Show A MILITANT CHURCH woul word comes from san ban francisco Frano iaco that bat the catholic temperance society known as this league of the crow CI ORB Is ie to be maue made into a military organization the avowed object to ie to lu gatimu ia li e and bold the interest ut of the boys and to keep constantly before their mind midda the thought of patri odain and their duty ta the stars stare and stripes the rho league itself is made up of boys who have been wo firmed in the catholic Catho Jle church tout but only those who are at least five fire feet four inches ja in height can be enrolled in the ghe military organization the rho intention la Is to estabi bith a corn coln pany in every parish pariah and thus thug lorm a considerable regiment regime bt rev fattier father york is very much interested ed to in lue matter it is IB said and so are other reverend gentlemen the church buildings will be used as aa ar armories mortes 1 where no places for these purposes elk n be obtained nod easily it in ia just bet as well to make a note of this probably bly the full the me stop step taken in not yet apparent it does doea lot look exactly cigut when au an ecclesiastical organization organ resolves itself into a military corps in order to stimulate patriotism patrio tiam iu boys boye five tet and lour four inches tall one would think that in au effort to gula gala this most laudable object the question ut of religion to be left out site alto gether r since tho the country to be loved it IP b but ai one although the on arches may be legion A fine spectacle would it boal be ll 11 all the other churches chu robee and no do charen people were to du dm military uniforms uni torme lorms here would be no more soh lere tiers of the country but catholic lutheran soldiers luiere Bo methodist lalere aj baptist soldiers Bul diera agnostic soldiers etc A possible poe sible consequence would be that the government would nave to maintain a vas vaa army to prevent all theise patriots from killing each at times the ondrell on oil earth a ai af i is ie well keown k iown has baa often been balleu militant but rarely in any such sense of the word |