| Show church liti life in california C california a li fornia is tile graveyard of catholic plicate we dont know what the statistics prove or the tabulations of life show allow but observation tells us its that more priests die here in early manhood than in any other state or perhaps in any other country who cannot recall to memory many instances of this ever active decimation why MY we cannot tell that is the question for the doctors of medicine and it may lie for doctors of divinity also but personal experience convinces us that thia is is not a good country to fist fast in men who labor as p priests r icsis here have to do 10 eaily eady and we late without regard to time or circumstances who are arc hourly liable to enter the rooi room and death le m ardless of the he disease distemper or epidemic should as a matter of physical pei caution be well fed but the i ules of the church forbid that food or water or of physical nourishment of any kind shall pass thir lips on certain ucc fcc until late in the da day y when the burden of labor is over and when the system is so beaded and relaxed that it is no nodily tily half hildas as injurious to eat cat as to 0 continue faSti fasting Dg and tile the occasions occur so often thit that the feeble fiame is reduced and even the strong man itt in lint but too many cases becomes weak is only a theory theor y often suggested bugg aed by the preat great mortality that occurs among catholic priests in in california ond which we are again reminded of by the fact that Alenia ny who lias just aniced on the steamer sacramento acra brought with him laim seven rev bathes t to 0 I 1 jelp help fill the ever thinning ranks of the pastors of that chuich if thet e be any aisis for foe the theory the question is ole one for the church to consider 80 60 that lier hc iules ma may if possible impossible be so m as to cheek check this great slaughter liter of our young k churchmen wo we do not profess to be an expert in medicine or theology but we do know that men inen must live by food and wt wr always heard bieard thu doctors say that it is not KC aae to risk oneself in the haunts ol of dismast s when the stomach is empty sac am en to lice |
