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Among Our Exchanges 515-517
The Secret of La Salette

Eucharistic Congress at Lourdes

Fhe World-Cry for Peace

Another Triumph of the Holy Name 505, 506

A Nun's Letter About the War 511-514

A War Prayer 492

Book Notes 526-528

. Children's Corner of the Mission

Field 497-498

Conferences With Our Separated
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Consecration of Bishop Hayes 489

Editorial 483,484

Prepare for the Church Unity Octave

Editor's Mail Bag 525

Encouragement for Would-be Con-

verts 509,510

Frontispiece 482

The Prince of Peace

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Graymoor Annals 491,492

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In the Mission Field 493-499

Monthly Conference with our Missionary

Co-workers

Famine Stricken Curagoa

Father Ferrand’s Work in Corea

A Call from England
The Bishop Bierman’s Fund

Multum in Parvo 485-488

Origin and History of the Society of

the Atonement. Chapter XIII—The
Genesis of The Lamp 500-504

Personals 490

Pius X 504

Pope Pius—God's Gift to Earth 517
Rosary League Page 523, 524

St. Anthony's Corner 520-522

The Virtue of the Hour 518, 519



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For Sion's sake I will not hold my Peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest until

the Just One comes forth as Brightness, and her Saviour be lighted as a Lamp .—Isaias Ixii: 1.

PREPARE FOR THE CHURCH UNITY

OCTAVE OF 1915

W E make our first editorial announcement ofthe coming Church Unity Octave one
month ahead of schedule time this year, because

world conditions at the present moment summon

us imperiously to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

as the exigencies of Church and State have never

quite so appealingly called us to our knees before.

We ask our readers without exception to care-

fully peruse the Conference given by E. H. (p.

507 with our Separated Brethren, based upon

the mad war now waging on the other side of

the globe.

One of the most appalling aspects of the colos-

sal conflict is the impoiency of the five hundred

million disciples of Jesus Christ, the Prince of

Peace, to stop the inhuman butchery, surpassing

in its carnage the bloodiest war ever waged by

uncivilized savages.

Never since the foundation of the world were

so many millions of men under arms engaged in

a single war. In comparison with the present

European armaments, the army of Xerxes dwin-

dles to the dimension of a single battle front of

one of the nine great nations now battling for

the mastery. Yet with the exception of the pagan

Japanese, all the combatants are Christians, and

some fifty thousand of them have been con-

strained to lay aside the vestments of the altar

and the habit of Holy Religion to don the uni-

form of the civil soldier.

WHAT IS THE EXPLANATION ?

How explain this impotency of the disciples of

Christ to sheath the bloody sword and stay their

hand from acting the part of Cain, the first of

mankind to slay his brother? Why should even

the voice of the Vicar of Christ, in the person of

the saintly Pius, whom all men revered as the

most Christlike of men, why, we ask, should even

the voice of Peter have fallen unheeded upon the

ears of those earthly potentates, whose diplo-

matic ultimatums are responsible for loosing

the hellish dogs of war and rushing millions of

peace-loving men from the mill, the farm, the

market place, to be slaughtered like sheep in the

battle trenches, above which devils dance and hold

their fiendish carnival in defiance of the angels

of God, who sang when the Prince of Peace was

born, “Glory to God in the Highest and on earth

peace to men of good will”? For the first time

in the history of the Roman Empire the temple

of Janus was closed and universal peace reigned

in all the world when the Word of God was made

Flesh and first came to dwell among us, but now

the Prince of this world sits high enthroned upon

the altar in a military Cathedral whose mighty

towers are builded of cannons, howitzers and

siege guns, while with devilish glee he shouts,

“Bravo,” amid the din of death-dealing artillery

and mocks at the Prince of Peace.



484 *VT OMNES UNl/M 5INT*

Why, O Catholics, O Orthodox, O Anglicans,

O Protestants, are we, in union with our Divine

Head, thus rudely jeered at by the denizens of

hell? How comes it that we are forced to be

the spectators while our fellow-Christians, like

savage, brute beasts, are killing each other, not

by the thousands or the tens of thousands, but

by the millions, in the amphitheatre of Continen-

tal Europe? How is it that we are utterly help-

less to stop this wholesale murder of Christians

by Christians?

Be not so short-sighted as to lay the blame at

the door of commercialism, the mere greed for

gold, accursed though it be; charge it not to

militarism, unless you are going to confound the

effect with its cause
;
blame not the aged Em-

peror of Austria, or the Kaiser of Germany, the

Czar of Russia, the King of England, the Presi-

dent of the French Republic, or even the orig-

inal cause or pretext, the regicide of Servia.

Trace more deeply into the soil of Europe the

great tap-root of this colossal tree, whose

branches are laden with the golden fruits of

commerce, the death-dealing apparatus of war,

and whose leaves are dripping with the blood of

the slain. The hand that planted the sapling from

which this mighty tree has grown was Martin

Luther, and the principles of the Protestant Ref-

ormation are the rich fertilizers upon which it

has thrived. The tree began to bear fruit after

its kind while Luther yet lived, as the thirty-year

war in Germany and all the other Reformation

wars which broke out all over northern Europe

abundantly bear witness.

UT OMNES UNUM SINT.

On the night in which He breathed His never-

to-be-forgotten Prayer for the Unity of His

Disciples, Ut omnes unum sint, the Divine Found-

er of Christianity also provided the Bond of

Uffity and a visible touchstone of Catholic Fel-

lowship when, turning to Peter, the Prince and

Head of His apostles, He said to him : “I have

prayed for thee, Peter, that thy faith fail not,

and when thou art coverted, confirm (strengthen)

thy brethren”; and after His resurrection He

made His Divine will yet more manifest by thrice

addressing the Rock-man, on whom He had said

He would build His church, “Feed My lambs,

feed My sheep, shepherd My flock.”

It is only when all the Christians in all the

world clearly recognize the Supreme Authority

of the Apostolic See, and the unerring orthodoxy

of the Voice of Peter, that all believers in Christ

will be one again, as on the day of Pentecost,

and the whole world, bending low beneath the

outward witness of Christ’s Sovereign Authority

reigning among men, will indeed accept His

Messiahship, and “the lion will lie down with the

lamb,'
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and all the world shall rejoice in a uni-

versal peace.

This is the message of paramount importance

which a sect-ridden Christianity and a civilized

world, staggering under its load of militarism,

needs at this hour
;

and, chastened by the ter-

rible suffering entailed upon all mankind by the

savage mania for war now sweeping so many

nations into its vortex, it may be that Protestants

and Orthodox alike will give reverent heed to the

Vicar of Christ, and for this, fellow Catholics, we

have need to pray, and to season our prayers with

fasted vigils and penitential exercises. There-

fore, we plead with our readers to make them-

selves and others ready to observe as never be-

fore the coming Church Unity Octave, from the

Feast of the Chair of Peter at Rome to the Fes-

tival of the Conversion of St. Paul, the great

Catholic Doctor and Apostle of the Gentiles, i. e.

from January 18 to January 25.

MEMBERSHIP IX THE THIRD ORDER
OF ST. FRANCIS

Our editorial in the October issue entitled

“Why Not Become a Franciscan Tertiary?” was

not printed in vain, for we have since received

many inquiries for information as to the rule

and obligations for admission to the Third Order.

May such applications continually increase as

time goes on. The little Manual of St. Francis,

with which we supply those asking information

about the rule, costs 15 cents, postage included.

This sum in postage stamps can be inclosed in the

letter of those writing for such information.

Every Tertiary of St. Francis should be at-

tached to some particular congregation of Fran-

ciscans, and in the Society of the Atonement

our Third Congregation is made up entirely of



*VT OJMNES lMUM 5INT* 485

such Tertiaries as desire to be identified with

our Institute. It is not always convenient to pro-

vide for the reception of those who live in towns

or cities where there are no Franciscan Fathers,

but we stand ready to advise by letter with such

as to the best way of overcoming the difficulty.

MULTUM IN PARVO

T
HE use of the aeroplane in the European
War has not been altogether on the side of

destruction. The following was telegraphed

from Berlin on October 15th:

“At a German field hospital some distance be-

hind the entrenched lines, a young Catholic Ger-

man officer dying of his wounds implored those

about him to bring him a priest. There was no

priest in the vicinity, but a Taube aviator who

had been resting near by offered to obtain one.

He flew a considerable distance and brought back

in his aeroplane a priest who spoke German and

who bore with him the Blessed Sacrament. Thus

through the air came the holy Viaticum to the

wounded soldier.

The Abbot of Caldey and his community have

given a warm welcome to brother-Benedictines

from Bruges. Abbot Theodore of Saint Andre

de Bruges asked the Abbot of Caldey if he could

receive the whole novitiate of Saint Andre and

some of the monks. “Yes, as many as you wish,”

was the reply from Caldey. .

We are permitted this month to add to our list
of converts from Anglicanism the following:

The Rev. R. M. Brown, an Anglican rector,

well known in London and an M. A. of Oxford,

who has been received into the Church at Farm

Street, and two laymen who occupy prominent

positions in two High Church Societies known

as the “Catholic League” and the “Living Ros-

ary.” Their names are, respectively, Mr. H. F.

Hickes and Mr. Bainbridge, and they were re-

ceived into the Church by Father Wondacot, an

erstwhile friend, who is now stationed at Dept-

ford.

The Rev. R. Cecil Wilton, B.A., Rector of

Londesborough, E. Yorks, Honors in History,

Cambridge, Lightfoot Scholar 1887, who was for

many years lecturer for the Church Defence

Society, and a well known writer of religious

verse, was received into the Church at St.

Peter’s, Cardiff, on October 2. Mr. Wilton is a

son of the late Canon Wilton.

Rev. Alfred Collingwood Southern, son of

Rev. T.
J. Southern, The Vicarage, Foston-on-

the-Wolds, and late of Kidderminster, has quite

recently been received into the Church by Rev.

Vincent Calvert, Bridlington.

Three hundred and thirty-nine Catholic

Churches were built in the United States last

year. Out of that number, the Catholic Church

Extension Society, through its chapel-building

gifts, is to be credited with 175. This means

that the C. C. E. S. is now instrumental in the

erection of a Catholic Church every other day

and we hope it will not be long before the Society

will be able to do twice as well, so that the sun

will rise every morning on a new Catholic

Church erected by this splendid organization.

Under the title “The Church in Ulster,” a cor-

respondent sends to the Church Times a pen pic-

ture of Anglicanism as he saw it in Ulster, and

which, he declares, is “a poor recommendation

for that Protestantism for which Ulster stands

and- of which Ulster boasts.” The correspondent,

who wished to receive Communion early on the

Sunday morning after his arrival in Belfast,

sought in vain for a church in which there would

be an early celebration. He says: “They all

appear to have Holy Communion on the first

Sunday in the month following morning prayer,

which is at the hour of 11.30. The cathedral has

an early celebration each Sunday at 8 o’clock.

To be present meant a bicycle ride of some ten

miles. I attended, and found about twenty com-

municants, and of these only three were men.

. On my return journey ... I
passed through crowded streets, and on the route

were two or three churches, but all were closed.

The Roman Churches, of course, were open, and

their communicants were going and coming in

scores. Not one of our churches is open during

the day . . . and in that great city there is

no daily celebration.”



486 *VT OMNES VNl/M SINT*

Commenting on the foregoing paragraph the

London Universe sagely remarks:

Yet this is the Church that some people, who should

know better, claim to be the Catholic Church of the

land. It must greatly puzzle these Ulster Protestants

why some of their co-religionists across the Channel

will insist upon thrusting on them a title which they

cast from them with curses three hundred years ago,

and which, even in these days, they are never weary

of vilifying both on the platform and in the press.

The following has been communicated to the

Church Times (London) by a Canadian cor-

respondent :

In connection with the relation between the Anglican

and Orthodox churches an interview was recently given

to a Montreal newspaper by the Bishop of the Syrian

Orthodox Church in North America, the Rt. Rev.

Raphael Hawaweeny. Bishop Raphael said

:

‘‘When there is a question of Christian reunion the

Syrian Church always looks to and alone considers the

[Roman] Catholic Church. She looks upon the Angli-

can Church as she does upon the other Protestant de-

nominations, because she does not recognize the valid-

ity of Anglican orders. This is why the Syrian Church

always keeps Rome in mind when Church reunion is dis-

cussed.”

The appointment of a new Anglican Bishop of

Jerusalem, which has recently been announced,

is a reminder of two interesting historical facts

:

The establishment of the bishopric was suggested

by the King of Prussia, who agreed to bear half

the expense provided that the bishops of the See

were appointed alternately from Prussia and

Great Britain. The arrangement was duly

adopted, and worked well enough until Prussia

withdrew from it. Naturally it was resented bv
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the High Church party, for it was too obviously

a tacit admission on the part of the Church of

England that she was a Protestant body like the

Lutheran and Calvinist congregations in the East,

over which she had agreed to exercise spiritual

jurisdiction. The other fact is that the project

was for Newman the “beginning of the end.”

Many thought it a great misfortune, but he re-

graded it as one of the greatest mercies, for it

was the last of the succession of blows that finally

shattered his faith in the Anglican Church.

It is interesting to note that the Act of Parlia-

ment establishing the bishopric definitely de-

scribes the Church of England as Protestant, for

in the clause making provision for the consecra-

tion of “British subjects, or the subjects or citi-

zens of any foreign State, to be bishops in any

foreign country/' the following paragraph occurs:

“.
. . that such bishop or bishops, so conse-

crated, may exercise, within such limits as may

from time to time be assigned for that purpose in

such foreign countries by her Majesty, spiritual

jurisdiction over the ministers of British congre-

gations of the United Church of England and

Ireland, and over such other Protestant congre-

gations as may be desirous of placing themselves

under his or their authority.” It is passing

strange that Parliament should thus describe a

“branch" of the Catholic Church as a “Protestant

congregation," and that without correction or

protest from the bench of bishops in the House

of Lords.

According to reports received at the Vatican,

more than 63,000 ecclesiastics are now serving in

different capacities with the armies engaged in

Europe’s titanic war, especially with the Belgian,

French and Austrian forces.

Most of these ecclesiastics are engaged in hos-

pital work. They include seven bishops and

nineteen other prelates
:

great numbers of them

are religious.o

The presence in England of so many Catholic

refugees from Belgium—clergy, religious and lay
—will, we have no doubt, swell materially the
stream of individual conversions and at the same

time draw the whole Anglican body nearer the

Mother Church of Rome.

As an illustration of the warm sympathy for

Continental Catholics in distress which just now

reigns in Church of England circles we give the

following from The Living Church (Anglican) :

The Dean of Exeter writes to the Times in regard

to the use they have made of the collection on Sunday

last at the Cathedral for their own Fabric Maintenance

Fund. They are sending it to the Cardinal Archbishop

of Malines and to the burgomaster of that Belgian city

“as a token of sympathy,” and they hope to increase

the contribution from time to time. If this is known,

the Dean adds, other Cathedrals may do the same. It

will be recalled that ruthless damage was done to the



4<VT OMNES UNUM SINT* 487

Cathedral of Malines by German soldiers while Car-

dinal Mercier was absent in Rome.

Another illustration is found in the following

letter from an Anglican Vicar, taken from the

English Church Times :

Sir— I am to-day writing to the Belgian Minister (15
West Halkin Street, Belgrave Square, S. W.) offering

hospitality to any Belgian priest stranded in England at

the present time.

The idea may be welcomed to many of your readers,

and if adopted will surely draw us closer together at

this dreadful time.

I make the suggestion for what it is worth.

Of course, one would provide one’s guest with facil-

ities for saying his daily Mass.

G. B. H. Bishop.

Cardington Vicarage, Church

Stretton, Salop.

A Catholic priest in London, a convert from

Anglicanism, gives expression to the same con-

viction in a letter we have just received. He says

:

“Even in this terrible conflict one can see some

good emerging. The accounts of the revival of

religion in France are most consoling. Our

papers are continually alluding to the self-sacri-

fice, the courage and the goodness of heart of

the French and Belgian clergy and religious, all

of which must help to enlighten the British Pro-

testant public.”

The following press dispatch from Florence,

Italy, is interesting:

Father Alfani, Director of the Florence Observatory,

thinks the invention of the priest Domenico Argentieri

of a system to receive wireless messages without the

use of poles or batteries is scientifically sound.

After war was declared the Italian Government

forced all private wireless stations, including that of

the Florence Observatory, to discontinue. The next

day Father Alfani got from Argentieri copies of official

wireless messages which had been intercepted without

a wireless installation.

“There are many ways to do this,” Father Alfani ex-

plained. “One of the simplest utilizes the very elemen-

tal expedient of sticking two steel needles into a po-

tato.”

St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and

the Church of St. Alphonsus on West Broadway,

New York City, were damaged by the explosion

of bombs, October 13th. Two of the worship-

pers in the Cathedral at the time were consider-

ably injured and a great hole was torn in the

floor. Some other slight damage was done, the

total cost of which is about $4,000.

The Church of St. Alphonsus was not greatly

damaged. It will be remembered that it was in

this church that Frank Tannenbaum, an I. W. W.

leader and two hundred followers were arrested

last winter.

The new Pontifical arms has been placed upon

the facades of the embassies to the Pope in Rome

with the shield of the Della Chiesa family, to

which His Holiness Benedict XV belongs. The
shield contains in the center the picture of a tiny

church with a simple steeple—the “coat of arms”
of the name Della Chiesa, which means “Of the

Church.” An eagle is in flight over the church.

With Benedict of the Church as Pope and Cardi-

nal Pietro (Peter) as Secretary of State the Bark

of the Fisherman will no doubt be skilfully

piloted during the present Pontificate.

The U. S. Navy loaned the collier ship Jason

to the New York World, to be fitted out as a

Santa Claus ship. The generous-hearted Amer-

ican readers of the great metropolitan newspaper

have filled the big navy coal-ship with Christmas

gifts of every sort for those made fatherless by

European carnage, and by the time these lines

reach our readers the Santa Claus cargo will be

on its way across the Atlantic. Bon voyage, good

ship, and may your loving treasure bring Christ-

mas cheer to widows and orphans without num-

ber.

