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Show 1 This is the month designated by Holy Church ! for special devotion to St. Joseph, the universal I patron of aspiring and heart-yearning humanity. j It would, indeed, be an anomaly if the faithful, j devout and cultured Catholic were not the cxcin- I plary gentleman and the highest type of citizen I everywhere. 1 j The Utah Legislature has adjourned. It closed its session, sine die, on last Wednesday. May its J members enjoy their more or less well'earned rest , from the arduous toil of law-making! . : : : ' To be invariably considerate, kind and courteous t may not be essential to success in life, but it is, I assuredly, indispensable to the self-esteem and I peace of mind of every true gentleman. I It is the beneficent purpose of Holy Church to inspire noble, humanitarian and heaven-aspiring ideals. Whenever she fails in this she fails ut- ' tcily in her God-ordained mission to the race of I , mau. ;- j ' . . . I To cringe and fawn is ignoble; to assume an at- ? titudc of haughty arrogance or disdain is ridicul- l ou. A bearing of modest, unassuming dignity is I most appropriate to the character of a Christian gentleman. Due to nn abundance of timely topics of more than ordinary moment, the installment of the ar- I tide on the confessional, which should have ap- pea red in this issue, has been omitted, and will ap- I pear in that of next week. : . 1 And now comes one Emil Heidi, a Hungarian, I .ind in a, verv logical sivle, it must be said scoffs -I .... . , I .it ihe "higher critic-' because of their crude and j childish methods. With all due solicitude, be it re- I marked : The w ay of the innovator is perilously pre- I carious! 1 : The world assures us that "what is worth do- i 1 ing at all is worth doing well," i. e., thoroughly . Is ! this not just as true when applied to the supcr- natural as it i3 when applied to the natural order? I To be lukewarm or indifferent in matters of rc- ' li.cion is to be pusillanimous and inconsistent. j " : !j Ostentation on the part of the rich is the bane J of society: for these to flaunt their boasted su- j periority in the faces of their less favored fellow I Vitizcns is to arouse in the hearts of the latter a I tumult of resentment and antagonism which is I liable, at any moment, to issue in overt, acts of re- I prisal and destruction. I The annual concert for the benefit of Kearns' I St. Ann's orphanage, to be given at the Salt Lake theatre this (Saturday) evening merits the patronage patron-age of every benevolently disposed citizen. The l cause is a most worthy one, and the entertainment - : I , is one that is designed to please and delight, be the audience never so fastidious. 1 I Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis recently ad- dressed a legislative comanitee in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City, on the divorce evil, and capti- vated his hearers with his eloquence and logic. It is reported that lie made a profound impression upon ! the committee, and that the legislation upon this grave question will doubtless bear the impress of I his influence. I ; ; j "Milwaukee, with nine socialists in her city 1 council, is pronounced the American citadel of so- cialism. It is a cancerous growth, which it would I be well for her good people to speedily rid them- selves of. There is no good reason why. this Godless j cult should secure or retain a foothold in any American community: even , one made famous ly I . its bicwers. ' ' ' Detestation of uncleanliness. and untidiness is a mark of good breeding; an abhorence of moral filth, in act or speech, an index to a pure heart and an aspiring mind; the one is almost invariably a corollory of the other. H With Mukden and Tic Pass in the possession of the Japanese forces, Kuropatkin is in dire straits with his army. Emperor Nicholas, however, remains re-mains unshaken in his resolution to prosecute the war to a Kussian victory, and so the end is not jet. Meanwhile he is being harassed by internal struggles strug-gles in his empire, which seem to be growing more threatening day by day. 4 The church's Martyrology is, in all probability, soon to be enriched by a large number of names from the 'Tide, of Saints.' The process leading up to the canonization of the Irish Martyrs is making gratifying progress, the cause having already been transferred from Dublin to Rome. In one year there has been prepared the evidence concerning one hundred and sixty-five cases. 