Our Philadelphia . cks as on the same social level as himself. name alone was sufficient to attract an Irishcongregation, and the Irish who then flocked to Philadel-phia were not the flower of Irelands aristocracy. , by some unnamed right, claimed the Catholics ofsocial pretensions—the excellence of its music may havestrengthened its claim. I know that my Father, who was areligious man, did not object to having the comfort ofreligion strengthened by the charms of Gounods ]\Iasswell sung, and, at the last, he drifted from the Cathedralto St. Johns. The Cathedral necessarily
Our Philadelphia . cks as on the same social level as himself. name alone was sufficient to attract an Irishcongregation, and the Irish who then flocked to Philadel-phia were not the flower of Irelands aristocracy. , by some unnamed right, claimed the Catholics ofsocial pretensions—the excellence of its music may havestrengthened its claim. I know that my Father, who was areligious man, did not object to having the comfort ofreligion strengthened by the charms of Gounods ]\Iasswell sung, and, at the last, he drifted from the Cathedralto St. Johns. The Cathedral necessarily was above such distinctions,as a Cathedral should be, and it harboured an overflowfrom St. Patricks and St. Johns both. But it was theCathedral, rather than St. Johns, that did most to weakenthe foundations of the social prejudice against the Bishop there was Bishop Wood, and Bishop Wood,like my Father a convert, was no Irish emigrant, no Italianmissionary, but came from the same old family of Phila-. OLD SWEDES CHURCH A QUESTION OF CREED 203 delphia Friends as J. Some people think thatQuakerism and Catholicism are more in sympathy witheach other than with other creeds because neither recog-nizes any half way, each going to a logical Bishop Wood thought so, I am far from sure,but he had himself gone from one extreme to the otherwhen he became a Catholic, and the religious step had itssocial bearing. With his splendid presence and splendidvoice, he must have added dignity to every service at theCathedral, but he did more than that: in Philadelphia eyeshe gave it the sanction of Philadelphia respectability. TheCatholic was no longer quite without Philadelphias socialpale. I had no opportunity, because of my long absence, towatch the gradual breakdown, but I saw that the barrierhad fallen when I got back to Philadelphia. Never againwill Philadelphia children think they are doing an oddthing when they go to JNIass, never again need the Phila-delphia g
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