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Show Orestes A. Brtowxsox, whose death occurred at Detroit, Mich., on tbe 17th, at the age of 73 years, was in some ivspecU one of the most remarkable re-markable men of the century. He commenced his religious life as a Presbyterian in 1S22, in 1S2-3 became a Universalis! minister; a Unitarian pastor in 1S32; in 1S36 be was a socialist so-cialist of the school of Robert Owen; in 1843 an infidel. His views subsequently subse-quently underwent several undefina-ble undefina-ble changes, but about 1S14 he became a convert to Catholicism, and found a Goal resting place in that church, defending iu doctrines with great ability through tho medium of Broxcnson' s Quarterly He view. |