MAKING 'CONVERTS'

New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 12

MAKING 'CONVERTS'

INTERESTING PARTICULARS

Mr. Samuel Young, M.P., for East Cavan, though not a Catholic, by his zeal for truth and honesty aoes from tame to time considerable service in the Catholic cause (writes a Dublin correspondent). His latest exposure ha.s to do with a Tunbridge Wells gentleman, and for that reason, as well as for other evident reasons you may judge it well to reproduce the following letter whach Mr. Young has just published an the 'Freeman' of Dublin. Mr. Young Among the many trashy anonymous letters and leaflets sent me by post, there came a pamphlet entitled 'The Adventures of a Bible,' by Rev I H Townsend, D.D., Vicar of St. Mark's, Tunbridge I U! h ?/f S an a , CCOUnt of a Mrs.' Blake, DuS lm, who had been in low spirits, and was 'recommended by her confessor to visit a place of amuSMission °l£ii O h^ ? e f Wa7 V rs " Blak « go* a ivussion Hall by mistake, where she got a Bible which she had never seen before. This book rendered her very uncomfortable for a time, but ultfmatSy S Ver BSle her 'frnS her \ UPOn PriGSt Called and took uk, Bible from her in anger. Mrs Blake soon wanted her Bible returned, 'and called upon the priest, where she saw a nun who refused her admission, but conveyed a curse from - the young priest, who had been ill. However, Mvf Blake, after some time, called again for her Bible : and was told by the nun that o5 her last visit she (the nun) had told her a lie; that the young priest had since died, and that before his death he by'readSf the book' h{ ? £ U ? d J or ! ive *ess, and'hlSsX Sr '° p + tne H bo f ok > and that she herself had left the confeel interested m these documents. Will you sve me H^S^ F ih St ! did Mrs - Blake live ilDSfsis aaa?ifiaa*iAßs low^.Sr P:~P :~ ° f tWS anSWer J '**** «*t thefol-, D n r n yV °T? ie ' A Ve us T tl4 . -1806.-Rev. I. H. Towni e ?ear D -L g? F'^e^&*^^iffil. SS^? 11 * 7 ! 01 ' yy ° Ur collveisi o^ "tory" y YoTsav "V 1 ,?; : wish to know . the particulars of 'this Sse »7» 7 T?^ 7

which are to be found in every Catholic family, and are sojd (by all Catholic booksellers, and read, too, ■h£ *ff nt fare of Church, fail -to produce a simii»« » V Jt ls . spalp all 7 yei T curious how these three, tff £iL'i £ otab > ' P er sons, could: be converted, and the whole, matter, kept secret. If is difficult to' conceive of any danger to a convert 1 in Ireland. All ?£« a L re + , ca 'S erl y taken up and- provided for, .notably two or .three well-known converts to .Protestantism H, m ,f- and ar e making, a good thing' d£ -it. a«L f p >be + \ ny dan « er t0 7° ur converts If I -give a -guarantee m the shape 'of a deposit in money, which amount you can mention, to secure safety, ox H«n U +i C i a n s ?? d Particulars in a letter marked "confidential, which should be treated as • such if the story far tw c «; f ?$ nt out ' lhere bein S an appetite Swd fmm •,?' th 4n 5' that lar £' c sums of m <>™Y are tw fr om silly people on the faith of the truth of these secret stories, hence your responsibility, Your f «S* hi° lgllVe a u y .c. cx P la «ation leads one to suspect UZ n ' dl ? so ™ ewher e- There was in the commercial sSL a rt long / r T m **<* had b °S us houses h England Scotland, and Ireland, which drew bills on each other However Tt t "wf 7 + ° U °,£, £ aidin S in a Pious fraud. SJSJp IS .. better to clear out in time, for I intend, when Parliament meets in October to brine these Slme SlnS I 'cr" 8 t b6fOre House^unless^n^the meantime, I can get more light on the suhiert ' Tn 3 hl Sis le fl?m ' reCei 7 ed X n °- a " swe? The'Squarte's of thas firm seems to be in rich England at a dislS£L fr ° m t^ supposed scene of the stories and the Dublin 10 w n The branch houses «c in Belfast! Dublin, Tunbridge Wells, and London.