructing, the difference that exists between truth and schism"; we will receive and propagate works that demonstrate this difference. "Bishops are torn from their dioceses and sent into exile"; we should be proud to own them.--"The religious are expelled from their communities, and their monasteries are turned into barracks"; we are ready to offer them a refuge.--"Priests are cruelly persecuted, deprived of all they possess, reduced to poverty, exiled, thrown into prison or put to death"; we undertake to receive them with honour, to alleviate their sufferings, to create or to support houses of education, both elementary and of a higher order, so that the source of priesthood in Poland may not be dried up, and so as to disseminate the benefits of Christian education.--"Numbers of Catholics of every rank and age are removed to distant countries"; we will open our doors to them. In a word, the nucleus of an exclusively religious association, under the denomination of "Work of Catholicism in Poland", has been formed in Paris, with the view of maintaining, "by all the means that charity can suggest", this generous nation in her fidelity to the Church. Mgr. de Ségur, prelate of his Holiness' household and Canon of St. Denis, has consented to honour this most important work with his patronage. The Rev. Father Pététot, superior-general of the Oratory, and the Rev. M. Deguerry, parish priest of the church of La Madeleine, at Paris, the Count Montalembert, and M. Cornudet, councillor of state, have also kindly accepted the vice-presidentship. Our first duty is to receive with sympathy the representatives of Polish heroism, men who have not hesitated between tortures and apostacy. Many of them were in the enjoyment of affluence at home; and after having proved in the last struggle the vitality of their invincible nation, the spirit of faith and of sacrifice is now the sole treasure which they possess.