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Show X4XX4X I MOMMA. : j xxoxxoox MISSIONS IN MONTANA. Flocking to Hear Paulist Fathers MacCorry and Hopper. The provincial press brings us interesting interest-ing tidings of the good work now being accomplished by tha Pa.ulist Fathers throughout the State of Montana, At the close of the Anaconda missions. Fathers Hopper and MacCorry divided forces Father Hopper taking the eastern territory, terri-tory, . including Lewlsfown. Townsend, Bozaraan, Livingston. Billings, Glendive, Miles City and Red Lodge, and Father MacCorry moving nor.n and west, visiting Deer Lodge. Phillips burg. Garnet, Colum. IMa Falls, Kalispeu. Havre, Glasgow, Fort Benton and Marysville. Both missionaries will meet again at Great Falls about the 11th of November, and after a two weeks' mission will go to Helena, where their labors in Montana will be brought to a close. A few days ago the Montana Catholic man chanced. on a train on whk-h Father MacCorry was journeying northward. He talked interestingly about mission work in Montana. "It Is a field," he said, "where muh, has been done, but where great things are yet to be accomplished for the cause of God. "Personally," the father said, "I am deeply Interested in the non-Catholic apostolate here in the great Northwest. In this special work we have received great encouragement at the hands of your good Bishop and his clergy alike. Oh! it i is a great and grand and glorious apos-' tolate crowded with results everywhere we go! The clouds of bigotry 'and prejudice preju-dice and abuse are going up from the land like mists at sunrise. You no longer encounter en-counter men and women ,as in other davs, who st5U believe it is needful to hate for the love of God. Everywhere you can lind non-Catholic audiences who are willingmany will-ingmany even anxious-to hear Catholic doctrines candidly and forcibly presented. At any rate, they always give'vou an earnest ear-nest and respectful hearing. Armed as we are with the thunderbolts of God's truths what more can we ask for or expect? "Given that if under God. great things be not accomplished the judgment shall be laid at our doors. "You remember the kindly and inquiring interest awakened among non-Catholics during our mission work in Butte. After careful preparation and instruction if my memory serves me, there were thirteen converts received into the Church. How many more were started on the vovage, and who will one day enter the 'Haven?' ho can say? "In Anaconda a few weeks ago there were upwards of 200 non-Catholics in attendance at-tendance every night. On the occasion of . tures &iven at Deer Lodge on the bible and the "Divinity of Christ ' especially es-pecially constructed for the benefit of non-Cathohes. non-Cathohes. the public hall was crowded with anxious, earnest listeners. "Again, at Phillipsburg the interest awakened among Protestants .was wide and deep, large numbers being in attendance attend-ance at all the serv ices. So the. work goes "To be sure, any or all of that does not necessarily imply precipitatei conversions to the Catholic Church. But it does mean this that intolerance is being pilloried in all its naked narrowness and spite; that bigotry and prejudice is swept awav: that something of a 'Christian Unity' and the Brotherhood of Man- so much prated at and so little understood is being realized on earth; that in its least and last analysis, analy-sis, if men s sincere, convictions are hopelessly hope-lessly at variance and cannot be adjusted we begin to understand that they can, at least, be friends. . ' "Tha t most of all. perhaps, men's minds are being startled up from the pernicious lethargy of M don't care,' and push out alone- lme of r.oiio-i,-.,. !,...: !r tenaciously pursued, will inevitably lead to Rome. "Even now I know there is a. harvest already whitened in vour ereat Northwest, North-west, but the harvest we are red.ping now is the product of the seed that other hands have sown sown. God knows best under what privations and against what tremendous tremen-dous odds. e reap today the sowing of lh ?,in!Tr Priesls of Vour NorthwVt. who toiled and struggled from back in the beginning, that the faith might be kept and the crown might be won v."Ali1 so' TO- sed tha't we sow now the harvest may be reaped bv orher hand hat matters that, as long as it be reaped? In the sowing for some of us is our hfe work done,' ' "What part does the 'Question Box' play vJl rtora?" ventured the Montana Catholic man. "It is undoubtedly one of the best