The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-08-07
P0CATELLo, IDA.
(Special Correspondence

Pocatello Ida, July S0-Very Rev
Alexander P. Doyle rector and Rev.
Alvah Doren, recent graduate of the
Apostolic Mission House DIT Washing
! ton, D. c., are conducting here this
week rousing mission to non-Cath-
oolics, which is taxing the capacity of
the largest auditorium in the city.
ny. is drawing daily multitudes Of the
curious and devout to its siding in the
yards of the Oregon Short Line.
| In an interview with your corre-
! spondent, Father Boyle said; For the
first time in the history of the chapel
car, mass was offered the other day
while the train was in motion We
knew the track between Ogden and Salt
Lake City was smooth and straight,
and although the train was speeding at
forty miles an hour, we offered the holy
| sacrifice in the early dawn. 1t was a
fitting entrance to Salt Lake City, for
this is one Of the most amazing of all
American cities In the rapidity OF its
beautiful and solid growth. and. best of
all, the Catholic church has kept pace
with its growth. l was there thirty
four years ago on the first western trip
of the Paulist missionaries, and our la
bore were rewarded with Seventy-two
confessions and communions. Now,
next month. on the Feast of the As
sumption, Cardinal Gibbons will dedi-
cate the new 100000 cathedral. TIE
most substantial and beautiful piece Of
architecture of the most central and
magnificent street of the town. And
every cent of that half million comes
from Salt Lake City.
Bishop Scanlan is a wonder. In
striking contrast with the behavior of
the Protestants he has maintained cor
dial relations with the Mormons, and
he has been rewarded with their trust
and good will for all things Catholic
We experienced a striking illustration
of this on our way up here from Salt
Lake. We have stopped and given lee
lures all along our route. Last Sat-
urday a week ago our car was dropped
at a station and section house out In
the desert. Father Doran and l
Jumped aboard the mail cart and were
hauled three miles cross country to
Oxford. The town consists of two
streets at right angles. some twenty
homes hidden beneath the tall poplars
in rigid rows, and 200 souls, all Nor
mons. We called on the bishop, who is
president of the ward and final au-
thority in the village. We told him we
were Catholic priests and wanted to
conduct services. He courteously offered
10 llIS lllS5llIlS lOuS6 IOr sunday Dl2ht.
and promised to announce our services
at his meetings in the morning and to
afford us every facility in his power.
So began the new Oxford movement
Sunday morning our masses in the
chapel car were attended only by Mr..
Hennessy. the superintendent of the
car John Casey, section foreman from
the next station, visited us in the after
noon and took us on his handcar. pro-
PEELED by Japanese, to visit two fallen
away Catholics at Swan Lake 1t was
loves labor lost
How different the evenings work.
carriage awaited us on our return and
we were SO eager for the fray we hur-
ried off supperless. The entire town of
Oxford filed the meeting house. all
ages down to babies in arms. tChildren
are our best crop is the Mormon mot
to. and they live up to it. The bishop
sat on the platform with us. We used
his Bible; his choir did the singing.
Both Father Doran and 1 lectured.
pouring into the hearts of those simple
and earnest hearers volume of Cath
olic doctrine. When ii was all over we
shook hands with every one present and
drove away. leaving a quantity of
books. The Faith of Our Fathers and
the 'Inquirer's Guide Suppose two
Methodist ministers were to drop into
a little town in Ireland, call on The