The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-24
THE PAUL|ST FATHERS
Opening of the Mission Was
Largely Attended.
THEIR WORK IN MONTANA
Several Months Will Be Spent In the
State-Services This Week Are
Exclusively for Men-Sub-
jects of the Preachiug,

was largely attended. The superior of |
the band is Rev Father Wyman, a |
venerable and kindly hammered divine, |
an earnest worker in the faith, one
whose soul is wrapped up in his chosen
work. He is withal a forceful and elo-
quent speaker and an exponent of ma
tional repute. The fathers are from
San Francisco whence they came d.
rect to Butte San Francisco is the
headquarters of the mission for the
Northwestern states. Headquarters
were established there five years ago,
Father Superior Wyman being the
principal figure in the movement. He
is accompanied by Fathers Hopper,
Doherty and MacCorry. Father Do
herty was for a while chaplain at Ma
Mia and had the pleasure of meeting
several Of the Montana regiment
among whom he did special missionary
work.
The fathers will spend several months
in Montana, conducting missions in
different parts of the state During
this week services will be held exclu-
slVely for men; next week for women
and the week following for men who
this week are unable to attend on ac
count of the arrangement of their work
shifts There will be three services
each day. At 5 o'clock a. m. will be
mass and instruction.; at 8 a. M, mass
and instruction; at 7 p. m, instruction,
devotion to the rosary, missionary ser
mon and benediction of the blessed sac
rament During these days the great
and eternal truths of the gospel will be
preached, namely, the Importance OF
salvation, the enormity of SIM the les
sons Of death, the judgment. the eter-
nal punishment of the wicked. the mer-
cy of God and the joys of Heaven. At
the morning services practical inStruc-
lions will be given on such subjects as
the examination of the conscience, sor-
row for sin, purpose of amendment. at
tendance at divine worship, the love of
God in the holy Eucharist, etc At the
beginning of night services short in
structions will be given on the different
! articles of the Apostles creed.
Yesterday morning at II o'clock, the
| hour of opening the mission, a large
congregation greeted the fathers. E1s-
pecially beautiful were the services and
| the music. 1t was a solemn mass, and
| the very unusual occurrence of a bishop
of the diocese being present at the open
ing of a mission was observed. The
Right Rev. Bishop BrondeL of Helena
| was present in the sanctuary, and he
| introduced the fathers to the people,
| saying that he had called the fathers
| into their midst and eXhorted his hear
ers to attend the special meetings, and
| to invite their friends to attend. He
also administered the blessing to the
| four fathers and all of the people in
| his extensive diocese.
| The Rev Father Wyman preached
the morning sermon, during the course
of which he explained the objects of the
mission. He also extended a cordial
| invitation to the people to attend the
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| pray for the success of the mission.
Music for the morning services Will
| be furnished by the enlarged choir and
| in the evening the sisters and children
of the school will furnish the mus
ic. It is the aim and plan of the Gath
| ers to divide the work of the mission
so as to give all persons an opportunity
| to receive it's benefits.
The services last night We're eXclu-
| sively for the men. Instructions were
given by Rev. Father Hopper, who also
conducted the devotional exercises to
the rosary. The sermon was preached
by Rev. Father MacCorry.
Father Superior Wyman has conduct
ed missions in every state in the union.
This, however, is his first visit to Nj IN
tana. and in fact, the first visit OF the
Paulist Fathers TO this state. They are
assured of hearty welcome wherever
they may go, for they are quartette
OIL PROMINENT WolhelS III llc Noh7H "
Catholicism able speakers and most
delightful entertainers.
Father Isaac Hecker of happy men,
Dry was the founder of the congrega-
ton of missionary priests of st. Paul
the Apostle, better known as the Paul
list Fathers. Father Hecker was On
American. born in New York city, Dec.
is. 1919. He was patriotic, proud of his
native land. The serious problems Of
life engaged his early attention. At the
age of Is he addressed political meet
ings in the interest of the laborer.
In the true sense of the term Father
Hecker was never student. nor did he
ever deserve the title of learned; but
from his early youth, until he settled
upon Catholicism, he tested and set
aside as unsatisfactory. as not the
means by which he could accomplish
the greatest amount of good in the
world, almost every sect in the Protest
ant church; he investigated Mormon
ism also He was the soul of sincerity
in his search after truth. His mother
of whom he was most fond was g
Methodist and never became Catholic;
but this belief did not satisfy the son
He practiced strict self-control, reiuc.
ing the amount of his food to such 6
narrow limit that he, no doubt injured
his health: perhaps soWed the seeC
that caused him the most eXcruclatine
physical pain from time to time, during
the last 16 years of his life.
When Father Hecller started his new
society, he outlined it's aims in thest
words:
THE form OF government OF the Unit
ed States is preferable to Catholics
above other forms. 1t is more favora
\ BILE than others to the practice of those
virtues which are the necessary conii
tions of the development of the religion:
life in man. The government leaves
| men of larger margin for liberty of &C
ton, and hence for cooperation will
guidance of the Holy Spirit, than any
other government under the sun. witt
these popular institutions, men enjoy
/ greater liberty in working out theiI
true destiny. The Catholic church vii
! therefore flourish all the more in thi:
republican country in proportion as hel
representatives keep, in their civil life
/ to the lines of their republiCanism.'
The Paulist Fathers are American
by three titles. First: 1t is the onl.