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Show One by one. but at discouragingly rare interval.-, arc our esteemed but disaffected brethren arriving at a realization of the grandeur of the Catholic priesthood. It. v, in the following language that the Bev. T. G. Dickinson, a Methodist minister of the southern Ohio conference speaks, of the Jesuit father, Thomas Ewing Sh rn.an, in a letter to a friend: . - "Futlur Sherman, iu the plain garb of hn order, with a Bible in bis hand entered the pulpit, read his text fr.un St. John laid the Bible aside and began his sermon, lie was an interesting study to me. 1 saw iu tln-t pulpit the product of the Sherman and Ewing blood, two families Ohio will not forget; we have no better blood, lie resembled bis distinguished distin-guished father somewhat, but lacked that, precise, military bearing peculiar to an educated soldier. I saw the man who might have been a lawyer ofUie tvpe of his grandfather, or a statesman like his uncle, or a military man like his lather, but no! he refused all worldly opportunities for wealth and renown, and became a plain, unassuming priest, herald of the cross. To me, there is a grandeur in such consecration and self-denial surpassing the honors that may be earned iu the most secular walks of life. 1 thought of St. Francis of Assassi and Bernard of Clairvaux." . |