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Show ; -1 Church . I vhlch over- -ff 9 coaeth the ? :- universal. 1 . . "KEEP WATCH."' i . ' Kppd watch for the MaPtcr, The d:iy drawpth tipar, I , Foon. tsrvnn in His fjlory Mv I-nrd will u.p.'ar. " Soon, noun thou pliak bear Hi in i All lovincly say. f ; . "Ri.-e up. My In-lovfil, ! ! And come thou away." K'-fD watch, for the Master, ! Glad. slad will it be. I That dav when He cometh, j And on Hot h for thf-e! i Joy, jov to be rfaily. : Found doing his will; i Found watrhinjr and waiting, i And Forviiiff Him still. i ' ' 1 j ' Kfen watch for the Master. ' ', Kpvv watch for the King, f I Task many nd varied 3 The swift days may brine. ; Sweet, sweel is His service, I But "mid its delight I Keep watch for His coming ! Bv dav and by nisht. I--'': ' I i ' Keep watch for the Master, ; ! While treadinc His ways. ' Live but for His glory. J t Keck nought but His praise. . t ; Care only to hasten f Hi kingdom of piace, i Until, the veil lifted." j S Thou secst His face. ) , Edith G. Cherry, j I j CHURCH CALENDAR. J 1 -V I 5 : Passion Sunday. Gospel, St. John viii, ! r fi-.'!: The Jews trv to stone Jesus. 1 -; ' 1 Sundav. 1 The Spear and the Nail?. ! Mondav, 37 St. ra trick. Apostle of Ire- f land. j ' : Tuesday. IS St. Gabriel. Archaneel. f ; 1 Wednesday. 13 St. Joseph, Spouse B. ! j ' i V M. 1 , Thursday. 2ft-St. Cvril of Jerusalem, 1 I V.. '. I). ' ' Friday. 21 St. Benedict. Ab. : . Saturday. 22 St. Basil. Pr. M. '! ! '' ; STORY OF ST. JOSEPH. f ; Touching Tale Told by a Priest in I 1 j the Country of the Boers. I ;. j 'i' Father O'Haire, well known as hav- ? i ing 8pent many years in South Africa f ' jis a missionary, recently told the fol-' fol-' lowing: thrilling' story: LJuring: several oi tne twetvc years 1 spent in Africa I had under my pas-- pas-- i ; toral care the solo charge of a district a i I Vs large as England. Periodically I t made a visitation of my scattered I . l , Hock. On one of these vast excursions I t, ' i ' 1 lost my way. and found myself wan- I, I ,! . , 3ring without the slightest idea of ' '? Hie locality. 1 could see no one. It was a season of drouth; no rain had fallen and my horses were scarcely able j to drag along my cart for want of i ; I water. At length 1 came to a Boer j j farm, in this, to me, unknown valley, j ' j i The whole country was scorched. There ! ; was. however, a waterdam near the I ; In use: approaching the Dutch farmer, I ' : 1 told him my story and asked him if I : ! . - he would ajlow my horses to drink; permission was given. I told the farmer i ' 1 was a Catholic priest: he was a Pro- ", testant. "Oh. then," he said, "if you ', go in the out house you will find a ; 5 laborer Avho is dying he is a Catho- 1 I entered there and found the poor fellow, a client of St. Joseph, near death. AVhen I told him I was a Cath- J 1 i c iriest of the district of "Cudts- ' born," one hundred and fifty miles ! away, he lifted his wasted body and ' . exclaimed, in accents of deepest grat itude: i . ' i "Ah, St. Joseph, I knew you would send me a priest, so as to give me com-l com-l '' fort before I lie!" ; "What has St. Joseph to do with the n.atter?" I asked, and here is his story: ( , "When a boy in Ireland, my mother, J a good Catholic, taught me to say, ! very day, "St. Joseph, pray for me i : that I may die a happy death.' I have ! ' never for one day neglected that ; : prayer. I made my first communion ; at 10. and served mass till I was 13. I entered the army at Si, and came out J t the Kaffir war. ; "Before leaving Ireland 1 went in " my uniform and bade my poor oid mother good-by. On parting from her, li sil'i said. "Don't foreet vom- nraiw to : I 1- Joseph.' 1 came out to the Kaffir " ' "ar. When it was over my time had expired. 1 was discharged and stayed 'i at the Cajie. There was no priest I ; ; liearer me than Cape Town 500 miles I away. I hired out on this Dutch farm. I ' nd here I have been for years. Lately 1 .1 heard of your arrival at Cudtshorn I - 3:0 miles away and I set out in deli- I ciitc health in hope of going to confes- I sion and communion. Arriving at your J hi. me weary, 1 was told that you were I away on your visitation and might not i! be back for months. After a week I returned, and here I landed yesterday, nearly dyinir. and here is the priest i today sent by St. Josejdi." ' That night 1 instructed him and heard his confession. The next morn-( morn-( ins I said mass and save him holy j cominunion, and soon after I gave ex- t ' 1 rente unction and last blessing. He ! th-u fliecl. saying with his last breath: : " Joseph, pray for me that 1 may : . '(.. a harpy death.' ' TAULT OF CATHoTlC READERS. They Fail to See the Great Advant- :' ' ages of a Well Supported Press. I , . 