The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06


The was standing in the doorway.
There he stopped abruptly, his horfi-
fed eyes resting upon her cross.
:'Well' he said, glancing at her sus-
pieiously, this looks as if you are a
Catholic ..
I'm as much a Catholic as anything
else,a Kate answered.
"That's bad. the young man re-
marked warningly, Il don't like Cath
olics, especially priests. They are so
impudent and bold
Sternly Kate held back the words,
ITS a lie" that struggled for utter
ance. She was not particularly cor
dial to the visitor, and he did not stay
Hong. AS he went out he remarked ir-
ritably to Hates aunt that afflicted
! people were always distressing to him,
1 and he never knew what to say to
! them. To which remark the lady re-
piled with some asperity that she
would adyise him to make study
tof the matter, otherwise he could
hardly hope to be successful as min
lister.
Kate heard, and hot tears sprang to
her eyes. How different this minister
/ had been from the priests she had
known. She remembered many of
them at the convent; CHEEKY, busy, yet
i frequently the centre of interest, as
i they recounted true story to the
school children. They had been espe-
cially kind to her, and for them her
affliction had been rather an attrac-
ton than otherwise. Her heart went
out in grateful acknowledgment that
here alone was the true priesthood,
brought low, alas, at times by some
lSvile Judas, yet standing as the Good
Shepherd with His lambs; loving and
beloved in the midst of little children;
bending over the sorroWful, the af-
fiicted, with strange power of comfort.
Against the lies and revilings of cen
/ turtles, yesterday, today, rise up these
true witnesses proclaiming here an
/ other Christ; His touch in the anoint-
ed hands, His love in the priest-heart.
i Some years had passed when Hates
| unhappiness began to prey upon. her
weak health, and she became serious.
i ly i'll. With home-sick longing she
i remembered, as she had seen at the
convent, all the comforting things that
i Catholicity could do for the sick and
dying. She thought seriously of send
ing for the priest of L., but
L, 4,
Il aunt and some visitor deferred her
Catholics lived on a neighboring farm
, and one of them becoming seriously
Il ill, the priest was sent for. Some
non-C Catholic friends had called at the
time the priest was there, and were
! told that they could not see the pa
tient just then, as the priest was with
!, her. To this. the visitors replied that
| they would, not mind-they'd just &c
in at the same time. When not al
lowed to do so they became indig
!, nant. The lady was making her Con
ffession, but why should such a secret
: be made of that? They considered
the whole affair highly improper. Tc
all of which. Hates aunt agreed, anC
, the girl realized that to ask the priest
J to come to her would be to subject
him to insult, while she herself would
not be allowed any private converse
}, ton with hins Therefore, denied the
, substance, Kate caught at shadows
The congregational minister for whom
she had a sincere liking, was out o.
town, and the young Moravian had mo-
remained in L----. So, at hel
request, the Methodist minister came
J to pray with her, and celebrate, in hel
/ sick room, the Lords Supper" only
that she might realize more acute1i
, than ever the shallowness of Protes
Itantism, and the fact that for her The
choice was between unbelief and Cath
olicity. Though seriously i'll, she a
: length recovered her usual health.
Kate had resided seven years will
her aunt, when it was decided tina
she should now live with her Uncle
7 Henry. There she went through the
same ordeal as at her aunt's home
: but now she had learned silence ant
the uselessness of contradiction, ever
4 when some assertion was made which
: she knew to be utterly false Sht
r wondered greatly at the contrast be
4 tween her father, and these his owl
: people. She felt that should the Cath
|. Ole Faith ever come to her she woult
! lowe it to him, and it was he who hal
/ first turned her thoughts in this di
: rection. Aside from religion she an,
] her uncle were constantly at variance
He was old and irritable, and gradual
ly it came to him that possibly j
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