The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-04
BUTTE NEWS.
MISSIONS LAST WEEK
Paulist Fathers in Centerville
and Walkerville.
lECTUREON INDIVIDUALITY
By Father MacCorry at the Auditorium
June 12-Sketches OF the Fathers
Who Are Doing the
Work.
LECTURE ON INDIVIDUALITY

To-day is the beginning of the last
week of the mission of the Paulist
fathers in Centerville and Walkerville.
The fathers held a four weeks mission
in this city, and two weeks ago they
took up the work in st. Lawrence
church in Centerville and their services
have been largely attended by the good
people of the hill parish" At the Au-
ditorium on June u Father MacCorry,
one of the Paulist band, will lecture on
Individuality" Father MacCorry was
born in New York 80 years ago and re-
ceived his early education in Manhat-
tan college, that state, and later in the
Catholic university at Washington, d.
c. He was ordained by Archbishop
Corrigan in the cathedral, New York,
three years ago, and since then has as
sisted in missions in many of the larger
cities of the East. He went to San
Francisco last September, taking the
place of Father Doherty, when the lat
of the 1st California volunteers
Biographical sketches of Father
Hecker, the founder of the Paulist Or
der, state that from an early age he
cherished a conviction that he was des-
tined to important work, though he had
no clear idea of its nature, and his
search for light, is an edifying history
of sanity soul that would be salts
fed with nothing but the whole truth.
He met DR.. Q. A. Bronson, the unita-
rian clergyman and philosopher,
through whose advice in later years,
after Bronson had come into the
church, he was led to inquire into
Catholicity. This brought about an ac-
quaitltance with Archbishop McCloskey,
in 1874, and under his teaching he came
into the Catholic church, and finally,
after his many weary years of search
for the truth, he was ordained a priest
at Chaplain, England, in 1S49. He first
Joined the Redemptorist order and later,
in 1858, under the authority of the holy
see, founded the missionary priests of
st. Paul the Apostle, known to-day as
the Paulist fathers, who bound them
selves to observe chastity, obedience,
poverty and to place missionary work
first and parish work next.
With founder who had so thorough
ly schooled himself from a cradle
youth directed by a Dutch church
father there is little cause for wonder
in finding among his followers men of
such brilliant and varied talents as are
possessed by those who have labored
during the past six weeks for the good
of the people of Butte and Walker
ville-Father Wyman, whose venerable
brow portrays life of religious fervor,
truthful sincerity, tireless devotion and
deep sympathy; Father Hopper, ever
ready with a charitable, kindly answer
for the theologian, the student or the
child when either seeks light, guiding
hand or a word of encouragement;
Father Doherty, bearing in his pale,
studious face the proofs of devotion to
God and country, evidences of health
seriously impaired in the performance
Of the duties of chaplain to regiment
of American soldiers sent under the
stars and stripes to the bay of Manila;
Father MacCorry, who has given to God
and mother church talents that would
have placed him in the front rank of
Americas orators and leaders OF
thought. Such are the followers of
Father Hecker as they have impressed
themselves upon the people of this vi
cinity. The work here has been diff
ferent from the mission work elsewhere
only in it's extent, but the greater the
amount of work the greater the salts
faction of the fathers, whose labors
cease only when the limit of physical
endurance has been reached. 1t is fol
this reason that they express them
selves as more than pleased with the
results of the work in Butte and Walk
erville. The people have shown a high
appreciation of their efforts. They also
express their gratitude for the many
words of praise received from the bish-
op and the reverend clergy.