The sun., 1893-07-17
FATHER ADIAs'S CONVERSION.
Six weeks Ago He Declared That IIe Was
rtill nm EpiscopaiIan.

rtill nm EpiscOpailnn.
The announcement yesterday that the Rev.
Henry A. Adams OF tho Church OF the Re-
deemer. at Park avenue and Eighty-second
street. had Joined the Catholic Church was
the first intimution his congregation. as n
whole. or even his vestry received Of his con-
version. This fact became known to two or
three individual members Of the congrega-
tion on Saturday evening. purely by accident.
One Of the members. who had written a re-
quest that Father Adams should hear his con-
fcssion. received that plight short note from
Father Adams. in which the writer declared
him self in terse terms Roman Catholic. The
declaration was made AS q reason for denying
the request. The recipient Of this note told
his intimate friends. but the news went no
further In becoming Catholic Father Adams
cannot very well become u priest. as he has q
wife and three children.
No reference was made to Father Adams's
step ut any Of yesterdays services at the
Church Of the Redeemer. Perhaps this was
because Father W. Everett johnson. who is as
sociated with Father Adams In the conduct Of
the church. was absent. His place was filed
by his uncle. the Rev. Mr.. johnson OF SYRIA
cuse. with whom Father johnson exchanged
parishes for ten days BY way Of getting n vaca-
ton. Father johnson will have returned from
Syracuse by next Sunday. and may then have
something to say publicly in reference to his
associates course.
Father Adnms's conversion must have been
comparatively sudden. About the middle Of
May an evening paper published the state
ment that Father Adams had become a Cath
onc Father Johnson. in Father Adams's alb
sence, declared this announcement untrue at
the chief morning service on the following
Sunday. Father ADAMS. on the Sunday after.
in the most emphatic terms declared from his
h ns sS WIKI S the
his congregation mad settled a considerable
denied. He could scarcely have been more
emphatic than he WAS in his declaration that
necessary to make this declaration had falnil-
iari2ed the congregation with the association
Of his name with Catholicism. 80 that yester:.
much comment and there Was not little ad-
Church he had lust quilted.
Low chulchmen will consider Father
Adams's conversion ano5he[ Proof thst Ktuni nda-
become bee me one OF the most ritnalistic, in town.
have been like those worn by the clergy Of the
Catho 10 Church. Incense rises In clouds when
the the Church With vi the cru"iflx at their ead and
the sacrament is occasionally reserved on the
ne altar ,S ar from hesra 81 S'ur
The advanced character OF the worship of the
Church Of the Redeemcr may be estimated by
its teaching in regard to midday communion
as promulgated by it's parish paper:
In !his church there two low ina;,e. at 15o and
desire to feed the bread OF life NAV DO So There
tic are IntrTen ."Tether aT nn. sns
hH, people can come fasting x,.
instruction and adorat"n II people come in.tinx u ID
proreT t,. they snn! rsrey y; the h9y , ON
that body in the chnrch-excep the ceebrant
has had hi. and the no. taxing the t. ,I"u6s @
communicate has t taken the tronbe to examine his
conscience to make an act OF UPON
and to promise amendment Of HE Doubtless II tnoso
who wish TO con.nunicate at the last would
m,ty their names to the priest they
ut is possible for sinful mar to be nj to iced
could be no objection to such midday co,nnunions.
But otherwise seems that there must he little grace
the Impulse Of The moment and with serious and
earnest purpose
BUFFALO. July 16.-Blshop Ryan said to-day
that tho Rev. Horny A. Adams,s conversion
was q great surprise to him. Father Adams
cannot he anything more than a layman AS
n married mn Il and father lie has duties and
he cannot renounce them. .
Adams IN presided for two years say they cannot
comprehend his action. Col Chapin said:
/" His method was never TO- nut pen to pnner
until no ha'l his subject fully In mind. and then
letter is in places lncOhercnt and am hignouS.
What can 1t mean can only explain 1t b.
sts M Adams Tent to NeT {k
time he said that DR.. McGlynn had cometo his
church In New York and listened to his SER
mon. After, it was over, pr McGiynn went
SSfE Han ns % Rg" we Hs Se
noticed at the time that Mr.. 4 dams showed
great feeling In relating this incident"