The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-29
BISHOP POTTER AND FATHER FRANCIS.

So far as | know, | never heard of Father
Francis James Paul.-Henry c. Potter, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of New York.
New York World, Feb. Is.
At Garrison. on the Hudson almost in sight
of New York City there dwels and has dwelt for
some years an Anglican clergyman Ten minutes
walk from his humble home there is an unpreten-
tious group of frame buildings. a convent. shrine
and a chapel. These buildings and that of the
clergyman overlook the historic Hudson and lie
within a region made romantic by the imagination
of Washington Irving.
They are owned and occupied by an Anglican
Sisterhood, known as the Sisters of the Atone
ment." who observe the rule of the benign Francis
of Assisium, the saint of tenderness, pity and hu
pathos. Their life is a life of modification,
of prayer, of chastity and Christian toll For the
love of God and man and hope of the Beatific
Vision these ladies have by solemn promise pledged
themselves ito do all the good they can, in all The
ways they can, and to whomsoever they can" till
the last breath is spent and the soul departs for
the judgment seat Of Christ. Bishop Potter has
never heard of them.
The spiritual director and chaplain to this
pious community is the Reverend-or as he is low
him a friend and counselor-Father Francis
James Paul. He, too, is a Franciscan, committed
by to the counses of perfection. to celibacy.
poverty, obedience If loyalty to the rule, framed
by the lovabe St Francis leads to sanctity Father
Francis has entered upon the path to perfection
But he is something more than pious Fran
ciscan; he possesses talent of a high order, which
be has sedulously trained and developed by medi-
tation and study until today he is acknowledged to
stand in the front rank of the men of intellect and
erudition in the Episcopal church of the United
States Last January, reviewed in these col
umns his Prince of the Apostles work remark
able for research and trenchant logic
In February, 1908, Father Paul with admira-
bic courage and the hope of Divine help. entered
upon the publication of the Lamp" which is now |
as the ablest exponent in America of
Conservative Anglicanism. Its motto is. "Ut
omnes unum STINT Chat we all may be one)
From the opening number until now we have not
found solitary sentence insulting or even derog-
atory to the faith of Catholics Where the Lamn
takes issue with as the controversy is lifted unto
the plane of the scholar and the gentleman.
In this admirable publication the editor appeals.
month after month, to his co-regionists to take
counsel with each other and to unite in protest
against the traitors in the camp who are wrecking
he historic Episcopal or Anglican church. With
he intuition Of military strategist he marshals
ms proofs and delivers his attacks on the Chicago
9uadrilateral. the Richmond convention and the
rec and easy religion of many Of the bishops and
minister's which, he contends. make for the ruin
If the dogmatic life of the Episcopal church. He
oretells the descent of the church into heretical
slime and alternative between the infalli-
'ility of Rome and heretical absorption or the ne
cation of positive Christianity, he pleads for
eturn to the faith of the fathers and chooses apos-
olc Christianity, represented by the supreme
oontff- He stands for the Anglo Roman Catholi-
ism of the pre-reformation days in England
And this Is the of whom the Protestant