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Show P0CATELL0, IDA. ' I i 1 (Special Correspondence.) Pocatello, Ida., July 30. Very Rev. Alexander P. Doyle, rector, and Rev. Alvah Doren, a recent graduate of the Apostolic Mission House at Washington. Washing-ton. D. C, are conducting here this week a rousing mission to non-Catholics, which Is taxing the capacity of the largest audotorlum In the city. Their home, the Chapel Car St. Anthony, Antho-ny, is drawing daily multitudes of the curious and devout to Its sidin? In the yards of the Oregon Short Line. In an Interview with your correspondent. corre-spondent. Father Boyle said: "For the first time in the history of the chapel car, mass was offered the other day while the train was in motion. We knew the track between Ogden and Salt Lake City was smooth and straight, and although the train was speeding at forty miles an hour, we offered the holy sacrifice In the early dawn. It was a fitting entrance to Salt Lake City, for this Is one of the most amazing of all American cities in the rapidity of its beautiful and solid growth, and. best of all, the Catholic church has kept pace with its growth. I was . there thMy-four thMy-four years ago on the first western trip of the Paulist missionaries, and our la-bore la-bore were rewarded with seventy-two confessions and communions. Now, next month, on the Feast of the Assumption, As-sumption, Cardinal Gibbons will dedicate dedi-cate the new $500,000 cathedral, the most substantial and beautiful piece of architecture of the most central and magnificent street of the town. And every cent of that half million comes from Salt Lake City. "Bishop Scanlan is a wonder. In striking contrast. with the behavior of the Protestants, he has maintained coi dial relations with the Mormons, and he has been rewarded with their trust and good will for all things Catholic. We experienced a striking illustration of this on our way up here from Salt Lake. We hav(e stopped and given lectures lec-tures all along our route. Last Saturday Sat-urday a week ago our car was dropped at a station and section house out in the desert. Father Doran and 1 Jumped aboard the mail cart and were hauled three miles cross country to Oxford. The town consists of two streets at right angles, some twenty homes hidden beneath the tall poplars in rigid rows, and 200 souls, all Mormons. Mor-mons. We called on the bishop, who Is president of the ward and final authority au-thority in the village. We told him we were Catholic priests and wanted to conduct services. He courteously offered us the meeting house for Sunday niht, and promised to announce our services at his meetings in the morning and to afford us every facility in his power. So began the new Oxford movement. "Sunday morning our masses in the rhapel car were attended only by Mr. Hennessy. the superintendent of the car. John Casey, -section foreman from the next station, visited us in the afternoon after-noon and took us on his handcar, propelled pro-pelled by Japanese, to visit two fallen away Catholics at Swan Lake. It was love's labor lost. ' "How different the evening's work. A carriage awaited us on our return and we were so eager for the fray we hurried hur-ried off supperless. The entire town of Oxford filled the meeting house, all ages down to babies in arms. 'Children are our best crop,' Is the Mormon motto, mot-to, and they live up to it. The bishop sat on the platform with us. We used his Bible; his choir did the singing. Both Father Doran and I lectured, pouring into the hearts of those simple and earnest hearers a volume of Catholic Cath-olic doctrine. When It was all over we shook hands with every one present and drove away, leaving a , quantity of books. 'The Faith of Our Fathers' and the 'Inquirer's Guide.' Suppose two Methodist ministers were to drop into a little town in Ireland, call on the 1 priest and ask permission to use his church to preach Methodism? "Owing Chiefly to Bishop Scanlan, the Mormons think highly of the Catholic Cath-olic church. They are simple country folk, no swollen fortunes, no paupers. Their bishop Is one of them, working lor his living with his hands." Mrs. J. J. Burns, wife of the popular Short Line conductor, who has been very ill at the family home on North Harrison avenue for the past week, is very much improved. |