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Show j Paulist Taijjers in Monism ' i Tatfyer McCorrfs Lecture i 'I fell I I I ; : jii'iiiiSSlI 1 i : wmmm It ' : - ''-liill I' t . FATHER McCO RE. Y. 4 i'utte Bureau. RUermourtain Catholic. Catho-lic. 47 East Broadway. Nov. 2S The Pauiist Missionary Fathers have been d. irg groat work in Montana. Through their efforts and eloquence there has been a broad, magnificent awakening' of Catholicity. Men and women who, through long: years of in-diiYerence in-diiYerence to the spiritual and future life, have been brought back to the fold. , Like the- Missionaries of' old, tire Faulists have gone forth into the high-wnys high-wnys and by.v-.iys into city, town ahd camp, preaching the Gospel and defin-in.sr defin-in.sr the doctrine of the ancient Church 1 he Church of Christ and his Apos- i the Church of our fathers and. the. Church we ail. love the Holy Roman Catholic Church. AX ANACONDA GATHERING. Father McCorry 's lecture in the Mar-."ivt Mar-."ivt Theatre at Anaconda on Tues-i!-.:y evening. Xov. 21. attracted a large gathering. His subject was "The Story Beautiful." The proceeds were devoted I ti the organ fund of St. Peter's Church. I The followinr musical nroiramir.e was I rendered in faultless style. During- the tinging cf '"The Holy City." by Mrs.' Haldorn, col-.ir'd pictures of the old . and new Jerusalem were thrown upon I tho screen, the music and paintings makir.fr a very pretty effect. PROGRAMME. Overture Orchestra Chorus, "Gloria" Mozart Lecture. J-er!ude. "The lioiy City" Mrs. ;. Haldorn J (urtftte, Messrs. Thomas, Martz, Pickti I arid Havis. I Vocal Solo Gounod I Mrs. G. Haldorn. j chorus. 'Hilieiujah-' Handel I Finale Orchestra I CHORUS. Soj.ranos Madames Haldorn. Xorheck. ! i:,:'ills- l:-ik'-r; Misses Wrisrht. English, I -I'TL-.iii. McCaba -Ahs-il.T.li.mes Kcnnlco-Lt, Winston; Misses Davidson, Gleeson. j j Tenors Messrs. Thomas. McMullen, , Martz. Reeves. 1! Hashes Messrs. Baker. Davis. Emerson, McGuinness, Brown. Pickel, Soare. Musical Director Prof. S. A. Kennicott. ; At the conclusion f the lecture pic- tu"res of Our Holy Father Leo XIII, St. Peter's Church. Father Coopman, p-astcr of St. Peter's, and Father Mc-Corry Mc-Corry were thrown uron the screen. All were greeted with loud applause. The stage floral decorations consisted I of potted plants and cut flowers. Of ! the lattvr American beauty roses pre-j pre-j dominated. A party of Sisters from the i hc-.-p'ital-occupied an upper box on the i left, while the visiting priests, among j whom were Father English of Butte 1 and. Father Aiken of Phillippsburg oc-j oc-j eupied one of the lower right. A num-I num-I ber of young ladiefi from the Convent,, chaperoned by Mrs. D. Shovlin, oecu-j oecu-j pied seats in the pit. I Everyone who entered the theatre j doubting the merits of "The Story I Beautiful" surely went away not only j satisfied, but lifted "from the common j 1 sod to a purer air and a broader view" j by the eloquent and touching portrayal of "The Story (twice) Deaut'ful;" beau-I beau-I tiful in itself and "beautiful in its rendi- tion. J FATHER M'CORRY'S LECTURE, i In a few preliminary remarks Father j McCorry stated that during the past l four years he had devoted the spare j moments -snatched from a very busy ' life to the collection of materials for the j illustration of a forthcoming volume I of the Life of Christ." He had chosen the work, of Hoffman, a modern painter not from lack of reverence and i appreciation- for the old masters, but j because of Hoffman's peculiar fitness j for the work he attempted and executed I so well. Early left an orphan, find be- ing a lifelong physical sufferer, no won-! won-! der his artist soul reveled , in pathos, j "His colors seemed mixed with tears." I He i.