1" the course of an address delivered I i ' ' in Brooklyn recently liy llev. P. F." j O'Hare, LL. D., the eloquent speaker I ' . taid: There is another field in which the lay apostolate can exercise most salu-: salu-: tary influence and erect a mightv forti- ; lication to withstand in the hours of . : trial the attacks made upon our holv faith. I am alluding to the Catholic j press. The church, faithful to her di vine commission to rave the ransomed fiock of Christ and to guard them ; against influences which would alien- 1 ate them from their religion, has al ways made use of all legitimate means i nana anu pressed them into her ser- I vi-'p- The pages of history everywhere j testify how- music and architecture "'.. - M(1,'f "d by the church in conjunction M'th her doctrine to bring truth and 1 civilization to the barbarians. The printing press in our days is one of the j '. . means which the church must use, both j J" defense and instruction. In an age J when pagan ideas rush in in a mightv I ; torrent to destroy the bulwarks of faith and often carry away with them 1 ' many a precious soul, in an age when I ' . atheism is eating out the vitals of so- '''al and Christian life, the church I . . stands in need of a press that is ready ; 1f explode the fallacies of infidelity and ' : to bring into high relief the splendor J ': "f Christian truth. The Catholic press in America, in most cases at least, is I presided over by men of ability and f 1 learning, many of courage an W.,..-e. i ' tian zeal, men who are just fitted to J , do the work which they have under-I under-I j taken, but. alas: they receive no in-fl in-fl s spiralion. no encouragement and no re-i re-i '1 ward. It is not the fault of the Cathie Cath-ie i i O,io editors that we cannot boast of a J i strong Catholic press, but the fault of I 'atholic readers, who fail to see the ! : .': importance and the great advantages I ! ! "fa 'veil-supported press. Jn this field ?; r the lay apostolate can do an immense i l - i emount of good. 1 ! ; ' ' some one In each pariah exercise f , ; j - "is influence and, if need be, canvass .-: i : ' t f!' subscribers and introduce Catholic 1 i ; papers into Catholic homes. Here again ! 1l,e Catholics of Germany are our mod- I e' and a source of inspiration. In the year 171. when the haughty chancellor undertook his lamentable mission to destroy the influence of the church, there were but three newspapers in Germany. W hen, however, in 187S. the laity came to the rescue of the church and realized the immense advantage of a. good Catholic newspaper, they began to multiply, and today there are over ."00 Catholic newspapers in the German empire. Let the Catholic laity, the lay apostolate, apos-tolate, exercise their influence in journalism. jour-nalism. Let them come to the rescue of the Catholic press and make it a vehicle for the propagation of truth anrl Vio nnnncitinn rf f -A liollrt.irl This great, vast and impetuous democracy needs a steady hand, fixed principles and the leadership of men whose forefathers fore-fathers laid the corner-stones of empires em-pires and made them glorious. Arise, then, O young lay apostolate in America, Amer-ica, and God speed you! It Was a Priest's Newspaper, The clergy of Ireland write their sermons. ser-mons. Some time ago, certain public-spirited public-spirited Catholics undertook to found and finance a newspaper which they hoped would find an ample circulation among the people. The journal was placed under the able editorship of Mr. A. M. Sullivan. It started out with a rush of glory, but died in six years. Mr. Sullivan declares that it was killed with kindness. They flooded the columns col-umns with their Sunday sermons, and the people soon began to tire of these I weekly homilies. Little of mere human hu-man interest appeared in the? paper, and its publishers found it necessary to close the doors of their printing office. of-fice. The American Catholic paper is not likely to meet with such a pitfall. The modesty of the American clergyman clergy-man keeps him far away from the printed word. If he writes at all, it is for the people of hiB immediate flock, and he has no itching to multiply his words a hundred-fold. And this, too, is a pity. Catholic Transcript. Why the Church Uses Latin. Why does the church use the Latin language? For these reasons, says a writer: Because a universal community requires re-quires a universal language. The Church of Christ is universal. Because it does not change. If, for example, the church should use French in one of her formulas alone, that of baptism, she would have been obliged to change it over sixty times. In the so-called Anglo-Saxon of 1,000 years ago she could not be understood now except by experts. Because nothing can equal the dignity dig-nity of the Latin