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Show ' 5 p . ""Lnj"'""L"i22J"'"'' "' u'-"-''-''- 1 L y&jg "This is the I ! h p C&im$ Universal II 5 I I . faith." J ! ! FEDEKAT ION OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. I I Ainii.-ny Miitro. swrHnry of the national organ-- f i contributes the following notes: l I An hl.ihop P. J. Kyan of Philadelphia who has j u ini:niiiiiou-y decto,! to membership on llie ad- I vi-tv l".;irl of ilie A. V. of C. 8. at the recent De- j I : ir-i' meeting, writes that he accepts ihe position I cii ii""1 M'lviory board with pleasure and promises ! f 1m -I" J'il J1' P'vor to forward the objects of the I ' f !'! niti'-ii ii the po-itiun to which he has been i, , ;e'l. I !i" arehbishop writes lhat he entirely ap- 1 . t j i-. v, - ef ''k- ,bjeets of the organization and the i,,(.in- :xl.pted to attain them. "'- ;lr'; being taken to form a Catholic fod- ; rr.-itK"! in Canada by prominent members of the 8 ; ch -:-gv mid laity. .Judge ()"Douogh;ie of Ontario O j v !!!'- tliMt he hopes that in course of time the en- X I j X"i th American continent will present a united O f .1!) in matter, peraining to the work of the feder- g j ' K-v. .lom .J. llennesr-y. D.D., of Wichita, Q . ! b' ii.. writes to la-v. Puik. O. S. P., national organ- Q , j.-'-r ( the A. 1". .f C. ( '.. under date of Feb. 6, 1004: 3 ' "I hnve always been in favor of federation and I 5 J , p"v..ii perfect liberty to visit tlii diocese in the - 5 (" V. ii''ret nf that society. ; 'Xoildiig would give me J R i ; preater ileasitre than to see all societies in Kansas J 1ll;ited. 5 Tli- Cnthelie Indians-of ihc Jiou., Marxians, 3 ! J ' s and Cros Venires tribes of Fiirt Berthold, X. 5 ' 3'.. have applied for membersliip '.iirtlie, A. F. of C. 1 S. Aiii.-ng ibe chiefs, writer Father Alalo, 1o rep- ) j r-Mi,t the above '.IriUv are: .losej-Ji Packineau, t Martin (Jond U(-ar, Wounde. Face. Charles Uur,, 7 j- . Vrniiijiii White-IVarj Wintam'j)ean,'l.ittle and Lf-o f ( "inty fcdorativUs .now are established in At- ' ) chi-on. Ixavenworth; Shawtiee." Wyandotte and Xe- j Ti ii liii counties. Iyatisas. IJev. Thomas Durk, O. S. ) ! in the national organizer of that section and ro- J r-'fts great progress. 1 Ie is now gelling in line the ) " i ; :c- in the liocese of Wichita on invitation of j j j!jsli,,p llennessy. ) ; Kt. Pev. C. .Taillet lias organized a federation n ! . Corjni- Christi, Te. Mgrs. JaiJlet is the vicar I ? g"n"ral of the Prowiisville i-ariate and has just , becji elevated by the Ib'ly Father, Pius X, to the, i ; i dimity of a jrt!ieno;ary a)'ostp. j ' I t The fourth annual cmivi-ntitMi of ihe A. F. of C. j i"M i- M take place at Detroit. 'Mich.. Aug. 2 lo .. j ! ; f lie v. William OT.rien Pardow. S.J.. of New' f ,; "ik writes; "The great, movement of federation ; is destined o Im much for both church andstate."' j j j Pishop Mcl'aul. voicing the A. F. of C. S., has j ! tin- to state about ihe school question:: "Petain ; ' : tlx- present jmlilic school system, but do not deprive ; Catholics of their rights as citizens. The fedora- i : lion has taken an admirable stand on this question. j i - piatt orm is: i iiat tiiere shall he no public money- paid out for religious instruct ion in any school. Jcl the state examine our schools, and if on ex-: ex-: Mtiination it is found that wo are giving the ehil-. ehil-. (in ti a M'euhir education whicli comes up to the re-; re-; quireinents of ihe state, then let the state pay ! ; it." I I, nn'innl call for per capita of 2 cents has Ken issued. Prompt payment of this annual tax is i ' expo. ted. Societies desiring lo join the federation i i should addre.-s. the national secretary, 012 E. Pearl t-t i-.-et. ( 'ineinnali. ). j , Several county ffnlerations June recently been ( fermod in Wicoit-in by ihe national organizer, Jlr., I Otto Scifri-. A federation is also flourishing now'. ! in Scioto county. Ohio, composi-d of six societies. The Alb cbeuy county Federation of laryland has J iiK-rea-eii iis membTshii to twenly-tive societies. Th" )iresident of La Asocaeioii de Catolieos of i I'oito Pii'o wriles that mailers pertaining to tho rliurcii in the island are going op very favorably an! he believes lhat ihe t-hurch ro)erty question , wiil -oon be decidod in favor of the church.. The. jire-ideiit and tjovcrnor Hunt are now working in that direction. j THE GREGORIAN CHANT. j The Gres-orian chant takes its name, of course, for Pope Gregory 1. called "the Great," who was Pope from ..! until his sith in H(14. Fxcepting-J.'-o I. be was the greatest of all the early bishops ei ihe Church, and ihe Church today bears many marks of his reipn. I lie music used in the service existed from time, i immemorial. Its origin has been variously attrih-ni attrih-ni . to ( Jreek and to Hebrew source.