Description: THE INVITATION HEEDED: REASONS FOR A RETURN TO CATHOLIC UNITY James Kent Stone Published by The Catholic Publication Foundation (1870) According to Pat McNamara, "During the Passionists' early years in America, one of their preeminent figures was James Kent Stone (1840-1921). Before age 30, he was a Harvard graduate, Civil War veteran, minister, professor, and president of two colleges. One Passionist historian refers to him as 'this illustrious man.' Kent (as he was familiarly known) attended private school and later Harvard, where friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes. After graduation in 1861, he studied abroad in Europe, but returned to fight in the Civil War. A Lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Infantry, he fought in the Battle of Antietam, the war's single bloodiest day. By the end of 1862, a severe hernia ended his army days and he took a teaching position at Kenyon College, an Episcopal school in Ohio. That summer he married Cornelia Fay. They would have three daughters. In 1867, at 27, he was named President of Kenyon. He was also ordained. At the time, Episcopalians were split between between "Low Church" adherents, leaning toward Evangelical Protestantism, and "High Church" followers, emphasizing ritual and tradition. Kenyon was predominantly Low Church. The local bishop felt Stone's sermons were too High Church. After heated controversy, he resigned in 1868, but was soon named President of New York's Hobart College, a High Church school. At first, he saw Episcopalianism as a middle way between what he considered Puritan and Roman extremes. Raised in a strongly anti-Catholic atmosphere, Stone one morning woke up with a thought: 'What if the old Roman Church should be right after all?' Such a notion, he added, had previously 'never entered my mind.' When Pope Pius IX invited Protestant leaders to reconsider their theological basis, Stone responded. In 1869, he resigned both from the college and the ministry. That December, he was received into the Catholic Church. He discussed his reasons in a book titled The Invitation Heeded. Catholicism alone offered 'safety for the soul and healing for the nations.' To those citing corruption, he responded: 'There are scandals . . . if we look for them. But there have been saints and martyrs . . . of whom the world knows nothing. And there are saints still.' While his parents didn't reject him, a cousin labeled him 'the weak-minded one of the family.'". See photos for condition details. Shelf/spine wear. Due to high loss in shipping to certain countries, insurance is required for shipping to a location that does not provide tracking
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