The Irish standard., 1893-03-11
TO ONON-CATHOLICS
Rev. Father Elliott, the Renowned
Panlist Father, to Try an In
teresting Experiment.
DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH
Will Be Made Better Known to
Those Outside the Fold Through
This New Movement.

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This New Movement.
Rev. Walter Elliott, the we'll known
Paulist Father, is about to try an inter
estlng experiment, says the New Y rk
World. For twenty years and more he
has been travelling over the United States
as Catholic missionary, giving missions
or reyivals in Catholic churches Now
he is going to talk 10 nonC Catholics,
especially to the non-Catholic clergy.
For one year, beginning next September,
he will devote himself is this work in the
a ooese of Detroit, his old home and
birthplace. under the direction of Bishop
John Foley, of that diocese, and with the
hearty approval and cooperation OF the
Catholic secular clergy IN that field. He
will hire halls, speak in churches, dis
tribute books, pamphlets, Leaflets, go into
villages and conntry districts, and there
expound and explain the doctrines and
practices OF his Church IN plain and sim
pie language that cannot be misunder-
stood / all of this he will speak as one
having authority and with the full ap-
proval OF his ecclesiastical superiors and
of the bishop Of the diocese. En- fact it
is Only upon the earnest invitation Of the
Bishop OF Detroit that he has decided to
undertake the work.
OF course it is needless to say that
there will be none of the escaped nun
or sex-priest' characteristics III his cru
sade. Nobody will be abused, no church
system attacked, no antogonism aroused,
no yexed controversies started. His aim
throughout will be to make better known
the doctrines OF the Catholic Church to
those outside of it's fold--to clear away
the misconceptions and preiudices con
corning it's doctrines and practices which
exist in thousands OF minds.
DUE TO WRONG IDEAS.
+ He believes, from his twenty years
experience on the mission, that the dis
like or distrust OF the Catholic Church
which exists in the minds Of non Catho-
lies in this country is due almost entirely
to wrong ideas concerning her teachings
| 1t will be his aim to break down this wall
OF prejudice by showing the Church as
| it is.
Father Elliott is learned and able, an
| eloquent speaker, plain, logical and con
vincing, a man OF experience and zeal and
thoroughly American IN all his ideas and
aspirations. During his missionary la
/ bers OF two decades he has instructed
and brought hundreds, if not thousands
4 Of persons into the Catholic Church aud
| fully understands the difficulties to be
met with. He is, therefore, thorough y
in touch with those among whom he ex,
poets to labor.
He Is also man of most engaging per
sonality, 8 six-footer, broad -shouldered
manly and with a voice deep and reso.
Dant He is in the prime Of life, about so
with full reddish brown beard, slightly
/ flecked with gray.
He was born in Detroit, Of Irish Catho
llc parents and is not convert, as many
people suppose His father came to The
| United States by the way OF Canada, bill
arrival being at the time when England
/ was trying to build up an Irish popula
tion in Canada and insisted upon landins
all its emigrants there.
! Father Elliott began his career as ;
soldier in the Fifth Ohio Regiment, ane
was engaged in fifteen battles during th.
war. After the war he went back K
Detroit and studied law, where he after
! wards hung out his shingle as an attor
ney When he was rs years old be heare
d sermon preached by the late Fathe
i Isaac T. Hecker, which changed tn,
whole after-current OF his life He de
cided to enter the priesthood, came t,
New York and studied with the Paulis
Fathers, and was ordained by Bisho,
Rosecrans. Since then his work ha
been mostly on the mission, but he ha
found tlne to write biography OF Fathe
HeckeE and has also been a >frequen
contributor to the Catholic World maga
zine and to other church papers an,
periodicals.
Two OF his brothers were killed in til
war and two others live in Detroit, one
lawyerand the other high officer Of th
ir- department OF that city.
KNOWLEDGE NOT ARGUMENT.
The sork which he is about to under
, take has The hearty friendship, encoul
! agement and support OF such well-kno
converts to the faith as PROT w. G. RoE
! inson. of Yale University; George PA
, sons Lathrop and others OF like stand
ing. In TACT the movement which