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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerichsincerity of M. ClÃ¨ment Brentano, because we both know and love him, and, besides, his exemplarypiety and the retired life which he leads, secluded from a world in which it would depend but onhimself to hold the highest place, are guarantees amply sufficient to satisfy any impartial mind ofhis sincerity. A poem such as he might publish, if he only pleased, would cause him to be rankedat once among the most eminent of the German poets, whereas the office which he has taken uponhimself of secretary to a poor visionary has brought him nothing but contemptuous raillery.Nevertheless, we have no intention to assert that in giving the conversations and discourses of SisterEmmerich that order and coherency in which they were greatly wanting, and writing them downin his own way, he may not unwittingly have arranged, explained, and embellished them. But thiswould not have the effect of destroying the originality of the recital, or impugning either the sincerityof the nun, or that of the writer.910The translator professes to be unable to understand how any man can write for mere writing’s sake,and without considering the probable effects which his work will produce. This book, such as it is,appears to him to be at once unusually edifying, and highly poetical. It is perfectly clear that it has,properly speaking, no literary pretensions whatever. Neither the uneducated maiden whose visionsare here related, nor the excellent Christian writer who has published them in so entire a spirit ofliterary disinterestedness, ever had the remotest idea of such a thing. And yet there are not, in ouropinion, many highly worked-up compositions calculated to produce an effect in any degreecomparable to that which will be brought about by the perusal of this unpretending little work. Itis our hope that it will make a strong impression even upon worldlings, and that in many hearts itwill prepare the way for better ideas,—perhaps even for a lasting change of life.In the next place, we are not sorry to call public attention in some degree to all that class ofphenomena which preceded the foundation of the Church, which has since been perpetuateduninterruptedly, and which too many Christians are disposed to reject altogether, either throughignorance and want of reflection, or purely through human respect. This is a field which has hithertobeen but little explored historically, psychologically, and physiologically; and it would be well ifreflecting minds were to bestow upon it a careful and attentive investigation. To our Christianreaders we must remark that this work has received the approval of ecclesiastical authorities. It hasbeen prepared for the press under the superintendence of the two late Bishops of Ratisbonne, Sailerand Wittman. These names are but little known in France; but in Germany they are identical withlearning, piety, ardent charity, and a life wholly devoted to the maintenance and propagation of theCatholic faith. Many French priests have given their opinion that the translation of a book of thischaracter could not but tend to nourish piety, without, however, countenancing that weakness ofspirit which is disposed to lend more importance in some respects to private than to generalrevelations, and consequently to substitute matters which we are simply permitted to believe, inthe place of those which are of faith.We feel convinced that no one will take offence at certain details given on the subject of the outrageswhich were suffered by our divine Lord during the course of his passion. Our readers will rememberthe words of the psalmist: ‘I am a worm and no man; the reproach of men, and the outcast of thepeople;’ and those of the apostle: ‘Tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.’ Did we standin need of a precedent, we should request our readers to remember how plainly and crudely Bossuet4
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerichdescribes the same scenes in the most eloquent of his four sermons on the Passion of our Lord. Onthe other hand, there have been so many grand platonic or rhetorical sentences in the books publishedof late years, concerning that abstract entity, on which the writers have been pleased to bestow theChristian title of the Word, or Logos, that it may be eminently useful to show the Man-God, theWord made flesh, in all the reality of his life on earth, of his humiliation, and of his sufferings. Itmust be evident that the cause of truth, and still more that of edification, will not be the losers.115
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