ph's Church, the pastor being Joseph McCarron, the mission
having been negotiated by Joseph Mueller, the rector of the Third
Street convent. Father Hecker had a special devotion for St. Joseph.]

We have space for only the following extracts from the brief record
of the missions, preserved by the fathers. They illustrate how
earnestly Father Hecker worked. In the record of the second mission
at Loretto, Pa., we find this:

The instructions and Rosary were generally given by Father Hecker,
who received from the people the name of "Father Mary." . . . During
the first few days the people did not attend well; but after Father
Hecker had gone through the village and among a clique of young men
who were indifferent and disaffected to the clergy, and the evil
geniuses of the place, and after some fervent exhortations had been
made to the people, they flocked to the mission and crowded the
church.

At Johnstown, Pa.: After two or three days a man happened to die on
the railroad, and all the men at that station, perhaps a hundred in
number, accompanied the corpse to the church. Father Hecker seized
the opportunity to address them and to give them a mission
_ferveroso._ And the next day he went on horseback, accompanied by
the pastor, Father Mullen (since Bishop of Erie), to several stations
and addressed the men, inviting them to attend the mission. The
result was successful. Procession after procession marched in,
filling the church, and numbers of them stayed all day, lying on the
grass about the church. . . . Father Hecker called out a noted
politician, who had not been to the sacraments for many years until
the mission, to receive the scapular as an example, and the good man
did not fail to receive a plentiful supply of holy water from the
vigorous arm of the said father.

The following entry in the record under date of February, 1852, made
after a mission given in St. Peter's Church, Troy, N.Y., will be of
interest to missionaries, and to others who are observant of their
methods: "At Youngstown, Pa., (the preceding December) the experiment
of preaching from a platform had been successfully tried and was
repeated here, as at other missions since (Youngstown). On the
platform a large black cross, some ten feet or more in height, was
erected, from the arms of which a white muslin cloth was suspended.
This use of cross and platform has thus been regularly introduced
into the missions." Previously it had been the custom t