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Show """ - Church I the victory I ' which 0Yer I 9 cometh tfcs 1 j CinwtrsaL f 1 . 1 I CHURCH CALENDAR. I Xov. 24. Sunday. Twenty-sixth after . i Pentecost. St. John of th 'rosK. t Nov. 25. Monday. St. Catherine, j Nov. 20. Tuesday. St. Sylvester, i Nov. 27. Wednesday. St. James Inter- I tifiUP. Nov. 28. Thursday. St. Stephen the Younger and Companions. INov. 23. Friday. Yitril. St. Satumin-UK. Satumin-UK. Nov. SO. Saturday. St. Andrew. VIA CRX7CIS. I shaped a plan. A cherished, fair design-It design-It was to i harm. to plorifv This life of mine." Hod fhaped a cross. And laid it rugged weight Athwart my plan: in ruins It , , Lay desolate! With normfiil owl Anil sullen stpn I trnd Sliphting the hand of love beneath That cross of God. j Crushed by its load. ' Upward I lookert at length; And through the dark reached and grasped 1 His hand of strength. I In contrite shiti J ) I breathed. -Thy will be done." j . i And lo! illumined with gems mv crop 1 I Became ;i crown: 5 CATHOLIC LABOR MOVEMENT. f German Catholic Pastors Meet to Or ganize a Labor Movement. Labor unions governed by the princi- pies outlined in the encyclical letters of I Tope Leo XIII on labor are to be or- J panized in the German Catholic par-j lshes throughout Chicago and the state. For the purpose of most effectively fighting and Impeding the socialistic 1 movements in the labor circles and to s-ure -solution of questions between ' ; ,:,b"r and capital by peaceful means ; under the guidance of the Church a general Catholic labor movement was !" siarted a few days ago at a conference f Catholic clergy and lavmen held at the office of Theodore B. Thiele. chair- me Mguanee committee of the j Federation of German Catholic Socle- j ties of Illinois. ' The Rev. John Dittmer, pastor of the ( st- George's church: the Rev. George lx Heldman. pastor of the St. Paul s j church: the Rev. Anthonv Kvers paa- ; 1r of the St. Ronlface church:' the . Jtev. A. J. Thiele. pastor of the St Aloysius church: the Rev. Joseph Wan-; Wan-; n'r- Pastor of the Holy Ghost church i and the Rev. Vincent Kohlbeck of the I? ; st- Procopiua church are among the i-nests at the conference who have I : ? started the movement. i The vigilance committee of the Fed eration of German Catholic societies has outlined the plan of action for the ; German Catholics, and under the direc- f tlon of lhe different priests at the con- i '. 'r,r,l,r a can to the pastors j an,i oncers of organizations of par- ishes of the different nationalities in this city. The different nationalites are each individually to be invited to lake up the organizing in their respec-; respec-; tive parishes and then are to come to gether and form a central Catholic la-I la-I hor union. New AVorld. j ' . CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. I .' Father Sherman Gives His View of I Mrs- Eddy's Cult. i 1 "Christian Science is a. rag bag of fol liesa system that is both blasphemous blasphem-ous and damnable," said Father Thomas Thom-as E. Sherman in lecturing upon that subject in Illinois hall. Chicago ast Sunday afternoon. "The be- I jlef is noJ Christian in any sense, nor I 1s there, any science. I beg and be- : f'h you all not to apply the term I . hnstian to it. Do not abuse that I f beautiful name if you would call it j t iniything. call it Eddyism. It was con- 1 ! c-eivod and founded by Mrs. Eddy j " j tl,at s all the name it is deserving Father Sherman described the principles prin-ciples upon which Airs. Eddv's faith was founded and told of the theory of tn.' non-existence of the material uni- i vci which sdie teaches. According to Mrs. Eddy's teaching." teach-ing." said Father Sherman, "if you I an overdose of arsenic and think I ! h:u-ri enough that it is sugar it will n..t haim you. She says it is the mind. 'n the same principle, if the majoritv of people had thougbt that the bullet which killed our beloved president was n.i poisonous, he would not have been I smitten and would still live as our chief." Then, turning to Mrs. Eddy's responsibility respon-sibility for spreading the doctrines of '"hriMian Science throughout the world. Father Sherman said: She is the viient of pantheists, say m hat you will. The whole thing is folly fol-ly i"i "in beginning to end. It is all l..':ispnemy; it must naturally lead to P-ssimism. She pretends the opposite. 