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Show PRINTERS BECAME NOTED CLERGYMEN Two printers who afterwards made names for themselves in the Church were. Josiah and Edmund Young. They were both born in Saco, .Me., of Protestant Prot-estant parents and were brought up strict Methodists. Metho-dists. Josiah, however, later became a Unitarian. They commenced life as printers, and owed their conversion, under God, to the example of a brother printer, who. by the way. was an Irishman. Filled with joy at the rift of faith, they set about visiting their friends to try to bring them also to a knowledge knowl-edge of the truth. Shortly afterwards, realizing that they had a vocation to the religious life, the two brothers entered en-tered Mt. St. Marv's Seminary, Emmitsburg, Md. Josiah pursued his studies until his ordination, and afterwards became the first Bishop of Erie. Edmund Ed-mund left the seminary to enter the Society of Jesus in September, 1S48. He was a professor in several colleges of his order, notably Georgetown, of which institution he was treasurer and professor of rhetori .c , j |
