The Irish standard., 1908-05-09
How the State Constitution, Early in 10Th
Century, Was Marred by Suspicion =
of Catholics.
Many Remarkable Conversions to the Church.
as a Fruit Of the Tractarian
Movement, Related.

tlce 1T MANY Of the exercises bee,
longing to Catholic seminaries. The;
doctrines of the Council Of Trent, es.
pecially in reference to justification, ia
the Invocation of saints and prayers
for the dead. was held in high revers
ence. Arthur Carey, marvel Of intel,
lisence and genuine piety, was thSl
center of this movement in the Epis.
copal seminary. Modest in the exA
treme. the limelight Of publicity was
directed to him because of the severe
examination to which he was sub.
1ected when applying for orders be.
cause of his Romanizing tendencies.
Bishop Onderdonk Of the diocese Of
New York, who was also president ol
the seminary. showed sympathy with
him against his accusers and ordained
him In spite Of the public denuncia-
tton of the young man by two prom-
inent ministers even at the ceremonY
of ordination. Such a public fact was
the means Of spreading the agitation
throughout the whole Episcopalian
body in the United States.
Arthur Carey himself still modest
and earnest, was taken away by death
very shortly, before he could put into
effect the conclusions toward which
he was evidently tending. Among thu
seminarians upon whom this agitation
had the result of bringing them into
the Catholic Church first was the Rev.
Clarence A. Walworth. the son oe
Chancellor Walworth, the erudite, ear.
nest. unwearying worker for souls, who
toiled for many years with the Re.
demptorists and Paulists in mission
work and died after thirty years Of
pastoratc at st. Mary's Church in AL.
bany. Another was his intimate friend
the Rev. Edgar Wadhams, afterward
Bishop Of Ogdensburg. James B. Mc-
Master, the vigorous editor Of the
New York Freemans Journal, had also
been an outspoken champion Of CATH
olic doctrine among the seminarians.
as also F. b. Witcher, who, becomina
a Catholic in 1853, confessed that
against his knowledge he had delayed
too long his entrance into the Catholic
fold. Worthy of special memory
among them was the philosophical and
methodcal Rev. William Everett, who
was pastor for well nigh forty years
Of the Catholic Church of the Natiy-
ity on Second avenue in New York.
There were some with like tendencies
who because Of marriage. lost courage
by the way; others even declared opens
ly that they would take the back track
rather than submit to the Pope.
We cannot refrain from calling at~
tention to an amusing feature Of the
agitation. mentioned by the Rev. c. A.
Walworth, an inmate Of the seminary
at the time. The old scare of Jesuit-
ical scheming Influenced a serious
breakup among the students. One Of
the Episcopal seminarians who was
himself inclined to the following Of
the Tractarian movement gave out as
joke that some Jesuits had entered
the seminary representing themselves
as Episcopalians with the purpose Of
fostering the Tractarian movement and
declaring themselves converts to the
Catholic Church, thus bringing about
the overthrow Of Episcopalianism.
Many of the students were subjected to
rigorous examination and several were
notified to their Bishops as suspects.
watchful eye was turned on some
of the professors, lest some Jesuit had
SO thoroughly disguised himself as ia
become one of the faculty. The jok-
er's son is now well known in the
Episcopal body as having serious pub-
lie design to bring about the corporate
| union of the so called Episcopalian
branch with the Roman branch of the
Catholic Church. M
A very serious result Of this agita>
J tion was the bitter opposition shown