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Show ec - ; " j CDiirch Universal " ! , j CHURCH CALENDAR. , c Third alter Epiphany. St. I -!'.,;.,', -t:. Kom. xii. 16-21; G. Matt I i"1- i yo for sinners.' i Vl'--I'm.' t-'john Chrysostom. 33S.SS7 j , 'h',. intemperate. ? T second Feast of St. Agnes. ,n"'ii f'-.r spiritual favors. - W t- Francis de Sales. 304,-v,:9Vor 304,-v,:9Vor lemporal f avers. : ';() Th t. Martina. 218,011 for spe- i 1 'j' 'j1-' " st. reter Nolasco. For Mes- j pu'nary 'li'fiulgence for Associates. .'For Promoters. I GENERAL INTENTION. The Goloen Jubilee of Our Holy Father's Priesthood. t Thr, j1;if!ition recommended this tti tiv opening- of the New Year, ' In" ip'rn.vers of The Apostloship, will ' . ,, "ill' especial force to all our As- i!''Vit,'i 'ur prayers are requested for ; jessing of the Sacred Heart, upon Hflv Father, on the occasion of the I Wn jubilee of his Priesthood. N-eP(i,..o 10 say, this request, eom- vr 'join our Holy Father Himself, will ' 'It with a ready response in the heart "'vfry ti ue child of the Church. How ; " h p'n.iv so then from every member lhp i acuf of the Sacred Hearty. ' " To Phis have been committedTn a 5 qrticuliir manner the interests on earth t'he H'-art of our Blessed Savior. He I in this world the Vicar of Christ, His ! visible Representative among men. To have been addressed the words i sunken f1 IonK a on ,!ie lkeshore of i I'j'alilo to Peter: "Feed my sheep, feed ''v Hnihs." This feeding of the sheep and the lam rs. which devolves upon the tfunreme Shepherd of souls upon earth, i jc a work unspeakably dear to the Hart of our Blessed Lord. It was for X the fecdiiiff f the flock that He was 5 born in Bethlehem, toiled at Nazareth, preachod on the hills and in the valleys of Galilee and died on Golgotha. It was ! fivthfs that He hung three hours on the cross, and bled and died in shame. To carry on and direct this work for h He gave His life. He has given to Pius the same commission that He bestowed upon Peter. How ready then j that Heart wiil he to grant our prayers that the heart of our Hly Father may b strong and brave in the work com-iiiitted com-iiiitted to his keeping and his doing, j M this time, too, when the Holy Fath-! Fath-! t has so many enemies, not only out-Fide out-Fide the Church, but even among His own children, our prayers are the more iiK'dPd. We surely should watch and pray more when there are traitors within with-in th" ramp and deserters in the lines of the enemy. Prayers then, both fervent and constant, con-stant, will be the grateful tribute which the loving children of Pius X will of-f.r of-f.r their affectionate Father, on the occasion of His feast of joy. His Golden Gold-en Jubilee of the Priesthood. The Worldly Catholic. (London Catholic Record.) TV Catholic who is a critic of au-tlmrity au-tlmrity is a worldly Catholic. He may i rail himself what he pleases, but he has not Hie child-like simplicity and ' d'Vility that characterize the man of lively faith. The true. Catholic is in line with his superiors in all that con- rri:? morality and religion. However, ; ih iwM may rage he trusts his watch-s watch-s men m the lowers and their words'are I st "Hi his strength and guide. But ! th" worldly Catholic listens to the mjre of pride; he catches up the watch-worri;; watch-worri;; of m-n: and out of his ignorance Kiures authority. In the vain attempt at-tempt to dress re "on in the clothes of manliness he . :it. s down his re-liei'-m. reads ' '- preconceived approval -of the ,. .-(;.. ilics. Herein 1:0 blunder!1. It u i- poor compliment compli-ment to the noii-i at ' ic to imagine, for a moment, tliMt ' i praise can be sr-r-ured by a backbvi eiess character. They can respect a m ring hater, but not th man who. neitf--r a good Ca.th-"!! Ca.th-"!! nor a good Protestant, conceals liis faith at the behest of the good of Fitting on. He despises him. and when h" has served his purpose he flings him aside, and washes his hands. Submission Submis-sion f. the divine authority of the '!iurh is the touchstone of Catholicity. Mithout this submission, says a voice of the fourth century, St. Cyprian, it is all over with th-? divine power which Fovr-rns the church: it is all over with Christianity. Successor to Rev. Dr. Judge. IV- i. -trn from Chicago that Rev. J;Th T. Iloohe, LL. D., pastor of St. Mury's Catholic church at Nebraska 'j'y. X-!.. will succeed the late Rev. T;.jnias Judge, as- editor of the New nrKl. the official organ of Arch-h,.y, Arch-h,.y, guicl. y. I'a'.lr Roche is widely known t:rouirhout the states, through his vork for the Catholic Chu' ch Extension r"i"'y, f which he is iee president niid a ! n.b. r of the board of direct-o;s. direct-o;s. Hr. h:is lectured in most of the rzn '!;; during the past two years ii tl,M i!::.i,.Kt nf the society, and is a fnni: ;b t0 a number of Catholic ' i'" j s !,!"' magazines', li- fnr.