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Show LAJTY ISHUHGRY TO DOJINCS Catholics Urged (o Unife in Stirring Stir-ring Up a Missionary Spirit. THIS THE VIEW OF A GREAT CATHOLIC JOURNAL What a Movement Could Be Swung "Were There a Unify of Action. BY D. V. FRANCIS. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK. April 23. If you read the great symposium on tho Laymen's Missionary Movement, 1 am quito suro that you will not be surprised to leam that tho pcoplo who havo heretofore hereto-fore been loft out of rho great uprisings upris-ings arc Jbocinning to fool rather norry about it. Thcro havo boon plenty of suggestions from Roman Catholic quarters that they wero only too sorry that they were uuablo officially to show 1 ho sj'mpathy with tho movement which was in their hearts. It is, of course, quite impossiblo to do more than allude to Lhese expressions of sympathy and good-will, but here is au outspoken statement from tho chief missionary monthly of the Roman Catholic church in this' country: s'12xtension says that the laymen's missionary movement carries its lesson to us with ever great meeting," and exclaims, "Dear Lord, isn't it loo bad wo Catholics can't got together! What n niovomont wo could swing if we did. Theso great cities are from a quarter to a half Catholic. If wo joined foreign and home efforts in a rousing rally in even groat city, a wave of Catholic enthusiasm would sweep every laggard off his feet. Can it bo do no? Look at tho Missionary Mis-sionary congress. But will wo do it? So fnr as tho work of extension is concornod,. jt could begin tomorrow. Hoart and soul would wo go in to make tho movement a .success. Tho laity aro hungry to do something worth while. Arid all that stands botwecu the great awakening and those willing workers is a simple understanding and agroement on tho part of all our Catholic missionary movements, not to unite in ono organization, but to unite in a stirring up of tho missionao spirit for tho benefit of all. and, therefore, there-fore, for tho glorj' of God and the salvation sal-vation of souls. " Evangelist of Groat Power. Tho many friends of the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, so well known in this country as an evangelist of great power, are congratulating tho people of Cardiff, Wales, to whom ho is going for tho purpose of conducting a religious revival. A six-weeks' campaign has been planned and tho great ovaugelist takes with him his devoted band of coworkers. co-workers. Prominent among theso arc Charles M. Alexander, tho sweet singer who has moved so many hearts, and Mr. Robert llarkness. the pianist and composer com-poser of many of the most popular religious re-ligious hymns and songs of the present (lay. Thore aro also in tho part' Mrs. Alexander, Mir. Ilaftzgcr, tho singer, Mr. and Mrs. William Ashor, saloon evangelists, 3Ir. and Mrs. Ralph C. Norton, Nor-ton, personal workers, and Mr. George T. B. Davis, who has .just returned from Corca. Spoaking of Mr. Davis recalls his marvelous achievement in distributing distribu-ting upwards of ono million copies of the pocket, edition of the New Testament Testa-ment in Corca, where he reports that, a most remarkable religious awakening is iu progress. As to Prohibition. I wonder how many of my readers are prohibitionists 7 That term has been so monopolized by a great multitude of people who bcliovo that tho manufacture oi spirituous liquors should he absolutely prohibited, thaj. it is hardly necessary to explain tho term, and yet 1 often wish that the manufacture qf a great many other articles might bo equally prohibited and that public sentiment would assert itself with sufficient earnestness to give tho word "prohibitionist" "prohibi-tionist" a much wider signification than it has at present. One of theso days I propose giving my readers a statement of tho wonderful chauge of feeling in regard (o tho opium traffic which has been coming over the world during the last few years. Tho Chinese appear to be terribly iu earnest in their zeal for tho prohibition of the-'cultivation of tho. poppy and the manufacture of opium which depends upfin it, but there is no time to speak of that at present. What prompted nly writing was the pleasure 1 have just experienced in reading tho report of a recent address-of address-of Governor Stubbs of Kansas. Governor Gover-nor Stubbs was speaking in. Chicago and he came out with a most emphatic declaration of the overthrow of tho theory the-ory that absolute prohibition would brine commercial niiu to a cnmmmiitv What Kansas Has Shown. "Prohibition in Kansas is not a result re-sult of atmospheric conditions," said