possible pos-sible methods in the world." continued the f ilier 'of. bringing the Catholic ooctrmo clearly and concisely before the non-Catholic mind. It is this way I may lecture an hour before a non-Cathol!c auoienco on a given, topic and not hit the precise difficulty or doubt in the minds of half a dozen people in the church or theatre or hall. But place a 'Question Box at the door where objections can be clearly stated on a paper slip and deposited, depos-ited, then devote twenty minutes or half an hour to their answers immediately before be-fore the lecture ami you can pulverize them one by one. Always cautiously of course, and with toleration, presuming in every instance the honesty of the inquirer until he demonstrates the contrary 'himself. 'him-self. Never impatient, never sarcastic, never critical or rhetoric or grammar or awkward construction. Never descending to trifling or ridicule, least of all abuse. But kind and gentle, alwavs- decisive authoritative au-thoritative niid strong, speaking as 'one having authority' to leach, but alwavs considerate of keen sensibilities, treading tread-ing with soft and careful footsteps 'into the sacred sanctuary of souls, above all else terribly in earnest in the work in hand, not knowing but that on the sini- P est sentence tailing from your lips mav pivot the salvation of an immortal soul. Almost every question will serve as a nail on which to hang some point of Catholic doctrine, nothing' minimized, nothing diluted, di-luted, but presented as Catholic truth can well afford to be presented in all its native integrity and strength. Briefly, accurately, ac-curately, pointedly, concisely. Then crown your argumert with a text from scripture and you have it, a veritable monarch on its throne." "What is generally the nature of the questions asked?" inquired the Montana man. at the risk of being himself called a "Question Box." "Oh! weird, strange, multiplex and varied," said the father. "Catholic ceremonies cer-emonies and practices' for instance. Beads. Scapulars, Holy Water, Red lamps in sanctuary. Candles on the altar. Why do Catholics genuflect to their pew before entering it? Why do little boys ring bells at mass time? Why do priests shave? Why are priests called fathers? What and why is a nun? "Then Catholic' doctrine: The panal infallibility? The Catholic idea of the Bible? The blessed virgin? The Holv Kuch-arist? Purgatory? Indulgences? The confessional? Invocation of saints? "Then Catholic morality. Is it never permissable to He? What is a mental reservation? Why did some one sav that 'the end justifies the means'? and so on and so on. " 'Lit tletiale's Plain Reasons.' perhaps the most insiduously malicious and dishonest dis-honest publication that ever crawled from i the cylinders of the press, is the treasure-house treasure-house (or charnel-house, if you will) of most of them. - Oh! yes! it lias been answered an-swered in one way or another a thousand times or more. Father Ryder of the Ixn-dnn Ixn-dnn Oratory, in his "Answer: to Plain Reasons,' has impaled the arguments 'and objections on his penpotnt one by one until they squirmed and wriggled and groaned and died; died the death of the ignominious all all. "But then you know the world! Iniquity In-iquity has a thousand heads and every head a thousand lives,, and sometimes one man can do more damage in his little, lifetime than twenty others can undo. And what was that a certain man once said: The evil That Men Do Lives After Them." the " But the train man called the station I and the father grabbed his coat "Gooo-bye,' "Gooo-bye,' he said to the interested scribe, as he grasped his hand "Goodbye! be good!" I and he was gone. I And as the train pulled out and recovered re-covered her momentum the Montana man sank back in the cushions of his chair , and looking meditatively from the window at the great weary stretches of unbroken ; whiteness that re-ached out from the railroad rail-road tracks away and away "Ah, yes, my father!" he murmured to himself, "that's world for you! The good is oft' interred with their bones." Montana Catholic. BUTTE NOTES. Butte, Mont.. Oct. 26. