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Show OUR CATHOLIC SOCIETIES. The Intermountain Catholic is anxious" anxi-ous" to see the different Catholic. associations asso-ciations in the intermountain region grow and flourish. It makes no individual indi-vidual distinction.' but would Pae each and all attaining their respective objects. ob-jects. All are good and seek a common com-mon end, which is the greater glory of , God through the widest manifestation cf the ua.hings of Hcly Moihc-r Church. These associations, too. have each a specific purpose, w,hich is good and laudable and no Catholic can affiliate j himself with any of them without being be-ing made better thereby. There are among these organizations some that proves insurance features that should commend them in an especial es-pecial manner to men who live in a mining country, where there L much dancer, as was- evidenced In sjch a frightful manner in the awful disaster in this state last week, when nearly three hundred men were hurled into eternity without a, moment's notice. 1 others have beneficial features that are in themselves good, together with I which there are united s-cial adjuncts that i,ro very desirable. It is a source of regret, .however, that among so many good Catholic organization? there are not more temperance societies, for such nr undoubtedly needed. Strong drink is a blight and a crime when taken in exec; and in many localities lo-calities in the west a.t well as. in the east it is taken in excess to the shame nt.d degradation of countless numbers. We cannot but wit, therefore, that v p had more organizations having for ' 1h ir object the implication of temperance, temper-ance, sobriety and when needed absu-! absu-! lute total abstinence. All of these as sociations of which we now write can j he of inestimable benefit in a parish. Individually and collectively all can held up the hands of the pastor in his tr-.od undertaking and help to lighten his always too heavy burden. When f unc" 3 are to be raised these associations associa-tions should never be an obsolete, but si ways a help. In a countless thousand ways these Catholic organizations can iie'p in the diffusion of the graces and W'-5-?.ngs of religion and the Intermoun-tPln Intermoun-tPln Catholic urges upon them all the neefFPity of so doing. |