- a . epting the editorship of p!rT I'.uher Roche will have to r' 'rho the permission of Bishop Bona-eutii Bona-eutii of I.i!,, uln. Neb., to be transferred ' t!i- (. j, ;.-,, diocese. abidewithm ''' v. mi f;lst fans the eventide: lhb flrk:i ss deepens; Lord, with me l-'-n el!;, j- he;pers fail, and comforts fio H!p of ;1(. helpless, O abide with me! Suif'- ' its close ebbs out life's little da y ' ar:!i "r s crow dim. its glories pass avj.y. Ji'1" :''"1 decay in all around I .see; '"u. v ho ehangest tiot, abide with 1 nnr.rl r, , . V,) .V pif-senee ev ry passing hour, ' ' hut thy grace can foil the tempt-' 'r- poW..rv eank! .ihys1,f my snide and stay J'r" " ud and sunshine, Lord, abide w"h in..: 3 fr-r ., lilj! , . , Wrr'. J w',Rll, and tears no bit-'t"'" bit-'t"'" .'!'''i!,'s sting? Where, grave, "uinph stin, if thou abide with me! 'f.yl's'"' U,y 'TP-SS hefore my closing ' nnp "ironph the Rioom, and point me H..av- "' sJ i--: s tnorning breaks, and earth's In i;f; 'h:",,nts flee, ,;u.' 111 'i'li, o Ird. abide with ' W'Ri.'v capacity is like a a broken wins. v NEWMAN'S LOYALTY To the Vicar of Christ, the Supreme Pontiff. Owing to the reverence that is felt for Cardinal Newman's name and the affectionate regard in which his character char-acter is held, too much care can not be taken to remove even the slightest dangfrr of misunderstanding as to his sentiments respecting the authority of the holy father. Mgr. John S Vaughan then has done well to quote in a contribution to "Rome" an appropriate appro-priate passage from Newman's writings writ-ings with reference to a case in which the pope interfered. The great ora-torian's ora-torian's words are free from all ambiguity. am-biguity. "It is the decision of the holv see " he wrote. "St. Peter has spoken; it is he who has enjoined that which seems- to- us so unpromising. He has spoken, and has a claim on us to trust him. He is no recluse, no solitary student, stu-dent, no dreamer' about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary. He for 1-MtO 1-MtO years has lived in the world; he has seen all fortunes, lie has encountered en-countered all adversaries, he has shaped himself to all emergencies. If ever there was a power on earth who had an eye for .the times, who has confined himself to the practicable and been. happy in his anticipations, whose words have been facts and whose commands-prophecies. Such is he in the histor yof ages who sits from generation gen-eration to generation in the chair of the apostles as the vicar of Christ and the doctor of his chui "ch. 'From the first he has looked through the wide world, of which he has the burden; and according to the need of the day, and the inspiration of his Lord, lie has set himself to one thing, now to another; but to all in season, and to nothing in vain." By one imbued with such a spirit the idea of dissent from th holy father's teaching could not for a moment mo-ment be entertained. Golden Counsels and a Word of Waining. (Irish Messenger.) Some time ago we came across a card of suggestions for the ennobling of our lives. They were admirable and striking, but the card bore no name to reveal the authorship. They ran as follows: 1. Say"nothing you would not like God to hear. 2. Do nothing you would not like God to see. 3. Write nothing you would not like God to read. 4. Go to no place where you would not like God to find you. 5. Read no book of which you would not like God to say: "Show it to me." 6. Never spend your time in a wav that you would not like God to ask: "What are you doing now?" If to these golden counsels we add a word of warning: Never associate with dangerous company; never share their immoral or profane language we feel we should have offered counsel, which if followed, would realize true happiness. Plain and Truthful. Father Cantwell of Newark. N. J.. gives a useful hint to book publishers and others who bombard the clergy with their catalogue. "It is their custom to send out once or twice a year bulky catalogues. These catalogues are the most costly waste paper we know of. It must take a small fortune to bring out an edition, and yet these catalogues are for the most part consigned unceremoniously the waste basket. For distant missions, mis-sions, a catalogue may be of some service serv-ice to its recipients and some profit to those who send it out. But in general priests prefer to inspect personally the church goods they wish to buy. They feel certain in advance that almost every commodity needful for church and sanctuary and therefore, as prices ordinarily vary little from year to year, they neglect the catalogues; no matter how inviting they may seem to be. Moreover, these catalogues only rarely fall into the hands of lay customers." A Priest and His Sailor Boys. A press dispatch from Port of Spain, Trinidad the first stop of the American Ameri-can battleship fleet now bound for the j port of San Francisco says that the sailors who were allowed shore liberty behaved so well that the city officials