1'UtJt is not true. It also leads to dna'ism and manichaeism, and as well I to many of the other gross and exploded ex-ploded errors." PRIEST HAD TO PLAY ORGAN. No Money to Pay Organist Sad Story of an Outgrew n Parish. A pathetic story is told of one of the oldest parishes In New York. It is the Ftory of progress, but progress is very often rathos in what it leaves behind. New York is growing out and away from the old landmarks, as is every expanding city in the country, and th parishioners of the Church of the Transfiguration in Mott street have nearly all migrated. The church has hccnro so poor that on a recent Sun-" Sun-" ,ia' Father Thomas P. McLoughlin. the pastor, was compelled to sit down to the historic- old organ himself at In" High Mass because there was n6 money to pay an organist. Early in the '60s this cnureh was the most prosperous and increasing in the city, hut year by year familiar faces. i "ere missed ana tne income dwindled. The good priest tried every means to meet the expenses, and the few faith-. faith-. ful ones strove unceasingly, but the debt s grew. Finally the great clock stopped. The J3 a month it cost to t un it was needed. Then a volunteer choir took the place of the paid choir. The parish gram- i mar school was closed and the teach- I crs in the primary schools dwindled i from seven to three. The rectory was next sold and the priest fitted up quarters in the parish school, and the church basement had to be rented -out. f Father McLoughlin announced that n Nov.. l.l he proposed to raffle his ; piano to rsine funds for the c'hurch. Tears streamed down the prjest's face and many among the remnant of a i , great congregation sobbed as they ; heard the announcement. ! THE BRAZILIAN MASoACRE. Details of Bloody Assault by Indians Upon Christians. I I Some tim ago a telegram was re- . ' ce:vrd in Cenra announcing that mis- ,r sionailcs and Genoese Sisters had " ! V-n l been massacred by Indians at Alto Alegre. in Brazil. Until now nothing further was known of the circumstances. circum-stances. A letter written from San Euis by Father John of Milan to the general of the Capuchins and just received re-ceived gives some details of the frightful fright-ful butchery. Brazilian troops, who were accompanied by Father John of Milan, were .sent to Alto Alegre and reached there about forty days after the massacre. Father John found the pavement of the church, the stairs of the cloisters stained with blood. In a neighboring forest he discovered a number of dead bodies of Sisters, natives na-tives of Genoa, who had been put to death at the same time. A little girl of lft years, who escaped the Indians almost miraculously, told the sad story as well as she could. At 5 o'clock in the morning, as Father Victor was beginning to offer up the holy sacrifice, a troop of savage Indians In-dians burst into the church. They shot the priest dead and then commenced shooting and stabbing all in the church. Thoy searched out the brothers bro-thers and murdered them, and then visited the convent and took the lives of the Sisters. Next day they went about the neighborhood and killed all the Christians whom they met, setting fire to the houses. About 150 children whom they spared at first they let into a wood and the little ones perished. The victims numbered altogether about 300. The Indians were captured by the Brazilian troops. Standard and Times. Large Bequest to Charity. Mrs. Mary Corrigan, widow of Michael Mi-chael Corrlgon at St. James' parish, who died in Chicago on Nov. 1. 1901, left by her will large sums in charity. She was born in the parish of Fresh-ford. Fresh-ford. County Kilkenny. Ireland, in 1821, and resided in Chicago for the past fifty-four years. The will disposes of an estate valued j at $240,000. of which $175,000 is personal person-al property. With the exception of provision during their lifetime for the decedenfs two sisters. Kate and Bridget Capey, practically the whole estate is to be turned over to Catholic institutions, but most of the charitable bequests will not take effect till after the death of the testatrix's sisters. Apostolic Delegate to Philippines. Bishop Sbarretti. who has been transferred from Havana to the Philippines Phil-ippines as apostolic delegate extraordinary, extraor-dinary, is now the guest of Archbishop Corrigan of New York. Before proceeding pro-ceeding to the Philippines he will make a brief visit to Rome to acquaint himself him-self