The sudden death of Very Rev. Mgr. Robert

Hugh Benson, a son of the late Archbishop of

Canterbury, on October 19th, came as a real

shock to his thousands of friends and admirers

inside and out of the Catholic Church. We have

no English Catholic writer of fiction to-day bet-

ter known or more influential by reason of his

books than Mgr. Benson, whereas his sermons

and lectures, whether delivered in England, at

Pome or in America, never failed to attract large

congregations, a considerable percentage of which

were quite sure to be non-Catholics. He was an

indefatigable worker, employing both tongue and



488 *UT CMNES ITNl/M SINT*

pen with far-reaching effect for the extension of

the Kingdom of God. Some thought he kept up

a too rapid fire in the discharge of volume after

volume upon the public, but in view of his death

at the early age of 42 this adverse criticism falls

to the ground. The Divine Spirit that quickened

him knew that nightfall was rapidly approaching,

and so his short day was filled with swift and en-

ergetic toil. His death is a profound loss to the

English-speaking Catholic world. May he rest

in peace and his soul find sweet fellowship among

the company of Catholic mystics in the High

Court of Heaven.

Monsignor Benson was a constant reader of

The Lamp. A year ago he wrote to the Editor:
“
I read every zvord of The Lamp from cover

to cover always Of the innumerable tributes

we have received from our readers we treasure

none more than these words from the author of

“The King’s Achievement” and “By What

Authority.”

Reverend Father Francis Oppici, O.F.M.,

pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Pity,

in the Bronx, New York City, has recently re-

turned from a summer’s sojourn in Italy. He

spent some time in Bologna and while there he

heard from the clergy of the city glowing tributes

of admiration and praise for their Cardinal Arch-

bishop, who is now our Holy Father, Pope Bene-

dict XV. They declared him to be a man of the

deepest spirituality and piety. His custom as Arch-

bishop was to rise every morning at five o’clock,

making a long meditation in preparation for his

daily Mass. He would not infrequently spend

hours kneeling before the tabernacle, adoring the

Blessed Sacrament. His charity to the poor was

unbounded and his energy and zeal for souls in-

defatigable. He visited in person every one of

the four hundred and fifty churches in his diocese

and was readily accessible to all classes and con-

ditions of persons and to none more than to the

poor. Like St. Paul he is a little man physically,

but in soul and intellect the clergy of Bologna

believe he will measure up grandly to the

responsibility of the sublimest office in Chris-

tendom.

The Knights of Columbus in California have

done something which ought finally and forever

to lay in its grave the calumny about the alleged

Knights of Columbus oath, which for so long a

time has victimized the overcredulous “Guardians

of Liberty" and the readers of The Menace.

These California Knights submitted a complete

copy of all the work, ceremonies and pledges used

by the organization to the following committee of

high degree Masons, viz. : Messrs. Motley Hewes

Flint. 33d Degree Past Grand Master of Masons

of California; Dana Reed Weller, 32d Degree

Past Grand Master
;
William Rhodes Hervey, 33d

Degree Past Master and Master of Scottish Rite

Lodge : Samuel E. Burke, 32d Degree Past Mas-

ter and Inspector of Masonic District.

This Committee returned the following report

and promised to give it the widest circulation

among their fellow Masons in the United States

:

- “We found that while the Order is in a sense a secret

association, it is not an oath-bound organization and

that its ceremonies are comprised in four degrees, which

are intended to teach and inculcate principles that lie

at the foundation of every great religion and every free

state. Our examination of these ceremonials and

obligations was made primarily for the purpose of

ascertaining whether or not a certain alleged oath of

the Knights of Columbus, which has been printed and

widely circulated, was in fact used by the order and

whether, if it was not used, any oath, obligation or

pledge was used which was or would be offensive to

Protestants or Masons, or those who are engaged in

circulating a document of peculiar viciousness and

wickedness. We find that neither the alleged oath nor
any oath or pledge bearing the remotest resemblance

thereto in matter, manner, spirit or purpose is used or

forms a part of the ceremonies of any degree of the

Knights of Columbus. The alleged oath is scurrilous,

wicked and libelous and must be the invention of an

impious and venomous mind. We find that the Order
of Knights of Columbus, as shown by its rituals, is

dedicated to the Catholic religion, charity and patriot-

ism. There is no propaganda proposed or taught

against Protestants or Masons or persons not of Cath-

olic faith. Indeed. Protestants and Masons are not

referred to directly or indirectly in the ceremonials and

pledges. The ceremonial of the Order teaches a high

and noble patriotism, instills a love of country, incul-

cates a reverence foi law and order, urges the con-

scientious and unselfish performance of civic duty and

holds up the Constitution of our country as the richest

and most precious possession of a Knight of the Order.

We can find nothing in the entire ceremonials of the

order that to our minds could be objected to by any

person.”



*VT OMNES VNVM 51NT* 489

CONSECRATION OF BISHOP HAYES

A
N event of the first importance in the history

of the Archdiocese of New York was the

consecration of the Right Reverend Patrick J.

Hayes, D.D., as

Bishop Auxiliary in

St. Patrick’s Cathe-

dral on the Feast of

the Apostles Simon

and Jude, Thursday,

October 28th. His

Eminence, the Cardi-

nal Archbishop of

New York, was the

Consecrator, and the

Assistant Consecra-

tors were Rt. Rev.

H e n r y Gabriels,
Bishop of Ogdens--

burgh, and Rt. Rev.

Thomas F. Cusack,

Bishop Auxiliary of

New York. The ser-

mon was preached

by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Jo-

seph F. Mooney,

P.A., V.G. A score

of Archbishops and

Bishops were present,

monsignori in great

numbers, many Re-

ligious, both Fathers

and Brothers, about

seven hundred of the

clergy and over two

hundred seminarians

f r o m Dunwoodie,
forming in proces^

sion a body of one

thousand ecclesias-

tics. Other thousands

of the laity thronged

the Cathedral.

The ceremony of Consecration covered a

period of four hours and was most solemn and

impressive. The scene in the sanctuary and

around the high altar, as viewed from the nave,

was such as to leave an indelible impression upon

the memory of the beholder. The prelates and

clergy, who best know Bishop Hayes, regard him

as one who possesses in an eminent degree all the

qualities laid down by St. Paul to Timothy and

Titus as needful for a bishop of the Church of

God, and we believe

the faithful of the

archdiocese, when

they get to know the

new Bishop, will

love and reverence

him in the same way

that every one, with-

out ' any exception,

reverences and loves

Bishop Cusack. With

two such Auxiliaries

to support on his

right hand and left,

His Eminence, the

Cardinal Archbishop,

as Aaron and Hur

held up the hands of

Moses, we are pro-

foundly sincere in

thanking God that

He has deigned to

give such holy pre-

lates to preside over

the destinies of the

great Archdiocese of

New York. To the

Trio may He add ad

multos annos.

To strive with

difficulties, and to

conquer them, is the

highest human feli-

citv.
j

Dr. Johnson.

Four things come

not back to man or

woman—the speed arrow, the spoken word, the
past life, and the neglected opportunity.

The first German Pope was Gregory V, who

was consecrated May 3d, 996.

COPYRIGHT ANNA FRANCES LEVINS



490 *VT OMNES UNl/M SINT*

PERSONALS

Cardinal Dominic Ferrata, the Papal Secretary

of State, died at Rome on October 10th. The

immediate cause of his death was peritonitis. The

Cardinal was conscious to the last moment
;
his

last remark was : “I am so tired; I go to join my

Saviour.” When the Pontiff received the news of

his death his comment was : “God’s will be done,

but it takes from me a dear friend and my right

hand.”

Cardinal Pietro Gasparri has been selected by

the Holy Father to fill the position made vacant

by the death of Cardinal Ferrata. His Eminence

was born at Visso, Perugia, and was created Car-

dinal December 16, 1907. He is titular Bishop of

Cesarea, in Palestine, and one of the most learned

canonists in the Catholic Church.

The Most Rev. Metropolitan of Lemberg.

Galicia, has been made a prisoner by the Russians

and sent to Siberia. When urged by the Austrian

authorities to leave the city his answer was

:

“Where the fold is, the shepherd must remain.”

Mother M. Elizabeth, provincial head of the

Missionary .Sisters of the Third Order of St.

Francis, and for many years the Superior of the

Convent at Peekskill, died unexpectedly of heart

trouble on October 7th.

The recently tiled will of the late Mgr. Matthew

Taylor, rector of the Church of the Blessed Sac-

rament, New York City, shows that all his per-

sonal and real estate amounted to only $1,500. He

had inherited from his father some years ago

$50,000, and on the twenty-fifth anniversary of

his ordination to the priesthood his parishioners

gave him $35,000. Both fortunes he spent to help

the poor. At the time of his death he was assist-

ing over fifty families and paying their rent.

Rev. Eugene E. McDonald, chaplain of the

U. S. S. New York, has returned to Sea Cliff,

L. I. Father McDonald is one of the six Cath-

olic naval chaplains, and has the rank of a com-

mander in the navy.

Mrs. Marie Esther Sturgeon, of Muskegon,

Mich., died recently. She had been a regular at-

tendant at church for more than one hundred

years. On March 25th of this year she was 107

years old.

Father Walter, head of the Marianist school at

Osaka, Japan, is paying his first visit to the land

of his birth since he went to Japan as a mission-

ary twenty-six years ago. The school of which

Father Walter is head numbers seven hundred

students.

Brother Hosea, attached to the De La .Salle

Institute at Martinez, Cal., enjoys the distinction

of having lived during the reign of five popes, and

as a Christian Brother during the pontificates of

four pontiffs.

Pope Benedict XV has conferred upon Mr.

Henry Heide, a prominent Catholic merchant of

New York City, the cross of the Order of St.

Gregory the Great.

King Charles of Roumania has been called to

give an account of his royal stewardship and

has been succeeded by King Ferdinand, his

nephew.

Cardinal Merry del Val, formerly Papal Sec-

retary of State, has been appointed Secretary of

the Congregation of the Holy Office.

Rev. Peter P. Kluck, the rector of St. Maryjs

Church, Rock Island, 111., is a first cousin of

General von Kluck, of the German Army.

Father McGronen, chaplain of the Fire De-

partment of Brooklyn, died on October 5th in

the Holy Family Hospital, of Brooklyn, at the

age of 52. Hard work and exposure in attending

to his duties were the cause of his death.

In the death of Count Albert de Mun, Acade-

mician, leader of the “conservators rallies” in the

Chamber of Deputies and mouthpiece of the Cath-

olics, the Church in France has lost its ablest lay

i defender.



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT* 491

GRAYMOOR ANNALS

W E are giving on this page an illustration ofthe bungalow in which our Lamp workers
are domiciled. It contains six bedrooms, toilet and

a small common room. In the basement shower

bath, stationary washtubs and other conveniences

are provided for our Brother Christophers. This

is the completed evolution from the portable

house we purchased a year ago from the construc-

tion company of the New York aqueduct at the

tine sum of $25.

On St. Teresa’s Day, October 15th, we broke

ground for the proposed Lamp Building, in which

all the business connected with the mailing of

The Lamp will be transacted. At the present

time the entire first floor and much of the base-

ment of St.

Paul’s Friary

is taken up

with the elec-

tric machin-

ery we are

compelled to

employ in

mailing rapid-

ly an edition

of forty thou-

sand copies,

and this new

Lamp Build-

ing has be-

come a crying

necessity. We
believe o u r

readers will

all want to

have a hand

m the putting up of this building, and the way to
do it is to be sure to renew your subscription

promptly when it is due. That is all the begging

we intend to do in this connection, for The Lamp

ought now to be able to pay its own running

expenses.

We announced last month that our Sisters
needed a new ciborium for their Convent Chapel

and expressed our confidence that some one

would gladly supply this need. Our confidence

was not misplaced, for no less than four per-

sons have desired to meet this need of the Sis-

ters. In consequence they not only have bought

a new ciborium, but a silver one, somewhat tar-

nished, they had before has been gold plated, and

the materials have been purchased for a set of

Eucharistic vestments which the Sisters are

making for their Convent Chapel, and a gold

ciborium has been given also to St. Francis’

Church on the Mount of the Atonement.

We have an encouraging report to make con-

cerning the progress of the birthday scholarships

for St. John’s House of Studies. Sixteen per-

sons so far have contributed a dollar each to-

wards the dollar scholarships, and six persons

have pledged $5 annually, and one hundred dol-

lars has been sent in memory of the dead by a

benefa c t o r,

w ho thus

p a ys twenty

years in ad-

vance, so that

we have re-

ceived so far

$16 for the

one-d o 1 1 a r

scholars h i p

fund and

$130 for the

five-do liar

scholars h i p.

Persons de-

siring to con-

t r i b u te to-

wards either

the “one, five,

ten or larger

scholarshi p s

need not give it in the form of a birthday pledge

if they prefer another mode of annual con-

tribution.

We have now several young men in the House
of Studies who are not provided with scholar-

ships and we hope that there will be found

among our readers those who will adopt these

young men and undertake to provide for their

support during their course of study for the

sacred priesthood.

THE BUNGALOW



492 * vT OMNES t/Nl/M 5INT*

October 30th was the fifth anniversary of the

admission of the Society of the Atonement into

the Fold of Peter. Only five years, but what

wonders of accomplishment in so short a space

!

Those who have visited Graymoor lately and have

seen all the visible signs of growth and advance-

ment declare with one voice that it is marvellous.

To us it is but another evidence of the divine

power that circles around the Rock of Peter, giv-

ing life and fecundity to every religious institution

that shelters under its benediction and strong de-

fense. Had it remained aloof from the Holy See

the Society of the Atonement at best could never

have been more than a feeble effort to express the

Franciscan ideal in an alien land, but now in full

communion with the Apostolic See and nourished

with paternal solicitude by the great White Father

of Christendom its whole being pulsates with

divine energy, and God's spirit of growth and ex-

pansion rests upon it. Blessed forever be the day

that ushered the Graymoor Institute into the

bosom of the Catholic Church.

We mentioned in the September number that a
benefactor had presented our Sisters with a Vic-

trola phonograph and a book of choice records.

These have given the Sisters in their recreation

time much innocent pleasure. We wonder
whether among our readers there are not some

who would like to present the Sisters with some

of their old records which they, perchance, have

laid aside to give place to new ones. These old

ones would sound new at the convent and would

be gratefully accepted provided they were of a

suitable character, which of course the donor

would look out for in sending.o

THE “PEOPLE’S POPE."

“The death of Pius X. sends a wave of mourn-

ing far beyond the great communion of which he

was the head Pius X. was at once the

man of the Church and the man of the people,

venerated and loved by his own, admired and re-

spected among those who are not of his fold.

He embodied the simple virtues that hold the

hearts of men. Especially to us in this free Re-

public of opportunity was he a figure at once noble

and yet not aloof. . . . Beneath the unpre-

tending exterior of Pius X. there was a will of

rock and a mighty mind. He was indeed one of

the ablest of the Popes. . . . The world is

the better that Pius, the ‘People’s Pope,' lived and

reigned .”—The Philadelphia Press.

“Pope Pius X. was a Pope beloved by millions,

respected and esteemed by all .”—The Jersey City
Journal.

A WAR PRAYER

Lord God of Battles, shield, we pray,

Thine erring servants on this day

When nations rude, at sovereigns’ plea,

Are crossing swords. Give victory,

In Thy good season, to the cause

Of greater right and holier laws;

E'en as Thyself triumphest still

O'er Satan’s wiles, the Prince of 111.

Lord, Prince of Peace, we beg of Thee,

Stretch forth Thy hand o’er earth and sea

:

As on Tiberias, at Thy beck,

The boist'rous waves gave up their wreck,

So now, for death, oh, give us lite

;

Still Thy discordant children’s strife.

’Tis Thine to make our sorrows cease,

Bring comfort back, and give us peace!

Lord Comforter, as at the first

O'er the dread void Thy splendor burst,

So now, where feeble man can see

Naught but distress, calamity,

Brood Thou, by Thy mysterious power

;

O’er warring fleets and armies tower

;

And, out of sorrow, there deploy
r

Thy host invincible of joy.

Lord God of Joy, great Trinity,

Rejoice those hearts which bleed so free;

Though thrones may crash and princes fail

And nations tread through fire and hail,

Vouchsafe to all, now and for aye.

That inward calm which cannot die

:

And grant, when this fell war shall cease,

A reign of everlasting peace.

Selected.



HhUT OMNES UNUM SINT* 493

In % IffliHHton 3Ft?Ui
Monthly Conference with Our Missionary

Co-Workers

WE want to say something to you this monthon the necessity of our being better organ-
ized to carry on our glorious propaganda of the

Faith at home and abroad. We of The Lamp

have begun to do something but if our mission-

ary forces were better organized we could do

much more. Now we have ready to hand our

own missionary organization, the Union-That-

Nothing-Be-Lost, which is admirably fitted to our

purpose and is

d e s i g ned t o

serve as an

auxiliary to the

Society for the

Propagation of

the Faith and

our American

Catholic
Church Exten-

sion Society.

The Union-

T hat-Nothing-

B e-L o s t is

based on the

command
which Our
Lord gave to

His Apostles to

gather up the fragments that remained after the

feeding of the five thousand in the wilderness

with five barley loaves and two small fishes. In

obedience to the Master's command each Apostle

took his own basket and brought it to their Com-

mander-in-Chief filled to overflowing with the

pieces of bread and fish that they had gathered

up and which would otherwise have been wasted

and trodden under foot. Each of us holds in his

hand the basket of opportunity and if we have

the true missionary spirit by a little industry and

self denial we may fill that basket
.
with the

material means of saving souls without number

from being trodden under foot of devils and lost

in hell. Father Hopfgartner of Borneo told us

that he could safely promise to save at least one

soul for every dollar that was given him to

support the catechists who labor so success-

fully among the natives. One has but to

think a moment of the millions upon millions

of dollars spent every year by Catholics in

America for intoxicating drinks, candies,

theatrical shows, jewelry and unchristian finery

in dress to demonstrate how easy it would be

for these same Catholics, by a little self denial

and economy, to fill their missionary basket

with many small coins and even dollars and

bank drafts for the sacred cause of missions.

The Rule of

Action laid

down for in-

dividual mem-

bers of the

U. N. B. L. is

thus expressed

in the Constitu-

tion :

I. To make

the best use I

can of every

talent I pos-

sess.

II. To waste

nothin g

—

either time,

money, food

clothing nor

opportunity of doing good which may be given

me.

III. To spend upon self the minimum rather

than the maximum of what is at my disposal

;

that I may have the more to give to God and to

those whose need is greater than my own.

IV. To practice as strict an economy in order

to lay up Treasure in Heaven as the worldly-wise

do in accumulating treasure on the earth.

