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Show fM jg It CandbT Uliy The Water find Bgadsrj aaniin5linie'' 7: "It looks like ; tOime,' hokus-pocu- s Dave Smith said to Father Qrane. Dave was expressing a quite common view held by many . . . that the Catholic use of such articles as beads, crucifixes, medals and holy watejt is unnecessary in religion and even smacks of pagan superstition. "What good does it d6," Dave asked, "to light a candle or burn iricejnse? And -- how can a little medal around my neck protect me from accidents?" non-Catholi- cs if H !! i: . Unfortunately, too many people outside the Catholic Faith have a complete misunderstanding of these religious articles and the use to which they are put. There is nothing pagan' or super-- , stitious about them, and they do have a very real religious meaning and value. "Actually," Father Crane told Dave, "religious articles used by Catholics are meant to be helps to their religious lifenothing more. The value of such articles is not in the metal, wood or wax of : which they are made, nor in the form they may have . . . but in the prayer of the Church and of Christ, in whose name the Church prays in blessing them . . . as well as the fervor of the user's own prayer and his good disposition." But Dave was still not convinced. He argued that religion is a spiritual thing . . . that it requires no external manifestations. "Yes," the priest agreed, "it is spiritual. But isn't it the natural thing for a human being to give outward expression to the things within his heart? How, for example, could you be sure that your mother loved you if she gave no signs that she did?" Our Lord, Father Crane added, could have cured the blind man SUPREME BLVD. Recently, I . when friends cf mine were visiting their gra ndf ather's home, I was invited to stay a night with them. They came from a well-read family, but even this didn't prepare me. When twe were all gathered in the living room just before retiring, their grandfather took a book of Dickens from the shelf and asked if I'd like to read. Startled, I said, "Very 1 much." So I read aloud to the rest of the familv. I started off in a trembling way, But it didn't matter. Whenever I came to a passage that they wished to discuss, or one they didn't understand, I was stopped. After an hour of this, With everyone from the youngest to the oldest participating, I had completed only one chapter. At the end of the hour, the grandfather stood up and said, "Children, the reading hour is 6ver. Time for bed." Thatvening was one of the most pleasant in my memory, and I've .often thought that if more families had a "reading hour," they'd be better educated and closer knit Carolyn Gilman, Madison, N. H. Gethsemane. "kneeling down,., began to pray" (Luke ' 22:41). Many Catholic practices which seem strange to you now, would make a deep and convincing impression upon your mind and heart if ydu understood them. And this is your invitation to investigate. We will gladly send you without cost or obligation, in a plain wrapper, a highly interesting pamphlet explaining such things as the Catholic use of cracifixes, medals, incense, holy water, candles, and special Catholic prayers and praaices such as the Rosary, Devotion to the Sacred Heart, and Lent. It costs you nothing to learn the truth, and the truth will 1e most interesting. Nobody will call on you. Write today for Pamphlet well-educat- ed, 1 W9 : l'r ' H ; a mother badger.' n lJr Trapper's Code. My brother worked his way through school by running a line of traps in the Nevada desert country. x One bitter cold morning when I went up the line to help him, I saw him pry open the jaws of one of his larger traps and let a small badger scamper off free. 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