more closely with the wishes of the Holy Father. In an interview, he said: "I am going to Rome to get instructions instruc-tions as to my new post, and until then will not know what my duties are to be. I have read in the newspapers that the Vatican is sending me to the Philippines to endeavor to arrange an agreement between the Filipinos and the American government. Other pa pers speak about the settlement of the friar question, whatever that may mean." Bishop Sbarretti was formerly auditor au-ditor of the papal delegation in this city. , Methodist Bishop's Divorce. Foor old Bishop Hurst of the Methodist Meth-odist church, erstwhile of Buffalo and present chancellor of the American university at Washington, has our deep sympathy in the domestic infelicities infe-licities that have quenched marital joys in his home and "heart. The aged bishop's first wife was scarce dead a year when he took for a second spouse j a biooming Buffalo girl of 22, with an J income of $80,000 a year. 'Twas another anoth-er unnatural wedding of January and j May, and the result might have been expected. The blue soon vanished from fheir sky and thorns choked the flow- er. along their united path. At last the storm of bitterness burst and the final shame came in the bishop's divorce. di-vorce. Ah. bishop! Had you but heeded heed-ed the advice and example of St. Paul and kept yourself free from the entanglements entan-glements of marriage you would not now, in your old days, be bowed in sorrow to the dust: Union and Times. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Foreign Catholic journals declare untrue un-true the recent cablegram that th new king of Italy lately donated $20,000 toward a new Catholic church now being erected at Cettinje, Montenegro. The sum was given by Leo XIII. The Sacred Thirst society, a Catholic Cath-olic organization of St. Paul, has succeeded suc-ceeded in enforcing a law to prevent ! the sale of intoxicants to minors. The anti-minor crusade was inaugurated by the women of the city. It is reported from Brussels that diplomatic dip-lomatic relations between Holland and the Vatican, which were Interrupted bv the exclusion of the representative of the Pope from The Hague peace conference, con-ference, are about to be resumed by ' the aoDointment of a new papal nuncio at The Hague. s-- To the great number of converts to the Church from the ranks of literary men and women is added the name of Mise Emily Hickey, an Irish poet. Miss Hickey is the daughter of the Rev. John. Stewart Hickey, who founded twenty years ago, with Dr. Funivall, the Bowning society. -vfc ' In France, recently, the officers of several regiments, by way of celebrating celebrat-ing the anniversaries of great victories by French arms in the past, ordered requiem masses for the soldiers killed in action. This was too much for the Masynie commander, who peremptorily forbade the Celebration of the mass. " j Chaplain Chidwi.ic. U. S. N.. on his way to Manila, stopped at the Island of Ceylon, and there met Father Fitz-pa Fitz-pa trick, formerly of St. Peter's church Brooklyn. The latter, he writes, is doing noble work as professor in the college under the care of the Oblate Fathers. They have 1.000 students and the Christian Brothers, on the same island, look after the welfare of TOO students. In recognition of the services rendered render-ed by the Sisters of Charitv and Sisters of the Poor to the city of Richmond, a state subsidy of $300 has been given them. This action was brought about largely through the efforts of the Hon. John M. Hlggins of Richmond, and Mr. Meredith, a non-Catholic, who made a notable address in behalf of the resolution. resolu-tion. It is announced that Catholics of England will again attest their lovalty to the Holy See, by sending to Rome a representative delegation when the Sovereign Pontiffj holds the silver jubilee jubi-lee of his elevation to the chair of the Fisherman. Archbishop rYaughan, the primate of England, and the Dnke of Norfolk will present the Holv Father testimonies of the fealty and devotion on behalf of the body of English Catholics. The Intermountain and Colorado i athollc reaches the Catholic people of Montana, Colorado. Utah, Idaho, Nevada. Neva-da. Wyoming, New Mexica and Arizona. Ari-zona. DO you do business in any part of this large and vast country? if so dent you see what you want? Whv' of course you do. So let's have it. ' |