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Show CfturcMiniomal j Self-Renouncment. .., mo, U God, gladly to lack the 'things I -ri-at men most seek and crave, as I "vcaltli and fame. ; An,l wife and children, and the ' ,-rnwd'6 acclaim, ,-,3 nil to which the heart most fondly dings: " Tht may find the source whence " pure Joy spring;:, 1 make Thy love of all my life eole ' siiir.. t Wih n"t -i thought or wish to thwart j Thy claim ? T" "1V heart, which to Thee noth-i noth-i iiu brings. ; ..Vii'" l"Vs his life shall suffer loss ,,f ii: V!i li-itfs liis life shall know the life ,li-m" 7ti-s is the truth we read in Holy Writ, This N the hread, the water, and th w inc. (,f ii,.sc who at Christ's blessed table sit Tin y taste, and ask of Him no other Archbishop Spalding. rehbishep Glennon Advises People I to Sit Down and Think. - y .ii uish h pcrmnn for yon r readers, I Cfli!i..!i's and -non-Catholics alike?" .,,1.1 Aivhbishop Glennon on Ash j '--I:; s';iy, w hen a Post-Dispatch in-.t in-.t t'-rvi--wT requested a sermon for the j ... ,1 ; .f St. Louis on the first day of Ij,, .,, In ii come with me." II. id the way into the wide hallway ,,f ins l.ind'li avenue residence.. On mi'ht snie are hung portraits and the j w,.;ks lit' old masters. He stopped be-S be-S a'n:i n pointing by Oscar Hrazda. an Ais;i.in. It shows a scene in a crypt I l,!!. :t!i a church in Vienna. The figure ? ,,f ('m ist lies on a bier in a niche. Sanc- lu.iry lamps slied a crimson glow in the ; .min .if the crypt. Two children, half fri-liti in ii. wholly awed, are praying I ! the bier. An old woman is sit- Innc witli ii'T head in her hands on the t;,mr "f the jirie dieu or kneeling bench. The picture represents a ceremony," t-.,i the archbishop, "that obtains in . lii.'Uiy Catholic churches on Good Fri- ,!;) jifternoon. Our Lord has been J tnken down from the Cross and pre-for pre-for Luriai. You see the children, ;i'Aii. praying timidly. But the old woman, having tired kneeling at prayer. .l.'Wii while thinking. Her Lord I i lica.l. His lifeless body is there before I lir-r, and she feels that ishe is also near- ins the end of her life's journey. And ' s.i In fore the end comes she sits down l v the wayside to think. Just to think." With this preface to his sermon the nn-hbishop turned away from the paint- j!u and dictated the following to the I t it:z ns nf St. Louis: I think the picture is painted for Lent, jtiui its lesion is a Lenten lesson. A 1-ssnn fur Lent in that it brings to inin.l with the dead Christ the leon of ii.ath and consequent defeat. That inexorable in-exorable law marks with ashes the live of all men. The lesson is for those v.ho. while they wait for the end to romi'. should sive time to thinking. And 1!ie figure of the dead Christ makes its ji'l'i:il not alone to the old. the feeble, tli. iv who are tottering to the end, but it .-honlil have a lesson for all of us, be-iar.se be-iar.se we being on the way of life, all nf ns are i.n the way to death, and the ';'.? r tii e uf the distance is only rela-1v.. rela-1v.. Th' business man at his desk today ' e.ib spi a;i t !!. i quarter of an hour Most profitably if in the mad rush and the complicated figuring h it marks t'le ja.ls armuid him, he would drop the j rin ii that he holds and spend that time .ins: thinking. His wife at home, if she vniil. stop tlie fuss and flurry, the y. amines and bitterness of her daily l f' - v, ith many it is a dally strife f;iiietly take her heart and mind from tin se things, even if just for a moment, mid f'.edicate them to Just thinking, v.. ni. profit equally with him. Kv ;i fur those who have no office, v.iin have no hotne. they can create for tin in.-elves conditions and tuirround-Ja- ii;t"d to give them if only for a fhort time the opportunity to think. V"i: s,-,v it i easier to advise, easier to iriarh than to practice. Men work and worry, but it seems that most of them I pi. for to work and worry than to sit r'.'iw n and think. Hence for many thinking is a lost art ami even of those who are quite con-r-eip.r'. of their mental powers the result rf t'air thought is inappreciable. And yet I believe the world of today needs the h:.t its thinkers can give it and the lreii today nr-ed to learn the lesson of thinking rightly and thereby thinking An this means, let me say it, thinking in the terms of realism, rather thaa v,y the assumptions of sentiment fa. h e the truth though it will kill you. Taking the ashes which realism gives ": rather than the flowers that fancy i .".-c r sentiment craves for. The f"crs. though beautiful, will wither, the ..shs. though dead, will purify. !"h-t. then, amoncst the realities f t ;!.c man who would think during the 1..-! , n s.-ison is death. Through Lent th-vi- is a train of ashes, across the : .'