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Show TELL JH EM HOW. The late Kedemptorist. Father Bridgett, distinguished distin-guished English missionary and author, tells us how he became a convert. When a youth at school, God began to touch his soul with sorrow for his sins. "From that day,". he. continues, "I neyer los for anv considerable time interest in religious questions; ques-tions; but passion and evil example carried me away, and when I wished to return to God I did. not know how!" Then God began to lead him onward, on-ward, giving him in various ways someone to tell him .how,, beginning with a humble Irish: laborer and ending with the great Newman. Of, the former he says : "Among the, causes that led me toward the church, were some very simple words spoken by a poor Irish laborer. I was then studying at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow student had invited me to visit the Irish chapel. It was a very-small very-small building in an obscure street in the suburbs of the town. We got the keys fom a poor Irishman Irish-man living near and my friend began ' to banter him: 'Why, Paddy, do you think you've got the truth all to yourselves down in this little back street and all our learned doctors and divines in this university are in error?' Paddy answered: "Well, sir, I suppose they're very learned, but they can't agree together, while we are all one.' I often thought of that answer, and the more I thought of it the more wisdom did I see in it. Is on. Catholics have the curse of Babel on them. The?; can't agree together." Thus was a humble Catholic able to tell a bright university student how to go to God a plain suggestion sug-gestion of our apostolate.- However much study may Be needed for conversion, a plain word right from the heart of a plain man will be enough to start the work along. Tell them how. The Missionary. |