language, its clearness clear-ness or its beauty. It is the language of science and civilization and deserves to be the language of an unchangeable religion. Because it lifts the liturgy of the church above that of everyday usage of words, wnich alters their sense and debases it by licentiousness. This misfortune mis-fortune has actually befallen the Eng lish liturgy of the Anglo-American Episcopalians. Finally, a universal language speaks of a universal brotherhood and makes a Catholic at home in all the Roman Catholic churches; of the world. Besides, Be-sides, he understands the language, though unlearned, by the ceremonies of the church or from his prayer-book, which contains its entire meaning in his own tongue. Knights of Columbus. The national convention of the Knights of Columbus was held recently recent-ly in Xew Haven, Conn. Supreme Knight Edward L. Harn of South Framingham, Mass., presiding. His annual address represented the or-j or-j der to be in a very prosperous condition. condi-tion. The principal business of the convention was consideration of the proposed new constitution, one provision provi-sion of which is a rigid exclusion of saloonkeepers and liquor dealers from membershin in th nvti. The annual report of Secretary Col-well Col-well showed that there were, on Dec. 31. PtOl, 609 councils, with a total insured in-sured membership of 32,730. and an associate as-sociate membership of 46,016. "The Devil in Robes" A Vile Book. The Continental Bible house in St Louis sent a circular to a station master mas-ter in Missouri, asking him to be agent j for their book, "The Devil in Robes," and the station master sent it to a Catholic paper in St. Louis. From the synopsis, the book must be a most immoral im-moral and villainous publication It gives what is tailed the oath w:hich every priest must take on ordination. In it he swears neither to spare age nor sex: to kill -and destroy Protestants by every means. He will crush the infant in-fant in the womb: he will use the dagger dag-ger and the noisonmic ,nrv , . vu,,. 1 llfll jl goes on to relate how wives and daughters daugh-ters are unsafe from the lecherous brood of the Italian pontiff, and calls upon all good Americans to rise and I crush it. The circular teils how agents and ministers may make big salaries, by the ,ale of the book. Evidently they thought the station master was a Protestant, Pro-testant, and they urged his speedy answer, an-swer, or some one else would get the agency there. Dean Grogan, S. M., oft St. Patrick. On Sunday evening. March 16. at Philadelphia, Very Rev. Dean Grogan, S. M.. of Napier, Xew Zealand, lately arrived in this city on a visit to relatives, rela-tives, will deliver a lecture in St Teresa's Te-resa's church on the life and work of St. Patrick and the wonderful part he took in the conversion of the Irish people peo-ple from paganism. The dean, who is himself a son of the Emerald Isle and has snent twenty-four years of' his , .... , .,c eaiana, will, in a few months hence, be returned to the antipodes, where he is regarded not only by his own kindred, but bv manv non-behevers. as one of the 'leading orators of that distant dim.-. The people peo-ple of St. Tecesa's are anxiously awaiting await-ing his coming panegs'ric of ireland's apostle, and the pastor. Rev. Father Lane, is making ararngements to have the church crowded, not onlv by his parishioners, but by many outsiders who will be interested in the lecture Standard and Times. I Priests Murdered in Interior China. Victoria, B. C, Marcli 4. Reports of two massacres of missionaries in China were received by the steamer Empress of India, which arrived from the Orient Ori-ent this afternoon. In Kansu, Fathers Fath-ers Van Merheaeghe and nmxrai. were murdered by a band of Chinese including soldiers, who attacked their mission. The first named nriest was ! killed instantly by a sword thrust, but the latter lingered for five days suffering suf-fering from the terrible wounds It is stated that the attack was made in revenge for the deposition of the son of Prince Tuan by the empress dowager at the request of the foreign ministers. minis-ters. The other massacre took place in Kangsi Father Julien being attacked while he slept and cruelly murdered His body was mutilated, both hands being cut off. His two servants were also killed. The viceroy has sent a troop to hunt for the murderers. ' The Kobe Herald is authority for th statement that two hundred fishermen from the village of Wugo were drowned in a storm off the coast of Mijikan on Feb. 17. The boats had gone a long way out, and, being overtaken by the storm, were lost. Wanamaker Received by Pope. I Rome, March 6. