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Show GENERAL INTENTION for MARCH Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. "The children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light." said Chr st 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 alleviated alle-viated 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, wh en lacks only direction to make it irresistible. Whv should not tne 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 t.e field of letters, and show the power of truth to a truth-defying press; unite in the work cf education, and take from Catholic schools the stigma of poverty and inefficiency; unite in the cause of politics, and prove to your skeptical fellow-countrymen the beauty and the strength of Catholic morality; unite in the interests of charity, and lessen the suffering and want which send up their cries to a seemingly heedless heaven; unite in the ways of labor, that the Catholic workingman may become a factor to be reckoned with in a problem prob-lem solvable only on the principles of Christ. How are Christian societies to be formed? Let the initiative come from Catholic laymen, whose welfare is at stake; fr.om Catholic laymen, whose brains are as keen and hearts as ready as any in thc land. From the Vatican Hill has come the ice 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 keppoth it." |