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Show j . 1 r1 Li Church ' I 1 which oyer- I syg c ft cometli the I j j unmrsah ! IThe Easter Dawn. BY MARY O'BRIEN. 1 I. There awoke the Dawn. I Fixed were its dim gray wings j And stilled in flight, I ike morn whose soul still clings j To fading night. Why doth it pause across the sleeping sky? So might thy sons, blest Israel, breathe, "Ah, why?" I II. There woke the Dawn. It bade the mist-veiled flowers To rise from sleep; Then foil o'er all Karth's bowers Its myst'ry deep. Why doth the hills expectant watch the sky? So might thy sons, dumb Israel, pray; "Ah, why?" III. Calm waits the Dawn. : A Eudden mighty breath! I A conauered tomb! Now is thy death, O Death, Past all thy gloom. I The Crucified from sin's fell doom is J freed: I Blest God! yet sleeping Israel pays I no heed! 1IV. 'Tis still the Dawn. O tears of doath and night And faithless fear. Ye shades of Calv'ry's height, How come you here? The Light that flashed above the dreaming sod Shines o'er us still the veiled Face of (Jod. 1 Catholic World. I Legends of the Rose, j BY JULIA HARRIES BULL, f A certain youth was accustomed to 1 make a wreath of roses or other flow- crs every day and to place it upon j the head of Our Lady's statue. He I became a monk, and in the cloister his 1 occupations no longer permitted him to continue the pious practice. Being I much distressed, he asked counsel of an I aged priest, who advised him to say Ins Aves every evening, which would be ac cepted by Our Lady in lieu of the garland. This advice the young monk faithfully followed, until one day, while on a journey, he had to pass through a lonely wood, where robbers were lying In wait. Quite unaware of their presence, pres-ence, he remembered that his Aves were not yet said, and forthwith Mopped to say them. Suddenly the robbers saw, to their great surprise, a beauteous Lady stand before him, and take one after another from the lips of the kneelintr monk fifty beautiful j roses, which she wove into a garland I and placed upon her head. The rob- hers, conscience stricken at the vision, ; were all converted to a "better life. The word Rosenkranz (rose wreath), the lierman name for Rosary, suggests the thought that originally Christian worshipers may have counted their prayers with roses. At any rate, it is certain that for a long time the larger beads were called roses. Garlands of these beautiful flowers are often seen in pictures and tablets of the fifteenth century. At that period it was Qt j unusual for men and women to wear I wreaths of flowers, and also to place (them as a mark of respect or reverence upon the heads of persons and statues. In Germany the Madonna is frequently frequent-ly called Marienroschen: and if a rose bush ceases to bloom, it is said that the Blessed Virgin has dried her veil upon it. The white rose is associated jiarticularly with the Madonna, being chiefly chosen for her fete days. According Ac-cording to a German adage, a rose bush pruned on St. John's day will bioo:n again in the autumn. . I In the lines: Men saw the thorns on Jesus' brow, But angels saw the roses, ("in of our well known American poetesses poet-esses alludes to the legend which relates re-lates that the thorn-crown of Christ was made from the rose brier, and that i the drops of biood drawn forth by its thorns from the sacred brow fell to the ground and blossomed into roses. In ancient times the rose was used as a symbol of silence, secrecy and ) " stratagem. An Arabian legend relates that a garden of mystical roses once l-ismed by King Shaddad is now lost and buried in their desert. The Persians Per-sians believe that on a certain day of the year the rose has a heart of gold. The Rose of Jericho, from its ability to revive after being blown about like a dry leaf by the winds of the desert, N-.ame the natural emblem of the Resurrection. When it happens to be blown into water. the withered branches expand again, and the pods o.. n and let out the seeds. The flower thus called is small and white, and does not belong to the rose familv; al- I-. v-u it iM5 uetn cauen me iiosa -wari". or the Rose of the Virgin; prob-abiy prob-abiy because the pilgrims to the holy sepulchre reported that it marked every spot where Marv and Joseph rested on their tight into Egypt. This planr certainly has a remarkable' power pow-er of resuscitation, one brought by the Templars from the east having bloomed again after seven hundred J , years. I Thus we see that the symbolism of the rose has a curiously wide range. The same flower which signified silence and secrecy to the ancients is for us a I favorite poetic image of innocence and purity, and more than any other flower emblematic of divine love and beauty Ave Maria. j Easter. J The lily rears her pure soul's chalice to j the skies. f Ard dewey tears of silver-pearl Its I crest adorn; 1 And Mary, in her beaming, rapturous I Mother-eyes, j Mirrors, on this celestial resurrection morn, I The lily-whiteness of her soul, while Calv'ry's cries I Are lost in Easter anthems, by fond I earth upborne. I J. William Fischer