commented on it. Every one declares the men of i'O other navy who have ever visited the place can boast of a good-conduct record equal to that of the Americans. An explanation of the behavior of the men maybe found in the fact that on the Sunday preceding the sailing of the fleet from Hampton Roadf, Father Gleason. the chaplain of the flagship Connecticut, celebrated mass in the sailors' mess hall. Several hundred sailors were in attendance as well as a number of visitors. Father Gleason in his sermon spoke of the cruise and what it meant, reminded thd.men that when in foreign ports they were there as1 representatives of the United States, and appealed to them to conduct themselves them-selves as if they were conscious of their responsibility. "Now please remember this," said the chaplain, "and those of jou who are inclined in-clined to roistering and getting drunk, recollect that by what you do the people peo-ple of the United States will be judged. I appeal to you not to reflect dishonor or discredit upon the United States or this service. Remember your responsibility, responsi-bility, and if you pee in port any of the crew under the influence of liquor, look after him, stand by him, and see to it that he gets in no trouble and brings no disgrace upon us. Don't let him shift for himself, but give him a helping help-ing hand. And another thing, don't fall down with him." Father Gleason is the chaplain of the Connecticut, which is Admira'. Evans' flagship. He is one of the most popular popu-lar chaplains in the navy. On several occasions he has displayed heroic conduct, con-duct, notably on the occasion of an explosion ex-plosion in a turret of the Missouri, when several men were killed, and when Father Gleason did such gallant rescue work as to be singled out for commendation in the report of the captain cap-tain of the ship. Catholic Press Day. (Catholic Citizen.) Let us make Thanksgiving Day each year "Catholic Press Day" a day on which every reader of .a Catholic paper pa-per shall make it a point to speak a word to his neighbor about the duty of taking our own papers, and the good that conies to every home from reading read-ing Catholic papers. Concert Rhearsals. Rehearsals for the Grand Annual St. Patrick's Day Concert nve held eveiy Saiuiday at 3 o'clock in the choir ball. FRENCH NUNS SUFFER IN EXILE Sisters Strandtfd in Belgium Exist in Poverty Among the Poor and Aged Whom They Try to Believe. Of the 526 religious communities legislated leg-islated out of existence in France and at present located in Belgium many are today reduced to actual poverty. In order to assist 'priests and sisters who are thus compelled to struggle on under un-der the double burden of exile and poverty a society known as the Association Asso-ciation for the Relief of Expelled Religious Re-ligious has been established 'n Brussels Brus-sels under the presidency of Countess Louis de Merode. An official report has been rnade of the circumstances in which the destitute religious fi.id themselves, from which the following data are gleaned. Those who are disposed dis-posed to come to the aid of the suffering suffer-ing communities may forward their contributions to the Countesse Giul-loume Giul-loume de la Roche-Ayman, 41 Rue St. Dominique, Paris. The committee of Brussels inciude? Countess Louis de Merode, nee Boch-echuart-Montemart, president; Con at Eugene Lur, Savces. The committee of Paris comprises Prince Henri di Ligne. president; Countess G. de hi Roche-Aymon, treasurer. I have known one of those communities communi-ties whose distress was heartrending. These poor nuns having come to a small town of Brabant, -ented a nouse which they wretchedly furnishel, and divided up into narrow compartments, instead of regular cells, by means of old pieces of packing canvass; there were three or four of them in a room not large enough for one person. When the reports of such a situation reached me, I went for information and satisfied myself that this community commu-nity was actually perishing in misery. mise-ry. The food had to be sparingly pr-tioned pr-tioned out, and what wretched food: Beans, canned vegetables, and with all these privations they could not even pay the rent of the house. The rules forbid to heat the rooms, but in t he-heart he-heart of winter, always severe for persons per-sons unused to our climate, a light blanket would not have' been a luxury, but there was not enough to give n'iQ to each person. The aged, the sick: the infirm were literally freezing. Thanks to the generosity gen-erosity of a kind neighbor, they were given the use of an annex and of a small oratory-chapel; a lady of the committee of Paris informed by us of such distress, had blankets se-it to them, a stove for the sick room and the infirmary and money to buy some coal. Our committee repeatedly helped them and continues doing so, bLt ala;! our resources are diminishing and we ask ourselves how, as the Minter sets