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Show AT NON-CATHOLIC'MISSIONS. A very successful mission for non-Catholics non-Catholics recently closed at St. Peter's Cathedral. Wilmington. Del. A few-incidents few-incidents are. taken from the Missionary: Mission-ary: Among those who came up on the opening night was an -anxious-looking man who advanced timidly toward Father Sutton. "Are you looking for a book?" asked the father. The go'od man replied with much earnestness: "I am looking for .Christianity. I -want to be instructed in the Catholic religion." reli-gion." He was the first to be placed in the instruction class, and every evening eve-ning others were added so that at the close of the mission seventeen converts" had offered themselves for instruction. 1 But the results of the mission may. not be judged alone by the number of converts, con-verts, as the effects on the minds of the two thousand non-Catholics -who 'attended 'at-tended the lectures could be easily estimated es-timated from the tenor of the questions placed in the box from day to day. After the lecture on confession Father Sutton invited those present to inspect the confessionals in the church, and explained to them how .hey were used. I: was a happy thought, and it was surprising sur-prising to see with what interest they examined the doors, slides, screens, etc. "Well." some one remarked, "you couldn't got any money through that screen." The mission was the talk of the town, snd many came forward and thanked Father Sutton, both in church and also on the street, for what they had heard. |