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reach out for the immigrant. Two years ago, in "America," 

 I described the singular performances of the Presbyterian 

 Board of Home Missions, which I discovered by chance. In 

 Newark, New Jersey, and upon the East Side in New York 

 City, it was engaged in running a complete imitation of a 

 Catholic chapel of the Greek Rite. Probably they thought 

 that, as the Mass-books and language were in the ancient 

 Slavonic, they would not be easily detected. Catholics of 

 the Roman Rite are not familiar with either the language 

 or the ceremonies of Catholics of the Greek Rite. An exami- 

 nation of the Mass-books upon the altar showed that they 

 were the official editions of the Diocese of Lemberg, while 

 the altar itself could not be distinguished from any other 

 Greek Catholic altar, since it had candles, crucifix and gospels 

 as prescribed. The officiating celebrant had a set of gorgeous 

 Greek vestments, bought as I afterwards ascertained from 

 a Catholic importing house on Barclay Street, New York. 

 He made the sign of the cross at the usual times in the 

 pseudo-mass and gave the crucifix and the gospels to the 

 people to kiss, as is usual in the Greek Rite. The prayers to 

 the Blessed Virgin were intoned and recited in regular form 

 and the choir sang the antiphon "Through the prayers of the 

 Mother of God, O Saviour, save us!" At the consecration 

 the people knelt in worship, making repeated signs of the 

 cross in the Greek manner. No one except a liturgical ex- 

 pert, versed in the Greek Rite, could have told it from 

 the Mass celebrated in the Greek Catholic Church. Yet not 

 only did the Presbyterians support both of these missions — 

 and I am told a third one in Pittsburg — but they actually 

 advanced $20,000 to build a church for these Ruthenians in 

 Newark, where these pseudo-rites might be celebrated. The 

 celebrant at the New York chapel was a Ruthenian graduate 

 of the Bloomfield Seminary who had received only Presby- 

 terian ordination. Yet they were calmly telling the Ruthenian 

 immigrant that the Latin Church was not providing his rite 

 and they were supplying the defect, hoping to make him 

 non-Catholic eventually, but indulging him in his religious, 

 peculiarities for a time at least. The matter was fully de-' 

 scribed in "America" at the time, and I am glad to say that 

 several fair-minded Presbyterians took the matter up, and 

 through their religious papers severely criticised the parties 