in. we are going to manage providing for this and many other cases of distress dis-tress brought to our notice. Except a few of the cloisterer communities com-munities which are so situated as to be able to provide for themselves, the majority are in straits of misery. Frightful indeed was the distress of another community we wero called to assist. Sheltered in a Drivate 'odging (maison bourgeolse) to the number of twenty, among whom one-: hire at least were sick, aged or infirm, after selling, to secure their daily subsistence, subsist-ence, the furniture and other i bjects that could hardly be spied those religious re-ligious women were reduced to such a conauion as to be unabi? to pay the rent of the house and were offering for sale their sacred vessels, .ihalico, cibo-rium, cibo-rium, relic case, ostensorium, these objects ob-jects being their last fortune and irost dear to them not on account of theii intrinsic value, but- of their sacred service, and also because they were gifts bestowed upon their community by the Duchess of Montmorency. Another one sriven up bv its benefactors bene-factors in-JSrance, having no other resources re-sources than' the value of some posted money orders that reached them after many letters sent to France, and the few francs, morsels of bread, vegetables vegeta-bles and remnants of food collected by their two lay siste.-s (l u:iess); since this community unable to maintain its two lay sisters, was obliged to part with them; and the rules forbidding them to go out, they found themselves in perfect seclusion and with no other resource than waiting until some neighbor might come in the mornm. and help them in their distress. Another writes us: "So far we had been able to do some work of embroidery embroi-dery and other needle wort for scm" families in France devoted to us. We lost, three weeks ago, one of our most skillful hands, a good sister who certainly cer-tainly overworked herself, increasing thereby the stomach comolaint tht carried her away after increclib'o sufferings; suf-ferings; we have still a certain number num-ber of sick, the others work even during dur-ing the night, but women's labor is so cheap; and the profit is still lessened by correspondence, transportation and tariff expenses. Our religious exei cises do not allow us to work the whole day, and so. In szite of ail -i;r efforts, we are unable to provide fo-our fo-our wants." Not a Hater of Jews. 'It has been written in European as well as American papers that the pope and cardinals are in despair because of the recent election of the Jew, Ernest Nathan, as mayor of Rome, but this is by no means correct, says the Jewish Jew-ish Outlook. Of course, the Vatican is sorry to see radical and anti-clerical parties in power at the capital, but neither the pope nor any of his advisers advis-ers have anytihng to say against the character of the new mayor. When the news of Nathsn's election was made known at the vatieon. Pope Pius remarked: "If only he were not a Free Mason he would probably make a better mayor than any we have had." J "But he is a Jew, Holy Father," the papal secretary .remarked. "That doesn't make any difference; he is a man of honor," Pope Pius replied. re-plied. The pope has known Ernest Nathan for many years and has always had a very high opinion of him as a man. It is aboslutely unfair to the pope to call him an enemy of the Jews, for one of his best friends was the member of parliament Jacur, a Jew whom the pope sentXfor immediately after his ascension, as-cension, and with whom he conversed in the most cordiai manner for more than an hour. To the Sacred Heart. Within Thy sacred heart, dear Lord, My anxious thoughts shall rest; I neither ask for life nor death Thou knowest what is best. Say only thou hast pardoned me, Say only I am thine; - N In all things else dispose of me; Thy holy will is mine. Ah! why is not my love for thee Unbounded, past control? Alas! my heart obeyeth not The impulse of my. soul! Ah! Jesus! if love's trusting prayer Seem not too bold to thee-Place thee-Place thy own heart within my breast, Love thou thyself for me! THE VICTORY OF THE GERMAN CATHOLIC PARTY. A late number of the Dublin Review Re-view (of London) publishes an article written by one closely acquainted with the results of the recent political elections elec-tions in Germany. According to this writer the result so far as the Centre party is concerned, is complete triumph: tri-umph: "The Centre party is trumps," was the cry that arose all thaoughout Germany, Ger-many, on the publication of the figures showing the result of the second ballots. bal-lots. Prince von Buelow, he says, had gone into the fight as eagerly determined deter-mined to wrest from the Centre party its parliamentary supremacy, as he was bent on showing the Socialists that the "people of Germany still loved both father and Fatherland," as he declared on the evening of the election. He had previously declared