-. W. S. Rook- , i". an-l r.nyli-.'i writer, says me mo.-t widely spread j f-pinioii is t!ut the older portion of tiie music orig-; orig-; i'i.;tid with ihe p-alnis iheiuselves. or at least f-prai'ir from the later synagogue music. A i any rale, they were handed down unwritten, by "ral tradition, and so were in danger of eormp-'l eormp-'l ti-'ii. Ambro-e of Milan, fearing the loss of the v- '!'T,-:!'!i' melodies, toward the close of the fourth . . nry . ndeavored to restore thin as narly as pos-m'! pos-m'! to iheir irimiiive juirity and to teach the f c!' i; y io -ing them with greau r precision than had e-ivion-ly iieeu ntKinpted. A still more extensive v-ork of the same kind was what Pope Gregory mi-(h mi-(h rto..k two ceniiiiies later, and ihere arose two s -liool.-. ih: Ambrosian."' which di-appoarod every-1 every-1 v In -re except in Milan, and the Gregorian,"' which j obtained universal u-e wiih the authority of Rome. Giegory inv( nied. or authorized, additions to 4 'he chant, "f rather o the "modes" or scales in i vhieh they were wrinen. and on which the system I 3s hn-ed. Pri"rly. iVkv are unisonous music, whose ; phra-e.- are dividei into two portions by double s Lars, corresponding- to the balanced verse of He-brr. He-brr. -i , Tlie collodion of chants grew, and ihe modes '''i'-'1 ,M-V v"''r- written al-o grew, until an eecle- i ria-tivil doci-ion wa- promulgated, jillowing all ; fourleen of ihe ku-cvn modes m be used. An im- I I im n-ely large nuniber of these melodies bas been pi-.-. rv. !. in i.-ahn lov.es or anliphon.-. the ordiu- j ! A'luin i:'.i--a -. the intn'its. gradual and offcrtoriae , ? P';c latione.-. ver-iculi and rc-ponsoria, the hymns j Pd queii. anil 1ho laiiH-iiia'ions. exuiict ami j o-!:rv music of Holy Week. The melodies of the ordinarium mi-sae are rob- smj!;. of much Liter date than the psalm-tones. ' APPROPRIATIONS TO ORPHAN ASYLUMS. Ihe late decision of the supreme court of the f-a'o of Xew York on appropriations to orphan ; ti-yhnn- i- of tl. m()t practical .and important in-ttiv-t p. Caih-.lies. not alone in Xew York,- but tlu-uuijliout the Fr.io,,. Taylor if. Weed. LL.B., thus rei,ws an. gives a critical opinion of the fa-c in the Catholic World for March: "The ea-e ,.f James Sargent against the board of clucaiion of il- ,-iiy of Poche.-ter. vrhich has : be- n j nding in ihe eouri- of this stale since the raily pan of Tdi-. having reached the court of appeals, ap-peals, was decided by that tribunal on dan. 21) la.-f rasi again-t ihe plaintitf and in favor of the board ff e.luoaiioj, of the city of Rochester at St,. Mary's ns.'hun for orplisn boys of that ciiv. The opinion i M the .-.nrt is M-riit- u by Mr. Justice O'Brieu. "1 lie deeitdon is of great moment and conse-. conse-. ?iKI;ee ,o us Catholic?. Xot merely because the aiholie institution immediately affected by it suc-j suc-j reeiie, m ;ts contention, nor because by it similar i 1 1 "unions are guaranteed the. support' which they J y ii-,. r.,t...iving. nor because a bfgotry only to'.) Jatent ironi the arguments advanced by' the' plain-j plain-j . ati m tlie ease referred to, has. at least in. this par- - -i w-r.rL-n.l-rh-lr r - i m -i , , ticular instance, bc-en thwarted in its designs and effectively rebuked, but because it makes evident that the justice of the cause for which Catholics J have long boon laboring (the support by the slate I of schools in whicli Catholics as Catholics may be educated) has, at least to some extent, not only been I recognized by the courts of the state, but recognized ! also by those who framed our state constitution. J j "In article viii. section 14, the yrecognizod the j injustice of throwing the burden of supporting and j educating those classes of people who are deemed j to be the wards of the state upon private insiitu- j tions without compensating hem therefor. j "The right of Catholic children and children of other religious belief to be committed to the care j and custody of institutions of their own faith is recognied in other provisions of law and the practice prac-tice of so doing is now securely established in this state. "This state. however, has drawn an arbitrary line, on one sirJo of which are found all the kinds of institutions maintained by people of different religiuo" belief, other than for educational purposes, pur-poses, and on the other side those maintained by the different denominations solely for educational purposes; pur-poses; the former receiving assistance from the state, ihe latter not. "In other words, we have private institutions (asylums, homes, correctional institutions, etc.) receiving re-ceiving assistance from ihe state in the education of their inmaU s. and yet we