Newspaper Article Makes Converts

New Zealand Tablet, 9 December 1909, Page 1953

Newspaper Article Makes Converts

Workers for the Apostolate of the Press, says Father McMillan, of New York, should be encouraged by / ..the.-fpl- .-. lowing letter from a Catholic writer to his brother Edward, -of, De s La. Sajle^j, Institute,. ,N,ew Y^rk , City, ., xJ The,.,wrjiter, v who 5 is a 'teacher/ says 'ijha-6 -where 'He' is- living 1 at a J missibn vallff •j^he^pejople^.'are • :cany,erts.*, j -fi .There , are three hundred ~•• CatKbrics "in tlie*' place." How did they become Catholics? Some twejity-five a nian^ named IVTbiik a package around which t \va's wrapped a >cqp"y of^a |New York daily paper. In r -this pkper w-aTs>' ait* article- liy^ Archbishop McClb'skey on • . ' The Autlibratjr-an'd'EiMlibility of the ChurchJ Up:. Monk,.;--i«ad - the article, ;.and b.ecame>sp > impressed_ by ' wanted to read more, _about .the. Cfathdlic-^Cliurch.'. And -he ,. found ' that * the nearest priest was Father-C ross, "of Wilmington,'Del. " Dr? w: Monk and all his family - wont; to-. Wilirfing^fcon -to. see. --Fatner"- Cross, and ; in due lime the • family -were received -into the Church. -_, - , • Dr. Monk returned to his home, -but; not> to be an idler injEbhe w.ork of the^'Lprd. He went -among his neighbors ajq*i fof ~M\s Avortli of the ;Cathoiic .Church, and mcanyl a p|; % hem listened and studied -and prayed, aii'3 in due season were baptised as children of • the <<ne true - Church. One of Dr. Monk's granddaughters is' no»v," a Sister of Mercy, and a grandson recently joined ifte Benedictine Order at Belmont, N.C. Until Dr.. Monk and his . family became Catholics .there were no Catholics jvt T^ewton Grove, Del. Now a goodly "paTt of the settlement aie Catholics, and .all these wonderful conversions cr.me about through the grace of God and an old : newspaper whichcontained a good article on the teachings of- the -C'dhoiic -ChurcH? . - :. '■ •.- : r ; 'v-r '

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