that the "Catholics were more dangerous than the Social-Democrats," and made no secret of his intention to create a part drawn from the Moderate Liberals and Conservatives which should counteract the power of the Catholics in the reichstag. Notwithstanding all this, the Centre party has returned to the reichstag with increased numbers, which make it the most powerful party of all since, of a total of 397 members, they muster 134. s Even the anti-Catholic (or rather anti-Centre) Cologne Gazette, which has for a long time conducted a bitter campaign against the representative body of German Catholicity, admits the undoubted triumph won by the Centre. "The campaign against that body," it concedes, "has failed. The Ultramontane Ultramon-tane party returns- " to the parliamen tary struggle, not weakenel, but strengthened." Again the important Berliner Tage-blass Tage-blass says: "The campaign against the Centre has thoroughly failed. The Centre Cen-tre has knocked Prince Buelow's government gov-ernment on the head." And when one reflects that the Catholics Cath-olics have added 308,000 votes to theii poll of 1903 and have won over five new deputies of the most reliable loyalty, loy-alty, it is to be seen that even anti-Catholic anti-Catholic Germany can not but admit the logic of cold figures. The Emperor William himself would be the last to shut his eyes to the lesson of the election. What Is Modernism? The explaining to the ordinary everyday every-day - Catholic just what constitutes "Modernism," says the Ave Maria, and just why the sovereign pontiff nas condemned it and excommunicated its devotees, is still being continued in all parts of Christendom. Perhaps as succinct suc-cinct and intelligible a summary of the condemned system as any one heed ask for is furnished by Monsignor Canon Can-on Moyers in the Nineteenth Century and After for December: jo me piain question. 'Why has the pope condemned the Modernists?' an answer sufficiently plain and substantial substan-tial may be given on the fingers of one hand: "(1) Because the Modernists have denied de-nied that the divine facts related in the gospel are historically true. "(2) Because they have denied that Christ for most of his life knew that he was God, and that he ever knew that he was the Savior of the world. "(3) Because they have denied the divine di-vine sanction, and the perpetuity of the great dogmas which enter into the Christian creed. "(4) Because they have denied that Christ himself personally ever founded the church or instituted the sacraments. sacra-ments. "(5) Because they deny and subvert the divine constitution of the church, by teaching that the pope and the bishops bish-ops derive their powers not directly from Christ and his apostles, but from the Christian people. "This' Is surely explicit enough for even the least scholarly. Those who do not belong to that class will find Monsignor Mon-signor Moves whole paper worth while and will do Avell to note this other paragraph: para-graph: "In conclusion, 'it may be observed that one of the plainest features of the encyclical is that the doctrinal teaching teach-ing which Plus X opposes to these Modernist denials is one which rests upon the teaching of St. Paul and the Evangelists, and was the common property of the fathers and the councils coun-cils long centuries before the scholastics- came into existence. Nothing, therefore, can be more puerile than any attempt to discount it as mere scholasticism." scholas-ticism." Writing Home. The ideal home letter is always a bright and cheery one. The ideal writer is prompted by love and consideration, therefore the letter receives careful attention. at-tention. The cold of a few days before be-fore that la now almost cured, is not mentioned. It is useless to make father and mother worry about something they cannot -help, so that fact is omitted. omit-ted. Into the carefully written pages go the little things they will be glad to hear, the words of praise for the cherished cher-ished child, the good grades in school work, the part taken in a concert of social, the possibility of promotion in "business, and all the other daily happenings. hap-penings. It would be egotistical to repeat re-peat to a stranger what the engineer said when he raised the wages or promoted pro-moted the younger worker, but fathers and mothers cherish those words in their hearts for years. It is always pleasant for the home-folks home-folks "to know that on a certain day the letter from- the absent member will come unless there is some accident acci-dent in the postal service. Monday. Tuesday, or whenever the day may be. is a red-letter day to be looked forward to with joy. The very regularity of the cherished letter speaks of tender love and consideration on the part of the absent ones. One mother has failed only one Wednesday in two years to receive a letter from her absent son, and then a railroad wreck caused the delay. It does one