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Show - ; I CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. I "The children of this world are -wiser in their seneration than the children of light." said Christ of old; and in no age or clime has the truth of these words been more obvious than in our own, where man's material needs are alle-Aiated alle-Aiated with such marvelous skill and untiring: patience. Yet nowhere has progress been more persistent than in the development of societies: and the scattered elements of individual strength have thus been welded into a thunderbolt, which lacks only direction to make it irresistible. Why should not the Church of Christ stretch forth her eternal arm, and seize and wield for the protection and profit of her children a power so potent against her? "Unite!" should be the battle cry of Christians everywhere! Unite in rie field of letters, and show the power of x. truth to a truth-defying: press; unite in the work of education, and take from 1 Catholic schools the stigma of poverty 1 and inefficiency; unite in the cause of I politics, and prove to your skeptical I fellow-counfa-ymen the beauty and the J strength of Catholic morality: unite in I j the Interests of charity, and lessen the J suffering and want which send up their I Cri?s to a seemingly heedless heaven; j unite in the ways of labor, that the I Catholic workingman may become a I factor to be reckoned with in a prob- I km solvable only on the principles of Christ. How arc Christian societies to be u jaed?- Let the initiative come from Cairiolie laymen, whose welfare is at strike; from Catholic laymen, whose v brains are as keen and hearts as ready I :is anv in the land. From the Vatican ' Hill has come the voice of the Watcher in the night; the times are ripe; let the League unite in world-wide prayer, for "unless the Lord keep the city, in vain doth he watch who keepeth it." |
