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Chapter 30
BROTHER RYKEN RESIGNS

TT THnN Bnorsnn RvrsN sArD cooD-ByE to Father
W Vu" Deutekom, he had every reason to smile
inwardly and outwardly. With eight additional Broth-
ers in Louisville by 1860, the work in America would
then be as successful as it was in England where he had
recently named Brother Ignatius, "my eldest son," to
take charge of St. Chad's, the third school in Man-
chester stafied by Xaverians.
And then there was that fourth school, the one in
Preston, where the Jesuit pastor was eagerly awaiting
word of acceptance.
Especially cheering was his learning from Father Van
Deutekom what a great supporter he had in Father Bax,
the youthful pastor of St. John's Parish in Louisville.
It was Father Bax who had interested his fellow-pastors,
and it was Father Bax who had obtained from Bishop
Spalding the necessary permission. Personally His Ei-
cellency would have nothing to do with Brother Ryken.
The antipathy was mutual.
In the months that followed, this prospect. of a rosy
future had its efiect on Brother Ryken's thinking. In
recent years he had been hesitant, but on December 3,
1859, he signalized the feast of St. Francis Xavier by
clothing tlirteen postulants in the habit, and on rhat
day he saw more Xaverian Brothers-thirty-seven-than
he had ever seen gathered at one place at one time.
Brother Ryken's oft-repeated quotation, "The ways of
Divine Providence are inscrutable but always adorable,"
was about to be tested. There were men in the com.