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Show The Manhood Needed Today. We are called to be leaders, and not follower?, as our great Leo XIII. used to say. On us is the responsibility Jo help mould public opinion toward goodness of life. We arc Christians and Catholics, as well as men and citizens, but. we have, a duty to society and to the home as well as to the church. We live in an age when wealth and power lead the onward march of nations. Let us not be deceived. Material prosperity is not the only goal for a nation's na-tion's success. Wealth and honors are not the ideals of life. Society is threatened with irreverence, ir-religion, ir-religion, impiety. It needs men of reverent lives, of deep religious sense, of sound intelligent piety. On all sides we hear cries for greater moral development. de-velopment. Again, let us not be deceived. The only regeneration for mankind, the only salvation for society, the only upbuilding Of mankind is through Jesus Christ. The manhood that is needed today is a manhood that understands authority, responsibility, obedience, sacrifice; that realizes that the one evil in life is sin. and the one knowledge is the knowledge and love of God. The cry for a better citizenship, for purer personal life, can only be answered by the moraliry which makes men good. FMueation never was more general, and yet Crime never expressed itself in more intellectual intel-lectual form. There is something wanting in the training of the man besides the cultivation of intellect in-tellect and the broad principles of a general morality. mor-ality. We heed the positive religion which comes directly from the teacher whom God sends to show us the truth. Bishop Conaty. Our Appointed Task. What is the rightful sphere and what are the just limits of a Catholic layman's action? I see no need to answer this question. The work God gives a man to do he is not forced to seek; it will seek him. He requires no telescope to look for it in Mars or' the Milky Way,- no microscope, to find it among germs or bacilli. The fussy people who arc always mistaking tlieir vocations and getting into one another's way, meddle in everybody else's business busi-ness precisely because they will not attend to their own. There is certainly and always work for each one of them to do. and it is certainly and always right before his eyes. But it may, it probably will be or at least look hard and small and uninviting; uninvit-ing; and so he tries not to see it where it is, and searches for it painfully where he knows it is not. To every suggested field of energy and effort I would apply the gospel test: 'Judge of( the tree by its fruits,' not. by its branches or leaves or flowers," flow-ers," not by outward. bulk and show of foilagc or promise of pleasure to the eye; but by the' plain, practical consideration: 'Will its'products be good to eat?' Will your labors make your fellowmen I slronger and braver and happier and more useful ? If you arc sure they will, no matter in how small a measure and after how long a time, you have found your appointed task. It may be a little thing at first; but if it deserves to live and grow, it will live and grow. Only one acorn out-of a" thousand becomes an oak, but that one was once as small as any' among its less fortunate fellows. Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, |