.) season the shadow of the Cross. I'th. y s. and sacrifice. They know n h..w to rejoice who never knew how i '-. p. it is by stooping through sac-'hh sac-'hh v. e reach to conquer, through 'hahst. And it is in Imitating Him in 1' s,.rr..fu journey that we becoir.e ri.,. t t "h ri s t ian . most Christlike. I'i ' h and sacrifice are subjects for J.'V'-v. ihunrrht, and with them and as t'-eir se,,,,,. the truth and joy of the lh s ir- tion w hich follows. For as our 1'' :ts : liuuid go. as Christians, there !t a-..1 death and then the life r- .h . Th re is the Cross' shadow and 'h' ;..er:fief. of Him who died thereon, ' ! hi Mind and in the near background, th.. i,lV ,,f ,lf) ,is,irrection and the ,ri :'::;h nv. r death and hell. v..- ;.2ht ?ive a moment of our time -' tlie Lenten season and after-y after-y "-: : to the thoughts and the truths : t a ;jst come, and should not be re-t' re-t' at will not down, the life rid-'" rid-'" ; ' t must be met by each of us, r". : ' ( to sulve which is to die. Irreligious Berlin. on statistics show that religious r-h ; 'ions in the capital of the German '"'ire ;r a s.,,i state. In the year "f -JT.L'eo children born there. a.SOO V:;' "'t baptized; 7.3S8 out of 20,730 ' -is'iigi s were not solemnized in ' tliere were 32.000 deaths and b,.,!;,.s did not receive Christian .!!- h This shows that one-eighth of ' ' 'hi1;,.., 0f RerMn are not baptized, p-third of the mnrriages of so-called -tia i:s .-.re not solemnized in church. '' ; Jtii.re th :n half of the dead are con- 'd p. the grave without Christian b'a ;.i s,.e tu.n conditions have '-'-'' 'mi worse from year to year: so r!i;,;,,'i so that officiais fear to publish T - statistiis. The social evil corre-.n.-.s uitn ppjipious conditions, and ' I'o..;- ( omtnissioner reports 6.000 de-s de-s ' ne,j wi-es. As you sow so shall you r";'i;. nd tlie free-thinking Prussian ri,.f..ss,,i; V)10 8owed the wind of un-',"hi un-',"hi f ,ire now reaping the whirlwind of u Sf.n. racy .Alabama Catholic. Bigotory. ''!iruh Progress tells how religious f'fehnliep tin exists in Dixie. Tnwn in Georgia the old prejudice 8pR,r-t Cntholics still persists in some localities, as witness the following ironi The Georgian, of Atlanta: Lev. William Dunbar, pastor of the ayne Memorial church, says The Georgian, has . a censor, who suppresses sup-presses all notices detrimental to the interests of the Roman Catholic Church. "The statement was made bv him at a recent meeting of the Methodist ministers min-isters of Atlanta, when the topic, 'The rseed of Protestant Missions in Roman Catnolic Countries' was under discussion. discus-sion. " 'When Bishop Keily secured the appointment ap-pointment of a Roman Catholic priest as assistant chaplain of the federal prison in Atlanta, I wrote a protest to TneGeorgian. It was never published, and when returned to me there was a note saying it could not be published because of the offense it would give to man' readers of the paper. " 'That shows you to what extent Roman Catholicism's influence has ex-i ex-i tended.' "It seems hardly necessary to affirm that The Georgian has no censor, religious, re-ligious, political, or financial, other than its own conscience and accountability account-ability to its own ideals of newspaper making. "The communication in question, containing con-taining an attack on the Catholic Church and charging nothing against the competency and character of an appointee ap-pointee to an office public in its nature, except that he was a member of a certain cer-tain church the communication, as presented, ran counter to those ideals and therefore was not published. That was all. It is regrettable that intolerance dies slowly in the south. It died slowly in New England, too, but it is practicallv non-existent there today. Perhaps the south will have to be made Catholic by immigration, as Xew England was. before be-fore Dunbar and Oldtomwatsons will see that the Catholic Church is not a menace to liberty, as they think." Priest Gave Washington His Title. In February 22. I8S0, in the old church of St. Mary in Philadelphia. Washington's Washing-ton's birthday was celebrated for the first time with religious ceremonies, on which occasion Father M. Carr, O. S. A., delivered the eulogy of the "Father of His Country-" The Pennsylvania Gazette of that week says: "Father Carr has given General George Washington Wash-ington a name that will live forever, 'The Father of His Country.' " The title "Pater Patrie" given thus for the first time publicly and officially, official-ly, by a Catholic priest, on this day 109 years ago, was immediatel y adopted, and George Washington Parke Custis made use of it as a synonum for the name of his illustrious step-father. And in that same church Father Robert Rob-ert