V. To keep ever in mind the text: “That

Nothing Be Lost,” and for love of God and the

rewards of Eternal Life, to do all the good I can,

in all the ways I can, to whomsoever I can, as

long as life affords the privileges and opportu-

nity of service.

Of course our readers will understand that this

“the harvest, indeed, is great, eut the laborers are few.

PRAY YE, THEREFORE, THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND

FORTH LABORERS IN HIS HARVEST”



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT*4CM

rule simply represents the Ideal toward which

we are to aspire. It does not impose upon con-

science any obligation, which to violate would be

sin. As the Union-That-Nothing-Be-Lost grows

in numbers and strength the spiritual benefits

accruing to the members will constantly increase,

and even at the outset we can promise several

hundred Masses said yearly by missionary priests

for the benefit of the members, living and de-

parted; moreover, by reason of our custom of

sending the offerings of the members to their

destination through the Society of the Propaga-

tion of the Faith we secure for them at the same

time their share in the thousands of Masses

offered on behalf of benefactors by that Society

and the rich indulgences accorded by the Holy

See.

We ask, therefore, all our missionary co-work-

ers to send us your names and addresses so we

may enroll you in the Union-That-Nothing-Be-

Lost. Copies of the constitution will be sent on

application gratis.

BISHOP GREGORY ASKS HELP FOR HIS
FAMINE-STRICKEN DIOCESE

On October 20th Graymoor was honored by a

visit from Bishop Gregory, the Vicar Apostolic

of Curasao (pronounced Curaso), the principal

island of the Dutch possessions in the West

Indies, accompanied by Father Martin, O.P., of

Porto Rico. The Bishop and all his clergy are

Dominicans and so successful has been their work

that out of a total population in the vicariate of

fifty-seven thousand all except seven thousand

are Catholics and there are no pagans. It is not

the piety of his people that causes the Bishop

any anxiety, for they are very devout and

obedient to their clergy, but it is the pitiful cry

of the famine-stricken which has driven him to

the United States to beg a little alms for his

hungry children. With these brief words of in-

troduction we step aside that Bishop Gregorv

may tell his own story.

THE BISHOPS ADDRESS TO THE READERS OF

THE LAMP

I should not have left my Mission and under-

taken an expensive voyage to come to the States

to ask for assistance if T had not been forced to

do so by real necessity. When I was in Rome

last year and told my story to Cardinal Gotti.

Prefect of the Propaganda, His Eminence said

to me : “Ask the Catholics, they cannot refuse

to help you.”

Let me tell you what 1 need, and why 1 am

obliged to ask for a share of your alms. Because

of famine conditions now prevailing in my Vicar-

iate I have to stop the building of two Churches.

A hospital is needed on the Island of Aruba.

Up till now the sick people in serious cases have

to travel twenty-four hours in a sailing vessel to

get to Cura-qao. The population is too poor tn

maintain their priest. For want of rain there is

no crop of maize, the staple product of the island.

Three years ago the famine on three of our

Islands was so severe that the population had

to be fed by the Government and through private

gifts. In some parishes all the old and weak peo-

ple died out and the death rate was three times

larger than other years. Now again the same

conditions of hunger and dire want confront our

poor people.

Since November last year, scarcely a drop of

rain has fallen on the hot soil and the crop was

insignificant. In some places they had no crop

at all. Since June more than 2,000 children have

to be fed daily with crackers to make them able

to come to school. A couple of weeks ago a
parish priest wrote me the following: ‘T have

over three hundred children in my school. Since

a phosphate mine in my parish was stopped on

account of the war and no other work is to be

had, a famine is menacing my parish. I asked

the children one by one what they received in

the morning before going to school. The answer

of twenty-five per cent was: ‘Nothing, Father.”

So the poor children had to walk a distance from

home of an hour and a half, stay at school till

three o'clock in the afternoon, and go back the

same distance without a bit of food.'” Since the

war broke out only a few steamers and vessels

enter the harbor of Curasao. So the poverty is

general in the city as well as in the country.

On the Island of Aruba a gold mine and a

phosphate mine were stopped on account of the

war. These people are helpless now. A thousand

men who left the Island to seek work in the

banana fields on the coast of Venezuela had to



4* VT OMNES l/NUM SINT* vr?

return as no steamers are running to carry the

fruit to Europe.

Are these people able to maintain their priests?

Mo.

Are these people able to -help build a church

or a hospital ? With famine stalking gaunt and

naked through the islands, assuredly not.

Do you blame them that they are stretching

out their hands to you?

Do you blame me, their Father and helper,

because T make myself the echo of their pitiful

crv?

ANOTHER SHORT LETTER FROM
FATHER FERRAND OF COREA

In the June number we published a letter

from Father Claude Ferrand, who introduced

himself to our readers as a missionary who had

labored in Japan for twenty-two years and had

now been transferred to the Hermit Kingdom of

Corea to be a shepherd to all the Catholic

Japanese in that country, 80,000 square miles in

extent, and to evangelize the tens of thousands

of Japanese there who are still pagans. His

1 A 1 I I KK IT.RRA \'!>'S NEW PRESBYTERY

Remember the words of Christ: “A cup of

water in My name shall not lose its reward.”

Make me able to return to my poor people the

hand filled with your gift, that I may give them

work and food and say to them : “This is the

harvest, take it and pray for the American Cath-

olics, that they may never lose the Faith that

made them so generous.”

Editor's Note: It will be a joy for The

Lamp to transmit your offerings into Bishop

Gregory's hands.

I love to think that Christian friendship may he

part of the business of Eternity.

—

Dr. Arnold

headquarters, he explained, were in the populous

city of Fusan, where resided forty thousand

Japanese besides the native Coreans, where also

were five Protestant missions and until he came

not one Catholic. Father Ferrand is very grate-

ful for the little help we were able to extend to

him, as the following letter shows. We hope

we will be able in the future to help him much

more substantially, but that will depend on our

co-workers in the Union-That-Nothing-Be-Lost.

Reverend Father:

Many
,
many thanks for your kind letter and

for the generous gift that you have sent me

through the Society for the Propagation of the



496 *VT OMNES UNUti SINT*

Faith. Almighty God will bless you. Your very

fine Lamp has reached me. I shall be truly

grateful if you will kindly send me regularly

this very good and well edited magazine. Many

thanks for having published my poor letter in it.

I hope it will bring me some help.

I have built a Presbytery, but I have been

obliged to borrow four hundred dollars for that.

Now I have to pay it and afterwards erect a lit-

tle chapel. I send you a photograph of the

Presbytery with a group of Japanese Catholics

of Fusam. Believe me, Rev. Father, yours grate-

fully in Christ,

Claudius Ferrand, M.M.

Fusan, Corea.
§

A PROPOSED CATHOLIC GARDEN-CITY

FOR ENGLAND

Father Ban’s Scheme for a New Catholic -

Settlement

BY AMBROSE WILLIS

Father Bans, the Administrator of the Crusade

of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Catholic

Children in England, is a man of far-seeing

policy. He realizes the importance of standard-

ization and centralization in Catholic charitable

work as well as in secular business, and being,

as he is, responsible for the welfare of hundreds

of Catholic waifs and orphans, he hopes to even-

tually form a Catholic colony on the garden-city

principle, where his young charges may be

brought up under the most ideal conditions.

An excellent estate has already been acquired

at Roydon in Essex (England) a few miles out-

side of London, and an excellent receiving home

has been built in the city of London, to which

the offices of the Society are attached.

But that, unfortunately, is as far as his funds

would allow him to go; and now alas, the whole

organization which has been laboriously built up

during years and years of strenuous and anxious

labor, is ominously threatened with disaster in

consequence of the war.

Nearly a thousand little ones are in the care

of this society; nearly a thousand little mouths

have to be filled day by day; yet as soon as the

war broke out the charitable subscriptions upon

which such a work as this must necessarily

depend, were immediately cut off as though the

tap were shut down, and to make matters worse

the creditors promptly began to clamor for early

settlement of accounts.

It will indeed be a disaster if a work of such

fundamental charity and urgent need should fail

at such a time. The Catholics of England are

bestirring themselves to do their utmost for this

favorite charity, but the need is heavy and urgent,

and it is a question whether they will be strong

enough to lift it, at this time when their country

is involved in the tragedy of war.

Under these circumstances they are beckoning

to their partners in the other ship. They are

looking eagerly to their fellow Catholics of the

English-speaking world over seas to help them

keep aloft this splendid work of charity which

is tending the young souls and bodies of nearly

a thousand boys and girls
;
to help them keep it

alive till the war cloud has passed and it is able

to once again maintain itself upon the subscrip-

tions of the Catholics of Great Britain.

It will be a tragedy if these thousand boys

and girls, rescued from the haunts of poverty and

sin and degradation, should have to be discarded

in this hour of national peril. It would be dread-

ful to think of young Catholics being allowed to

slip right through the meshes of the net of Peter

—and all for the want of a little temporary help
while the war lasts.

A dollar bill will keep one of these youngsters
in food for one week if sent to The Lamp or to

Father Collins, 48 Compton Street, London,

W. C, England.

The Franciscan Family has contributed in

Priests, Brothers and Tertiaries, two hundred

and fourteen martyrs to water with their blood

the soil of Japan. Of this number twenty-three

have been canonized and forty-five beatified.

The number of missionary priests laboring

among the Chinese is about fourteen hundred,

half of whom are natives. The total Catholic
population of China is now one million and a

half and many conversions are being made every

day.



*VT OMNES UNVM SINT* 497

(Ebr (Ebil5rpttH (Hnrttrr of tljp mission 3Fiftf>

A
LL our little readers will remember Sister

Mary Louise, the Japanese Sister who has

been mentioned so often in these columns and who

is still in America gathering alms for the Orphan-

age of the Infant Jesus, in Yokohama, one of the

principal cities of Japan. The venerable Mother

Superior of this orphanage has written us a letter

for the Children’s Corner,

which we are much pleased

to print this month, and we

think all our young mis-

sionaries will be much

interested in the story of

Miss Gold Forest (Hayashi

Kin San), the fisherman’s

daughter.

The Mother

Letter

I )ear Rev. Sir :

All our sisters here are

most grateful to you for

sending us The Lamp/ and

also for using it as a med-

ium to further' our good

works. It never fails to

come each month, and its

contents, read aloud during

recreation, proves not only

edifying and interesting,

but also consoling. When

the spirits are low at the

sight of the persecutions

our Holy Mother the

Church is undergoing, it

revives them to see in the

columns of The Lamp that

amongst those who before

misunderstood Her there is

now an ever increasing

trend tozmrds embracing Her Divine Truths and

becoming* Her valiant defenders.
(<

The Children's Corner” delights the large

family of little girls we have in the Convent.

Perhaps some American children would like to

hear stories about these girls. Presuming they

would, I shall in return for their kindness place

one at your disposal for them.

,(A fisherman knocked at our door on the 8th

of last December. He had with him the youngest

of his three children. Being too poor to keep her

in food and clothes he asked to have her placed

in our orphanage till she would be able to earn

her own bread. His request was granted and we

are glad it was, for the girl gives hopes of mak-

ing a very good Christian

in the future. Her name is

Hayashi Kin San, ‘Forest

Gold Missf or in better

English Miss Gold Forest.

The Japanese way of

speaking is just the con-

trary of ours. Her twelfth

birthday has already drop-

ped into the gulf of the

past. When she came she

knew nothing about the

true God, but without delay

she was taught that we

have a Father in Heaven

who loves us, watches over

us and gives us everything

we have. And that to be-

come his true child one

should be baptized and try

ones best to be good.

Immediately upon hear-

ing this, Divine Grace be-

gan to act powerfully

within her. She felt an

impelling call to do all that

was required in order to

belong truly to such a

Parent. Neither was it a

passing emotion, for ever

since she has listened to it

so attentively as to bring all

her better qualities to the surface where, like the

dew of an autumn morning, they clothe her in a

gozvn of lovely pearls.

Like all pupils in Japan, 0 Kin San had the

whole month of August for her summer vaca-

tion. She spent it at home with her father,

mother, brother and sister. Faithful to the in-

structions she received before leaving school, she



4f>8 *VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT*

said her prayers morning and evening, went to

Mass on Sundays, helped about the house in every

way she could and devoted some time to study-

ing her catechism and other lessons. She also

tried her best, and that with wonderful success

as wall be readily seen, to persuade her family and

relatives to adopt her own religious belief.

To understand why anything extraordinary

appears in her self-imposed duty, it is necessary

to know that every Japanese grown-up girl must,

whether she likes it or not, give up her own family

and become a member of another . As a general

rule
.
her new life is much harder than the one

they are refused in such a way as to hinder a

repetition of the request, but O Kin San’s case

proved an exception.

Things connected with the 2\st of August will,

I hope, ever be a source of present and future

happiness to her. On that day her father's

newspaper contained a photo of the deeply re-

gretted Pontiff Pius X and announced his death.
The news grieved her, and she at once wrote to

the Convent to tell how sorry she was because we

had lost the Head of our Church. After posting

her letter she said to herself that as the Holy

Father took the place of Jesus Christ on earth.

JAPANESE ORPHANS AT SUPPER

she was used to, however badly off she might

have been. Then when there is question of a

Catholic girl, unavoidably the change means for

her to go live amongst pagans, as there is not one

Christian family in ten thousand. The poor

Catholic has to undergo not only as much as the

pagan, but many times more. Her refusal to

offer her food to the household gods before eating

it; to take part in heathen worship and so on, is

enough, it is feared, to rouse the anger of the gods

against those that have accepted her, so to avert

this, the pains due to her “stubborness” must be

inflicted on herself. Therefore when girls ask

their parent's permission to become Catholics

surely he must be very near Him in heaven, and

could easily speak to Him about us. Moreover,

children were so dear to the good Popes heart

that he would at once get them anything they

wanted. Then she prayed to her newly adopted

helper that he might ask Jesus to let her become

a Catholic without delay. As she rose from her

knees, she zvent to her father and told him what

she had just been doing. Strange as delightful

to her, the poor fisherman said his daughter could

become a Catholic as soon as the Sisters would

let her. The girl is back again at school and shall

before long have the happiness of receiving at

the baptismal font the name of Pia,



*VT OMNES UNVM SINT* 49‘J

Full of remorse, dear Rev. Father, for taking

up so much of your precious time, I humbly beg

pardon for myself, and your blessing, as well as

a continuation of your paternal solicitude for

our mission. Assuring you of an intention in the

Masses, rosaries and other exercises of piety

offered in our cliapel, I beg to remain.

Your Reverence's humble respectful servant in

Christ,

Sr. Ste Ludgarde,

Superieurc .

Convent of the Infant Jesus,

S3 Bln
ft',

Yokohama.

OUR FINANCIAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER

W E are exceedingly pleased with the mission-ary report for October
;

as our readers

will see by glancing below it totals one thousand

and twenty-nine dollars and one cent. This far

surpasses any previous month, even last July,

when a single benefactor, Mr. C. C. Copeland,

gave five hundred dollars to Father Ting. What

makes us all the more gratified about this grand

total is that it represents the offerings not of a

few but many hundreds of contributors. Our

desire is to make this the most popular depart-

ment in The Lamp, as it certainly deserves to

be, and our readers can give no better evidence

that they are interested than to support the de-

partment with their alms.

The big thing this month has been the appeal

on behalf of Bishop Biermans, the Vicar Apostolic

of Uganda, Central Africa. Besides the letter of

the Bishop printed in the last number of The

Lamp we ourselves addressed a personal letter

to five thousand of our oldest subscribers and

they have made a magnificent response. We

asked them to give five hundred dollars to send

one of the Mill Hill Missionaries to Uganda and

this they have already done, and by the way their

responses are still coming in by every mail we

think they will send two missionaries before they

are through instead of one. This we are sure

will greatly gladden the Bishop’s heart as well as

our own. His Right Reverend met with a good

many discouragements upon coming to America

but we think Ttte Lamp has helped to turn the

popular tide in Uganda’s favor, thanks be to God

The priests and the sisters have responded

especially well to the appeal and in several in-

stances collections were taken up among the

children in the parochial schools with gratifying

results. Anything that tends to interest the ris-

ing generation of Catholics in Foreign Missions

ought to be hailed with delight.

REPORT OF FUNDS RECEIVED AND TRANS
MTTTED BY “THE LAMP” FROM SEPT. 27

TO OCT. 27

FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS

China—For Bishop Everaerts : Mass Stipend for
Graymoor Benefactors, $20; Stipend for Masses for

Lamp subscribers and Rosary League members, $12

;

St. Anthony’s Tithe, $5.25; Missionary Offering of St.

John’s Church, Graymoor, $5.75; A. B., $5; K. B., $1

;

F. S., $1 ; G. A. B., $2 ; A. E. D., $1 ; C. R., $2 ; N. E. F.,

$20; total for Bishop Everaerts, $75. For Father Leo

Ting to help build the Church of the Sacred Heart, Chu

Chow: J. S. C., $5; S. D., $20; A. E. D., $1; M. J. C.,

$25; W. M. P., $1; M. C. K., $1; total for Father Ting.

$53. For Sister Gilbert to help support St. Joseph’s

Hospital at Ning Po (Ma Lou) : Mrs. M. McN., $10.

For support of a Physician in China : St. Anthony’s

Tithe, $25.

Corea—For Father Claude Ferrand : A. E. D., $2.
Japan—For Sr. M. Louise, Orphanage of the Infant
Jesus, Rev. E. E. M., $3. Borneo—For the support of
a catechist: The Lamp, $8.50. Mass Stipends for

the Mill Hill Fathers: $10; total for the Mill Hill

Fathers of Borneo, $20.50. India—For Father D’Silva :
A. J. K., $1; A. E. D., $2; total for Father D’Silva, $3.

For Father Fernandes: G. S., $10; Mrs. M. McN., $10;

total for Father Fernandes, $20. Central Africa

( Uganda )—For Bishop Biermans, Mass Intentions for
Convent Benefactors, $100; miscellaneous Mass Inten-

tions, $89; for sending Mill Hill Missionaries to

Uganda, $540.51. Total for Bishop Biermans. $729.51.

Total for the Field Afar, $941.01.

DOMESTIC MISSIONS

Alaska—For the Rev. Mother Amadeus: Rev. E. F.
M., $3; Philippine Islands—For Father R. F. Paul
Hubaux, Cavite: J. C. M., $5; M. McN., $10; H. J. A..

$5; A. E. D., $2; total for Father Hubaux, $22. The

United States—Mass Stipend for Father C., $15; Father
L., $10; Father C. C., $10. For Sr. Genevieve, New

Orleans, La., Mrs. J. J. R.. $5. Total for Domestic

Missions, $75.