in Dominica. I The Last Communion of Marie An- Itoinette. It was midnight when Marie Antoinette Antoi-nette was torn from the embraces of ( her daughter and the saintly Madame I. Elizabeth, an, conducted to th j-ciergerie, j-ciergerie, thev to await judgment and death. A cold, damp dungeon was assigned as-signed to her in this dreary prison, r The floor, far below the level of The I . court yard, was paved with bricks, and I down the moldy -walls trickled little I streams of water which added to the I loathsomeness and gloom. There was I a window partition, with windows in j recesses. ' One was reserved for The I pendarmes, who had charge of the I prisoner, in the other was placed the I unfortunate queen. A small window, J destitute of either blinds or shutters. J looked out upon the court yard; near I it stood a rude bed. which, with a Ht- I tie table and two chairs, completed the j furniture of the miserable dungeon. J Here it was that this queen, once so f "full of life, and spIeMor, and joy." J "Missed the sad days of anguish that 1 separated her from the scaffold. But here, too, she tasted the purest celestial ce-lestial joy; here she had moments of delight and calm that were to her a foretaste of paradise, for in the midst of her desolation the Eucharistic God entered the gloomy portals of her prison pris-on to console by his divine presence her anguish-stricken soul. Thanks to the courage and devoted-ness devoted-ness of an heroic young girl, Mile. Fouche, and the benevolence of the I gaolers, Richard and Bault, the Abbe Magnin had gained admittance to the nrison nnr) rnmfnrtpil and sustained by his holy counsels the poor brokenhearted broken-hearted queen. Encouraged by the success of her plans. Mile. Fouch grew bojder, and one day suggested to the gaoler Bault that the abbe should" be permitted to celebrate mass in sthe dungeon of the august prisoner. But with all his devoutedness Bault hesitated, hesi-tated, for he was not ignorant of the dangers to which he exposed himself in permitting a refractory priest to have access to the dungeon in which the queen was confined. Supposing l that one othe officers chanced to visit the queen's cell while the holy sacrifice sacri-fice was being offered? Such visits, at untimely hours, were not unusual, and no explanation would avail. A priest in sacerdotal vestments, lighted candles, sacred vessels, could not be reaany maaen away ills reason toia him that the undertaking was fraught with terrible danger, but his devotion to the tortured and suffering queen outweighed his prudence, and who wrill blame him? If human wisdom condemned con-demned him, divine wisdom absolved him. So eloquently did Mile. Fouche plead the cause of the queen, so earnestly ear-nestly did she point out to him the immense im-mense happiness this earthy joy would bring her, that the gaoler was vanquished. van-quished. But how was heto obtain the necessaries neces-saries for the holy sacrifice without exciting ex-citing suspicion? "Only procure for me two smoll candlesticks," said the young girl; "I will take charge of everything else." The following night she returned, re-turned, accompanied by the Abbe Magnin, Mag-nin, carrying with her all that was required, re-quired, a red chasuble, linen, altar cloths, a small silver chalice, a little missal, a consecrated altar stone, the size only of the base of the chalice, cruets and two wax tapers, all of which she carried in a bag hidden under her own garments. The poor queen had been forewarned and waited their coming with anxious longing. The window had been covered cov-ered with a mattress, lest the light of the tapers might betray them. In a few moments the preparations were made, the table covered with white linen lin-en on which were rlaced the waxen tapers and a small crucifix, and then the priest began the mystic sacrifice. What tongue can speak adequately of the joy that inundated the sorrow-she sorrow-she saw accomplih'V in the semi-darkness semi-darkness of her gloomy prison, amid danger and poverity, the august mysteries mys-teries which for more than a year she had yearned to participate in? Amid the splendors of her throne she had, perhaps, sacrificed somewhat to the love of the world the sentiments of piety which were the result of her Christian, education. But now. thrust from the throne into the depths of a prison, and guided by sorrow into the arms of Divine Providence, shf. had learned to raise her eyes far beyond the fleeting joys of earth, and to bag of Heaven the help and consolation denied her by man. As she knelt upoa the damp floor of her dungeon to receive re-ceive for the last time the God of love into her crushed and broken heart th God who was to be her strength in that terrible hour when she would stand alone to endure trial, humiliation humilia-tion and death her admirable courage and self-abasement must have touched and astonished the hearts of the faithful faith-ful few who knelt around her. They beheld a woman whose birth and destiny des-tiny had promised her a life of happiness, happi-ness, embracing sorrow and abandonment; abandon-ment; a