tho governor. "The climate had nothing noth-ing to do with it, Ecason was at tho bottom of it. As a result the Kansas people today are better fed. better clothed, havo finer hon?s, larger families fam-ilies and bigger bank accounts. The crv of the anti-prohibitiouists that wiping wip-ing ut tho saloons would briug business stagnation has been utterly refuted. I have proofs by which, figuratively speaking, I think I havo my foot on the necks of those who circulate anti-prohibition anti-prohibition talk. It was said three years ago that the wiping out of Wichita's Wichi-ta's fortv-scven saloons would ruin the towu. Today, with no saloons, that town has doubled its population, more thau doubled its bank account, has better bet-ter people. less crimo, more schools and moro intelligence." T have just received letters and tele grams from the mayors of twenty cities and towns, from twonty-nino "district judges and from, chiefs of police, and thev all agreo that tho day statewide prohibition went into effect in Kansas was the .brightest day in that state's history." Pertaining to Israelites. We nro all disposed to be pleased when one of our icllow-eitizens is particularly par-ticularly honored and when the reason xor the success which a man has achieved and which has been recognized in substantial fashion by his neighbors is not tho acquirement of vast sums of i money nor prominenco in worldly achievement, but sintplv his unquestioned unques-tioned helptulness in guiding and leading lead-ing his followers in the wav of holiness, holi-ness, tho case appeals to the ordinary man with moro than usual force. I am a ( hristian myself, but my relations with Israelites has been most delightful A, one time I had the great pleasure of being the guest of a dear old Hebrew He-brew gentleman in London for a number num-ber of weeks and was nccr more im pressed than, by tho spirit of truo courtesy cour-tesy which was shown mo at that time. Eabbi Is Honored Recently "Rabbi Leonard Levy of Pittsburg was honored hv his congregation congrega-tion in moro unmistakable fashion. In factt it may bo doubted whether any precisely similar drmonstrntion has ovet been shown to a rabbi boforo. Rumor had it that Rabbi Levy had boon called to take chargo of a noted Jewish congregation in London, and his Pittsburg Pitts-burg parishoners were filled with tho deepest concern. The rabbi's salary in Pittsburg was already $12,000 and no question had ever oiiterod tho good man's mind of desiring to havo it increased, in-creased, but his congregation at once voted that $15,000 a year be promised him for the rest of his life. May Retire on Pension. Should Rabbi Levy wish to retire at 70 years, a yearly salary of $5000 would still be paid liiui and as ho is but 44 years old at the present time, there if every prospect of his having many fruitful .years still in store. But the zealous trustees of tho congregation did not stop with that. Their resolution included tho proviso that should the rabbi dio before reaching his seventieth birthday, aud his widow survive him, she should bo entitled to tho handsomo sum of $3000 a year for life. It is interesting to note that Rabbi Levy is one of thoso distinguished mCn who years ago were recognized by ex-President Roosevelt as citizens of unusual qualities and claimed by him as warm personal friends. Plenty to Listen. Whenever the Row Dr. Parkcs Cad-man Cad-man has something to say, thero are plenty of people who have timo to listen. lis-ten. Dr. Cadman spoko recently under the auspices of tho Woman's Foreign Missionary societv of the New York conference of the Methodist church, and I fancy that ho started tho ladies of his audience doing some pretty vigorous thinking. "Wo are hearing much," he said, "about tho liberty of woman in our day. I ro.joico that in this country she has moro liberty than she could havo anywhere else, and it will bless her il sho has tho good senso to make proper uso of it. But if spending evenings in tho darling hotols of Now York, drinking drink-ing cocktails, and seeing plays fished up from tho Parisian sewers I say. if that be tho way sho chooses to uso liberty, lib-erty, hotter that she never had any liberty lib-erty at all." I fancy if tho doctor had stopped right thero nobody would have questioned tho success of his address, ad-dress, but he wont on to touch upon another topic of paramount interest at tho present time. Said Dr. Cadman; "All 1 his cry that tho stato be saved, that tho nation bo rescued, tho government govern-ment be made secure by somo imperial figure, is certain evidence of dcca3. Look up for God's sake, and play your own game." |