Miscellaneous Alms—For the Poor Clares, San
Cosimato, Rome, 50c. For Father S., Austria, Mass

Stipends for Graymoor Benefactors, $10. Total Mis-

cellaneous Alms, $13.

Total contributions, $1,029.01



500 *VT OMNES VNl/M SINT*

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE
SOCIETY OF THE ATONEMENT.

Chapter XIII.

—

The Genesis of The Lamp

T
HE Anglican Archdeaconry at the eastern
extremity of Long Island was to have its

autumnal meeting in September and Father Paul

had been invited to preach the sermon at the

popular evening service with which such mission-

ary convocations in the Episcopal Church are

wont to be inaugurated. The rector of the vil-

lage church had been the class mate, room mate

and “chum” of Father Paul for five years at

college and three years at the General Theologi-

cal Seminary in New York City; the Archdeacon

had been a college and seminary companion and

personal friend also.

As the time for the meeting of the Arch-

deaconry drew near Father Paul felt con-

strained in justice to his old chum, whom he

loved very dearly, to write and give him a hint

of the kind of sermon they might expect him to

deliver. He intimated that it would treat of

Church Unity and the Chair of Peter. This let-

ter brought dismay to the Rector of G .

Such a sermon at the opening of the Arch-

deaconry meeting was a dreadful thing to

contemplate, accordingly a conference was held

with the Archdeacon and a plan was outlined by

which the dreaded sermon on the Pope would

be sidetracked.

Quite ignorant of the plan agreed upon, Father

Paul, on Tuesday afternoon, September 10th,

boarded a Long Island train from New York

to G . When about mid-way of the Island

the Archdeacon got on the same train and with

a cordial handshake took the seat beside his old

college friend. Presently he said: “By the bye,

I hope you do not intend preaching anything very

High Church tonight. The people of G are

quite Low and it would be very unfortunate if

the sermon gave offence to anyone.”

Father Paul said nothing in reply that would

commit himself but he did a great deal of think-

ing. In fact a stormy debate raged in his interior

between Prudence and Conscience all the rest of

the journey. “Surely,” Prudence exclaimed,

“you will not be so mad as to preach on the Pope

after such well meant advice from the Arch-

deacon, who is thoroughly familiar with the

situation. It will be like flaunting a red flag be-

fore the face of a wild bull.” “Ah,” but Con-

science responded, “it is not the prophet’s office

to preach what will please the congregation, but

to deliver the message that God the Holy Spirit

puts into his mouth.” “That is true enough,”

rejoined Prudence, “but we must respect the

voice of authority, and is not ecclesiastical author-

ity represented in the present instance by the

Archdeacon and ought not his admonition and

counsel to be heeded?”

The internal debate still raged with no definite

decision arrived at when the train stopped at

G and the delegates to the Archdeaconry

meeting alighted on the platform of the station.

As a guest of honor Father Paul found himself

in a carriage, being driven rapidly to the church,

and beside him sat the Archdeacon. As they drew

up before the brilliantly lighted parish house

where the clergy were already vesting for the

service the Archdeacon delivered his parting

shot. Calling his companion by an old college nick-

name he said, “Preach them a spiritual sermon.”

“Yes,” responded Prudence and Self-love in

a duet, “yes, by all means preach them a spiritual

sermon; that pet sermon of yours on the Holy

Spirit will please every body in the congregation,

even the non-Episcopalians who may chance to

be present, and after the sermon is over people

will come up to you with outstretched hands and

say: “Oh, Father Paul, that was a splendid

sermon and I did enjoy it so.”

how the debate was settled

At length the procession of the clergy was

formed and passed into the church and “Evening

Prayer,” according to the Anglican prayer book,

was begun. On occasions of this sort the ser-

vice is usually divided up into as many portions

as possible, for the greater the number of the

visiting clergy taking part the better pleased they

are and the people also. As the service pro-

ceeded the agony of doubt in Father Paul’s mind

grew more intense, for he could not decide

whether he should preach the kind of sermon

the Archdeacon had asked him to do, or whether

it was the will of God that he should deliver his

message about the Pope and Church Unity. A



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT * 501

notable feature of Anglican evensong, which is

Cranmer’s substitute for Catholic vespers, is the

reading of two “lessons,” or Scripture passages,

the first taken from the Old Testament and the

second from the New. Now on this particular

night, when a clergyman of Low Church proclivi-

ties from the North of Ireland came to the lec-

tern to read the first

lesson, he announced

the second chapter of

the Prophet Ezekiel

and in a powerful,

trumpet-1 ike voice

rolled out the opening

words: “Son of man,

rise and stand upon thy

feet and thou shalt

speak My words unto

them, whether they will

hear, or whether they

will forbear (for they

are a rebellions house)

yet they shall know that

there hath been a

prophet among them.

And thou, son of man,

be not thou afraid of

their words, though

briers and thorns be

with thee.”

This settled the in-

ternal debate. Prud-

ence and Self-love

were silenced and Con-

science won the day.

Father Paul knew there

was now no escape

from a painful duty

;

unless he dared to dis-

obey God he must

preach the sermon on

the Pope. During the

singing of the hymn before the sermon he knelt

in silent, earnest prayer for wisdom and strength

and then ascended the pulpit steps.

THE SERMON

He said he had been requested to preach on

the “Spirit of Missions,” and he would base

his sermon on the description contained in the

Acts of the Apostles of the Apostles Peter and

John going up into the Temple at Jerusalem, and

how they saw a man sitting at the beautiful gate

of the temple, who had been lame from his

mother’s womb and never had walked, who made

bold to ask alms of the Vicar of Christ, as he

was wont to do of all who passed by, and Peter

said to him : “Silver

and gold have I none,

but such as I have give

I unto thee, in the

Name of Jesus Christ

of Nazareth rise up and

walk.” And he took

him by the hand and

lifted him up and

immediately his feet

and ankle bones re-

ceived strength and he,

leaping up, entered

with them into the

temple, walking and

leaping and praising

God.

In this lame man

lying just outside the

temple gate the

preacher declared that

he saw a figure and

type of Anglicanism,

that special form of

ecclesiasticism which

had been the product

of the so-called English

Reformation. Angli-

canism in fact had al-

ways been lame from

its birth and unto this

day lay prostrate just

beyond the door of en-

trance into the Cath-

olic Church, its hands

always outstretched for alms.

Why this constant lament every year over a
deficit in the funds of the Foreign and Domestic

Missionary Board and why such paucity of con-

verts to show for the sums already expended?

How could the Anglican Communion cease being
such a sorry failure in the missionary conquest

POPE LEO XIII AT THE END OF WHOSE LONG REIGN

THE LAMP WAS LIGHTED



502 *VT OMNES UHUM SINT*

of the world for Christ? Who was there on

earth to give strength to her feet and ankle bones

and make the Episcopal Church one of the

mightiest missionary forces on the face of the

earth? The answer was not far to seek, there

was one man alone who could speak the word

of divine power and work the spiritual miracle

that was necessary and that was the Pope of

Rome, the Successor of St. Peter and the Vicar

of Christ, now reigning on the throne of the

Fisherman. If we would but fix our eyes on him

and ask the favor of corporate admission into

the temple of Catholic Unity, from which Henry

and Elizabeth Tudor had expelled the English

people, the Anglo-Saxon race would become the

mightiest missionary power in Christendom. In

pre-reformation times, when English missionaries

took their commission from St. Peter's Successor

at Rome, as, for example, Wilfrid and Willibrod

and Boniface, they converted the most of north-

ern Europe to Christianity, and English and

American missionaries might do the same for

Asia and Africa and the Islands of the Pacific,

if once again they took their marching orders

from the Vicar of Christ.

HOW THE SERMON WAS ENDED

As the preacher proceeded in this fashion the

strain upon his auditors, especially the clergy,

grew more tense. At length the North of Ireland

presbyter, who had read the lesson from the

Prophet Ezekiel, could sit still no longer. Rising

and approaching the Archdeacon he whispered

:

“You cannot allow that man to go on preaching

such popery, you must stop .Jiim off.” Thus

spurred on to action the Archdeacon, by the help

of his cane, rose to his feet limped forward to

the center of the chancel and mounted the altar

step. In a railroad accident lie had been maimed

for life and the figure of the lame man, halting

upon his cane, made the scene all the more sug-

gestive. Facing the congregation and holding the

alms basin in his hand in a loud voice the Arch-

deacon shouted: “Let your light so shine before

men that they may see your good works and

glorify your Father which is in Heaven.” These

words from the Gospel constitute one of the so-

called “offertory sentences” of the Episcopal

Church, and when it is pronounced the wardens,

or vestrymen, present understand it as a signal

to take up the collection.

Father Paul at once stopped preaching and

returned to his seat in the chancel, but the last

words he uttered were “the Chair of Peter.”

But besides this immediate result the words of

the Archdeacon were destined to have a far more

literal fulfilment in so far as they related to the

preacher of the evening. Father Paul would yet

“let his light so shine,” as a witness to Papal

Supremacy and Jurisdiction, that the whole

Anglican Communion would read the message

even if they failed to accept it.

The -Friar from Graymoor sought the seclusion

of his room at the hotel that night, with a strong

fellow-feeling for such unpopular and unwel-

come prophets as Ezekiel and Jeremiah, yet there

was profound consolation in the knowledge that

he had not flinched in the discharge of the hard-

est thing he had ever done, probably, in his whole

life.

RESOLUTIONS PUT ON THE TABLE

When the business session of the Archdeacon

was called to order the next morning Father Paul

i sat alone in a back seat. Presently the Reader of

the chapter from “the Book of the Prophet

Ezekiel” asked for the floor and proceeded to read

a set of fiery resolutions, condemning in no

measured language the sermon of the preceding

evening, stigmatizing the preacher as disloyal and

meet for ecclesiastical censure, and in order to

prove to the Church at large how utterly the

clergy of the Archdeaconry repudiated such

popish sentiments he moved that a copy of the

resolutions be sent for publication to the leading

church papers. Then it was that the unexpected

happened. There was another Irishman present,

a missionary of indefatigable zeal, whose hercu-

lean labors commanded the praise and admiration

of the entire Archdeaconry. He was a tall and

commanding figure and spoke with true Celtic

eloquence. He declared the resolutions just read

as an outrage, surpassing anything of the kind he

had ever listened to. “We of this Archdeaconry

have invited a brother clergyman, of another

diocese, in good canonical standing to preach

before us, and forthwith we proceed to indict

the preacher as a heretic without the semblance

of an ecclesiastical trial and brand him before



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT* 50.i

(C) Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

POPE PIUS X, WHO RECEIVED THE LAMP INTO UNION WITH THE CHAIR OF PETER

AND GAVE IT INCREASE BY HTS BLESSING



504 *VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT*

the Church at large as a traitor, and all because

he has advocated our re-union with the Mother

Church of Rome, from which we, were separated

in an evil hour. Why, Mr. Chairman, I move

you sir, that these resolutions be laid on the

table"
;
and laid on the table they were. The

silent Friar, sitting alone in the back of the

church, was not a little consoled by the un-

expected intervention of so stalwart a champion,

and he saw in it only another evidence of that

providential protection which since lie had begun

to imitate St. Francis had never failed him.

When a few years later the Anglo- Roman Union

was formed to witness among Anglicans to the

See of Peter, as the divinely constituted centre

of Catholic Unity, this same clergyman joined

the union and became a member of the Executive

Committee.

THE SEQUEL

What happened at the Archdeaconry meeting,

followed by the Mission in St. Barnabas' Church,

Brooklyn, mentioned in a previous chapter, closed

well nigh every pulpit in the Episcopal Church

to Father Paul. He became a sort of ecclesiastical

pariah, shunned by his clerical brethren as though

he were a leper, nevertheless the burden of the

prophet was still upon him. The pen and the

printing press, oftentimes more powerful and far-

reaching than the tongue, were still at his com-

mand. We have already told the story of little

Rose Leaves scattered to the forewinds from Our

Lady's Garden at Graymoor, but fifteen months

later a beacon light was kindled on the Mount

of the Atonement, which was destined to send

its rays into the remotest regions of the earth.

On the Feast of Candlemas, February, 1903, the

first number of The Lamp was issued. The fit-

ness of the occasion was thus commented on by

the Editor in his introductory address to the

readers

:

“Candlemas, the beautiful Feast of the Puri-

fication, when she who was ‘the Lamp of

Burnished Gold,’ came into the Temple bearing

the Light-o f-the-World, marks the first appear-

ance of The Lamp. We have lighted it as a

witness to the Old Faith as taught by the English

Church before a wicked king severed her from

the Centre of Unity. We believe that not only

does our Blessed Lord wish us to pray, but also

to work for unity
;
and instead of magnifying

differences between ourselves and Rome we

ought to minimize them, and thus prepare the

way for that peace which we all long for as

Christians.”

The Archdeacon little dreamed that he was

calling The Lamp into being when he thundered

from the altar step: “Let your light so shine be-

fore men.”

PIUS X

By John T. Canavan

A war gust swirled about thy coffined head,

O lover of all peace—a gust outstrayed
From where, in Hatred's livery arrayed,

Men shed men's blood the while their own veins

bled.

In her Lutetian garden curveted.

On thy death-eve, the lissome odalisque

Until the bugle, impudently brisk,

Snarled at her playmate : “Is thy manhood dead?”

But so thou hast lived that thou still shalt live,

O gentle sleeper. And thy hand upraised

Shall stay the charging nations. All amazed,

Men yet shall crave what that dead hand can

give,

And no hand other. Thine on-living will

Hate, Greed and Passion shall o'ermaster still.

A JEWISH TRIBUTE TO POPE PIUS.

“Catholics all over the world will mourn the

loss if this gentle, saintly man, whose principal

aim was to aid the poor and to promote and pre-

serve peace. And we, of a different faith, mourn

with them. The power of a Pope is more abso-

lute than the strength of an emperor. It holds

and directs, not by virtue of inherited superiority,

but by love
;

not with the hand of might, but by

faith and humble reverence. Whatever may be

our channels of worship and belief, we acknowl-

edge the great good accomplished by Pope Pius

X., and we share the deep sorrow of those who

feel that his unexpected death carries forcible

divine rebuke to the warring nations across the

sea ."—The American Jezu (St. Louis).



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M 5INT* 505

ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF THE HOLY
NAME.

By James A. Sweeney.

A T the last annual convention of the
Newark

Diocesan Federation of the Holy Name So-

ciety, the Rev. William P. Cantwell, LL.D., edi-

tor of “The Monitor,” made the rather startling

declaration, “God bless ‘The Menace.’ ” Dr.

Cantwell amplified his statement by declaring

that it was his opinion that the Catholic Church

would derive results least expected ; that from

the vilifying attacks would develop a feeling of

keener interest and sympathy from all right-

minded people outside the fold, while the luke-

warm element among the Catholics would become

imbued with a feeling of appreciation of their

duties, etc.

The readers of The Lamp have had occasion

to find the truth of his prophecy. Such un-

Christian efforts are bound to prove a boome-

rang, and a recent incident, fomented by people

apparently animated by the same instinct, will

bear this out.

In the City of Paterson, N. J., the annual Holy

Name rallies have been a remarkable success and

have exercised a great influence for good for

many years. But this success has engendered

also a bitter feeling among a certain element.

The Guardians of Liberty, as might be expected,

resented this demonstration in honor of God’s

Holy Name, and, using the pretext that it tended

to desecrate the Lord’s Day, dispatched a set of

resolutions to the Protestant churches and to

patriotic ( ?) and fraternal orders.

Among the bodies to be petitioned was the

Ministerial Association of the city. A meeting

of the clergymen was held, and, according to sub-

sequent developments, the gathering was small

and attended by a few of the narrow-minded gen-

tlemen, who appointed a committee to protest

against the parades and seek for their abolition.

A committee of three ministers waited on the

Rev. Anthony H. Stein, in the absence of the

leader of the district, the Rev. Michael F. Mc-

Guinness, and presented the proposition that this

year the bands and drum corps should desist from

playing music in passing the Protestant churches,

and that next year and thereafter the demonstra-

tion be abandoned entirely.

Of course, this proved a shock to bather Stein,

who recalled the warm reception tendered by

some of the churches in the past, especially by

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where the rector

and officials and Sunday-school pupils, in all ag-

gregating several hundreds, welcomed the Holy

Name men, while the chimes pealed forth sacred

music. (None of the Episcopal clergymen is a

member of the Ministerial Union.) However,

the committee was obdurate, and the matter be-

came public.

Learning of the difficulties, the editor of The

Paterson Press, a non-Catholic, who has gained

national fame by virtue of his fearless and manly

writings, published the following editorial, which

has probably provoked more commendation than

any article hitherto appearing in a newspaper :

THE HOLY NAME PARADES
The action of the Paterson Ministers’ Association at

a recent meeting in appointing a committee to confer

with the heads of the Catholic Church in this diocese

with the end in view of putting a stop to the annual

Sunday parades of the Holy Name Society of Paterson,

will, the Press believes, be regarded generally in this

city as an unfortunate attitude for the Ministers’ Asso-

ciation to assume at this time. The request of the Prot-

estant clergymen that those in charge of this year's

parade eliminate the music of the bands while near any

of the churches along the line of march, is harmless

enough in itself, but when it is admitted by the heads

of the Ministers’ Association themselves that this is to

be but an entering wedge of a movement to put an end

to the parades on Sunday in the future, the crusade

cannot fail to attract widespread attention and bitter

feeling in many quarters.

If there were a hard and fast rule by which men of

one faith always opposed the men of another faith as a

fixed habit rather than from the promptings of justice,

the Press in the present controversy would naturally be

found on the side of the Protestant clergymen and

against the Holy Name men. But the Press has no

sympathy for denominational strife, a condition that has

been very much in evidence in Paterson of late and in

which every fair-minded man will admit the Catholics

have not been the agressors. The Press, therefore,

regrets to see the Ministers’ Association seemingly

aligned with a movement offensively noticeable in Pater-

son for a long time, which, if carried farther, is des-

tined to dig a gulf between the Catholics and Protes-

tants of the city which will be sure to injure the cause

of religion here in a general way, and hamper future



50b *UT OMNES VNl/M 5INT*

public morality movements that would naturally call for

the united endeavors of both branches of the Christian

Church..

