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In No Strange Land Some American Catholic Converts
Author: Katherine Burton

IN NO STRANGE LAN Some American Catholic Converts V I BY KATHERINE BURTON Author of Sorrow Bui t a Bridge Paradise Planters His Dear Persuasion f I I LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. NEW YORK TORONTO 1942 I N NO STRANGE LAND COPYRIGHT IM BY KATHERINE BURTON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IN ANY FOR... more »M PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA BY LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO., TORONTO FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To ROBERT SARGENT SHRIVER AS - A SMALL TRIBUTE TO HIS MIGHTY WORK OF YEARS IN THE CAUSE OF CONVERTS TO THE CHURCH INTRODUCTION In this book have been gathered together the brief bi ographies of some of the more outstanding American converts to the Catholic faith during the nineteenth cen tury, although a few of them properly belong to our own twentieth. The earlier ones came into the Church at a time when it was almost heroic for an American to do so, a time when the flowering of New England may have seemed fair in the eyes of many, but when the growth of the Catholic Church was regarded as the spread of a noisome weed, one that should be uprooted if American culture and philosophy were to flourish. Nevertheless there were here and there a few who, with eyes opened by faith, recognized the despised weed as the Rose of the World. To them the Church presented a visage perhaps faded and worn but with the precious antiquity of an old book or painting which needed only to be freed of dust for the masterpiece to appear. There are also mentioned here a few converts who came into the Church when conversions to Rome were be coming more common. But each of them is part of the Protestant tradition, either of New England or Virginia, or of the Mid-West. Each by teaching and training was deeply imbued with Protestantism and each bore the im print of the American tradition of democracy. In dealing with what may broadly be called the Con cord School, writers have generally neglected or been in vii viii IN NO STRANGE LAND ignorance of the most important reasons for the existence of that group and of its effect on succeeding generations. When Van Wyck Brooks Flowering of New England appeared, Henry Commager, reviewing it in the New York Times, complained, even while praising it, that the story lacked a focus, a philosophy, a moral The weak est part of the narrative, he said, was that which described Brook Farm and the Boston and Concord reformers with out revealing first the philosophy which furnished the logic and moral of their lives Mr. Brooks later book, New England Indian Sum mer, was also reviewed in the Times, and again complaint was made that it contained no mention of the logical and moral factor in the formation of these people. It was, of course, merely the Christian faith, for all of them the accepted basis of living. They were thoroughly impreg nated with religion when they were young, and many of them had been or remained ministers of the gospel. Mr. Brooks has no interest in old-fashioned religion, and merely ignores it. In dealing with the lives of the men and women of that day, to him, as to Odell Shepherd, whose literary work has taken fire from Mr. Brooks vivid style, religion is of no importance. They prefer to call it philosophy. When Mr. Brooks speaks about religion it is likely to be in the form of an anecdote, gently told but with a little hidden chuckle between the lines, as when he recounts how Emersons uncle told the Lord he had to get in his hay and it must not rain until he did. Emer sons uncle meant it. Mr. Brooks thinks it is humorous. INTRODUCTION k There was nothing amusing about religion to these people. It is true that one by one they left their churches and sought elsewhere for a faith. And, since they were merely groping and not sure of their goal, many of them never found any actual faith again...

ISBN-13: 9781406714746
ISBN-10: 1406714747
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Hall Press
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