Who ever tries to do something outside routine lines against whom hands are not raised and whose motives and acts are not misconstrued?
A venerable clergyman one day thought he had scored a great point against Father Hecker by jocosely suggesting to him as the motto of his new order the word "Paulatim." The same one, no doubt, would have made a like suggestion to the Apostle of the Gentiles.

Advocates of "Paulatim" methods have too often left the wheels of Christ's chariot fast in the mire.

We rejoice, for its sake, that enthusiasts sometimes appear on the scene.

The missions of the early Paulists, into which went Father Hecker's entire heart, aroused the country.

To-day, after a lapse of thirty or thirty-five years, they are remembered as events wherever they were preached.
His was the profound conviction that, in the present age at any rate, the order of the day should be individual action--every man doing his full duty, and waiting for no one else to prompt him.