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, former postmaster gen-eral. gen-eral. was received at the Vatican Wed- , nesday by the pope, together with a delegation of 100 distinguished delegates dele-gates from the French church. The pope entered in a sedan chair, which was closed on all sides. He was dressed in red robes on entering, but he afterward laid them off and ap- I peared in spotless white. While receiving the apostolic benediction. bene-diction. Cardinal Richard of Paris, the leader of the French delegation, ptood at the foot of the throne and read an address to the sovereign pontiff, who responded, saying that he was profoundly pro-foundly moved by the visits and salu? tr.::onH. Leo XIIPs reply to the cardinal address ad-dress was delivered extemporaneously with great enthusiasm and was 01s-tinctly 01s-tinctly heard throughout the hall. Cardinal Bislete also gave a short written address to the pope. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Rt. Rev James A. McFaul. bishop of Trenton, N. J.. spiritual adviser of the American Federation 6f Catholic Societies, Soci-eties, is in the south for the benefit of his health. The janitor of St. Barnard's church, Chicago, discovered a thief in the act of robbing the poor box. He used a rather ingenious method to get the monev. The contrivance was a long, slender stick, with glue on the end. $ Members of St. Paul's French congregation, congre-gation, Sandy Hill, New York, have purchased pur-chased property adjoining the rectory for Jo.OOO. It is reported that the purpose of the purchase, is to procure a convent home for the community or Sister who are soon to take charge ot the parochial school. Rev. Andrew Morrissey. C. S. C, president pres-ident of Notre Dame university, is slow ly recovering irom his recent dangerous illness. He is still at the infirmarv at the institution, but will be taken to a warmer climate as soon as his strength permits. St. Francis Xavier's church at Missoula Missou-la t ity, Mont., is experiencing the brush of the artist. The work is performed bv Brother Carignano, S. J. Tne pictures are pronounced veritable works of art. 1 Ri IV!V BishP Horstmann of Cleveland, Cleve-land, O., recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of his consecration. S?.V thf-r Maghirian. the only Armenian Ar-menian Cathohc priest in America, is making a tour of our principal cities for the purpose of administering to Armenian Armen-ian Catholics, having received a snecial commission from the propaganda at Rome. He barely escaped death three times in Turkish massacres in Armenia. Very Rev. Father J. C. Allbrink, vicar-general vicar-general of the diocese of Cincinnati, died .,s,l T",osday after a Drlef illness. Father Allbrink was one of the oldest and best known priests in the west. He wouid have celebrated his golden Jubilee in May, 1303, had he lived. U is stated that there were. Jan. 1, 1901, within the limits of the United States, .44.0(10 Indians, of which number P9.338 are Catholics, a few are Protestants and a large number are in- "complete heathendom: heathen-dom: ' and that eighty-seven priests are at work among the Indians in 154 churches, while most of the fiftv-seven schools are taught by Sisters of different congregations. In the Indian Territory there are 100.000 Indians, of whom 33,030 are Catholics. 3- Archbishop Corrigan is reported as having hav-ing recovered entirely from the effects i , . . La" "u"" in a portion of St. Patricks cathedral, which is now undergoing repairs. Plans have been made for two large additions to Mercy hospital, Pittsburg, Pa., to cost about $315.000. , In the 1.200 bag of mail which arrived on the I'mbria was the first of the shamrocks sham-rocks which are sent every year to Irishmen in this country to aid in the celebration of St. Patrick's day. Manx-boxes Manx-boxes of shamrock came on the Pmbria, and there were other boxes which contained con-tained only "a bit of the old sod.'" Most of the shamrock wag packed in damp earth in tin boxes, and was found when opened to be as fresh as when packed. The Catholic Knights of Wisconsin, which does no business outside of that state, has 9.000 members and a reserve fund of $180,000. which is mostly loaned to parishes to build churches and parochial school houses. Upon the death of a member mem-ber $2,000 is paid to his family. During the past two years $228,000 was paid to families of deceased members. Buffalo. X. Y.. is to have a new cathedral. cathe-dral. The march of business has made the location of the present edifice undesirable unde-sirable and a new site on Delaware avenue ave-nue has been chosen. The new cathedral will undoubtedly rank with the grandest in the country. It is stated that Bishop Phelan will petition pe-tition Rome to appoint a coadiutor bishop lor the diocese of Pittsburg. Two months ago a number of priests in his diocese made