-? surely a worthy delineator of j "The Man of Sorrows." "The Story Beautiful" i.i simply the life of Christ from Bethlcftem to Calvary Cal-vary graphically told in the eloquent ' language of Father McCorry. As the lecture proceeded the principal scenes in the life of Christ, described by the lecturer, were thrown upon a screen on the stage, by means of beautifully colored, col-ored, lifelike stereopticon views. There was not a. dull sentence in the whole I discourse. The audience followed from I scene to scene-with spellbound interest and admjration. CHRISTMAS EVE AT BETHLEHEM. Christmas eve at Bethlehem was a j magnificent piece'of word painting. In the expectant hush of all creation ona could almost hear the angelic chorus and feel the cold chill of the winter air. Our Savior as a boy was held up to the modern youth as a mo-del. The lectured lec-tured pictured Him as "prizing a molh-er'p molh-er'p care," bright-eyed, pure and industrious, in-dustrious, endowed with all the spring and buoyancy of youth, thoroughly accustomed ac-customed to the toils and aches of the carpenter snop; Me was iiKewis-e wen . acquainted with every hill and stream for miies around His home." Referring to the miracles performed by our Savior, the most touching was the raising to life of the widow's son, where the anguish of the sorrowing and desolate mother appealed to the loving heart of Christ. The finest burst of eloquence was reached in dealing with the scene where the woman is- brought before Christ to be judged for adultery. The audience sat breathless, while, in thrilling tones, and swiftly rolling sentences. sen-tences. Father McCorry dealt sledgehammer sledge-hammer blows of condemnation at the commonly accepted doctrine that man should be judged by one moral standard stand-ard and woman by another. THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN. ! Why should man, wrapped in the I smirched mantle of selfish sin, be al-; al-; lowed to go free, while the woman is ! crushed down to be ground under by. ! the cruel wheels of a merciless public j opinion? , J "Has crime any gender?" As these, words came from the speaker's lips a mighty burst of applause that aetualiy shook the building broke forth. Like a cannonade, it rose and fell for the space of many seconds. Another most interesting inter-esting point, where the speaker's oratorical ora-torical power showed itself, was the masterly, combined word picture of the two principals .in., the scene of Christ before Pilate. Xet a word was inappropriate in de- ; : 4-1, t.Arr Tha fn I giving, the meek, the holy Savior, standing in the presence of the thick-necked, thick-necked, luxurious and selfish debauchee of Pagan Rome to be judged. "What a picture of opposites:" The one, the embodiment of a perfect man the other, the embodiment of all that is despised. CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. Christ standing silent and sorrowful Pilate cleansing his hands in a vain endeavor to wash away the stain! The final sufferings and death of our Savior were depicted with a, vividness and precision that were startling. The cruel, hellish hate of the scourgers the lacerated and bruised ilesh, the blood spurting from the many wounds I made by the cruel thorns the painful and ignominious march to Calvary the inhuman nailing to the cross the tender fareweN to His heartbroken mother and beloved disciple the last convulsive shudder "through muscle, fibre and nerve a gasp a sigh" the bloodstained head sinks upon the lifeless life-less breast the end has come. Imagine the above thoughts couched in the burning words of Father McCorry; McCor-ry; couple to that a life size and realistic real-istic representation, of the crucifixion, and you will carry away impressions that years cannot efface. THE BLESSED VIRGIN AND CHRIST. Following this was represented one of the most touching pictures of the evening. It represented the Blessed Virgin kneeling by the dead Christ in 1 the sepulchre. In tender words were I described the maternal emotions which filled her heart. Her mind went back to His childhood, when she nursed and pressed Him to her bosom to boyhood, when He was her pride and the consolation conso-lation of His foster father; to manhood, man-hood, when- He was her stay her all and, finally, to His last tender farewell on Calvary. Father McCorry trul? said: "All the love, tenderness, pity and j suppressed and intensified grief you see in that picture means Mother!" I The lecture closed with a joyful de-' de-' sviption of Easier .morn. How the Christian soul should rejoice! The bonds of sin are broken and "Satan is chained,- cantive, to the chariot wheels of Christ." " A consoling conclusion to n grand 'and beautiful story. HUGH E. RYAN. |