Harding, S. J., denounced British tyranny in 1763. And again in that same church on July 4, 1776, High Mass and "Te Deum" were sung "as fitting observances ob-servances of the natal day of the United Unit-ed States of America, by the grace of God, free and independent.' Leaves All to Charity. Practically the whole of an estate valued at upwards of a quarter of a million is left to charity by the late Rev. Father J. J. Healey of St. John's church, Gloucester, Mass., who died last week. The bequests include one of $50,000, which is left as a permanent fund, the interest to be used to assist the poor of Glouceter, both Protestant and Catholic. Thirteen Bishops From One College. With the consecration of Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Rice as bishop of Burlington, Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., will claim the unique distinction of having hav-ing seen thirteen of its sons wear the mitre. A Layman's Princely Gift. Archbishop McEvay of Toronto has received from Mr. Eugene O'ICeefe, private chamberlain to His Holiness, and well known for his charity to Catholic Cath-olic undertakings, the handsome sum of $150,000 with which to begin the erection of a new seminary on the land recently purchased for that purpose. The new seminary will be known as St. Augustine, Augus-tine, and plans are being drawn for a huilding costing at least the amount of the gift. This is not Mr. O'Keefe's first noteworthy offering to the cause of religion. re-ligion. The new St. Monica church of Toronto, with its fine parochial residence, resi-dence, stands as a tribute of his zeal for the faith. It is all his own personal work dow n even to the humblest details of the finishings and furnishings. Blessed Virgin. That the Blessed Virgin is effectively honored in India, even by those from whom reverence for the Mother of God might seem incongruous, is evident from an interesting account of an Indian In-dian religious feast which Father D'Souza contributes to The Good Work. Of the climax of the celebration, he writes: "The whole procession lasts two hours and moves along pagan streets. The pa-gins pa-gins are most respectful; they usually have illuminations before their houses; and, as a sign of reverence and devotion' devo-tion' to the 'Mada' (as they call the Blessed Virgin), they throw grain, pepper pep-per and wheat or rice on the car. As the car passes they are anxious to stop it and pay their homage to Our Lady. Often these pagans make vows to the Blessed Virgin, and scrupulously fulfil them." . Many of Our Lady's pagan admirers of one year doubtless become her fervent fer-vent baptized clients by the next. Ave Maria. Westminster Cathedral. The announcement of the consecration of Westminster Cathedral on June 28 this vear is no less surprising than gratifying. gra-tifying. This magnificeent church, one of the most beautiful and mostly places of worship erected in modern times, was begun only after the death of Cardinal Car-dinal Manning, and now it is all paid foror Soon will be and ready for consecration. con-secration. Built by the pennies of the poor and the pmmds of the rich, the givers representing many nationalities and many lands besides England, Westminster West-minster Cathedral will stand as a symbol sym-bol of the Church universal, unchanging unchang-ing and indestructible. Ave Maria. Agitation Urged. Archbishop Duphie of France, in his Lenten pastoral, advises the faithful to continue the agitation against the de-chirtlanizing de-chirtlanizing efforts now being carried on in the lay schools. He sums up what has alreadv been done to rail the publfe attention to the character of harmful text books, and advises his people to be constantly on the watch against these attempts" to root out the idea of God from the hearts of the French children. He advises them to use the one means at their disposal, namely, the ballot, to bring about 'a redress of teir grievances griev-ances He ends by invoking the blessing bless-ing of God upon their efforts and en-loins en-loins earnest prayer to the end that the enemies of the Church may be put to rout. A Kind and Gracious Offer. Mgr Bruchesi, archbishop of Montreal Mon-treal 'has received a cablegram from Lord' Strathcoma, offering the use of his Montreal residence during the International In-ternational Eucharistic congress to be held in Montreal next September. His grace may use the house for himself or for his guests. The residence contains many rare art treasures, and is sumptuously sump-tuously furnished. Mgr. Bruchesi is just now visiting several archbishops and bishops o the United States to interest in-terest them in the coming Eucharistic congress and to lecture on the subject. He will go as far as Balimore, where he will confer with Cardinal Gibbons. |