The Irish standard., 1890-08-02

parishioners were laboring to .dissuadt
Minister uoyt from going over to Rome
one of the most streDu0 exhorters
wbo besought him to remain In the
Episcopal fold was Professor George
Allen of the University Of Pennsyl.
vania, who went all the way to st. Al
bans to reason. as he called it, with his
friend. Mr.. HoYt's earnestness and
arguments, however, proved. severe
stumbling blocks
In THE PROFESSORS WAY,
and the result was that he went back to
Philadelphia with his faith in the
Anglican creed sorely shaken. A more
thorough study of the matter only
served to convince him that Mr.. Hoyt
was in the right, and the result Of his
researches was attained IN lS47, when,
on the same day that little cynthia
Smalley became a Catholic at ST. AL
bans. he and his est1mable wife pre-
sented themselves before Bishop Ken
rick Of the Quaker City and made their
profession of Catholic belief.
In the following year. 1848. Mr.. G. G.
Smith. a prominent business man of St.
Albans. together with his wife and five
children, was received into the church
by Father Hamilton, and in the same
year the number of converts was in
creased by the accession Of Mrs. Lam
son. the widowed sister of an Episco-
paiian clergyman. Mrs. Penniman,
mother Of Mrs. Smalley, made her pro-
fession Of faith a few weeks later on.
Notwithstanding that. when her danghi
ter became a Catholic, while consentlng
to that step which she knew WAN con.
scientiously taken. abe had enjoined on
her child never again ito allnde in her
hearing to the Catholic Church. At
the same; time that Mrs. Eenniman en-
braced Catholieity, her y soli1aliiGis ssss
LAWYER Smalley, the gentleman who
told MIR. Hoyt TO be sure he was right
and then go ahead. abjured Protestant
ism publicly, and Fatheh Hamilton
often said afterwards that he believed
the happiest honr of his life was when
he heard Mr.. Smalley readingy in that
clear ringing voice with (which he
habitually spoke, his profession OF
Catholic faith. s5:... d; Y. ' II
ACoUsIN OF MRS sMALLEY's,
L \ 4 8 .5 !. H
Mrs Charlotte Hall, in 1850, became
the second wife of Judge Hunt, a mem.
Der of the Episcopalian church, who
once told a Puritan judge who proposed
to hold court on Good Friday, that if he
did that he would be the first Judge to
sit on the bench on that day since
POntius Pilates time, and it was not
long before the entire Hunt family,
father, mother and daughter. became
converts and were received into the
Church at Montreal. Mention should
have been made before this. too. of the
conversion Of Miss Frances Allen, the
Youngest daughter Of Colonel Ethan
Allen Of revolutionary renown, who
subsequently became a nun in. Mon
treal, the first New England girl to
enter the religious state in Canada.
The next notable conversions in Yer
mont were those Of the Barlow sisters,
Helen, Anna and Debbie, daughters OF
Hon. Bradley Barlow, a wealthy ard
influential Vermonter. DeDble was the
pioneer in the movement which led her.
self and her sisters into the Church.
Something in a book she read induced
her to study the nature Of Catholic doc
trine, and that study once undertaken.
there was no alternative for the truth
seeking soul other than to embrace that
faith of the verities Of which che be-
came quickly and fully convinced. Her
sisters followed in her footsteps aud
kept pace with her as she advanced
The story Of their lives, their CONVEX
sion and their death has been charmingly
told by Mrs. SmalleY in her book en-
titled The Young Converts" !" and their
graves surm0unted by three marble
headstones in line, and garlanded
with the cross, stand near the entrance
of
TEE ST. ALBANs CEMEFERY,
and are always pointed out to visitors
to that place. Their conversion led,
after their deaths. to the abjuration 81
Professionalism by their mother and
another SISTER, Laura. who afterwards
became Mrs. Metcalf. :5s1
IT is extremely doubtful if any other
tAmerican community can furnish g
i parallel for these notable conversions
which took place in the Green Mountain
state nearly q half century ago now,
and al of which are more or less direct
ny traceables tothe inf auence of Mr.. Hoy
and his family M ,355