queen proud and high-spir- j ited, accepting humiliation and pain; I a mother whose heart was wrung with agony, pardoning the persecutors of her innocent children. Ae she knelt there peace came to her troubled soul and the dark prison was illuminated by the presence of Him who is the world's true light, and who, in the I dreary night of woe, brought peace, light and refreshment to th angu'.sh-stricken angu'.sh-stricken heart of Marie Antoinette. E. de M., in Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. , Passiontide Reflections. "Stay with us, because it H toward evening and the day is now far spent." So did the apostles speak on the road to Emmanus. So, too, does He "stay with us." In the dim light of the silent si-lent church our Lord is very near. The crowd disperses, a few faithful souls remain there, to pour out their heartaches heart-aches and trials to that hidden God enclosed in His prison house of gold. By the eye of faith we see Him f.s clearly as did those apostles of old. He comes to us in the early morning in His sacrament of love, and "when the shadows deepen" He raises His sacred hands in benediction to bless us ere we go. He stay with us! Could we but drink in the beauty and fulness of the thought! But the eye is oftimes dim, and mayhap the sweetness of religious fervor is past, and we say in our loneliness lone-liness that God has forgotten. Ah, no tired soul it is at that very moment our Lord is nearer than ever before. It is in the darkness of our soul, the troubles of our life and the crosses that come daily that our Christ abides with us in a far finer sense than in the brightness of spiritual joys. How dear to Him are those tears wrung from the heart in those moments of anguish! "We know our only comfort can come from the one who suffered every pang the human heart is asked to bear nineteen hundred years ago. And so we go from the silent, darkened dark-ened church, leaving our trials and sorrows in the wounds of the Sacred Heart, confident that with the light of the morrow fresh strength will be given to meet the crosses we will be called upon to share with Him. "Stay with us!" Yet a little while. For soon the night will brighten to perpetual day and we will be at the feet of "One who understands it all; The Wounded Heart which 'neath the olive tree. And on the mount in bitterness let fall The secret of His own vast agonies. j And we may trust our faults and failures, fail-ures, too. Unto His love as humble children should Content that if all others misconstrue. By Him. at least, our hearts are understood. Dominica. His Amen Was Too Vociferous. An injunction has been secured bv I the trustees and other members of the Congregation of United Brothers of Mt. Gilead at Columbus, O., restraining restrain-ing Isaac Tenant from worshiping aloud. Tenant has lang occupied a front pew of the church and his loud and resounding "amen" during prayer and sermon was more than the rest of the congregation could stand. People' passing the church, it was said, coow heart Isaac's ringing tones and the fervor of his ejaculations dfs- ' " "" 11 - concerted the preacher. Even the village vil-lage dogs, one authority alleges, howled back an echo of the mournful accent of the "amen." The trustees talked with Tenant and asked him to pray to himself, but in any event to omit the "amen." He replied re-plied that he would not. Hence the resort to law. "The Altar of Pardon." It is a time-worn venerable place By prayers of generations sanctified, Holy with dust of those who nobly died To keep in the true faith a mighty race. In the dim light before Our Savior's face The people kneel, their hearts' depths to confide. Oh, thou great love, thy pardon reaches wide. Give to us all a portion of thy grace. J "El altar del perdon." Who doth not j Forgiveness? Lo! our sins are manifold; mani-fold; In that still reverent throng each one may feed Upon those words so often writ in gold, "Whoso repenteth," doth the Scriptures read. , "Shall receive pardon," promised as of old. Alice Gray Cowan in The Pilot. - SHORT SERMONS. Can that man be dead whose spiritual spirit-ual influence is upon his kind? He lives in glory; and his speaking dust hos more of life than half ith breathing breath-ing models. Miss Landon. The gerat high road of human welfare wel-fare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and tney who are the most persistent aad work in the truest spirit will invariably be the most successful. Ay- Sincerity is the basis of all true friendship. Without sincerity it is like a ship without ballast. There is no sunshine for those who persist in keeping their shutters barred. Joy is not gained for the asking lor it, but only by the acting for it. "Charity or the love of God is productive pro-ductive of the greatest benefits. In fact, its effaces the multitude of sins which a man may have committed and I would say to all sinners who shall have imitated Mary Magdalen, what I said to herself: All your sins are forgiven for-given you because you have loved much." Words of our Divine Lord to j Maria Lataste. Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by contaln-! contaln-! ing them. In a disciplined mind knowledge knowl-edge exists like vital force in the physical phys-ical frame, ready to be directed to tongue, or hand or foot, hither, thither, anywhere, and for any use desired. "Little presents keep up friendships," they say in the world, and one experiences experi-ences this above all in religion; for men only look at works, but God sees the intention; however little one offers Him, provided that it is with a good heart. He receives it and it is agreeable agree-able in His eyes. M. l'Abbe Bossuet. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Sister Thomasia Rujze, a native of Moravia and a Dominican nun, is a student at the University of Prague, where she has distinguished herself in scholarship over all other pupils. The professors say she is the most gifted gift-ed woman they ever met. She is proficient pro-ficient in the most abstruse branches and surpasses all in mental philosophy and aesthetics. Sister Thomasia is the daughter of a poor shopkeeper. The war department has notified the Rev. John A. Ferry, an assistant in St. John's church, on Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, that he has been designated by President Roosevelt for a commission commis-sion as chaplain in the United States : army. $ i The French chamber of deputies, by ! a vote of 304 to 24, has rejected all the ! applications for authorization to re- j main in France made by the religious I preaching orders. 1 Among the orders thus expelled from I France is the English Passionist order, which conducts a church in the Avenue Hoche for English and American Catholics, Cath-olics, and in whose behalf British Ambassador Am-bassador Monson and United States Ambassador Porter recently interested themselves. Sister Joana, who founded St. Joseph's Jo-seph's hospital, died recently at St. j Mary's academy in Leavenworth, Kan. j i Sister Joana was 88 years old and had been in the order for sixty years. For ! fifteen years she had been an invalid, j living at the mother house in Leaven- j worth, where she had spent her days ! without complaint, although unable to walk and only able to move about in a wheel chair. Bishop Tierney of Hartford, Conn., recently received the following cable- ; gram from Pope Leo XIII, In answer to one sent by him in behalf of the Knights of Columbus of the United . States last week: I "Rome, March 10, 1903. The holy fa- I ther thanks and blesses the Knights of Columbus of the United States of America for their message of congrat-" . ulation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pontificate. He also sends his apostouc blessing to your lordship and the faithful of your diocese. "CARDINAL RAMPOLLA." i The pectoral cross which Archbishop Farley wears while at religious functions func-tions was given him by Mrs. Kelly,' widow of John Kelly and niece of the late Cardinal McCloskey. This cross Is a marvel of church symbolism. There are placed in the four extremities of the cross, which are of trefoil shape, decorations of sheaves of wheat and bunches of grapes. The greater part of the face of the cross is occupied with representations of olive leaves. The new novitiate to be built by the Dominican order opposite the grounds I or the Catholic university will be very large and is admirably planned. The building will be 182 feet in width of front and 210 feet in depth, built in the form of a quadrangle, inclosing a court 110 feet square. The work cf building will be started in the spring, and it is expected that within two years it will be readyfor occupancy. Until now the Dominican novitiate has been located at Somerset, O. The institution in-stitution there will still be maintained, the Washington foundation being chiefly for higher study. The relatives of the late Rev "W G Prendergast of Mannington, W Va ' whose death resulted after drinking embalming fluid, mistaken for mineral water, have entered a suit for damages against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Father Prendergast had ordered a box of mineral water, and as it was a long time in coming, he sent his serra.n lo the freight office with instructions' to make a thorough search to see if it 2 fnt a;rived. The agent looked about and found a package upon which the markings were so rubbed out that . they could not be read. He opened the Package, and the contents looked like water, so it was sent to the priest house. Father Prendergast drank some of it soon after, and despite medical med-ical aid. he died that night RETURNING TO ROME. Paris, March 10, 1903. j imnorlT- 1"te"ience of momentous import has just been received from the east A correspondent in Mossoul sends word that the famous Nestorian sect have accepted the proposals -sent onr,He and ae t0 b received. Into communion with the Holy See The bishops and the principal partisans parti-sans of the union recently assembled at Mossoul to receive absolution ab haerese, and to hear the instructions from Rome on the subject. These brave men have been advocating union with Rome during the past