THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
The French Roman Catholic Mission here, under the Right Reverend Lord Bishop
Maigret, goes along quietly and unostentatiously; and its affairs are conducted with a
wisdom which betrays the presence of a leader of distinguished ability. The Catholic
clergy are honest, straightforward, frank, and open; they are industrious and devoted to
their religion and their work; they never meddle; whatever they do can be relied on as
being prompted by a good and worthy motive. These things disarm resentment—prejudice
cannot exist in their presence. Consequently, Americans are never heard to speak ill or
slightingly of the French Catholic Mission. Their religion is not nondescript—it is plain,
out-and-out, undisguised, and unmistakable Catholicism. You know right where to find
them when you want them. The American missionaries have no quarrel with these men;
they honor and respect and esteem them—and bid them Godspeed. There is an anomaly
for you—Puritan and Roman Catholic striding along, hand in hand, under the banner of
the Cross!
