mitigate every case, provided only he
can get it taken, and who is surrounded with a corps of able and
zealous assistants to aid him in persuading the patients to take it!"

Mr. Parton having given us a picture of Father Hecker as he appeared
to Protestants, the following exhibits him as Catholics saw him. It
is an extract from Father Lockhart's clever book, _The Old Religion;_
the original of Father Dilke is Father Hecker:

"The day after our last conversation, having an introduction to the
Superior of the ---- Fathers in New York, my friends agreed to
accompany me. I was particularly glad of this because Father Dilke
was one of the most remarkable men of our Church in the States.
Himself a convert, and a man of large views and great sympathies, no
one was better able to enter into the scruples and difficulties of
religious Protestants on their first contact with Catholic doctrines
and Catholic worship.

"On sending in our names we had not long to wait in the guest-room
before the good father made his appearance. There was a stamp of
originality about him; tall in stature, not exactly what we are used
to call clerical in appearance, with a thoroughly American type of
face, and with the national peaked beard instead of being closely
shaven as is the custom with our clergy generally. I had met him
before, without his clerical (religious) garb, on a journey on board
a steamboat. At first, I remember, I had set him down as a Yankee
skipper or trader of some sort; but when by chance we got into
conversation, I found him a hard-headed man, shrewd, original, and
earnest in his remarks; but when our conversation turned to religious
topics, and got animated, I shall never forget how all that was
common and national in his physique disappeared. And when he spoke of
the mystery of God's love for man, his countenance seemed as it were
transfigured, so that I felt that an artist would not wish for a
better living model from which to paint a St. Francis Xavier, making
himself all things to all men amidst his shipmates on his voyage to
the Indies."

From what has been said of Father Hecker's aptitude to win
non-Catholics to hear and believe him, it should not be thought that
in order to do so he was obliged to leave off any sign of his
priestly character. He was distinctly priestly in his demeanor,
though, as already observed, not exactly what one would call a
thorough "ecclesiastic." He ever dressed soberly. When he arrived at