Word: chisholm
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...dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have made, my good Chisholm...
...English Seminary in Spain, Chisholm was given to somewhat worldly high spirits. "Deputed to read aloud in the refectory he smuggled in and substituted for The Life of St. Peter of Alcantara a ... tract entitled When Eva Stole the Sugar" He also set fire to the newspaper Father Despard was reading in the common room. "Asked why ... he laughed and answered, 'The Devil finds work for idle hands...
...zealous curate, Father Chisholm got into trouble with one superior after another. Dean Fitzgerald, "refined and fastidious," had a young lady parishioner who had seen a saint in a vision, discovered a sacred spring, showed stigmata on her hands and feet, existed without eating. When Father Chisholm happened in unexpectedly late one night, found the young woman "stuffing herself" on roast chicken, her mother cried rather sensibly: "I've got to keep her strength up somehow." But Father Chisholm, appalled by "the folly ... of all human life," felt obliged to unmask...
Almost equally appalled was the Dean who was dreaming of establishing a new Lourdes. But when one of free-thinking Dr. Tulloch's dying patients bathed in the fraudulent young woman's spring and was cured, Father Chisholm in a quandary prayed: "Dear God, give me humility . . . and give me faith...
...Soon Chisholm's superiors decided he would really be better off in China. So they hustled him out to Pai-tan, a remote, upriver mission. Wrote the secretary of the foreign missions society: "Pai-tan is a delightful spot . . . four hundred communicants and over one thousand baptisms. . . . My dear fellow, I rejoice that this prize is to be yours. . . . Get good strong durable soutanes. Short drawers are the best and I advise a body belt...