Show I I i BOHEMIAN DISTRESS STILL GROWS r UnIversal Service Berne Oct 6 The The Swiss organ Der publishes in a recent rt re cent issue remarkable reports some Old Catholic parishes In Bohe mla One of them from a a. place on th German frontier says Our oldest people who hitherto hay nav been able to ward off death are no collapsing like flies files And really their is the better part for the tho Angel o Death releases them from all the son sor sorrows rows and pains and terrible struggle of these dark and comfortless day But what Is to become of us If th deaths and losses continue at the pres present present ent rate In the first half of this yea we ie had four forty deaths and fourteen births as compared with fit ty i deaths and nine ninety birth In the tho last year before the tho war var A report from another parish says Iii In whatever direction wo we look there Is nothing but utter cy of money clothes and food T people we meet In the street or see I it church or at a funeral are arc for the mos 1103 part parL living skeletons pitiably thin an miserable Where are wo we to find cour courage courage age for fresh work The whole service liars has broken down utterly Am An Amso Anso so there prevail everywhere bitter wan wanI and anxiety which are arc felt fell all the morin mon mor In the golden holiday time which th year hits hns been turned Into a a. real o of starvation Tho rho failure will show v whether and to what extent we car hold out It Is very difficult to hold out but still more difficult lo to hold onca mouth God alone I Ia OUt our conio- conio |