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Show NON-CATHOLIC MISSIONS AND THEIR RESULTS (By Rev. A. R. Doyle.) There are very few who come to the church by conversion who have not some bitter trials to undergo. A minister min-ister who had been received Into the church in England a few years ago recently informed me that his wife keeps up a bitter opposition. "She threatens to steal away the children and send them to her folks in England, Eng-land, and latterly she is devising ways and means of having me declared insane, in-sane, so that my charge of the children chil-dren may be destroyed, and my influence in-fluence over them may be weakened." A story came from Los Angeles. A young lady of good family and some socjal distinction, after due instruction, instruc-tion, was received into the church at a mission by the Paulist fathers. Though the young lady was of age, yet, nevertheless, she sought and secured se-cured the consent of her mother. Her father was so bitterly opposed to the step that she knew it was useless to consult him in the matter at all. While she made no concealment of her reception in the church, yet she did not go out of her way to Inform him of It, because she knew it would cause a scene. Her conversion finally came to his knowledge. One morning at breakfast she found under her plate a statement from her father as follows: fol-lows: "I have my will made, under which you are a beneficiary to the extent ex-tent of $50,000. If you will renounce the Catholic church it will stand. If you do not by this day week, it will be so modified that at my death you will be homeless and penniless." It was a great trial to subject one to. The step to the church had not been made thoughtlessly. The young convert con-vert was mindful of the consequences, and the sudden precipitation of the calamity did not shake her steadfast purpose. When the appointed time came around she gave her father a quiet, determined answer. "Father," said she, "my soul is worth more than $50,000. I would not do what you ask lvi an iuc ncdiiu ut me wuriu. "While I was giving some non-Catholic missions in a western state," said a missionary of our acquaintance, "I received a long letter from a young lady, a school teacher in a small country coun-try town. She said she was deeply interested in-terested in the Catholic church, but much troubled about certain objections, objec-tions, which she had been anxiously studying for over a year; she had seen reports of my lectures in the newspapers, newspa-pers, and so wrote to me. She then gave a list of her difficulties, adding that there was no priest in her town and very few Catholics, none whom she could consult! I prepared carefully care-fully an elaborate answer to her objections ob-jections and mailed if. But her reply, which came immediately, surprised me. She said that the moment she had mailed her first letter to me she felt ashamed of herself, for she then perceived per-ceived plainly that her difficulties were not rooted in her intelligence, but were only the evidence of her timidity. And then she informed' me that she had gone at once to a neighboring town, called on the parish priest, and placed herself under instruction. . Then her troubles began, or rather thickened, for; she had . encounter&S bitter opposition all along. Her parents insisted that she. should .wait till she was of age ' for-she" laclted a year of being her own .mistress. They brought against her " the village minister, but she assured me that she had vanquished vanquish-ed them all. At "last she was received into the church, and God granted her the usual ennsnlatlnno nnrl . crirltii!a I joys of newly received converts, perhaps per-haps even more., And certainly her fortitude was specially rewarded, when, after a few years of waiting, her soul was stirred with God's call to a life of prayer, seclusion and chant, in the Order of the Good Shepherd. |