the suggestion and. acting on their advice, a circular letter was addressed asking each priest in the diocese to sug- gest whom he thought fit for the place, father William Cunningham of Turtle CreeK was selected by the clergy. In June of the present year, St. Paul's monastery, founded by the Passtonist order or-der at Pittsburg, Pa., will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its dedication Vorkmen arie already engaged in preparing prepar-ing for the great event. The new St. Josephs church at Hous-r?t Hous-r?t I V Iias bt'pn dedicated bv Rt. Rev. Issuer. X. A. (iallagher of Galveston. The church has been erected on the site occupied oc-cupied by the frame structure which was destroyed in the storm of lJW. One of the great Catholic institutions of the state of Montana is St. JameV it? J,rtr1.Jn:.Rutle',conf,uctefl b the Sister! j of Charity of Leavenworth. The annex which was completed recently, odd greatiy to the available room in the building build-ing and augments the usefulness of the for-.VfT1 tuti2n wh,"re so much s done for suffering humanity. St. Agnes' church, Pittsburg Pa t? 2.hYifT f debt-.,h obligation of $35.0u6, which for some time has been an incum-Paid1"' incum-Paid1"' n the consrcatin. has been A chime of newells has been pur-chased pur-chased for St. Mary's church at Memphis, "o wb win De no d regularly n St. Benedict's church. Chicago. This 1 a new parish recently erected Thn ! school1 slructure cmbines residence and It has been definitely decided to build or secure a structure and remodel it for Mn'w,wVndv "cr0- for th? Italians of .Milwaukee. An impetus has seen given ??nook b,'h',donat!on,?f a ,nt valued; at 5i,00u. The donor is Mr. Robert A 1 Johnson. The church will cost $5,000. I Burglars last week broke into the pa-cw!fh pa-cw!fh de" o 88. Peter and PauPa church. Beaver. Pa., in the absence of the pastor, who was on a sick call The thieves went to the room of the housekeeper, house-keeper, and. pointing a revolver a I her threatened to blow her brains out If she did not show them where the money was kept. They secured $K of church money. Miss Mary A. Burns of Nashua. N. if., .- H?nVTWv"hMito..n Vs5"addn has invited Hon. T. B. Minahan to give an addr: in the First Congregational ch "rch e outlln"K he general plan of the anti-trenting movement. Dr. Uiaddcn ha. Placed his pulpit at the disposal of Mr Minahan, the roRul.ir Sunday evcnlne ser vices to be dispensed with for t he puT-" pose Mr. Minahan has accepted the invitation in-vitation and the address will be del v-cred v-cred In the nenr future V The Rt. Rev. Bernard J. MrQuaid D D.. bishop of Rochester. N. Y ;' recently before the board of maifaierVlS charge of the government home for vJi erans of the civil war in Rath. X V and formally made request for w Catholic chaplain and for the privilege to build a chapel and residence on the grounds of the home, and his request was granted unanimously. i The late William McGrath left to the ; Sisters of St. Peter's convent, Hartford, Conn., $2,000. On Thursday Rt. Rev. Bishop Moeller ordained to the priesthood seven mem- bers of the Congregation of the Most Precious Blood. The ordination took , place at St. Charles' seminary, Cartha- , gena, O. The Paullst Fathers in Xew Voork have just been instrumental in preventing the. obtaining of a license by the Circle theatre, the-atre, at Broadway and Sixtieth street. This locality is within the lines of the parish of St. Paul the Apostle, and it was held that the establishing of a the- atre there would be detrimental to the 1 best interests of the residents of the district dis-trict and would attract thereto a very undesirable element. Thirty-one non-Catholics entered the fold of the true church at the conclusion of a two-weeks' lecture course given to ( non-Catholics in St. Thomas's cathedral at Winona. Minn., bv Rev. B. L. Conway I of the Paulist Order. Sixteen lectures , were given in an, and notwithstanding the bitter cold weather tne edifice was crowded at everv one of them. There was an average " attendance of 1,100. 60 per cent of whom were non-Catholics. The Catholic f I-roT.tfr.rfl font. through the Rev. Walter J. Shanley of the cathedral, have made a public protest pro-test against the proselyting of Catholic children who have become tne wards of the state. Manv of them, it appears, are placed in non-Catholic homes and have been led away from the Catholic church. The German bundesrath soon will consider con-sider the question of recalling the exiled Jesuits. S Hon. W. J. Fitzpatrick. the new Canadian Cana-dian minister of public affairs, is an Irish Canadian Catholic. He is widely regarded a just, capable man. - The French Catholics of Tunis do not seem to retrograde in the matter of population, popu-lation, however serious