The Holy Name parade is a religious demonstration

pure and simple, in which only men take part, and the

celebration is held on Sunday here, as it is in other

cities, presumably because it is the one day on which

men can easily find the time away from their toil to

turn out in a demonstration. For years several thou-

sand men have paraded here, led by bands playing

marches and patriotic airs, and carrying banners em-

blematic of love of country and allegiance to the God

of us all. After the parade exercises of a purely reli-

gious character are held, after which the men disperse

It is indisputable that the movement in which this army

is enlisted is a mighty agency for good among men.

This counts for much against the technicalities of

creeds.

It is very doubtful if there is any general sentiment

in Paterson against the Holy Name parades. A vote

of the entire population would probably show a great

majority of the people in favor of the continuance of

the turnouts, and this would include many staunch

Protestants who have been inspired each year by seeing

the hosts of men marching boldly under the banners of

the same God that they themselves revere. After all,

is not Paterson big enough for the Protestants, the

Catholics and the Jews to worship God in all reasonable

ways, and is there not enough of the spirit of religious

liberty and Christian charity abroad in the community

to give away a little to each other, so that no one de-

nomination in insisting upon its own rights shall in-

fringe upon the rights of another?

The Press offers two suggestions. First, that the

idea of interfering with future Holy Name parades be

abandoned. Second, that the heads of all the churches

that will be passed by the Holy Name men next Sunday

shall show the true Christian spirit—the spirit of love
and forbearance that was. taught in the Sermon on the

Mount—by seeing to it that a recess is taken in each

of their Sunday Schools when the Holy Name line ap-

pears and that the Sunday Schools en masse go out to

the front of the church and give their Catholic brothers

the Chautauqua salute; and if the bands should be

playing “Onward Christian Soldiers” and the men sing-

ing the air, let the Protestant children mingle their

voices with those of the marchers in the inspiring Gospel

song, and thus bring the Kingdom of Heaven a little

nearer the city of Paterson.

Come, now, how many of the Protestant churches will

follow the suggestions and by so doing bring a benedic-

tion upon the heads of their own members, and at the

same time throw several loads of earth into the gulf

that misguided men have been digging deep in Paterson

for a long time back between the forces of Protes-

tantism and Catholicism. It’s time, people of Paterson,

to close up the unsightly and the ungodly breach.

The result of the editorial was that several of

the Protestant churches held meetings and dis-

claimed any sympathy with the movement against

the rallies, and those and other churches, through

their clergymen, invited the Holy Name men to

pass by. All the churches along the line of march,

including those which had previously protested,

were communicated with by the priests, and not

one was found with the courage of requesting the

marchers to desist from music or to avoid their

churches. On the other hand, the Holy Name

men were thoroughly aroused, and the turnout

proved to be greater than any hitherto held. The

men looked better, marched better, and in num-

bers proved an increase of 25 per cent, above the

other years. Thousands viewed the parade, and

from every source the highest encomiums were

paid.

This is the view of the situation taken by

Father McGuinness, when interviewed the day

following the parade, as appeared in The Press

of that date

:

When seen by a Press representative after the exer-

cises, Father McGuinness, who had charge of the affairs,

was supremely happy. “You can say for me that I am

perfectly delighted with the outcome of the demonstra-

tion. There is no doubt that this was the greatest day

that the Holy Name Society has ever known. I am

especially pleased with the generous response of so

many non-Catholics. It seems to me that a new era has

been established in Paterson and I have no hesitancy

in saying that the credit for this happy state of affairs

is due in an especial manner to that editorial in last

Wednesday’s Press, which has provoked more comment

than any newspaper article I have ever heard of. If we

people of Paterson can get together, and realize that

this city is big enough for all creeds to honor their

God according to the dictates of their conscience, it is

certain to redound to the benefit of the community and

the advancement of Christianity. I want to thank pub-

licly the grand marshal and his assistants who carried

through the parade without a hitch, and to all others

who helped us. I am no less thankful to Dr. Hamilton

and Dr. Moore and others not of our faith who showed

the brotherly love of Christians.”

ETERNAL EQUITIES

All the poised balances of God would swerve,

Did men not get the blessings they deserve

;

And all the vigorous scales of Fate would turn.

Did men not get the punishments they earn.

Edward Markham.



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT*

ENCOURAGEMENT FROM A CONVERT
TO OTHERS WHO ARE SEEKING TO

ENTER CHRIST’S FOLD

By Margaret Mary Alexander

AM going to ask the Editor if he will allow
me in this number to say a few loving, heart-

felt words of encouragement to the souls who,

like myself, have been given grace to see the

light—to know the right way—yet who are held
back perhaps by considerations that make the

great step seem an impossibility to them. To

them

,

yes, indeed, it may be, but not to God ! He,

and He only, can; but He will give strength for
that supreme test He sends to a human soul.

I have a most earnest word to say to any of

you who are hesitating

—

Don’t turn hack! Do
not, on any account—whatever it may be—give
up the battle, fought with God’s help. You can-

not imagine—those of you who are outside the
Fold—what you will lose if you do not come in.
You cannot imagine the blessing you will gain if

you do. It might, indeed, be the Lord’s will to

withhold a sense of blessing for a time, but never

mind—if that were so, even if it were always
withheld—it would still be yours because you had
been true, because you had followed where God

called. But, on the other hand, when it is His

holy will to grant the full sense of blessing and

peace
;
oh, if I could only tell you what it is

;
what

is waiting for you when your battle is won ! I

want to say a few words out of my own experi-
ence. I am thinking of you who are mothers,

who have to make that highest and most supreme

sacrifice, estrangement from your children in

Church ties. In one sense, you do have to do

that, but not in another, not in a deeper sense.

You strengthen the tie, the spiritual one, and the

human one also. If you stand true to the call of

conscience it will help them, perhaps, some day

to stand true in some battle of the soul; remem-

ber that it is an awful responsibility to let them

see you turn aside from God’s call for the sake of

any human tie, however dear and sacred it may

be. And I believe, too, that the human tie is

strengthened, the mother-love grows deeper and

the children recognize and respect the courage and

509

self-sacrifice that lie in the terrible step. For it

is terrible; one might just as well look that in the

face. So terrible that God Himself goes every

step of the way with the soul that takes it. It

never could be done without Divine Grace. And

another thing where your children are concerned,

you can share the blessings with them. It may

not be that they will follow you, but it will surely

be that having such a blessing in your own life, it

must shine out upon those so dear and near to

you. Do the best you can for them in facing the

Holy Spirit’s call unflinchingly and in saying

bravely, “I will, whatever the cost may be.”

FAITH IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

And if God has granted you the supreme grace

of faith in the Blessed Sacrament and its mighty

power and peace are stealing into your soul, trust

that faith ! It is real, though it is so wonderful

in its effect upon the soul that has just found it

that the soul perhaps thinks it is imagination. I

did, once, but I soon found it was indeed my

Blessed Saviour Himself. And, I say, trust it,

don’t lose it by over-anxiety; just pray and be-

lieve and trust. I cannot tell you not to read

because one has to do that, particularly if one is

an Anglican, as I was, in order to be just to the

old Church one loves. But don’t get so tired with

the books that you tire and cloud the dawning

faith, for that is the greatest and most essential

part. If you are wondering what to read, I

would gladly tell you the books that brought my

thoughts to a focus and helped and strengthened

me in my battle. Do not fail to read Newman's

“Development of Christian Doctrine" and his

“Apologia," and Manning's “Why I Became a

Catholic." And among the more modem converts,

read Maturin’s “Price of Unity," Mgr. Benson’s

“Confessions of a Convert," Fr. Fidelis’ (Kent

Stone) “The Invitation Heeded," von Ruville’s

“Back to Holy Church," and read without fail

Wiseman’s “Eight Lectures on the Real Pres-

ence."

In some of these just a few chapters or pages

answered all my questions. If you are in doubt

about the validity of Orders in the Anglican

Church do not fail to get a pamphlet by the Abbot

Gasquet, “The Question of Anglican Ordina-

tions." But, above all, read the Bible, and Christ



510 *VT OMNES VNl/M SINT*

Himself will guide you. Never forget that He

was prescient; that He knew and foresaw the

mighty results that would follow His great words,

“Thou art Peter,” and His most wonderful of all

declarations, “This is My Body,” and remem-

ber, therefore, that He never would have said

those mighty words if He had not intended those

results to follow which are manifestly in the

Catholic Church and nowhere else.

Because I have already referred to my own ter-

rible struggle ending in my reception, some of

you may be inclined to ask: “But what then

—

what followed?” Dear friends, I can only say a

few words right out of my heart. I fought the

supreme battle of my life from the end of last

year's February until July. It nearly killed me.

The agony was beyond all words. I could not

have won if God had not helped me. But I can

truly say this : I would bear it from first to last

all over again, and a thousand times more, rather

than give up the blessing I have found in Christ’s

Fold.

Cardinal Gibbons’ “The Faith of Our Fathers”

first opened my eyes to the Catholic Faith as it

really is, and when I went to seek help from its

author his own saintly spirit told me very plainly

how beautiful and pure and Christlike was the

faith that lay in such a life as his. And in his

cathedral I saw and felt what the Catholic Faith

can give to a human soul. I needed no priest, no

book to tell me. And it is all waiting for you, to

find it for yourselves. But not only in the cathe-

dral did I find it. It is just the same in the little

country church, where I cannot go often enough.

Where the Blessed Sacrament is, there is Peace.

“to-day, if ye will hear fits voice”

Come, friends, those of you who are hesitating,

and don't wait too long. I say these words with

deepest intention and meaning, though none of

you who are still fighting the battle can fully

realize their importance. But it is this : For such

a need as that step, God gives a supreme gift of

grace to enable the soul to take it. And remem-

ber God’s grace is so sacred a thing that He docs

not alloit’ it to be trifled with, and sometimes

when it is neglected He withdraws it. Ah, do not

wait too long! The blessing is so precious. The

Blessed Lord seems to long to reward the soul

that has fought such a battle.

Don’t let anyone persuade you that you can

gain the blessing outside if you only have the

will to enter, but are held back by circumstances.

That is impossible. When Christ sent the blind

man for his cure to the pool of Siloam He did

not send him to stand by the water's edge for

his healing. He told him to “Go wash in the

pool of Siloam,” and the man obeyed and “came

seeing.” Friends, the gift the Blessed Lord gives

to the soul that comes to Him for welcome into

His own dear Fold is far greater than the gift

of sight He gave to the blind man. I know, and

so I have to tell you. I owe it to the Dear Lord

in return for His blessing; I cannot keep it just

for myself alone. I must share it with other

souls. Loyalty to the Anglican Church may hold

you. Loyalty is praiseworthy, truly
;
but oh, how

often is it misdirected ! Be sure, for one thing,

that you can do more to help them in by coming-

in yourself than by staying with them and fighting

for unity whilst not yourself in union with

Christ’s Church. And as to loyalty, if you real 1 \

think the Dear Lord is calling you, to which do

you owe all the loyalty of your whole soul, to the

Church so dear to you, which is an institution of

man, or to the Church for whose founding

Christ died?

Dear friends, I could write on and on, I could

enter into long intellectual discussions
;
could give

outlines of the deep reading and thought that,

after all, were secondary, because Christ’s Own

Words led me in. Such discussions do not form

my purpose to-night; I am simply looking back,

1 am seeing all that the Precious Lord has done

for me, giving me in part the blessing even richer

and fuller after the battle was won; sustaining

me in sorrow as I have never been sustained in

sorrow before
;
giving me a strength and calm and

peace to meet life’s crosses that I never knew

before. And now, looking at it all and knowing

the depth and richness and the beauty of the

blessing that is waiting for your soul, too, when-

ever you come to claim it, I simply feel a long-

ing to say to each of you, with all my whole heart

and' soul in the call, Come! Come and find the

blessing and the peace that is waiting for you in

Christ’s blessed Fold.



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT* 51

1

A NUN’S LETTER ABOUT THE WAR

The Prophecies of Dom Bosco and the

Cure of Ars

T
HE following letter, which tells most realis-
tically what war means to non-combatants

in Europe at the present time, was recently re-

ceived from a Sister of Notre Dame, resident

in England.

My Dear :

f begin zvith this prophecy of Dom Bosco,

said to have been uttered by him in 1885 :

“A European war will break out in 1913 or

1914. Germany will be dismembered
,
not, how-

ever, before she shall have penetrated into the

heart of France. There a mighty arm will hurl

the Germans across the Rhine. The man of pride

will see his tree shattered and crushed to the

roots and trodden under foot by all. The great

battle will take place between two days of Our

Lady, viz. August 15 th and September 15 th when

the Pope shall be dead and live again. Belgium

zvill undergo great suffering from which she will

emerge increased in strength and admired.

Poland zvill regain her rights.''

The above was sent to us as: “Copied from a

London paper." It is more definite at any rate

than the prophecy of the Cure D’Ars, which

found its way into The Catholic Times. (See

foot note.)

To pass from prophecy to history! The

[Editor’s Foot Note.—The account in the London
“Catholic Times!’ referred to above, is reproduced

here:

“A singular prophecy uttered by the French priest

known as the Cure d’Ars, who, previous to his death in

1859, clearly foretold the Prussian invasion and French

disasters of 1870, is recalled at present. In a collection

of his writings published at Paris, Brussels and Luxem-

burg, in 1873, he said, speaking of a second invasion :

‘The enemy will not retire immediately. They will

again return, destroying as they come. Effective re-

sistance will not be offered them. They will be allowed

to advance, but after that their communications will be

cut off and they will suffer great losses. They will then

retire towards their own country, but they will be fol-

lowed, and not many will reach their goal. They will

then restore what they have taken away, and more in

addition. Much more terrible things will happen than

Vise church was burnt when the Germans first

took the town, and the priest took the Blessed

Sacrament (500 Hosts!) to the Convent Taber-

nacle. At 7.30, just as our Sisters were going
\

to supper, an officer arrived to take off the

Superior—72 years of age—hostage. A German
Sister volunteered to go with her. They were

not allowed to put on their cloaks, and the cup

of hot milk that the Sisters insisted on their

taking had to be drunk in the presence of the

military. The four hostages (including the

Dean and the Burgomaster) were marched in

single file with soldiers before, behind and on

either side (they had to keep step) to a farm-

house some miles outside Vise. Here they were

locked in the kitchen, a dirty room 7 feet high,

and it was only on the second day that they were

allowed to have the window open. They were

warned that they would be shot if they tried to

escape or if the townsfolk made any resistance.

The Dean and Burgomaster were permitted to

smoke, “provided the ladies did not object,”

which, of course, they didn't. A soldier was on
guard at the back of the house and another in

front with orders to count them at intervals

through the window. They had a candle in a

stable lantern for the night, a wicker arm chair,

a few wooden chairs and a bench. For break-

fast, black coffee and a very small piece of hard

bread. For dinner, black coffee again with

globules of grease atop as though it had been

boiled in the “dishwater” which was given them

for soup. But there were leeks and potatoes

have yet been seen. Paris will suffer, but a great tri-

umph will be witnessed on the Feast of Our Lady.’

“As September 8th was the Feast of the Nativity of

the Blessed Virgin. French Catholics believe that the

reverses and general retirement of the Germans and the

capture of a battalion of German infantry announced

on that day was the beginning of the fulfilment of the

prophecy.

“The Cure d’Ars (Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney) was

proclaimed Venerable by Pius IX, and on the 8th Jan-

uary, 1905. was enrolled amongst the Blessed. Pope

Pius X proposed him as a model to the parochial clergy.
His feast is kept on August 4th. It is noteworthy that

the possession of supernatural knowledge is amongst

the miracles recorded by his biographers.”

See also the prophecy attributed to Our Lady of La
Salette, p. $t$.]



512 *VT OMNES UHVM SINT*

in the soup, or bits of bacon or tough veal by

way of variety and it was hot, and probably just

what the soldiers had for themselves. They

were encouraged to write to their friends, too,

to make known

their dangerous

and uncomfort-

a b 1 e position

and everything

sent to them

w a s minutely

examined be-

fore being

handed to

them. The good

folks of Vise

did what they

could. There

was no bread in

the town but

g i n g e r
-

bread was sent

as a substitute,

with the best

fruit to be had

and wine which

they shared

with the officer.

He became

chatty and told

the m h o w
splendidly the

army was pro-

vided for in

arms and sup-

plies, how fool-

ish it was of

Belgium not

to let them

through and

sell them food

at a handsome

price, etc. He

also told them

that in an air-

ship you cannot distinguish usefully at a greater

height than 300 metres.

The first night was spent by the Sisters on

chairs, by the men on the bench. After that

BLESSED J. B. VIANNEY, CURE D ARS

there was straw on the ground and the men lay

down but the Sisters remained seated. The Cure

snored steadily but the Burgomaster’s sleep was

broken by anxiety for his wife and children.

When awake
they prayed to-

gether and the

Doyen read
from the Imi-

tation. Once a

day they were

marched in the

yard for an

airing, each

one with sol-

diers on either

side. Other-

w i s e they

might not leave

the kitchen on

any pretext

whatso-
ever without a

soldier or two

to guard them.

Troops were

constantly

passing, .one

military squad

so thirsty that

they were glad

to drink the

water in which

the Sisters had

just washed the

dish e s. To

break the mo-

notony an offi-

cer came in and

chatted to them

while his trou-

sers were being

mended at a

sewing machine

by a soldier

!

On the fourth day they were marched back to

Vise. There the Sisters were told that they might

go home as they had been civil, but the two men

were marched oft* for further insults. Barring



*VT OMNES VNl/M 51NT* 513

the trousers incident, the soldiers had not in-

dulged in gratuitous insults. Every hardship and

inconvenience was simply a matter of military

discipline; they had their orders and did not go

beyond.

Meanwhile at the convent a Sister had inter-

viewed the officer in command and begged to be

allowed to go as hostage in the place of her supe-

rior. “But, why?” he asked. She explained that

a superior in a religious community is like a

mother in a family, everything hangs on her. He

seemed greatly moved and begged her not to urge

her request, as it was out of his power to grant it.

“Then I shall write to the Kaiser,” she said. “Do

so, and I will see that he gets the letter." She re-

turned to the convent with a poster, which proved

an effective safeguard, but when the house next

door was on fire they had to turn out with the

rest of the townsfolk.

