Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-21

X very large congregation attended.
 The fathers left to-day for their home in Saratoga. Their next mission will be ill Wooster, Mass, where they will remain month.
 The mission was one of the most successful ever held in Waterbury, and the good it has done is apparent ill more than one home, not only in that parish, but in different parts of the city, for everybody was welcome, and many from the other districts im- proved the opportunity offered them to make their peace with God. In this town, as in all other places ill Christendom, there are few persons who make q practice of misrepresenting priests and ministers, anu ridiculing religion, and in conse- quence the public often gets false notion of what is said on the altar. It has been charged that one of the fathers at the mission just closed made a young girls confession the subject of his discourse to the men. This is absolutely false. We had the honor of a seat in a front pew on the even ing the remarks in question are all legged to have been uttered and know whereof we speak. As prelude 10 his sermon, the missionary father InGDllOuGu NaflOuS cauSeS :" illSu peo- pie who do not fully appreciate the inn portant affair of the salvation of their souls put forward as aR excuse for remaining away from the sacraments and cited as an example the case ot young woman who had called upon him in the yestry, not the confessional. please note the distinction. and told him she could not do the mission be- cause she had been keeping company for the past three years. so that the garbled statement regarding what he actually did say on this point. Shorn of what led up to 1t, and detached I'from what followed conveys an en- tirely erroneous impression of the pur- pose and aim the man had ill mind at the time. Every man and woman, l Protestant as well as Catholic, who i attended the sermons and believes in l preserving the sanctity of the home and the indissolubility of the marriage l tie, was much pleased with the posi- | tion the fathers took upon marriage, | but those who stand for unbridled H- 1 cenSc between the sexes considered | their contention somewhat out of true, | or pretended so at least, and it is not 1 at all unreasonable to assume that 1 such parties would not hesitate to tor | ture things to suit their own ends. We are not posing as apolOgiSts for any thing these good men have said while i they were amongst us. Their conduct i needs no defense, but We deem it nothing more than justice to them. and to honest people who may not have heard them, to state that their treat ment of the marriage question and other themes as well has i been grossly misreprcsented in some quarters, whether purpose ly or unintentionaIIy we know not. These insinuations are in line with the statement that the Redemp- | toriStS held d meSSiOn some time ago i at St Patrick'S church that created nue. unfaVOrable comment. As a matter of fact, the order never con- 1 ducted q mission in St PatrickS par T iSh. Another instance of the persist
 ent effort to misrepresent the mission
 ary fathers came to our notice yester-
 day when reporters representing some
 of the daily papers hurried into the
 neighborhood to get a tip upon what
 Father Bader had said about the news | papers. The speaker made no reference
 whatever to the papers and notwith
 standing this people who were there
 and who ought to know better, did not
 neS1luIo uDOuC clrCuldlluS SlOIleS ll
 the contrary.
 The liquor dealers in the neighbor
 hoo. of the church manifested d com
 mendable disposition during the mis
 sion. While the evening services wert
 going on they closed their saloons ant ], proprietors and clerks were among the
 first to enter the editice, and remained
 until the congregation was dismissed