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) M. Donohue and Mrs. Donahue have returned from the east. Father Lisn'er, who has spent the past six years in the African mission's, is visiting Butte. James H. Lynch, accompanied by Mrs. Lynch, visited the Spokane fair during the past week. Butte gave its citizen soldiers a magnificant reception. There is only l one Butte when it comes to doing things right. Catholic -societies" and the A. O. H. of Butte were quite prominent in the parades that welcomed home the Montana Mon-tana volunteers. -$ Senator W. A. Clark, Senator Thomas H. Carter, Governor Smith and others paid eloquent tributes to the valor and military skill of the Montana Mon-tana regiment in the 'Philippines. On Tuesday evening there, was a grand ball in A. O. H. hall in honor of the returning volunteers The floor managers were Joseph Labissoniere and W. J. Walsh; caller, II. Richards; doorkeepers, George S. Miller and Frank T. Dolan; badge seller, Martin i Martin. A thanksgiving service will be given at St. Paul's Catholic Church on Sunday Sun-day evening in honor of companies K and M, just returned from the Philippines. Philip-pines. Messrs. Theo. Ehret. Fred Gan?-ner Gan?-ner and Peter Towey have been appointed ap-pointed to extend an invitation to the officers and members of the companies to attend in a body. Reserved seats will be held for them in the front of the Church. Patriotic decorations, a sermon and music will prevail. W. T. Lynch, who went to the Klondike Klon-dike in May of last year and later to the new gold district of Cape Nome, returned to Butte Monday with several sev-eral thousand dollars and a pocket full of nuggets as the result of two months' work at Cape Nome. One of the nuggets nug-gets contains nearly $200 worth of gold and is almost as large as a hand. Mr. Lynch has several good claims on the Nome river and he vill return to ; that country next May. He says the I Cape Nome district' is probably the richest and most remarkable placer deposit in the world. Major James W. Drennan was one of the best known military men in the state. At the time of the mustering in of the Montana regiment he was adjutant ad-jutant general of the National guard of Montana, " He resigned the higher office to accept the position of major a rank he had previously held in the First Montana. He was in several of the early engagements in the Philippines, Philip-pines, but was taken sick, and died in the hospital June 24, last. He was born in Ireland and at the time of his death was about 52 years of age. He leaves a wife who resides in Bozeman. Mayor McCarthy, in his speech of welcome to the volunteers, said in part: "At last the news came when you entered the engagement at Caloocan. Were we disappointed in. the loyalty and bravery of our boys? We answer with one accord,' No, a thousand times; no. We believed then, as we do now, that it may be in the power of other nations to shoot and kill, but it is not in their power to subdue your loyalty or your patriotism for your country. The presa of the entire country gave notice to the world that the Montana Mon-tana boys are heroes, and now, as the representative of the citizens of this city, I thank you one and all, independent inde-pendent of either nation or state. Your noble acta speak for themselves; they are matters of record." THE MONTANA SOLDIER. (Butte Dally Intermountain.) Here's to the First Montana., the flag they fought for and the girls they lived for! "Colonel Kessler, your Montana men are true soldiers. Every one of them has done his duty." General Otis at Manila. "If I were not a general, I would prefer to be the colonel of the Montana Mon-tana troops." General MacArthur during a battle near Manila. "The Montana men are physically the finest regiment of volunteers I ; have yet examined." The mustering i out officer at the Presidio when they came back. ; The whole state of Montana is wel- come in Butte on this glorious occasion. occa-sion. If the reception committee goes broke go to the banks and get what you want. Butte is' so swelled with pride that it may justly claim to be the biggest town in the world today. However, if there are any Helena men here The Intermountain would not injure their feelings, and will withdraw the claim as soon as the celebration shall end. MISSOULA. Robert Marcum of- Hollenbeck died at the Sisters' Hospital on Oct. 17, from appendicitis. Dr. J. M. BieJen-berg BieJen-berg performed an operation. The public library will receive about eeventy-flve-new books in about three weeks. The list will include some of the latest books on fiction, and a few of the leading reference books for the university students. Miss Ida Hogan, who has been in the telephone office for a number of years, has resigned, her position to accept a better one in the postoflice. She 'will have charge of the delivery window. Miss Hogan is well adapted for the position and will give general satisfaction. |