good to see that radiant face as the mother takes the letter from the hand of the carrier every week. Surely, the son must be faithful in every walk in life who is so devoted to his mother. New Chicago Suffragan Diocese. (New World.) The phenomenal growth of the Catholic Catho-lic population within the arch-diocese of Chicago durin gthe last decade has found expression of late in persistent rumors of a new suffragan see as a necessary ne-cessary sequence of that growth. Not until last Wednesday, however, were any formal steps taken toward the organization or-ganization of any such diocese. At a consultation which took place on that day between his grace the Most Reverend Rever-end Archbishop and his archdiocesan council, it was definitely determined to proceed toward the formation of a new see within the territory at present occupied oc-cupied by the archdiocese of Chicago. As contemplate the diocese will have as Its cathedral seat the city of Rock-ford, Rock-ford, and will comprise the counties of McHenry, Kane, Kendall, . Boone, De-Kalb,v De-Kalb,v Lee, Whiteside, Carroll, Winnebago, Winne-bago, Stephenson, Joe Daviea and Ogle, j i . v ' - : . I The Catholic population of these counties coun-ties is at present about one hundred thousand. y THE BALLAND OF THE ANGEL. "Who is it knocking in the night, That fain would enter in?" "The ghost of Lost Delight am I, The sin you would not sin. Who comes to look in your eyes And see what might have been." "Oh. long ago and long ago I cast you forth," he said: "For that your eyes were all too blue, Your laughing mouth too red. And my torn soul was- tangled in The tresses of your head."' "Now mind you with what bitter words Yo ucast me forth from you?" "I bade you back to that fair hell From whence your breath you drew. And with great blows I broke my heart Lest it might follo, too. "Yea. from the grasp of your white hands T freed my hands that day. And have I not climbed near to God As these His henchmen may?" ;'Ah, man, ah, man! 'twas my two hands That, led you all the way." "I hid my eyes from your two eyes That they might see aright." "Yet think you 'twas a star that led Your feet from height to height? It was the flame of my two eyes That drew you through the night." With trembling hands he threw the door, Then fell upon his knee. "Ah. armed vision cloaked in light. Why do you honor me?" "The Angel of your Strength am I Who was your sin?" quoth she. "For that you slew me long ago. My hands have raised you high; For that you closed my eyes my eyes Are lights to lead you by, ' And 'tis my touch shall swing the gates Of Heaven when you die!" Theodosia Garrison in Harper's. The Confessional. Were the church a mere human institution, insti-tution, and were her theology the out come of human ideas and feelings, it is very probable that the confessional would never have been instituted, seeing see-ing how intensely repugnant the whole thing is to the natural man. But, being be-ing what she is, and possessing the knowledge, the truer and deeper knowledge, knowl-edge, of human nature which she does, the institution of the confessional became be-came an inevitable necessity; seeing that it is by its means alone that the full benefits of the divine work of redemption re-demption could be applied to the human hu-man soul, and that man could be saved from himself. J. Godfrey Raupert. BEATI MORTUI. Blessed the dead in spirit, our brave dead Not passed, but perfected; Who tower up to mystical full bloom From self, as from a, known alchemic tomb; Who out of wrong Run forth with laughter and a broken throng; Who win from pain their strange and fiawjess grant Of peace anticipant; Who late wore cerements of sin, but . now, x Unbound from foot to brow. Gleam in and out of cities, beautiful As f?unrborn colors of a forest pool, When Autumn sees The wamuts splash in, from her thin ning trees, Though wondered at of some, yea, feared almost As any chantry ghost, How sight of these, in hermitage or mart. Makes glad a wistful heart! For life's apologetics read most true In spirits risen anew, Like larks in air.. To whom flat earth is all a heavenward stair; They from yon parapet Scorn every mortal fret. And rain their sweet bewildering staves Upon our furrow of fresh-delved graves. If thus to have trod and left the wormy way Leaves men so wonarous gay, So stripped and free and potently alive. Who would not his infirmity survive. And bathe in victory, and some to be As blithe as ye. Saints- of the ended wars? Ah, greeting greet-ing give; Turn not, too fugitive; But hastening towards us, hallow the foul street. And sit with us at meat;' And of your courtesy, on us unwise Fit oft those purer eyes, Till in ourselves who love them, dwell The same sure light ineffable; Till they who walk with us in after years, Forgetting tim eand tears, (As we with you), shall sing. all day instead: i "How blessed are the dead!',' Louise Imogen Guiney in the January Atlantic. |