The Irish standard., 1907-04-06
During That Time He Was Always Rec
ognized as One Of the Leading Men
of That Denomination.
Why He Became a Catholic is Interestingly
Told in an Official Statement Re-
Gently Made by Him.

The conversion of DR.. u. +. J. Lloyd
to the Catholic faith after twenty five
years ministry in the Episcopal
church. during which time he was rec
ognized as one of the leading men Of
that denomina ton, has given rise to a
good deal of comment and speculation.
A year and a. half ago, DR.. Lloyd was
elected coadjutor bishop of the diocese
of Oregon and his declination of that
honor, explained by his action now,
considerably mystificd his fellow
churchmen at that time. DR.. Lloyd is
at present with the Paulish Fathers
of Chicago. with whom he expects to
work in giving missions to non-Catno-
lies. He has just issued the subjoining
statement of his reasons for embrace
ing the Catholic faith.
Dr. Lloyd is AZ years Of age. ma
tive Of England and a graduate of Ok
ford University. His father is an An
glican clergyman and at present rec
tor OF an Episcopal church at Dun
bar Pa. Un,il his resignation, some
weeks ago, DR.. Lloyd was rector of ST
Peters church in uniontown, Pa. and
was at one time rector Of st. Marks
Cleveland, Ohio. He was formally re-
ceived into the Catholic Church at
ST. Marys church. Chicago. by Rev
Father O'Callaghan. who has been his
intimate friend for many years. His
wife, who was baptized in the Pres
byterian church and educated in q
Catholic convent, was received into
the Church with him. They have sew
Ell children, the oldest IA years Of age
who will be accepted into the Church
without further baptism, their father
having baptized each Of them.
The following is DIR. Lloyd's official
statement of why he became a Cath
olic:
81 have always believed in Jesus
Christ as He is represented by the
New Testament; that He is the Way
the Truth and the Life. that He is
founded and speaks in Living
church, the perpet,lation Of His 1ncar-
nation. read that the same obedi-
ence is demanded by Him to the voice
Of this Living Church as to Himself
This Divine Master declares that if
anyone will not hear that Church. he
becomes as n heather and publican.
1t is the search of this Living Church
that has brought me where I am to-
day.
Early in life an intense desire to
save my soul took possession of mo.
No less intense was the ever increas-
ing conviction that God had made pro-
vision to that end in this world. and
such that the honest seeker might
surely find it. Honest seeking always
finds, for God helps the seeker. 1t has
been so in my case.
"My face was first turned toward
CHRIST as Master at tnc DleSSeu knees
of a Catholic minded mother, and
though, as far as l know now, she did
not teach it to me, it must have been
due to no other than that maternal
iNinfluence that in my early years
learned to say Catholic prayer which
for so long has been the song of my
exile. In the later seventies, while
working as a lay reader and organist
in an Episcopalian parish on the west
coast Of Scotland, was helped home
ward by the violent hatred Of the
Catholic Church of North Of Ireland
Protestant minister, from whom l was
forced to separate on the simple and
only ground of accepting an introduce
ton to a Catholic priest. 'Ye shall be
hated Of all men for My Names sake,
rang in my ears, and for the first time
there sprang into my life deep love
for the Catholic Church.
I'm the spring of 1879, while present
at a gathering of Angicans, rector
and people, and still further under the