4 . One of our local ministers took for the theme of his discourse on last Sunday. "A Shrewd Business Man," very justly denouncing the dishonest dis-honest methods so commonly employed by the class of men' he was discussing. As long as society, in general, sanctions the worship of mammon, just so long will men sacrifice principle, honor and conscience con-science in their pursuit of the dollar. One of our leading metropolitan journals is it the Xew Yorw Sun ? dubs "Standard Oil" '"the high priest of Socialism." It seems a long cry from the sumptuous quarters of the arrogant autocrats of industry, eonimierce and finance to the back-alley garrets of the revolutionary Socialists, but the reverberating thunder-tones are far-reaching and penetrate the uttermost confines of the earth. . . x The nian who is so bold as to assert that wealth may be despised with impunity is culpably rash and reckless. This man has probably never been brought face to face with the magical powers of transformation transfor-mation of the dollar, when sufficiently numerous its all but omnipotent attributes. Have not millions mil-lions the potency even, of creating statesmen of the first magnitude Are not all our United States senators, for instance, men of such transcendant calibre The Utah legislature last week passed a measure providing for juvenile courts. It will be a cause for congratulation if these courts are modelled on the splendid institution so ably and successfully championed by that illustrious and universally esteemed jurist, Judge B. B. Lindscy of Denver, Colorado. These juvenile courts mark a long forward for-ward stride on the road to a higher civilization, and their inauguration should everywhere be encouraged. en-couraged. In the appointment of T. St. John Gaffney as United States consul at Dresden, Germany, President Presi-dent Roosevelt has conferred a well merited honor upon an able, scolarly and eminently worthy gentleman. gentle-man. Mr. Gaffney is a native of Limerick, Ireland, but has for many years been a bright ornament to American society, having been engaged in the practice prac-tice of law in Xew York city since 1SS!). He is a Republican in politics, and for some years has been a staunch supporter and an esteemed friend of the President. The memory of Ireland's patron saint will be honored this year in America's great metropolis as it has never been. In order that Saint Patrick's day in New York may not be marred by a meatless banquet, the Holy Father has, at the request of Archbishop Parley, granted a dispensation for thi? special occasion a rare distinction it must be admitted ad-mitted and the occasion isto be graced by the presence pres-ence of President Roosevelt, a signal honor, considering consid-ering the many demands on his precious moments of leisure. The Rev. Hugh F. Blunt having assailed the loyalty, to church and country, of Thomas Moorep in an article in Don'ahoc's Magazine for March, the Chicago Citizen valiantly essays the vindication of the memory of the beloved Irish bard. It is doubtless true, as maintained by the reverend gentleman, gen-tleman, that the poet was not as staunch in his al-logience al-logience as was the sturdy chancellor, Sir Thomas More, with whom he is frequently confounded, but that he has rendered loving and valuable service to both his church and his country the Citizen most justly maintains. t The Home Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Presbyte-rian Church has appointed the Rev. Charle Stelzle as a permanent mediator between the church and the wage-earner. Mr. Stelzle's peculiar iitness for i his novel mission is founded on the fact that he ! was, prior to his ministry, one among the toilers. His chief duty, it would seem, is to reconcile labor with his church; to point out to afflicted and dis-! dis-! contented laboring men that surcease is to be found in Christianity rather than in Socialism. This movement is timely and praiseworthy, butit seems a little singular that it should be. deemed necessary to create this special mission. When' and why did there ever occur a breach between the Presbyterian church and wage'earners? The notion is, perhaps, all too prevalent that the modern Jew is so absorbed in money-getting that he has no thought for higher things for the things of the soul. For loftiness of sentiment, superbly expressed, the following paragraph, from the American Hebrew, is seldom equalled by the best to be found in the religious periodicals of our time: ' '"One asks, "What is the good of prayer?' Ask it of the mourner, who seeks an answer of the unknown un-known for the taking away of one dear to him; "who seeks some explanation of the pain he feels, and finds that explanation in the sense of security, the feeling of consolation that comes with the sincere sin-cere prayer! Ask it of the distressed, whose soul is torn in twain, who gropes in darkness and fain would be hi the light'. You who ask for an explanation, ex-planation, wait until'yortr moment, of doubt comes and then yoa will not toknow ' from ,";u flia t is the power of prayer."' 1 'H- -ry. Ti:-. r-r |