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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 7

A writer in the Newburyport Htrald, commenting on the remarkable growth of the Catholic element in tha: old Puritan towu, aa manifested by the immense attenianoe at the Mission lately giveu in Father reeling's church by tht Paulists, thu9 sorrowfully accounts for it : — "Thia comes chiefly from immigration of Catholic families and their greater number of children ami from the emigration of Protestant families to other sections of the ojun ry and toe fact that it has become unfashionable with them to hay ; cmldrea born, so that we are burning out at both, ends of tbe candle— fewer are born and. more leaving their old homes auto the strangers."