find the state refusing this aid to institutions designed exclusively for educational purpose, although the institutions in question are willing to submit to state supervision. "We submit there is no reason for this arbitrary i distinction. If the state finds itself justified in I assisting orphans and wayward children in being educated under the influence of a particular re-I re-I ligion, why should it object to giving its aid to institutions in-stitutions designed for the education of its children chil-dren at large under the influence of their own particular par-ticular religious belief? "We submit further that the distinction is un-j un-j just and has no real foundation in law; that it pre-' pre-' vents the education of many children in schools i where they can not only acquiresecular education of equal merit with that obtained in the schools : maintained by the state, but in addition thereto can I imbibe principles of religious belief that, will tend to develop in them, among other things, that strong, rooted respect for authority the absence of which is so notorious in our country today and yet which alone can be the safeguard of bur republic." BIBLE MAKES WAR BETWEEN SECTS. An obscure journal calling itself Protestant proposes to export Bibles to the Philippines in such quantities that "every man, woman and child in the islands should have a Bible. The decay of Spain ami Italy is due to the fact that the Romish church forbade the circulation of the Book. Wherever the Bible has been circulated there is success, spirituality spir-ituality and civilization." It is remarkable that puch sentiments as these find expression now only in remote districts, "far from the madding crowd.' There is scarcely a Protestant pulpit in the land from which such stupid stu-pid and bigoted words could come so intelligent and broad minded have our dissenting friends become be-come in the past decade and unrappily they have learned how useless the Bible alone is to stem the tide of infidelity. ... It has made wars between sects. As a cultivated Japanese of the mandarin class said when a Methodist Metho-dist missionary, fresh from the fragrant herbags of the Methodist Book Concern "When you gentlemen gentle-men determine what the Bible really means we shall be glad to hear you talk!'' Year by year, with the advance of scholarship and analysis, the authority of the Bible, separated from its interpreting authority, the Church, has ' grown less and less, even with those who hold, with Chillingworth, "for the Bible and nothing but the Bible' In truth, the Catholic church today is the only interpreter of the Bible. '. j The other religious denominations see wih horror hor-ror the old creeds disappearing. The educate 1 Back Bay worshiper may politely call the change from the dogmatic "Bibleism"' of his' forefathers "evolution."" "evolu-tion."" but he cannot, deny that it argues a decay in spiritual life which was the essence of the best in the Protestantism of the past. But a a rule Protestants are beginning to take a sensible view with regard to the question of exporting ex-porting Bibles to the Philippines. Boston Republic. Re-public. TITHING METHOD TO BUILD CATHEDRAL. Beginning with May 1 every member of the Epiphany parish. Sioux City, la., will contribute a day's income each month for the benefit of the fund for defraying the expense of the extemsive improvements now in progress of construction on the Cathedral. This announcement was made at both morning and evening services at the Cathedral Cathed-ral bv Kt. Kev. P. J. Garrigan, Bishop of Sioux City,' This giving of tithes will continue for one, year, from April. 1904, to April. 19jr. It is expected that in this way between $5.00 and $0,000 will be raised without bringing any great pressure to bear on any one individual. Xot only the active wage earners will be expected to contribute, but-retired members of the parish living on the interest of their money will be asked to donate each month the amount of ihcir income for one day. j Xothwith.-tanding the impatience of the parish ; to have the newly fitted Cathedral, with all its mag-I mag-I niticence of interior decoration, ready for holding i its services it is probable that it will" he some time yet before their wishes can be fulfilled. The elaborate elabor-ate frescoing nd interior decoration contemplated will require considerable time for completion. The e;iri.eiuers have almost finished their part of the i j work, which is being rushed as fast as possible. When the decoration of the walls is completed and j the beautiful stained glass windows are pu in place tlx- effect of the interior of the Cathedral S will be very tine, and will be surpassed y few ! churches in this part of the country, i |