The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-09-23


be accepted as one of the things that
could not be put down. This perhaps
led to the softening of feeling to the
Catholics which is characteristic of
today.
Noted Men Turn Catholic.
The movement was further helped
by the great distinction of many of
the men who went from the Anglican
to the Catholic church. First, there
was Newman, with his gigantic intel
lect and his pen, which placed him
among the immortals OF English lit
craturc. Then there was Manning
who might have been anything in the
Anglican church if he had remained
Then came a great nobleman like the
Marquis of Ripon, who was one of the
wealthiest as well as one of the great
est aristocrats of England followed by
the late Marquis of Butte, even wealth.
Ter and Of more ancient descent. And
this adoption of the Catholic faith by
such distinguished people in coun-
try where rank and wealth are still
greatly and, indeed, unduly, honored,
changed the whole aspect of Catho-
licity. and 1t became not a common
but highly fashionable creed among
the people who value fashion.
To the well-dressed and fashionable
congregation of Farm Street chapel,
Father Bernard Vaughn Numbered
against the sins Of society, and he had
plenty of material in the West End of
London for such philippcs, where the
rapid growth of wealth. especially
since the gold mines were discovered
in the Transvaal, has led to a wild de-
bauch Of extravaganza and the things
that accompany extravaganza.
Father Bernard Vaughn has a pic
turesque and even famboyant style.
He does not mince words and he sac
riflces everything to producing
strong and immediate effect. His voice
is loud and resonant, his gestures
abundant and almost Italian in their
frequency and vehemence. In short,
he is the very opposite of the cold
and correct style which still obtains
in the pulpits of the Anglican church.
And one can imagine how these we'll
dressed ladies shivered in delicious
horror as they heard their sins de-
nounced by. the eloquent preacher.
Thought Vaughn Too Severe.
ing little faith in the power of any
preacher to get the West End OF Lon
don, or Of any other great capital, to
renounce the world. the flesh and the
devil formed an impression Of F'a-
Their Bernard which was as false as
that 1 had formed of his great broth
CT. thought him too severe, too
stern for daily human food.
| was enabled to correct the esti-
mate by the coincidence which
brought me to Carlsbad at the same
time as Father Bernard. Carlsbad is
one of those places where you have
to become intimate with every promi-
nent member of the American and
English colony which crowds its
streets, hotels and restaurants during
the months of July and August. You
meet them in the same parks, at the
same springs, in the same restaurants;
and, therefore, you have to entertain
them and be entertained by them.
Thus it was that I met Father Bern
ard Vaughn daily for some three
weeks, and often had the pleasure of
sitting at the same table.
Like the schoolmaster out of school,
thesis, in private life of what you
would expect from his appearance in
the pulpit. 1 know no more extraor-
dinarily interesting and amusing ra-
contour. He keeps the table in roar
from the first moment to the last; one
side-splitting anecdote follows the
other until. in the end, you are posi-
lively exhausted from laughing. And
the stories that he loves to tell best
are stories of humble life in Lanca-
shire. which he knows WELL and where
working-class population of millions,
mostly wei! paid and all hard work
s ers, and thriftless and pleasure loving,
supply the observer with a sense of
drama, with innumerabe tales Of hui
man characteristics, especially in it's
more, humorous aspects.
Father Bernard Vaughn, in addition
\. to his other dramatic gifts, is won-
derful mimic; he can initiate the &C
cent of Lancashire working man as
n we'll as If he had lived all his life in a
cotton MILL and he dwells on every
feature OF his story with the linger-
ing delight of the born raconteur.