Archbishop  Corrigan,  who  had  condemned  Dr.  Mc-
Glynn's  "unsound  principles"  relative  to  "property, "and
who  had  pronounced  them  to  be  "contrary  to  the  teach-
ings of  the  Church,"  was  completely  reversed  and  signally
rebuked.  Yet  it  is  probable  that  but  for  the  really  world-
wide sympathy  and  encouragement  Dr.  McGlynn's  case
excited  —  covertly  from  the  priesthood,  openly  from  the
laity  —  it  might  never,  despite  the  indisputably  brilliant
services  of  Dr.  Burtsell,  have  appeared  important  enough,
against  the  presentations  of  the  Archiepiscopal  Palace  in
New  York,  to  reopen.  It  was  a  great  victory,  primarily
because  of  the  magnificent  courage  of  Dr.  McGlynn  in
facing  what  seemed  to  be  utter  and  irreparable  personal
disaster  and  in  holding  fast,  without  compromise  or  equivo-
cation, to  what  he  believed  to  be  a  fundamental  truth  —
the  very  corner-stone  truth  of  civilization.  The  superb
heroism  of  that  act  and  the  obvious  righteousness  of  the


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doctrine  for  which  he  was  called  upon  to  suffer  expulsion
and  public  disgrace  together  produced  a  tide  of  sentiment
that  nothing  could  withstand.  Privilege,  in  the  persons
of  certain  of  the  hierarchy  and  laity  of  New  York  who  had
denounced  Dr.  McGlynn's  teachings  and  had  held  him
up  to  the  world  as  an  "unfrocked  priest,"  was  overborne.
