Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-24
MARYKNoLL MISSIONARY
 ADDRESSES ST. PATRIcK's PEOPLE

The divine commission of the true mis- sionary was the theme of Rev. William J. Downs, of Maryknoll Seminary, Os- sining, N. Y, who addressed the three congregations at St. Patrf5k's church Sunday. Father Downs spoke from Matt xviii, "Go we therefore teaching all na- tions. baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.' He described the origin aims and accomplishments of MaryknoIl foreign mission work which began about ten years ago, when Father Walsh of Boston and Father Price of South Sar- olina, during a meeting considered the needs of the foreign field. In due time the mission was instituted and approved, when without funds home, or students the two missionaries leased a small house at Hawthorne, N. Y.
 That God has favored and prospered | their work is proved by the conditions today; the mission seminary is now To- cated at Maryknoll on the Hudson where 1 S5 priests are teaching over 160 stu | dents, while 116 Sisters and over 25 | Brothers are training for the foreign l field. In addition to this, there is a 1 college at Scranton. Penn. and three sta tions on the Pacific Coast at Los An geles, San Francisco and Seattle. The l r priests. six Sisters and one Brother Father Downs described the satisfac. tory results of the work among the Chinese, who greatly appreciate the blessings of faith. many of the mountain people walking twenty or twenty-five miles to attend mass
 It Is 300 years since St. Francis Xavier was sent to Japan to carry tn, faith; and although later the govern ment drove out the missionaries and de stroyed their churches, so that mission | work has been possible only for the pas fifty years or so, still some of the Jap
 anese show that they have inherited the faith taught their fathers and kee1 up in so far as possible, the practices of their religion.
 As an evidence of the devout characte
 of some of the Chinese taught, Fathe
 Downs instanced the case of a youn; Chinese boy who accompanied Fathe
 Walsh to Maryknon on his way to
 western college to study engineering, ex
 pecting in time to return to his nativ
 land; he has brother priest, a sis ter a nun, while his uncle Is pries
 and his aunt nun, all doing splendit
 work among their people.
 i Critics may advance the argument tha
 there is plenty of work of this kind t
 be done right at home but the saviou
 did not commission His disciples to wal
 a while before beginning His work; H
 commanded them, "Go, teach all na ] tionsr and 1t Is this desire to save tn
 souls of all races, brown, or yellow, 0
 black, or red. which actuates the tru
 missionary.
 The zealous Fathers of Maryknoll pub fish little missionary magazine descrih l tpe> tair 1a1 aa ial5
 and nearly every family in the parish en
 listed as subscriber to this publication before Father Downs returned to hi } work at the Maryknoll Seminary lat , Sunday afternoon. The laborers Cove , there" bravely face every hardship, es r He. privations, many of them going t , the foreign mission field knowing ths they will never return. Father Down
 three sermons sounded the call to volur l teers for work in the vineyard, as we as supporters of that work.