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Confessions of a Convert

by

Robert Hugh Benson

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1913

Preface
The following chapters were first published, in substance, in the American Catholic Magazine, The "Ave Maria," in 1906-1907 . . .
Chapter One
When one stands at last upon high ground, it is extraordinarily difficult to trace the road behind . . .
Chapter Two
Up to the time of my father's death I do not think that a doubt had ever crossed my mind as to the claims of Catholicism.
Chapter Three
It will be impossible for me ever to acknowledge adequately the debt of gratitude which I owe to the Community of the Resurrection . . .
Chapter Four
I think that it was in the summer and autumn of 1902 that I began to write a book called "The Light Invisible."
Chapter Five
Gradually, however, three things drew out of the clamouring mob of ideas and authors.
Chapter Six
I was in a very curious and unsatisfactory state when I came home.
Chapter Seven
I do not suppose that anyone ever entered the City of God with less emotion than mine.
Chapter Eight
And now I do not know whether it is respectful to my holy mother the Church to attempt to say what she has been to me ever since the day that I walked blind and dumb and miserable into her arms.

Dedicated to
FATHER REGINALD BUCKLER, O.P.
whose hand unlocked for me the gate of the
City of God and led me in