conditions may be In the mother country. The census just completed shows a French population of .4.201, as against 16.207 in 1S. The British government has decided to allow the Italian Catholics of Malta permission per-mission to retain their language indefinitely. indefi-nitely. It is rumored that a Catholic school will soon be opened in Matamoros, Mex., bv the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Incar-nate Word and Blessed Sacrament, of Brownsville. Tex. On the occasion of the coronation of King Alfonso XIII of Spain in Mav the ponti will send as a present to the mon-Bc". mon-Bc". a maSn'flcent mosaic representing the basilica of St. Peter. Alma Tadema. the famous artist, is reported re-ported of firm belief that the new Catholic, Catho-lic, cathedral of Westminster eventually . . aim a? me rausi arusucauy constructed building in England. . Count Metternich. German ambassador in London. vsited the Catholic schools anlL J,b tne ether day in connection with the German Catholic church of St. Boniface, at Whitechapel. Only two popes since the time of St. .teter have reigned longer than the present pres-ent sovereign pontiff. Pius VI ruled the church twenty-four years and eight months and Pius IX thirty-one years and even months. Classic Iona cathedral Is being restored. The cathedral is at present the property of the church of Scotland. Founded bv Reginald, lord of the isles, about the close of the twelfth century, the cathed- v. ras at fir?t used as a monastery, which was attached to a Norwegian diocese. dio-cese. The Peter pence collection of 1901 amounted to $400,200. Of this sum Italy I'nited States. $49.S0O: Germany. $42,600; Spain. $40,400; Great Britain, $38,S00; Belgium, Bel-gium, $32.600 the remainder made up by-various by-various other countries, including India and Africa. It rather surprised Europe to find the United States ranking third. A "anddaughter of Dickens, the novelist. novel-ist. Miss Enid Dickens, was married just before Lent began, to Mr. E. Bourchier Wawkesley. at the Brompton oratory. Like the descendants of Scott and Byron. Miss Dickens is a practical Catholic, as is her husband. One of her wedding presents pres-ents was a diamond bracelet from Dr Jameson of Rand raid fame. Several Japanese women have made their novitiate in France in the congregation congre-gation of St. Joseph of Cluny and have seturned to labqr in Japan. The Sisters of St. Joseph of . Cluny were founded in jSOi. at Chalons. sur-Soane, by Mother Anne Marie Javouhey. and they have an establishment in the arch-diocese of Dubuque Du-buque in this country. It is not generally known that the s- SUmDtiOniat fathers rarantW '.1.. attacked in France, maintain two ships, named respectively St. Peter and St. Paul, each fitted with chapels that coast along the shore of Iceland and Newfoundland, Newfound-land, giving missions to the seamen and fishermen of those countries. Among those preparing for the priesthood priest-hood at the Scots college in Rome, writes the Vatican correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, is a Mr. Chatteson, an ex-Presbyterian minister from near Glasgow. He is believed to be the first convert from among the clergy of that denomination to theCatholic church. The death of a famous priest. Father Louis Espana. S. J.. tooK place a fortnight fort-night ago in Bogota, Colombia. It mav J be remembered that for years Father Espana was a target for persecution marked out by the liberay party of that country. His death in great part was due to the infamous treatment he received. re-ceived. Several times .hnoton r-l bed and four times thrown into prison, his life might truthfully be described as a living martyrdom. Nothing, however, could force him to leave the country, and he died as he lived, averitablc apostle. The. largest Jesuit college in the world now exists in Smyrna, it has the most modern scientific instruments, has chairs of science.' history, mathematics, commerce, com-merce, literature and harangue, and is attended by over 2.300 students. Gradu-I Gradu-I ates of the various courses today are prominent in practically every Held of Greek activity and the government has regarded it favorable for years. Archbishop Eyrie of Edinburg will observe ob-serve the seventy-tlfth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on March 19. In many ways it will be the most uniuue event that has taken place in Scotland during the last 300 years. The venerable archbishop is a descendant of one of the oldest Catholic families of FnjHand, and his work in the land of Wallace has set the church forward immeasurably. im-measurably. It Is said that before his I coming Scottish Catholics were held in I contempt. . Now they are not only re-jspectable, re-jspectable, but respected. 1 |