The superior, who had had a night’s rest,

divided her little stock of cash among the twenty-

three Sisters in case they got separated. Each

Sister had about two pounds ($10). The cook,

who is now safe at Liverpool, was more anxious

about a basket of provisions she was looking

after than about the money, which, with a few

little personalities, she had put into a cigar box,

and after they had gone a few hundred yards

she discovered that she had dropped it. She went

back to look for it, and it was handed to her by

a German soldier who had evidently looked in-

side, but gave her back the money intact. They

had a four hours’ tramp in the sifa before they

could get a train, and one of them was blind, 80

years of age, with a broken leg in plaster of

paris.
%

From his prison the Dean had sent an open

letter to the Sister Sacristan telling her how to

act in case of emergency. When the order to

leave the convent came she communicated the

Sisters (ten sacred hosts apiece) and then found

that the church ciborium was in the tabernacle as

well. There was nothing for it but to take Our

Dear Lord with them into exile, and at sight of

the ciborium a whole regiment of Germans whom

they met lined up on the roadside and stood at

salute, while their officer bowed reverently and

called out : “Go in peace, good Sisters ! God is

with you.”

At Maestricht they were received with every

imaginable kindness by the Franciscan Sisters

there. The parish priest of Maestricht took

charge of the Blessed Sacrament and gave bene-

diction with it in the church when the people were

gathered for the evening service. Then he

mounted the pulpit and told the story and took

up a collection which was sent to the Franciscans

with a request to look well after the “poor Bel-

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514 *VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT*

gian Sisters.” After a few days at Maestricht

the Sisters took the road for Ghent, where they

found the house in a turmoil. The Germans were

expected and the wounded Belgian soldiers at the

convent had to be hurriedly dispersed and the

“wards” turned into classrooms again. The Sis-

ters at Ghent were working day and night, for not

only had the wounded to be seen to, but meals

were cooking all day in* the playground for the

refugees burnt out of house and home, who

flocked into Ghent from all quarters.

The Vise Sisters are now, thank God, all safe in

our English houses at Clapham, Norwich, North-

ampton and Liverpool. A few invalids from
Antwerp have likewise come over, and a com-

munity (thirteen) whose convent outside Ant-

werp is right in the firing line. Some of our Bel-

gian houses are burned to the ground, but so far

as we have heard none of our Sisters have been

insulted or hurt. Providence watches over them,

I am confident, as well as over our Mother House

at Namur. The church there, and the Belvidere,

or astronomical observatory, are conspicuous

landmarks, yet they seem to have escaped the

shells, and the “ Stars and Stripes” wave in the

breeze above. America is behaving splendidly

!

(See foot note.)

The war brings out what is best in everyone.

Twenty thousand priests and monks, they say,

are fighting in the French ranks, with ample fac-

ulties to absolve and to say Mass even in uniform

—and the soldiers are pious, as a matter of
course. In London the simple life is all the rage,

lights low over London every night, while the

aeroplanes keep guard above, and never more

than two courses at the royal table. Canon K

told in the pulpit how he asked for herrings in a

London restaurant and was answered : “Her-

ring is very dear, sir. Won’t you have salmon in-

stead? We have no demand for that and it is

very cheap.”

The Queen goes around the London hospitals,

but she cannot spare time to go to her own boy,

who is in the hospital at Aberdeen. The Prince

of Wales, though, got leave to run up and con-

dole with the “middy” dying to be back on his

ship. Princess Mary, who so hated needlework

as a child, sits all day at her sewing machine,

and the Prince, who insists on being called “Lieu-

tenant,” and not “Prince,” drills and marches and

begs to be sent to the front. But Kitchener

holds firm and neither prince nor peasant shall

join the French till “fit.” He easily got the

500,000 men he asked for and can afford to be

fastidious these days as to teeth and chest meas-

urement, and when this little lot is ready for act-

ive service in the spring there will be another

batch waiting to take their places on the drill

grounds. St. Helens (a manufacturing town in

Lancashire) has given 11,000 to the army!

A Liverpool boy of seven was howling in

school because his father had told him that the

war would be over before he was old enough to

fight the Germans. There is a pathetic little

story of a Belgian baby who was pining away

among strangers, who would not eat, etc. At

last a Territorial came to the house in his khaki

when she brightened up and held out her arms,

crying: “Bree-tish!” She was quite at her ease

with him and he had her on his knee and eating-

in a very short time. As a rule, Belgian refugees

keep together in families and every precaution is

taken that the faith of the children shall run no

risks. The Catholic Women’s League is looking-

after them, and Dr. Sarolia, the Belgian repre-

sentative in England, and editor, by the way, of

“Everyman,” is whole-hearted in their cause.

[Editor’s Foot Note .—We have been informed that
the Sisters of Notre Dame in this country, made an

appeal to President Wilson on behalf of their Mother

House in Namur, and this is probably the explanation

of the “Stars and Stripes” floating over it.]

“A MAGNIFICENT FIGURE OF PIETY.”

“In the death of Pope Pius X. the world has

lost a great and good man. Catholic, Protestant

and Jew alike mourn his death, for his love and

tenderness embrace those of all creeds and races.

He was in reality a Holy Father, loving all man-

kind as children, suffering with them in their sor-

rows, sacrificing himself in their interests—a mag-
nificent figure of piety, kindness and learning,

which the world can little afford to lose. . . .

A man with such a heart and such a love for all

mankind is a loss to the world. Gentile and Jew

alike should pause in reverence when such a good

soul passes to his reward beyond.”

—

The Bee

(Sacramento, Cal.).



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Among (§ur Exchange

THE APPARITION AND THE SECRET ( )F
LA SALETTE

TIIK PRESENT EUROPEAN WAR FORETOLD

P
RIVATE revelations do nut require divine

faith on the part of the faithful, even though

such revelations were made to saints or have

been recognized as worthy of belief by the eccle-

siastical authorities. Divine revelations came to

a close at the death of St. John, the last of the

Apostles, and Holy Church has preserved them

intact throughout all centuries. But there have

always been private revelations and prophecies in

the Church, and St. Paul says these should not

lie despised
;
they are in many cases an exterior

grace for the welfare of souls, a warning of God’s

judgment, and a means for the conversion of sin-

ners. “Prove all things, and hold fast that which

is good,” says the Apostle.

The apparition of La Salette has been declared

authentic by the ecclesiastical authorities, and the

statute of Our Lady of La Salette was crowned

by Leo XIII.

AN ABRIDGED ACCOUNT OF THE SECRET OF LA

SALETTE

After having enumerated pious and ex-

perienced persons who bore witness for the

authenticity of the apparition of La Salette, we

give an abridged account of the Secret of La

Salette, reminding our readers once more that no

one is obliged to credit private revelations.

In the first place, the Blessed Virgin complains

of the trespasses against the first three command-

ments of God, which cry to heaven for vengeance,

also against the commandment of fasting and

abstinence. Punishments referring to food

(potatoes, wine, grain) were first announced.

Then the Heavenly Mother calls attention to the

sins of secular and even of spiritual guides who

become wandering stars to the people. Pius TX

should not leave Rome
;
he should battle with the

weapons of faith and love; he should mistrust

Napoleon (in 1846 when the Secret was im-

parted, no one was yet thinking of Napoleon,

how could the little shepherdess know of him

except by revelation?); he is deceitful, he be-

trays the Pope, God will withdraw from him, and

the sword with which he tried to force the nations

to elevate him will be the cause of his downfall.

All this came literally to pass.

After that the judgments are enumerated

which, on account of the persecution of the

Church and the Pope, would come over Italy.

Great confusion, instigated by demons that would

be set free, would take place, an incredible blind-

ness would overpower intellects, bad literature

would be widely spread and there would be great

lukewarmness regarding the divine service even

among the good. Woe to those spiritual princes

who are rich and rule with pride. “The Vicar

of my Divine Son will have much to suffer, be-

cause the Church will be delivered for a time to

great persecutions
;
this will be the time of dark-

ness for the Church, which will see a terrible

crisis.” ... As faith in God has been for-
gotten, every individual will feel proud and in-

dependent.

The secular administrations will all be animated
•

by the same desire, namely, to do away with

every religious principle in order to make room

for materialism, atheism, spiritualism and every

kind of vice. (Not poorly said by an ignorant

young girl in 1846.) The demons will obtain

great power, yea, become the “kings of hearts”

;

thereupon the love of sensual and carnal pleasures

will be diffused all over the world.

Now there will be war in Europe among the

nations and among themselves. A general Euro-

pean war will break out which will be terrible.

For a time God will no longer be mindful of some

nations. The wicked will unfold all their wicked-

ness; they will murder one another even into the

very dwellings.

The just will then cry to heaven for help and

will shed tears of penance : the whole of God's

people will implore pardon and mercy and call

upon my aid and intercession. Then will Christ

in His justice and mercy command the angels to

interpose, and then woe to the wicked. . . .

Then peace will follow; men will serve Jesus

Christ, adore and glorify Him, charity will



516 * VT OMNES VHVM 51NT*

llourish everywhere. The new kings will be the

right hand of Holy Church. The Church will be

strong, humble, devout, poor, zealous, and imi-

tate the virtues of Christ. The Gospel will be

preached everywhere, men will make great pro-

gress in faith, for unity will reign among the

laborers of Christ, and men will live in the fear

of God. . . .

These are the principal facts of the Secret of

La Salette. Everybody is at liberty to give as

much or as little credit to it as he sees fit; how-

ever, it is certainly remarkable that already in the

year 1846 this great general European war had

been predicted. Let us pray to the Heavenly

Mother for mercy for those poor unfortunate

warring nations.

Tabernacle and Purgatory.

The Closing Scenes of the Eucharistic Con-

gress at Lourdes as Described by an Eye-

Witness (Ruth Egerton)

It was certified in all the local papers, etc., that

on Sunday, July 26th, the last day of the Con-

gress, His Eminence the Cardinal Legate Prince

Granito di Belmonte, jvould say Mass not as

hitherto at the Grotto, but would pontificate at

High Mass at ten o’clock at the altar placed for

the purpose outside the Church. The celebration

of this Mass was a magnificent spectacle. On

one side of the altar facing the Legate on his

throne, were the eight Cardinals under a scarlet

awning; on the other side all the Archbishops

and Bishops and prelates. Above these and to

each side leading up till they reached the square

front of the Upper Church, were only clergy,

either vested in surplice, or in cassocks. In great,

many-colored rows high above the altar on the

topmost bridge, all the districts round Lourdes

were represented by their flag-bearers, who

simultaneously dipped their flags at both the

Gloria and at the Elevation. In front below, fac-

ing the altar, were benches filled with Knights

of St. Sepulchre in flowing white mantels and

cocked hats with plumes, the Scarlet Knights of

Malta, and all the camerieri—chamberlains to the
Pope—besides some of the more celebrated
speakers at the Congress. Backing up all this

pomp and color came the people, everywhere

around, filling up the housetops near, and all the

hills within seeing distance. It was a tremendous

sight. One might have supposed the whole world.

Catholic. At the last moment before the state

entry of the Legate, large baskets of flowers

were carried in, and the contents strewn along

the way he was to pass to the altar. At the end

the Papal Blessing was given, and in an hour

the place was almost empty, and all were pre-

paring to celebrate finally the Great Eucharistic

Triumph, for which these days had been the

prelude.

Towards two-thirty p.m., again the whole

world was hurrying to and fro, either to their

fixed places or to try to procure one, from

whence to witness and take part in the Proces-

sion of the Blessed Sacrament. More decora-

tions, if possible, had been added—boys in scarlet,
led by a priest, carrying large, open baskets of

flowers to strew before the Blessed Host, passed

by; a mounted escort of the basque men rode

along, and finally at three p.m., the great

seemingly endless procession got under way.

Cardinals, archbishops, over six thousand clergy,

the Mayor and municipal authorities, hundreds

of children, dressed in yellow and white, and blue

and white, the band crashing out its music, and

then, no longer vested in pontifical splendor, but

robed as any priest may be robed, and bearing

aloft, as any priest may bear aloft, His Lord,

slowly and stately, passed the Cardinal Priest,

representative of Christ’s Vicar on earth, with

the Most Sacred Host. Perfect silence fell upon

the crowd, and except for the bell announcing the

passing of Our Lord Himself, nothing was heard.

The cortege wound its way along the little streets

of this singularly favored city, until after three

hours it re-emerged in face of the Church, and

the whole square was filled with people on their

knees. Then commenced the soul-thrilling

“blessing of the sick”; the one high voice of the

“priest of the sick” rings out in the well known

invocation, “Lord, we love You ! Lord, we adore

You! Lord, save our sick! Mother of God,

pray for us ! Lord, make me walk . . .

make me see . . . make me hear. Hosanna

!

Hosanna ! Hosanna
!”

Like thunderbolts come the responses taken up

by the expectant hundreds of thousands, and the



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M SINT* 517

Cardinal Priest passes from beneath the great

white and gold baldacchino to walk slowly down

the line of the yearning sick ones
—

“Lord, save

us who are sick.” Then he passes again under

the baldacchino
,
goes up the great steps, and then

mounts and mounts until again he emerges at

the upper square, where another altar, with large

ostensorium outlined, has been placed, and com-

mands the neighboring hills, almost the entire

town of Lourdes—and from whence he can be
seen by every soul within a distance of two miles;

then the hush which ever accompanies the Eleva-

tion of the Blessed Host at Benediction, then the

far-away music again, and down on their knees

fall the entire mass to receive the Pontifical

Blessing. Again silence reigns, and then, with

one uprising of the crowd, comes the universal

shout, “Long live the Legate,” “Long live Pius

X,” “Long live the Pope,” shouted in every

language.

So ended the memorable Congress
;
memorable

for its scenes, and most memorable, we know

now, because the “Pope of the Eucharist” de-

clared to the world for the last time his ardent

desire that every day Catholics throughout the

world should go to the altar, and there partake

of Jesus, the Bread of life, in the Most Blessed

Sacrament. The Catholic World

.

THE WORLD CRY FOR PEACE

The whole wide world lifts up its voice today

In one great agonizing human cry

“That peace may come!” For this we look

on high

And ask that God would help us as we pray.

From greed of man, from pride, and evil way,

And all that lust for power which leads us
nigh

Th’ abyss of ghastly war, where bleed and

die

Earth's noblest men and boys
;
O save alway

!

The dying plead from blood stained fields of woe.

The wounded from their cots the night watch

keep

The dead their vigils nearer heaven ne’er

cease.

Sad mothers tell the ache their torn hearts, know.

From altars comes this world-cry loud and

deep

Which angels echo on, “O God, send peace!”
The Living Church.

POPE PIUS X—GOD’S GIFT TO EARTH

In Northern Italy, near lovely Venice, there lies a

little town called Riese. Here lived for many years

the rare Sarto family—poor, gentle and beloved.
On the second day of June, 1835, in this saintly

peasant home a babe was born—God marked the hour.
We may not wonder if above this humble cradle

there hung the shadow of a tiara, for was it not God’s

birth-gift to this lowly little babe? Time passed—days
glided into years. Father Guiseppe Sarto, the self-

denying, God-loving young curate, found happiness un-

speakable in his consecrated work—guiding his little
flock to Heaven.

Time passed on; again days glided into years.

Nearer and nearer those years were silently bringing a

message from Destiny—bearing to this humble village
pastor a gift undreamed of by the world or him.

At length, in God’s own time and in God’s own way,

the supreme moment came. Leo, of unfading memory,

was dead. His successor, the Vicar of Christ, was to be

chosen. Time, August 4, 1903; place, the Vatican.

Princes of the Church, bidden to the Sacred College,

were gathering from far and near.

The 4th of August came. That morning’s sun arose

on Guiseppe Sarto—the humblest prelate in all that
august conclave. That sun set upon Guiseppe Sarto

—

:

the divinely appointed, sacred Guardian of all the mil-

lions of members of God’s holy Church throughout the

world

!

To guide him in this mighty field of labor the Holy

Spirit brought him wisdom from on High. Days of

incessant toil, days of incessant solicitude were to him

alike welcome. His life became a prayer—all, all, for
his beloved Flock throughout the world. In Guiseppe

Sarto’s divinely inspired lexicon there was no such

word as Self

!

Time passed. Grief came to him, but not from

Heaven. It was appalling grief, such as few mortals

were ever called upon to bear. But God, his unforget-

ting Guardian—the Almighty Ruler of the world, who
neither slumbers nor sleeps—saw it all. With divine
compassion He has lifted the burden and has let the

wounded spirit free.

In Pope Pius’ loving, fatherly heart there was no

room for anathema. He died imploring Peace upon a

troubled world, with tenderest blessings from his

broken heart.

This dear white Shepherd has left us sorrowing; yet

it is our comfort and our joy to believe when his last

moment came the gates of Heaven flew open wide to

welcome this faithful, glorious servant of God.

The great Recording Angel lovingly marked his

homecoming and—closed the Book.
Rose Bateson.

When you keenly enjoy talking about a person, hold

your tongue—you are then on the verge of mischief!
Talk about things, not people .—L Soulsby.



*VT OMNES l/Nl/M 51NT*

THE VIRTUE OF THE HOUR

By Hugh Anthony Allen

F
ROM the very dawn of creation there lias
been a constant readjustment of the rela-

tions existing between men. The basis of

Christianity being the relation of each indi-

vidual to the Creator, the Church was estab-

lished to develop in the individual the highest

possible conception of his responsibility to God

and therefore the development of the individual

to the greatest possible extent. The result of

the efforts of the Church throughout the ages

on behalf of the individual, irrespective of sta-

tion, has been to develop a sense of personal

responsibility and with that a spirit of indepen-

dence and self-reliance in both thought and action.

In the earlier period of Christianity this ideal

and the realization and the aim of the Christian

Church was necessarily confined to the few, who

by reason of education and intelligence were able

to appreciate the truth.. The masses had no con-

ception of personal liberty nor of individual

rights, and were it not for the teachings and

efforts of the Catholic Church there would still

be no general understanding of personal liberty

nor of individual rights and obligations as we

know them. By the abolition of slavery, the

establishment of schools, the invention of print-

ing, the subjugation of the powerful, the devel-

opment of the individual and the insistence on

the brotherhood of man, the Church made pos-

sible a system of general enlightenment which

has never been surpassed. Now, more than ever

before, the attitude of the layman is of stupen-

dous importance. The current wave of bigotry

has merely served to augment his value and en-

dow him with a holy mission. The Church has

brought humanity to a point where individual

realization of conditions and individual effort

are indispensable. The Catholic Church will not

in the future be judged solely by the culture,

learning and piety of her clergy. The final ver-

dict will be mightily influenced by the proportion

in which laymen of vision, laymen soaked through

with the spirit of Catholicity, rise to meet the

exigencies of our time.