four years and have been compelled to face cruel persecution on the part of the enemies of this project. During this time every possible obstacle h&3 been put in their way; intimidation, pillage, imprisonment; imprison-ment; finally flattery, temporal bribes, and even honorable and advantageous marriage alliances with the ruling classes. The Anglicans in particular I having offered strenuous resistance to I the project, proposed as a last resort a marriage between the niece of the Nestorian patriarch. Mar Chinoun, and the son of the principal Mellks, the ; signatory of the profession of Catholic faith. By this marriage it was hoped I to bring about a rapprochement be-' be-' tween Mar Chinoun and the Catholics for the benefit of Anglicanism to which sect this patriarch is friendly. To accomplish this Mar Chinoun pretended pre-tended friendship, made some advances to the Catholic group, and sent his felicitations fe-licitations to the Patriarch Emmanuel on his return to Rome. The purpose of this was to conceal his real designs and to gain time. This formal return of the Nestorians to the faith is now regarded as certain, and all that is awaited by the chiefs of the movement is the conditions which be laid down to the Holy See. Mgr. Mar Curaha, nephew of the patriarch, his other nephew, Memroud, as well as numerous Meliks, or chiefs of the nation, na-tion, continue to direct the movement; and everything points to final success, in spite of the fierce opposition and intrigues in-trigues of Russians, English and Americans, who are well supplied with money and are able to offer temporal inducements against the proposed conversion. con-version. The conditions of the union will be arranged at a meeting which will take place shortly at Mossoul between the viiiimean vjainoiic pairiarcii ucicgaicu by the Holy See and the delegates of the Nestorian tribes represented by the patriarch. Mar Chinoun, Mgr. Ouraha and Melik Nemroud. accompanied by other Meliks whose tribes are in favor of the union. Meanwhile the adversaries of the movement towards Catholicism are opposing op-posing it with all the arts of diplomacy. The Russian consul at Van has called to his aid two Russian priests whom he has installed at Sarai. the Nestorian village nearest Van and that to the great displeasure of the governor of this province, who distrusts Russian influence" far more than that of the Catholic church. The Anglicans have heaped up presents and money before the old Nestorian patriarch. Mar Chinoun, Chi-noun, with a view of gaining his influence in-fluence to prevent the return of his nation na-tion to Catholicism. The old man re-; re-; ceives these presents in silence, listens to and approves all that is said to him, but gives no reply; for it is well known that he has far more reasons to fear Russia and England than the Holy See. The English consul, disappointed and disgusted, has betaken himself to Mossoul, Mos-soul, under the pretext of visiting the Yzidiens (worshipers of the devil), but in reality to see if it is not possible by new intrigues to prevent at the last moment the return of the Nestorians, an event that as an Englishman and a Protestant he would grudge to France and the church. The New Century. The Child and the Magician. (Baltimore American.) The girl that's at our 'boarding house comes clambering to my knee To tell me all about the wondrous things she's been to see; And yesterday her eyes stuck out in auite a startied way. While this is what the little black-eyed lassie had to say: "I been f see th' jishun man 'at does th' magic tricks-He tricks-He did so many ftJiefiy fings my head'B all in a mix. They was a girl they was a girl let's see. what did she do? Oh, yes; he put 'er in a cage 'at we could see risht froo. An' nen they raised th cage wif ropes and pulley fings an' all. An' when he shot his 'volver off she wasn't there at tall! "An' nen th' girl, he laid 'er down along a grea' Dig plank. An' kinuo' hiptomiaed 'er till 'er face was ist a blank. An' nen he ist done this away, wif nuf- fin on 'is hands. An' she slid wight stwaight upwards; nen he took some little stands i ui nuwtrr jjuis set un rm, wii sumc dirt an' seeds an' fings. An' nen he went an' borrowed some th' aujience's rings. He took a cornercopie you know What that is an' showed They wasn't nut'fin' in it; an', sir. bwight wed roses growed Wight while we was lookin' at the flowerpotsfor flow-erpotsfor true! An' that's th' truf. 'cause I got one an' fetched it home t' you. "An' funniest fing. them rings he'd got oh. yes. I didn't tell! 'At he'd ist hammered 'em all up like he was makin' jell When them there woses growed thev had thp -n same rings hangin' on. Excep- ' one, an' some girl felt most dio il 'cause it's gone. But purty soon th' jishun man was hold-in' hold-in' in 'is hand A teenty snow-white wabbit ist so scared it couldn't stand. An' nen he wupped th' wabbit up in his ol' handkerchcr An' they ain't no more wabbit, an' he gtved her ring t' her! An' that ain't half o' what he done that bald-head iishun man I'll think o' more t'morrow night an tell you, if I can." |