The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-05-06
DISTINGUISHED PAuLIsT FA-
THEIR WRITES WARM APPREci-
ALTON OF LATE BISHOP OF ST.
CLOUD, MiNN.-MlSSiON IN WA
BASHA IN 1876 DISCLOSED ZEAL
AND SANCTITY OF LAMENTED
PRELATE FATHER TROREc
AVID FOR SOULS. r.

Late in the autumn of 1876, Father
H. III. Wyman and myself gave Mis-
sion to the parish of Wabasha, Mimi,
writes Father Elliott, c. S. P, in
the May Missionary. The presiden-
tial election was close at hand, and
all tokens indicated a very strenuous
contest. We shared that excitement.
But when we arrived on the ground
We were presently ashamed, for Fa-
Their Trobec, our pastor, could have
no thoughts other than the repent
ance of sinners. He was, none the
less, true citizen, but he seemed
by his very looks to proclaim a truce
to politics. AS if to say, suspend
everything; think, talk, feel, pray
about the saving of my people, one
and all, and nothing else whatso.
ever"
! Obvious Of Election.
must confess that we mission
aries, especially myself, had not the
virtue fully to assimilate our pastors
| LCoI, " 0ey IldC thuI
once quietly slipped down to the rail
road station and procured the morn
ing journals and hid myself all alone
devOuring the political news with I'm
missionary gluttony. AS our preach
ing began and progressed, never &
word about the red-hot progress o.
the most exciting canvass since 1866
dropped from Father Trobec's lips
| but many superheated words of the
hideous peril of A, and B, and c
Heart breaking words about this fam
lily and that; then his apostolic eX
cursions in all directions to negligent
or especially morally wrecked ane
ruined families. The whole world o.
humanity was to him trembling upor
the brink of eternal destiny. Liter
ally, barring a few words now an(
then in admiration of Frederick Ba
raga, the Apostle of the Chippewas
all our conversation and intercourse
was listening to and echoing Fathe
Trobec's balancing the eternal pros
poets of every doubtful Catholic il
the parish. We were positively stun.
with his zeal, ached with it, preached
had a very heightened observation
and knowledge of missionary fervor
| nothing in the least compares witt
the three or four weeks OF mission
at Wabasha and it's country stations
We could see and hear nothing what
| ha n
mems souls.
1t was only gradually and after w
had gone on our way that we begal
to realize that he was a scholarl.
man in divinity studies and pre-
ficient in modern languages, as wei
as master of devotional and ascot
Ecal learning; whilst my Father
business souls-Was in han'
that spirit of his, so intensely yea
Gus, was totally and as if eXclusivel
occupied and preoccupied with tn
sense of responsibility for his pee
pies eternal fate.
Archbishop DowIine's Tribute.
The praise of Bishop Trobec givel
by Archbishop Austin Bowling in hi
funeral sermon, may have sounded eS
travagant-after the manner Of fu
neral orations. Nothing of the kind
nothing overlaudatory in the least de
gree. I must quote the typical par
of this most eloquent tribute:
In these days we are REASONABLY
fond of calling the attention of tn
Church to social works; now and the
we praise the Church's philosophy
again we tell of her love of the beat
tiful in her art All these are goOt
but they are quite subordinate; tn