THE LAY APOSTOLATE

To find a way out of the impending social

chaos, to reconcile conflicting interests, to lay a

foundation for the just and equitable settlement

of differences between rich and poor, to muzzle

the hounds of hate by a campaign of education, is

a call to an apostolate of the highest service

which every lover of God and country should

heed and to which every Christian and every

patriot may well consecrate his best endeavors.

Justice and charity, two of the noblest principles

that inspire mankind, form the basis of uplift and

make the crusade a sacred one which should have

a particularly poignant appeal to the Catholic

layman.

Our supreme need, however, is a deeper spirit-

uality. Earnestness in faith is the virtue of the

hour. One devout Catholic whose faith is true

and intense, whose love for God and his neighbor

is sincere, whose conduct as a Christian and a cit-

izen is characterized by reverence and sacrifice,

is worth more to the cause of religion than a

hundred men indifferent and half-hearted in their

belief. The creature’s destiny is to keep un-

spotted from this world and to be united with the

Creator. In order to remain spotless it is obvi-

ously necessary to avoid that which soils, and this

of itself implies penance, which alone secures the

soul from the fascinations of Satan.

The ultimate aim of the true apostle, however,

is a more lofty one than the mere escape from

contamination. His highest aspiration is union

with God
;
but he desires to anticipate on earth

in some way the condition of the happy souls in

heaven. There he will behold God face to face,

but his hungry soul yearns to feed upon that

*

vision now, albeit imperfectly, by faith, by com-

muning with Him in spiritual recollection. He

avoids everything that would make this sweet

intercourse impossible, lest eternal separation re

suit, which is the chief aim of Satan’s ceaseless

activity.

The devil needs no rest, and his devices num-

ber into the millions. One of the most effective

is an inordinate and insatiable craving for amuse-

ments which he endeavors to arouse in order to

divert the mind from things religious. Health,

personal advantage in business or politics or

society, consideration for others, the very inter-

ests of God and the Church are pleaded as ex-

cuses for plunging into every extravagance, and

the generality of mankind fail to detect the real

purpose of it all.



*VT OMNES UNl/M SINT*

Against this widespread assault on loyalty to

Christ and His teachings the lay apostle must

ceaselessly direct prayer and pen and purse. He

should be conspicuous at the altar rail and in

religious processions, quick to perform the cor-

poral and spiritual works of mercy, shining every-

where by his modesty, love of home, frugality,

whole-souled generosity, hatred of gossip, defense

of the calumniated, by that strength of heart

which lifts up the whole of life and ennobles it

and makes it move joyfully to its chosen aim. To

laymen who have had Catholic training many of

the highest interests of religion are entrusted. It

is their duty to know and, when occasion requires,

to present and defend Catholic doctrines and

Catholic principles and to be prominent leaders in

the significant movements of the age instead of

allowing the enemies of religion to dominate, as is

frequently done. Brave Catholic men are needed

for present emergencies to blazon forth the fact

that wherever a Catholic church is built there are

good works, there is humanity, there is patriot-

ism, there is the peace that passeth understanding,

there is a strong faith in God, the beacon light

that guides the world to the only rock of safety

in the present deluge of materialism.

THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

The Pope says that all Catholic forces should

be directed with the greatest constancy and en-

ergy to the solution of social problems. Each

individual is a Catholic force, and for his co-oper-

ation the Catholic Church is eagerly waiting. AH

can give something which others cannot give.

Sweated labor wages, housing, employment, care

of children—all these are social questions which
are inseparably bound up with the kingdom of

God and the interests of immortal souls. How

much of our leakage is due to social conditions?

How many people are kept from the Sacraments

by the barrier of destitution? These things

should not be left for the politician or the priest,

but should be helped by the efforts of laymen.

Public opinion, the chief engine of reform, is

made up of units
;

it is shaped by the thoughts

and actions of every-day people, people whose

thoughts should be true and whose actions should

be straight, people whose influence should be

Christian.

51M

Laymen should not be content with their re-

ligious duties alone. In the work of parish soci-

eties, in the circulation of Catholic papers, in

the relief of the poor, there is much work and

much opportunity for an organized laity. 1.av-

men should grow dissatisfied with merely going

to Mass and performing their ordinary obliga-

tions. They should become concerned about

Church progress and leakage, and feel it a per-

sonal matter whether it be gain or loss. They

should come out of their supine self-absorption

occasionally and note which way the tide is run-

ning—for or against her. The laity are the
Church on the battlefield of the world. All be-

hold them
;
they are the common representatives

of the Church. They are the first to be attacked,

and should be the first to be ready for defense. It

is through the laity that the action of the Church

is brought to bear upon the world, and it is from

their conduct that the power and usefulness of

this action are estimated. The best possible wit-

ness of the veracity of the Church is a laity con-

spicuous for intelligence and virtue.

There are loyal, loving souls who, beholding a

work to be done, offer themselves to it with com-

mendable zeal. God’s acceptance often makes

demands not dreamed of in the first flash of sac-

rifice and because they momentarily shrink they

come to think themselves weak and unworthy,

forgetting that from even Christ’s lips rose once

that anguished cry, “Let this chalice pass!” Let

the waverer be of good cheer, and pressing on.

let him lay his work completed at the feet of God.

Let him bear in mind what has been so well said

by Cardinal Manning, “On the bed of death and

in the day of judgment, to have saved one soul

will be not only better than to have won a king-

dom, but will overpay by an exceeding great re-

ward all the pains of the longest and most toil-

some life.” This is the day of the layman, the

only day he can call his own, the day wherein he

must play his part, a part that will count through-

out the eternal years. He may not realize what

his past may signify in the great whole, but he is

here to play his part; now is his time—if not now.
never! The return for his service will be large.

In the long run the world belongs to the un-

worldly
;
in the end empire is to those to whom

empire is as nothing, and the layman, realizing

this, will recall with awe that astonishing beati-

tude : “Blessed are the meek, for they shall in-

herit the earth.”



520 *UT OMNES UNUM SINT*

Bt. Anthony h (Earner

C
LIENTS of St. Anthony are constantly

writing to us, asking that we inform them

how to observe the Perpetual Novena. For all

those taking part in the Novena we recommend

the purchase of either of two Manuals; the first

and preferable one is “St. Anthony's Bread for

the Poor
,

its Origin, Aim, and Progress, with

Prayers suitable for Novenas and the Thirteen

Tuesdays in honor of the Saint.'' This Manual

has been compiled by the Rt. Rev. Patrick F.

O'Hare, LL.D., rector of

St. Anthony’s Church,

Brooklyn, N. Y., it has

run through an edition of

seven hundred and thirty-

eight thousand and is still

inarching on towards the

million mile stone. We

will send this to any ap-

plicant at 7c, postage in-

cluded. The alternative

book we recommend is the

“ Little Treasure of the

Devout Clients of St.

Anthony of Padua." This

we will supply to our

readers at 5c a copy,

postage included. For

busy people who have not

time for many prayers we
j

recommend during the

progress of the Novena

the recitation of the Litany of St. Anthony daily,

which can be found in either manual. In addi-

tion to private prayers we emphatically urge

wherever it is possible that those who take part

in either the Novena to St. Anthony or that to

Our Lady of the Atonement shall begin and end

the Novena by receiving Holy Communion and

daily approach the Altar through the Novena, if

it is possible. Certainly everyone making the

Novena ought at least to receive Holy Commun-

ion on the Sunday within the course of the

Novena. It is the bringing of his clients to our

Lord in Holv Communion which we are sure

most rejoices St. Anthony as highly advantageous

to themselves and well pleasing to the Divine In-

fant whom he holds in his arms.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF FAVORS GRANTED

Dear Father—Enclosed you will find $1 I promised
for the favor granted through the intercession of St.

Anthony. * E. J. C.

Chicago. 111., Sept. 15, 1914.

Dear Father—The enclosed
dollar is a thanksgiving

offering for a favor received

through the intercession of

St. Anthony. M. G. C.

New York, N. Y.,

Sept. 17, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find
one dollar in thanksgiving for

favor received. H. S. B.

Girardville, Pa.,

Sept. 17, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed you
will find one dollar for favor

received through the inter-

cession of St. Anthony.

Mrs. McC.

Detroit, Mich.,

Sept. 18, 1914.

Rev. and Dear Father—St.
Anthony has conferred many

remarkable favors on me,

and I don’t think I ever

thanked him enough. Enclosed you will find $2.

Bourbonnais, 111., Sept. 19, 1914. J. B.

Dear Father—I sent in my petition to the Novena to
St. Anthony for the recovery of a lost pocketbook

(with very little hope of ever being found). To my

great surprise, on the second day of the Novena the

pocketbook and- contents were restored to me. En-

closed is $2 in thanksgiving. I. S.

Cresson. Pa.. Sept. 20, 1914.

Rev. and Dear Father—Enclosed you will find $2
for St. Anthony’s Bread in thanksgiving for a favor

received, for which I am very grateful.

Mrs. K. S.

AUTHENTIC LIKENESS OF ST. ANTHONY

West Hoboken, N. J., Sept. 21, 1914.



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Dear Father—Find enclosed one dollar for St. An-
thony's Bread, which I promised if a sum of money

was paid back, after the debtor said he was unable to

pay. Mrs. E. M. H.

Rochester, N. Y., Sept 21, 1914.

• Rev. Dear Father—Enclosed you will, find one dollar
for favors granted through the intercession of St. An-

thony. K. K.

New York. N. Y., Sept. 21, 1914.

Rev. and Dear Father—Enclosed find one dollar for
a favor received. M. M. R.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 21, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find a little for St. Anthony’s
Bread in thanksgiving.

J. M. S.

Wakefield, Mass., Sept. 21, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find postoffice order to the
amount of $5 in thanksgiving to St. Anthony for favor

received. S. M.

Detroit, Mich., Sept. 24, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find one dollar in thanksgiv-
ing to St. Anthony for a favor received. M. C.

Fultqn, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1914.

The same amount was sent in thanksgiving by K. G.-

R., Pittston, Pa., on Sept. 27
;
A Friend, Jersey City,

N. J., and R. L., Rush City, Minn., on Sept. 28.

Dear Father—Enclosed please find a check for $2.50
towards St. Anthony’s Bread. This is in thanksgiv-

ing for the many favors granted me. and in particular

for an appointment to a position. G. A. K.

New York, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed please find 25 cts. for favor
received through St. Anthony. W. R.

New York, N. Y., Sept. 30. 1914.

Dear Father—Please find enclosed a two-dollar offer-
ing to St. Anthony for two favors, for which I am very

grateful. M. R.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 30, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find 25 cts. for St. Anthony’s
Bread for a favor received. M. W. R.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 30, 1914.

Rev. Father—I am enclosing one dollar for St. An-
thony. Have received one favor; wish to receive an-

other one. N. F.

Toledo, O., Sept. 30, 1914.

Dear Father—I asked a favor of St. Anthony and
I received it. I enclose one dollar for St. Anthony. I

am asking for another favor, and if it is granted I

promise more. J. N. C. O.

Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 4, 1914.

Rev. Father—Please find enclosed offerng for favor
granted. Mrs. E. C

New York, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1914.

Thanksgiving offering from Miss R. D. for St. An-

thony’s Bread. M. M.

New York, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1914.

Dear Father—Inclosed you will please find $1 for St.
Anthony’s Bread in thanksgiving for favor granted.

Mrs. C. A. F.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 7, 1914.

Dear Rev. Father—Enclosed find one dollar for St.
Anthony’s Bread, which I promised if the petition was

granted that I sent a little while ago. G. E. M.

Talladega, Ala., Oct. 4, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find one dollar in thanks-
giving to St. Anthony for a favor received through his

intercession. Mrs. M. E. V. K.

Pottsville, Pa., Oct. 6, 1914.

Rev. and Dear Sir—I sought St. Anthony’s help about
two weeks ago, and I am sure my request was granted

through his intercession. Please accept my offering.

A Grateful Friend.

Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1914.

E. R., of Weehawken, and D. S., of Lakewood, N. J..

on Oct. 9 sent thanksgiving alms to St. Anthony’s

Bread, and A. W., of Pittston, Pa.
;
Mrs. J. D., New

York, and N. L. P., of Oakland, N. J., did the same on

Oct. 12.

Dear Father—Enclosed please find $2 for favor re-
ceived through the intercession of St. Anthony.

'

M. M.

Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 13, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find $3 for St. Anthony’s
Fund in thanksgiving for favor granted through his

intercession. Mrs. F. G. M.

New York, N. Y., Oct. 15 ,1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed you will find $2, which I send
in honor of St. Anthony and which I promised if my

petition was granted. E. G.

Erie, Pa., Oct. 16, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find $1 in thanksgiving to
St. Anthony for a favor received. A. B. N.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Oct. 17, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed find one dollar for St. An-
thony’s Bread in thanksgiving for favor granted through

his intercession. • M. M.

Hartford, Conn., Oct. 17, 1914.



522 * VT OMNES UNUM SINT *

Dear Father—The requests I asked in the Novena
to St. Anthony was granted and I enclose offering in

thanksgiving. Mrs. T. F. W.

Portsmouth, Ya Oct. 18, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed you will find a very small
offering for favor received through Novena to St.

Anthony. F. L.

Centralia, Pa., Oct. 20, 1914.

Dear Father—The enclosed is a thanksgiving offering
for favor granted through the intercession of St. An-

thony. A. C. G.

New York, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed you will find 50c for St. An-
thony’s Bread Fund for a favor received.

Mrs. P. R.

Jeanesville, Pa.. Oct. 21, 1914.

Dear Father—In thanksgiving to St. Anthony for a
request granted through his intercession I am enclosing

one dollar. A Friend.
Plymouth, Pa., Oct. 21, 1914.

Dear Father—Enclosed please find thanksgiving offer-
ing to St. Anthony for favor granted through his inter-

cession. M. J.

Brooklyn. N. Y.. Oct. 23, 1914.

BREAD FUND REPORT

Sept. 28—Mrs. F. D, 5c; K. J. S., 25c; N. M., 35c;

M. M,. $2; Mrs. H. R., $1 ; Mrs. E. J. Y., $1; Mrs. J.

T. D., $1 ; M. M., $1 ; S. M., $5 ; a Subscriber, 50c ; 29

—

G. P. W., $1; Mrs. B., $2; a Friend, $1; J. A. O., $1;

Mrs. A. R.. 50c; K. G. R., $1;-M. C., $1; 30—Mrs. R.

K„ $1; McH., $1; N. F., $1; E. F., 59c; Oct. 1—a Sub-

scriber, $1 ; Sr. V., $5 ; M. R., $2 ; A. S., $1 ; H. W. B.,

$1; R. L., $1; G. A. K., $2.50; M. M. R.. 25c; W. R..

25c; H. W., $1; D. J. G., $1; C. C.. 50c; Mrs. K. D.,

50c; L. M. F., 65c; 2—A. O., $2; Mrs. F. L.. $1; M. G.,

S2; K. B., $4; S. S., 50c; 3—a Friend, 25c; A. R., $1;
S. W., $1; A. M., $1; 6—M. A. O., $1; Mrs. E. C., $2;

M. P., $1; K. K., $1; Mrs. W., $1; Mrs. M. G., $2;

J. N. C. O. $1; 7—C. G.. $1; Mrs. C., 25c; H., $1 ; J. &

A. & R. B., $3; B. A. B-K.. $2; S. W.. $1 ; &-G. E. M..

$1
;
C. E. N., $1 ; R. M., $1 ; R. D., $1 ; Mrs. B. S., $1

;

R. P., $1 ; C. M., $1 ; Mrs. C. A. F.. $1 ; 9—Rev. D. B.,

S5
;
Mrs. T. J. R., $5 ; L. B., $1 ; Mrs. F. G.. 25c ; C. O.,

SI; Mrs. H. K„ $1; 10—K. M. W.. $1; M. E. O.. $5;

Rev. E. E. M.. $3; T. H. B., $10; C. K. $3 ; 12—Mrs. C.

J. M., $1; Mrs. J. D, $1; A. M. W, 60c; A. L. G., $2;

A. M. C.. $1
;
E R.. $1 ; A. D.. $1 ; M. N. C., $1 ; 13—

M. L. R.. $1 ; C. C.. $1 ; R. F. M, $1 ; A. W„ $1 ; Mrs. .

C. N., $1; 14—M. E. R., $1; Mrs. J. J. M., $2; Mrs. R..

59c; C. V. E., $1; Mrs. E. J. C., $1; Mrs P. C. G., $5;

15—M. R., $1; N. L. P., $5; M. F., $1; M. K, 25c; M.

M., $1; D. S., $1; J. D, $1; 16—H. C. G., 25c; Mrs. L.

C., $1; M. D., $1; Mrs. F. G. M., $3; 17—A. B. N. $1

;

M. A. S., $1; M. M., $2; E. G., $2; Mrs. D. J. C., $1

;

19—M. M., $1 ; • M. P., $1.25; E. D., $1; A. M. B., $1

;

J. F. M., $1 ; Mrs. H. E. G., $5 ; 20—A Reader, $1 ; C.

O’K., $1; Mrs. E. V. D., $1; P. M. K., 25c; H. M, $1

;

21—J. A. G., 25c; J. B. G., $3; F. F., $1; E. McE., $3;

M. Me., 10c; J. B., 10c; T. F. W., $1; 22—C. E. C., $3;

A. C. G., $1; G. F. M., $10; M. L., 50c; J. M., $1; 23-

M. J. H., $2; J. T. M., $2; F. W. C., 45c; P. R., 50c;

J. L. G., $4; 24—G. P. F., $1; T. L., $5; M. J., $1; C.

K.
, $1; A. O’H., $5; Mrs. R., 10c; Mrs. F. D., $1; J. H.,

$1; T. H. B., $7; M. D., $2; M. M. G, $1; J. F., $1; A

Friend, $1 ; 26—M. C. O., $1 ; C. H., $1 ; T. J. S.. $1

;

M. M., $1; S. R., 50c; M. A. S. t $1. Total, $241.15.

HEART OF A HUNDRED SORROWS.

Oh, Heart of a hundred sorrows,

Whose pity is great therefore,

The gifts that Thy children bring Thee

Is ever a sorrow more.

Sure of Thy dear compassion.

Concerned for our own relief.

Ever and ever we seek Thee,

And each with his gift of grief.

Oh, not to reprove my brothers,

Yet I, who am less than less,

Would bring Thee my joy of being.

The rose of my happiness. )

The Spirit that makes my singing.

