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Show CATHOLIC OPINION. The Columbian would like to see the League of the Sacred Heart engage in a crusade of prayer to have trie least ot Corpus Chnstt restored to the calendar of hotidavs ot obligation. Is it not u tar greater feast than the Circumcision or tnc Assumption? Do wc not all need to mi-crease mi-crease our devotion to the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment ? Columbian. A Protestant woman. .Mrs. Beulah Ab-bev Ab-bev of Sparta. Tenn.. recently caused her own death bv plucking out one of her . eyes In a literal interpretation of our Lord's words: "It thine eye-offend thee, pmek it out and east it from 'thee. ' Iter action shows the tolly of the private interpretation in-terpretation of the ttibte. in the first place. Christ established a church and did not write the liihle or order it to be written to "teach nil nations all truth whatsoever I have commanded. In'the second place, the Scriptures, written by men. even though divinely inspired, must be subordinate to the Church set up by God to safeguard anil spread His religion. Columbian. The inaccuracies of Dr. Carroll's Catholic Cath-olic census point a,i excellent lesson. Th'y clearly show that some plan should he devised de-vised by our Church authorities to secure an enumeration at a fixeit anl uniform time throughout the country. Thre are many sound reasons for a more thorough canvass and correct tabulation. Church Progress. Another fool party was born in t in-clnnati in-clnnati last Sunday. Its name Is the National Na-tional Liberal. It stands for the abolishment abolish-ment of chaplains in army, navy, legislatures legis-latures and public institutions; the taxation taxa-tion of church property and the abandon- j ment of Sunday observance. But is that j not a rather incongruous name for a band of freethinking idiots? National in afnbitiou . Liberal in lunacy. Church Progress. . . Ernest Kenauld. a French Catholic writer, has just started a vigorous Catholic Cath-olic publication, in the prospectus ot which he stiys: "During tlie past twenty-five years the 62,000 Protestant minoritv have heen ruling rul-ing the 3i,flC.o( Catholic majority in France. They are the masters and we are the persecuted. All our statesmen who have during this ciuarter of a century been in power and have persecuted the Catholics have been Protestants. We are tired of being the suppressed, the persecuted, perse-cuted, the conquered." This is still another view. M. Renauid does not mention the Free Masons or the Jews. 'Tis the Protestants that have been doing it this time. As a matter ot fact, perhaps all these elements are with the government in its anti-religious policy. pol-icy. But it is from "the 3S.00O.n0rt Catholic majority" that M. AValdeck-Rousseau gets his main support. Catholic Citizen. We don't know which is the more to be despised, the Briton who crouches to the Yankee, or the Yankee who is bamboozled by the Briton. Chicago Citizen. General Bell has notifed all whom it may concern that he is going to plav Weyler in southern Luzon. All inhabitants inhabit-ants are being driven in within certain lines, and all men caught with arms are to be' summarily shot. Now. who is going- to war for the sake of humanity? Why is Weyler to be execrated and Bell lauded as a patriot? On what, authority does he undertake to shoot men found in arms fighting for their country, as they believe it to be? Native priests, too. who have been praised as friendly, are now1 to be hunted down as traitors. The secretary sec-retary for war formally decided a few days ago, in a case involving some money interests, that "a state of war" exists in the Philippines. A state of war is a very different thing from a state of rebellion, even the most powerful of governments cannot play fast and loose with matters involving the life and death of whole peoples peo-ples in this free and easy way. The eternal eter-nal justice is against it. and it mav not be bearded with impunity. Standard and Times. |