Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . r=Ti OLD SAINT JOSEPHS. 117 to give them a priest of tlieir own. In 1732 FatherGreaton, a Jesuit, was sent from Baltimore to estal)lisha church and attend to the spiritual wants of the settlement of a priest in Philadelphia was attendedh}^ at least a chance of danger. The Sons of St. Igna-tius and St. Francis Xavier are not, however, men tohe frightened h} dithculties. But they are cautious aswell as daring, and wise in their generation. FatherGreaton, on arriving in the City of Quakers, horrow
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . r=Ti OLD SAINT JOSEPHS. 117 to give them a priest of tlieir own. In 1732 FatherGreaton, a Jesuit, was sent from Baltimore to estal)lisha church and attend to the spiritual wants of the settlement of a priest in Philadelphia was attendedh}^ at least a chance of danger. The Sons of St. Igna-tius and St. Francis Xavier are not, however, men tohe frightened h} dithculties. But they are cautious aswell as daring, and wise in their generation. FatherGreaton, on arriving in the City of Quakers, horrowedthe Quaker garh. It was not long hefore he changed itfor his own hlack rohes ; hut when he huilt his church,which he called St. Josephs, he made it accord as faras was possi])le with the Quaker style of survival of the fittest depended principally upon themanner in which he succeeded in making a fit, or in notattracting puhlic attention. If it resemhled closely theFriends Almshouse, hy which it stood, there was somuch the less prol)ahility of its evoking the Quakersoh
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