The gladness without alloy,

Oh, Heart of a hundred sorrows,

I bring Thee a little joy.

—Theodosia Garrison, in the Rosary Magazine.

TOO INNOCENT

It is related that the Duke of Ostuni, being

one day in a galley, went among his slaves asking

for what crime they had been condemned. All

answered that they were innocent, except one

who acknowledged that he deserved severe

punishment. The Viceroy said ; “Then it is not

right to have you here amongst so many in-

nocents," and set him free.

The Missionary .



*VT OMNES UNl/M SINT* 523

iRnaarg Heagur page

The Novena of Last Resort

T
HE letters of thanksgiving for favors
granted, which follow, are the best kind of

evidence that Our Lady of the Atonement has

an ear attentive to the prayers of those who ap-

peal to her in this Novena. The Novena of Last

Resort begins on the first Saturday of every

month and the petitions of those desiring to par-

ticipate in its observance should be mailed to the

Sisters of the Atonement, Graymoor, Garrison,

N. Y a week in advance. For further particulars

see the little manual of the Rosary League, price,

two cents. All clients of Our Lady should also

secure and wear the Rosary League medal. It

can be ordered with bar, stick pin or without

either. Please specify. White metal, five cents;

bronze, ten cents.

THANKSGIVINGS RENDERED TO OUR LADY
OF THE ATONEMENT

Dear Sisters—Some time ago I wrote you to pray
in the Novena of Last Resort for my sister, who was

in very poor health. She is since then very much

improved. M. M.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 6, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Just a word to say that the temporal
favor did not come in the way I had wished, but I

think it was an even greater victory. L. G.

Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed find one dollar, which I
promised if my request was granted through the No-

vena of Last Resort. I will send a dollar every month

for a year. Ellen S.

Hazleton. Pa., Sept.

Dear Sisters—Please find one dollar in thanksgiving
for a favor received. P. K.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 15, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed please find five dollars in
thanksgiving to Our Lady of the Atonement for favor

granted after making three Novenas. I never gave

up hope, and while making the last one this month it

was granted on the sixth day. I will send another

five dollars soon, as I have promised $10. A. C.

Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 15, 1914.

Dear Sisters—I made the Novena of Last Resort,
and my request has been granted to a certain extent.

I am enclosing a thanksgiving offering of a dollar.

G. M. B.

Altoona, Pa., Sept. 17, 1914.

Dear Sisters— Please find enclosed one dollar in
thanksgiving. H. B.

New York, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed please find a little offering
in thanksgiving for the marked improvement of my

sister’s health. F. D. L.

Sunbury, Pa., Sept. 28, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed find $3 in thanksgiving to
Our Lady of the Atonement for favors received

through the Novena of Last Resort. M. C. S.

Cleveland, O., Sept. 25, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed find one dollar in thanksgiv-
ing to Our Lady of the Atonement for favors re-

ceived. Pray for me. M. L. E.

Utica, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1914.

Dear Sisters—A short time ago I made the Novena
of Last Resort to receive better work, as I was in great

debt. I must give thanks, as I received much benefit

through your prayers. As soon as I am able I shall

send a donation. Mrs. F. T.

Erie, Pa., Sept. 28, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed you will find $5 in thanks-
giving for a favor granted through Our Lady of the

Atonement. Mrs. J. B.

West Avoca, Pa., Sept. 28, 1914.

Dear Sisters—I am sending you one dollar for favors
received through the Novena of Last Resort

M. L.

Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Sept. 29. 1914.

Dear Sisters—Last month I asked you to include in

your Novena a request of mine for re-appointment to

teach in the evening schools of our city. I was more

than surprised when I read in one of our daily papers

that I had been appointed. Out of my first month’s

salary I shall send you an offering. A. J.

, N. J., Sept. 30, 1914.

Dear Sisters—In July I asked you to offer up a
Novena that I might be able to keep my position until

the first of October. I did. I enclose one dollar in

gratitude. T. D.

Philadelphia, Pa., October 1. 1914.



524 *VT OMNES VNl/M SINT*

Dear Sisters—I wish to thank Our Lady of the Atone-
ment for a favor received, and I enclose one dollar for

an offering. Mrs. A. B.

St. Mary’s, Pa., Oct. 1, 1914.

Dear Sisters—I wish to return thanks for two tenants
1 received during the last Novena. N. M.

New York, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed find one dollar as a small

offering for favors received. Mrs. J. S.

Altoona, Pa., Oct. 1, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed 50 cts. offering is in thanks-
giving for favor granted. Mrs. L. S.

Pittsburgh. Pa., Oct. 2, 1914.

Dear Sisters—-Enclosed find two dollars in thanks-
giving to Our Lady of the Atonement for a favor

received. M. C.

New York, N. Y, Oct. 2, 1914.

Dear Sisters—The enclosed two dollars is an offer-
ing for a favor received. Mrs. J. J. M.

Hartford, Conn., Oct. 2, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed kindly find $3.25 promised to
Our Lady of the Atonement for requests granted

through the Novena of Last Resort. Words cannot

express appreciation. M. B.

Troy, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed please find one dollar in
thanksgiving for a favor received through the Novena

of Last Resort to Our Lady of the Atonement.

M. A. O.

New York, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1914.

Dear Sisters—My petition for an improvement has
been heard. Am enclosing a small offering to Our
Blessed Lady. C. M. N.

Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1914.

Dear Sisters—The favor I asked for was granted,
and I only waited to write you until I was able to send

what I promised. Enclosed you will find $2.

G. J.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 7, 1914.

Dear Sister—Accept my sincerest thanks for your
kind prayers. I have received two answers to my pe-

titions and hope I will receive an answer to my third

petition. Enclosed you will find an offering.

Flushing, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1914.

Dear Sisters—Enclosed find 25c in stamps in thanks-
giving. I want you to continue your prayers for me.

Mrs. E. B. A.

Leonardstown. Md., Oct. 8, 1914.

Dear Sisters—The petition I asked in the Novena
was granted. My affairs have been settled most ad-
vantageously. Please accept my heartfelt thanks for

your good prayers and the offering I promised, $5.

Santa Barbara, Cal., Oct. 9, 1914.

Dear Sisters—I wrote you some time ago asking your
prayers, as we were in danger of having our property

foreclosed on us. This has been averted, and we know

it has only been through Divine help. Enclosed you

will find an offering. Mrs. P. S.

Waterford, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1914.

SPECIAL INTENTION FOR NOVEMBER

The Poor Souls

INTERCESSIONS

Conversion to Christ and Holy Church of the one

thousand million who are still pagan. Conversion of

the Jews. Return of all schismatics and members of

Protestant bodies to Catholic Unity. For the China,

'Africa and India Missions. Supplications for Priests

and Religious in their spheres of service.

Conversons for—Families, 12; individuals, 134.
Spiritual Favors—Concerning vocation and guidance

therein for 20; special intentions and petitions, 274;

spiritual and temporal welfare, families 91 ; individuals,

133
;
for return to the Church and the Sacraments of

81 persons and 4 families; reconciliation for 18; that

21 marriages may soon take place
;
perseverance in the

Faith for 19; for peace in families, 8 petitions; that

66 persons may lead temperate lives ; for the reforma-

tion of 54; for peace of mind, 7 petitions; for the grace

of a happy death of 3 persons.

Temporal Favors—Special petitions for 58; restora-
tion to bodily health for 68; for the return of hearing

to 5. of sight to 9; cure of paralysis for 8, of mental

trouble for 7, of rheumatism for 3, of nervousness for

14, of eczema for 2, of tuberculosis for 2, of miscella-

neous diseases for 16; for safe delivery in childbirth

for 3.

Financial and Industrial—Suitable employment
asked for 108; for advancement in present position for

12; for success in business for 22; success in studies

and examinations for 18; victory in lawsuits for 5;

temporary help for 36; for the payment of money due

15; for means to pay debts for 12; sale of property for

42; good rentals for 11; the return of lost or stolen

articles for 16; miscellaneous petitions for 26.

R. I. P.—Mother Elizabeth, Michael and Ann
O’Malley, Mrs. Carley, Ludwig Zuluzinski, Mr. Maher,

a father, a brother, a sister, a son, Daniel, Thomas,

Therese Junicon, John Harkins, a father, Denis Lyons,

John McGill, Charles, a father, a mother. Mary Daley,

Eugene Blache, Anna Woolock f Bridget Kelly, for 134

souls, for all faithful departed, for those slain in the

present war.
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THE EDITOR’S MAIL BAG.

A Book Review Reviewed

Dear Father:

Referring to your review of my book, “Theos, Not

Who, He Who, or Which, etc.,” let me say that the

passage in Colossians, if several verses be read through,

clearly refers not to the person of Christ, but to the

work of Christ in our souls. The passage in Timothy,

on the contrary, requires a subject between the words

“mystery” and “ascended into heaven,” etc., as it does

refer to the person of Christ. In what “W. McG.,”

your reviewer, says of accepting the official version of

the Catholic Church, he ignores that the Council of

Trent desired a revisal for the Vulgate, and that Pius X

organized a committee for revising both Testaments,

which is proceeding.

Yours very sincerely,

M. Kerchever-Arnold.

London, England.

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BOOK NOTES

We give the right of way this month among our
Book Notes to a paper bound pamphlet of only seventy-

eight pages, because it contains from purely non-Cath-

olic or secular sources one of the most remarkable

series of tributes ever paid to a Sovereign Pontiff, sit-

ting in the Chair of Peter. The pamphlet is entitled,

“America’s Tribute to Pope Pius X, Edited by John J.

Burke, CS.P. The Paulist Press 120 TV. 60th Street,

New York City. Single copy, 10c.; in quantities of 100,
$5.00.

Scattered through this and succeeding numbers of

The Lamp will be found short extracts from this com-

pilation, but here we subjoin the longest and the most

erudite of them all. It is taken from the celebrated

newspaper, the Detroit Free Press:

“From the shadow of St. Peter’s comes the news that

the Pope is dead. Pius X, as history shall know him;

Joseph Sarto, as he was before he adopted his ecclesi-

astical official title, has become numbered with those

who have gone before in that wonderful line that in-

spired the rhetorical exaltation of Macaulay, and that

is quite the wonder of even the calmest observer of the

facts of history. Only eleven years have gone by since

Rome—the Rome which is the historic seat of Catholic
Christianity rather than the capital of United Italy

—

was plunged into the depths of a profound official

grief. . . . Leo XIII had come to his final day, and

had laid himself down to his long rest, after more than

ninety years of life. . . .

‘ The genius of Leo XIII differed from that of Pius.

His patronage of the arts was worthy of Lorenzo the

Magnificent. He flung the excess of the pictured wealth

of the Vatican world-wide. He opened the treasures

of his archives to the historians. He summoned a com-

mission of scholars to compare the current versions of

the Scriptures with the historic texts. He revived the

scholastic philosophy, and set Thomas Aquinas up again

as the master of the schools. He studied the state of

the workingman and wrote encyclicals upon it, encour-

aging the worker and counselling the master into better

conditions. He made war upon divorce, and laid down
anew the principles of Christian society. He fenced

with Bismarck and brought him to Canossa. He tem-

porized with the Third Republic in France, and so put

off the evil day which came in the time of his successor.

He soothed Andrassy in Austria, and thereby main-

tained intact the relations of the Church with the king-

dom of Francis Joseph. He re-established the hierarchy

in Scotland and Sweden. He eased away the difficulties

that grew out of the acquisition of the Philippines by

the newest candidate for world power. Tremendously

human and tremendously spiritual, he wielded his brush

now with the broad stroke of Raphael, now with the

. delicacy and finish of Murillo. . . .

"One must study the background on which he was

projected to understand Pius X. Cardinal Sarto was

not a diplomat by training. He was not a noble ecclesi-

astic. He was not the scion of a princely house. He

was not prominent in his patronage of the arts, or of

philosophy, or of economics, although he was tolerably

learned in them all. How this simple man, who had

bought his return ticket to Venice when he came to the

conclave, would shine as a Pope, was quite a question.

His career is ended now. The question has been an-

swered.

“Cardinal Sarto—Pius- X, as he chose to be called

—

was wholly unlike his immediate predecessors. Where

they were noble he was peasant. Where their ancestral

trees were of great credit, his father had been a borough

messenger and his mother a seamstress. His grand-

parents seem never to have bothered the biographers.

. . . There was something delightfully human in this

peasant Pope. Yet in his simple humanity there was a

deal of philosophy. . . .

“The big idea, the grand motive of his Pontificate, the

idea that, while it does not make the contrast with his

predecessors, still gives the keynote of his Pontificate,

was Christ. His first encyclical begged, implored, sup-

plicated the world, Roman, heretic and infidel, to come

back to Christ. His every subsequent pronouncement

was along the same lines. The private devotions of the

clergy were reformed, the Breviary revised, to bring

the striking events in the career of Christ more favor-

ably to the attention of those who preached his doctrine.

The old man who, called from his bishopric of Venice

after a lifetime spent in evangelization, in the pursuit

and relief of the poor, in the visitation of the peniten-

tiaries, in the search for the faithful in the mountains,

in his participation in the civic affairs of the city which

was his see, could see no other text for the Viceregent

of Christ upon earth than Christ Himself. . . .

“Before his mind, in all his writings, from the first

encyclical; in all his addresses, from the first given to

the French pilgrims; in all his receptions of men and

women, from the first visit of the American sailors who

came down from Naples; in his participation in things

human, from the visit of the congress of athletes
;
in his

formal message of congratulation, benediction and con-

dolence, the one idea prominent was Christ and the

rapprochement of the world unto Him. The critics of

the great ecclesiastical institutions of which he was the

head, may even magnify his dominant quality to the

discredit of his predecessors, but they will fail. He had

their other great qualities, less prominently displayed,

even as they had his dominant one, though not always

in the forground.

“The Pontiff is dead, and already the masons are

making the niche in the walls of St. Peter’s in which

his remains will find their temporary abiding place.

Next week will be the conclave and the election of the

new Pope, and the excellence of the one reign will be

lost in the new glories of another. For not more cer-

tainly than the return of the seasons, of the procession

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of human religious organizations. Conclave and elec-

tion, death and entombment follow each other in endless

regularity, setting up one lustrous figure after another

for the edification of the world and the government of

their spiritual subjects/'

St. Antony's Almanac; pp. 105; price, $.25. Ad-

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The Educational System of the Jesuits. By

Loretto M. Rochester, B.S., Pd.D.; pp. 46; price, $.50;

postage, five cents extra. St. Helen’s Settlement, 181

Concord St., Brooklyn, N. Y., or Betty Exchange, 3061

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The Trial of Jesus Christ Before the Grand San-

hedrin and Pontius Pilate. By Jean H. Norris, LL.M.;

pp. 10; price, $.25; postage, five cents extra. St. Helen’s

Settlement, 181 Concord St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

The profits from the sale of these two books will

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“The Educational System of the Jesuits” will receive a

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talks to be delivered in New York and Brooklyn will

begin in November. Miss Rochester’s book is a thesis

accepted by the faculty of New York University in ful-

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Pedagogy, and graphically sets forth the origin and

ideals of the Society of Jesus, whose insistence on the

moral training of the individual is vigorously defended.

In “The Trial of Jesus Christ Before the Grand San-

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the main facts in Our Lord’s passion and death, show-

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the greatest example of the miscarriage of law in the

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What Shall I Be? By the Rev. Francis Cassilly,
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After reading this splendid little exposition of the

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praise far too faint. The book, a confidential chat with

young people on an all-absorbing subject, sets forth in

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parents among all those courageous young souls who

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Not since “In Thy Courts” was written has such a soul-

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Teacher and Teaching. By Rev. Richard H. Tier-

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If means permitted we would place a copy of this

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little red school-house in every State in the Union.

With one eye on the “Ratio Studorium,” Father Tierney

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solidly sincere. The author’s first words, “The primary

end of all education is character,” indicate the trend of

the pages that follow. The class-room is disclosed as a

temple wherein noble aims are to be vouchsafed, high

ideals encouraged. The teacher must tower over the

pupils in soul power, must cultivate a great heart, for

“Great hearts beget great hearts; heroes generate

heroes.” When the teacher falls short of these qualifi-

cations the temple is little more than a charnel house,

no matter how great the skill with which the dry edu-

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last end is union with God, Christian teachers should

conceive unto themselves Christ, their prototype, the

Great Teacher. They should ponder His life, burn His

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thing which must communicate itself to others. Then

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ence
;
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fair Christ is reproduced in another human soul, and

the teacher’s work is done. Many valuable suggestions

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The Mystical City of God. By the Ven. Mary of

Jesus of Agreda. French translation by Marie Rose de

Lima, Disciple of Mary; 8 vols.; price, $5.00.

Two hundred years ago the Blessed Virgin made

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sent at the special price immediately after publication.

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Why Catholics Have Parochial Schools. By
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national Catholic Truth Society, 407 Bergen Street,

Brooklyn, N. Y.

To develop true patriotism may be summed up as

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education of the parochial school. “What are the con-

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the immense treasure of taxation expended year after

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children according to the dictates of their consciences?”

inquires Dr. Coakley. “Individuals have bestowed gifts

with royal magnificence, and they have thereby justly

achieved immortality, but, considering the untold mil-

lions spent annually by the Catholic Church in the cause

of education in this country, the expenditures once in a

lifetime of Carnegie or Rockefeller dwindle in com-

parison almost to the widow’s mite.”

Modern Oxford Tracts:

Institutional Religion. By Hakluyt Egerton
; pp.

24; price, 20 cents.

The Infallibility of Our Lord. By Leighton Pullan,
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Miracles. By N. P. Williams, M.A.; pp. 48; price,

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the minds of many persons with regard to the whole

principal of authority in the Church of England, even

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as to whether the toleration of error in the Church of

England has not now reached a point at which it be-

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in this sea of misgiving, the Conference was planned

and met in Oxford, from which circumstance the

series derives its name, although several Cambridge

men were concerned. The tracts themselves are the

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and emphasize beyond all peradventure that authority

can come only from whence it was bestowed, from the

One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, through the

ex cathedra utterances of the Vicar of Christ.

ROMA: Ancient, Subterranean and Modern Rome
in Word and Picture. By Rev. Albert Kuhn, O.S.B.,

D.D. Published Bi-monthly ; complete in 18 parts, each

35 cents.

This masterly production is easily one of the greatest

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recommended by Cardinals Gibbons, Farley, Falconio,

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parts already issued have found high favor, and Part

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