The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-26

e&NSpSS n0HuDctS RSs'F dred hospitals. asylums, orpnahase and schools all over the country.
 What heroisrn was exhibited Tn that other little Nazareth where tnis n'an of God. himself a polished citizen or the most refined capital or the worso' taught. that delicately reared ano so ly nutured mother and her n.tle .'. panu compatnt., day after day, month after month. the gnawing4 pains or hunger confident that he who feeds the ravens
 would not forget them, and in the hope that they might yet grow into a com munity and one day be able tnemseives to feed the hungry, to rear the lor- saken orphan, to nurse the destitute sick to throw themselves like tutelary angels between the, raging pestilence and its trembling victims After a few years another of those great French missionaries came to help Father Dubois: this was Simon Gabriel Brutay. the highest in rank of eleven hundred medical graduates of the Uni versity of. Paris, who had become priest and came to serve God and save man in the wilds of America. This gentleman too, was of an iron consti- tuition and an iron will. We are told by those who knew him that he was model priest, filling with awe those that served his mass, spending whole hours in prayer. cultiyating the hearts and the, minds of the Ecclesiastical candidates. venerated for his eminent holiness, yet cheerful and amiable in his manner, .: the perfect type of the Catholic French Priest, that ideal of Christian culture. After Journey of fifty miles, performed on foot in a single day, book in hand, praying and reading by turns. he would meet his friends In the evening with a freshness
 -nk. nf { lon, that could not be surpassed. As pas tor he also was stopped by no obstacles. and in those days would cross the brfdgcless streams with their floating he, sometimes on foot, carrying food or clothing, as we'll as spiritual help to the poor brothers and sisters of Christ.
 "It Is no edisparagement," says Arch bishop Bayley in his life of Brutay. "of those. holy and eminent men who have ador.aed the annals of the church in our country-of a Dubois. Cheverus. a Carroll, a Flaget,-~to say that no one has ever exerted., a more beneficial in fluence i'll favor of the Catholic religion than Bishop Brutay. He and Mother Seton were united in spirit like St Benedict and St. Scholastica. If she 'Ievered him as emphatically man of God. he regarded her as one who, to use his own language, if placed in circum- stances similar to those of Saint Teresa or Saint Frances de Chantal, would have been equally remarkable In the scale of Sanctity. for 1t seems to me that there could not be, greater eleva- ton, purity and love for God, for Hea- ven and for supernatural and eternal things than were to be found in her. Father iBrutay was for years, and un- til made Bishop. of Vincennes, the Angel of the Mount, and our chief mountain poet says. of him:
 -s..,t-i ,.=. Glance around.
 The terrace at our feet is hallowed
 ground.
 Climb the green hill: hose levelled Around the chapel by the torrents ,;, side; .h
 Grotto stands
 All these are relics now, touched by thoso hands
 Or smoothed the frown from Natures
 erring face.
 Question the vailey-hear how oft there Missai in hand along the weary road, A swift frail shape, on some new mercy That seemed to smile with angels as it Go further. pierce the aching world, The circle of those calm blue lines that The sanctuary--count the mitres. scan The vast results of this one, heaven Ask the .i1,ountain laymen. deep in stocks and deeds, Why stilI they wear their medals, tell their beads; Ask that grey band of priests. what Beneath christ's standard ranged and
 armed them all: Ask either prelate whose command con
 trols The Christian being or a million souls Who first inspired their halt uncon-
 scious feet,
 ... Paraclete {g .s Hark! Prelate, layman, priest together The anea' guardian of. the Mount
 Two other priests offer themselves as worthy to be mentioned on the same | occasion. with those great members of the French clergy. the Apostles of America for 300 years and in the nine- teenth century of the whole world
 Father McAffrey entered Mount St. l Mary's at z years of age and died there l at 7o. having been in its control for nigh on half century. This true American priest twice refused the mitre, feeling that hts vocation was | rather to make bishops and to perpet- | uate the great work of education at the | Mountain. Though a leader of men dS well, aS ,OL DOySI He as oo l modest that he remained a deacon for | eight years, refusing to accept the | priesthood, to which he was called. and | although President of the college, was | so devoted to the instruction of the | children of the surrounding country | that he wrote a catechism for them, | and while he invited other clergymen ] sometimes to take his place in the pull pit, vet he never would allow anyone to | take his Sunday school class.
 Another chI1d of the Mount was Will | Ham Henry Elder, who, finishing his | studies, at the propaganda, Rome, re- | turned and taught theology and guided | the seThinarians for many years at his | alma mater, until he was made Bishop | of Natehez. The great priest lived | through the horrors of the Civil War | and shared the sorrows of his fellow He was, of, course, fore most in showing respect and obedience to legitimate authority, but refused to | offer prayers at the command of the | general who had taken his episcopal | city, saying that In these matters he took his orders from the Vicar of Christ and his generals alone. He went to prison for this, but on appeal to Washington was. at once released. and came out greater man and priest 1 than before. He did a greater thing | than this: The Pope appointed him coadjutor with right Of succession to the Archbishop of San Francisco. but | the yellow fever was raging and Bishop Elder respectfully requested to be permitted 10 stay with his poor peo- pie of Natchez, He did q greater thing