Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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vanl l. ' iii trsity, lit- ik-voted the following five years to teachini, ' .Matheiuatics, Chemistry, Physics, German and French at several Roman Catholic Colleges. Under the guidance and teaching of the Jesuits he then entered upon and completed, at Woodstock College, Howard County, Maryland, which is the house of studies of the Order in the United States, the required course of four years of continuous application to Dogmatic, Moral and Scriptural The- ology and the collateral branches of Canon Law and the Latin and Greek Fathers. All these studies according to the invariable custom of the Jesuit Order, were taught and recitations were heard in the Latin Language exclu- sively ; in the final examination also in which every candidate is required, during four hours to answer orally the questions proposed to him dc uni vena Philosophia et Thfologia hy ?t e specially appointed examiners, not one word of the vernacular was allowed ; every question was proposed in Latin, every answer was then and there required in Latin. After he had successfuU} ' passed this ordeal, he received the ordination to the priesthood at the hands of the then papal delegate. Cardinal Satolli and resumed his teaching career at Georgetown I ' niversity, Washington, D. C. A growing disgust, however, for the exaggerated church worship and mummery exacted by Romanism, doctrinal difficulties concerning the dogmas of the innnaculate conception, priestly absolution and papal infallibility, as well as the ever in- creasing desire for something firmer than the dogmatic Ipse dixit of the Catholic Church, induced him to give up his priesthood, separate himself from the Roman Communion, and become a member of the M. E. Church in Washington, D. C. Naturally his co-religionists were put out by tliis step. Notwithstanding this, however, his former superiors declared officially and in writing that his life as a man, as a teacher and as a priest, had been without fault, that his defection from the Catholic Church was the one error of his life. His teaching career embraced eight years spent at St. Francis Xavier ' s College, West Sixteenth Street, New York City, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C, and St. Joseph ' s College, Philadelphia, Pa.

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3 AMES J. DECK, was born in 18G0 in Zurich, Switzerland and was reared under the guidance of his father, a clergyman of the Zwinglain church , in the doctrines of the sturdy Swiss Reformer. After completing the courses of common and high schools in his native cit} ' , he entered upon and completed the course in the chemical department of the Pol3 ' technic School and then entered an institution for the special training of Christian teachers. While here his love for music led him to -isit repeatedl} ' the Catholic church of which his music teacher was organist. This love for music and a pen- chant for the romantii-, «liiiii Roinaiiisin is so careful to foster, led him at J. MES J. DKCK the age uf nineteen into the communion of that church, and subsequently he found himself in the ranks of the Jesuites and came to America as one of their number. He reviewed and completed his studies in English, Latin and Greek Literature in 1881 and the following two years studied at St. John ' s College, Frederick, Maryland, after which he passed successfully the search- ing examination exacted from those members of the order who have com- pleted the three years exclusively devoted to the study of Logic, Metaphy.s- ics. Psychology and Ethics. After having given one term to private investi- gation in vuantitave anah-tical research at the Chemical Labratory of Har-

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