The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1870-10-09

= - = y. S1yck Nuvn auoIios as ~ -
and a. No hnd IaaAc H6ckefS not long after
this, fOrsaking his lucrative business and
making his appearances among the nobie
seekers of wisdom at Brook Farm. Here,
with Hawthorn and Curtis. g. IA. Dana and
sion Of arranging their lives upon better
system of society than TINT with which they
found themselves surrounded. But after
nine months abode among them he left, no
wiser or better off or nearer the solution OF
his problemsthan when he came. He ex-
perimented still further with Thoreau with
no better success; returned to his brothers
and their business still no happier or
wiser. Strauge to say, Il controversy OF u
very heated character, and violent attacks
upon the Catholic Church first led him to
! consider the claims of Rome to q hearing.
He had been brought up with extreme
liberal ideas by his Presbyterian father
and Methodist mother, SO, with no deep
prejudice to overcome, it is not surprising
| that he should become one of an organiza-
7 tion affording him the most boundless field
for the practice of that devotion to
'' cause " for which his ardent soul burned.
He was living with Thgreau, in Massachu-
setts, when the decision that Rome and
Reason could be reconciled was made in
his mind. He was then twenty three years
of age, and the enthusiasm with which he
com nlunicated his decision to his friend is
now unabated at nearly fifty years of age.
| He soon found he had u ''vocation," as it is
termed. He became priest, and finally,
in Germany, in Redemptorst monastery,
completed his novitiate, and entered that
austere order as q monk. But he was des-
tined for new and peculiar work in the
service of the ancient Church. He eventu-
ally withdrew from the RedemptOrist Or
der with several other Americans mostly
New Englanders. These monks, with Fa-
ther Hecker at their head, founde dthe New
| nr1n of fhA nreI, Ita Nav NN.lYl
The sanction of the Pope aud Arch bishop
was obtained, and the Pauists began thel
work. They procured IL small piece of land
and began preaching and begging for their
House and Order. Twelve years have
! rolled away since then, and the success of
their mission is seen in the handsome
church and monastery on Fifty ninth street
which we noticed in the commencement o1
| this article.
But who compose the congregations that
crowd the pcws and aisics of the Church OF
ST. Paulf Unlike the congregations o.
most Catholic churches in city which
are made up largely of our Irish citizens
the worshipers at ST. Paufs are mostly
4 Americans, and ~ large proportion are
, converts" The jest is frequently made
among the gay Catholic bellies of the city
: that all the Catholic ladies who have mar
ried Protestant husbands take pews i'll st
ii Paul's. Here is frequently seen Fernando
r Wood, whose present wife is a devoted Ca
tholic Roswell G. Hatch and Professor
Mulvany, of, Columbia College Lawrenc.
t kehoe, the publisher OF the CGthohs World
and Dennis Sadlier, of the Tablet, are mem
, bers of the congregation on Easter Sunda.
!, and the great festivals of the Church, OF
u when it is known that Father Hecker o.
. Father Hewitt is to preach, while Matthew
o o Byrnes, the great millionaire house builder
Judge Connolly, Matthew T. Brennan, DIR
. Ray borg, of the late Rebel army; DR.
: Charles Carol Lee,aof the Federal army
4 / Daniel Shannon and Supervisor O'Day are
:. regular pew holders. McMasters, the spir
u J. tied and able editor of the Ereeman's Jour
nal, occupies a front pew near the altar
u and here on every Sunday and all Churcl
= holidays in seen this devout and Zealou
convert from Scotch Presby terianism, wor
Shipping with true Catholic zeal before al
> altar of Roman magnificence, served by
y priest himself a convert, celebrating tn
: mystery of the mass IN Roman vestment
y and a Latin service.
Briefly have we sketched the career o
u the Paulists and their founder to the pres
5 ent day. What they may be and what &C
q complsh in the future of America is to b
: seen; but it would take nc, prophet to pre-
= dict that no slight or contemplate result
u NAV be expected from the trained intellect
s of seven American minds, disciplined b.
: rules based upon the experience OF centu
9 ries, and adapted by American ingenuit
!! to the wants of the age. Already hav
. they attracted hiteen of t"eh'y yum
e Americans as students for the priesthoo
. to the cloistered seclusion Of their monas
IL terry, and their influence and popularit
'I among the intellectual classes of Americ
u bids fair to equal that of the Dominican
,r Franeiscans or Jesuits of the past of Ell
rope.
of
"a THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 1NDIA-Dedl
< ofa Nun.-The community of st. Joseph
N Convent, in Bankipore station, have suffel
L. ed a heavy loss by the death, from bror