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Show BRIEFS FROM EXCHANGES. Marching and Reading. (Catholic Herald.) If Catholics read as they march, what circulations Catholic publications would nave; A couple of weeks ago public attention was directed to a Catholic procession in New York, variously es-nmated es-nmated as numbering from 40,000 to 60,-J)0 60,-J)0 laymen. We are asked to take notice no-tice that at least 40,000 Catholic men will take part in a Sunday procession in Minneapolis incident to the forthcoming forth-coming coiner stone laving of a pro-cathedral pro-cathedral in that city. Forty thousand marchers constitute a big parade, and they would constitute a big circulation for an ably conducted paper devoted to the upbuilding of the church and to their own advancement temporally and civically. if they read in the same numbers num-bers as they march. The Catholic Lay Evangelist. (Catholic Sun.) The one certain way in which every Catholic layman can be an evangelist - imr me me inurcn prescrioes. Lvery man, every woman, who does this is a silent but most potent missionary, mis-sionary, radiating an influence more effective than most eloquent words. . . x What Christianity needs today is doers rather than unauthorized men of mouth. Decay of Prejudice. j (Ave Maria.) Praise of Catholic educational work from Protestants has now become too common to excite surprise. It is noteworthy note-worthy only as proof of the decay of prejudice, and as gratifying assurance that the day is fast approaching when our separated brethren will acknowledge acknowl-edge the justice of our claim for state aid. Get This Habit. (Church Progress.) Readers of Catholic papers should get the habit of patronizing their advertisers. adver-tisers. The New "Oxford Movement." (The Missionary.) It Is difficult at this time to measure meas-ure the depth and volume of the flood that is now breaking down the thin barriers of separation between the Episcopalian Epis-copalian denomination and the Catholic church. . . . Significant of the strength of the movement is the following fol-lowing fact: A proposition. was presented recently to one of the archbishops looking toward to-ward the reception of an entire com munity of Episcopalian nuns in the church. They desire to come in as a body for many reasons, not the least of which is the question of holding the property that they now possess. We may expect to record within the near future the reception of more ministers min-isters who are facing toward Rome and are now trying to disentangle themselves them-selves from the associations of their place and environment. . Of course it is the policy of the Episcopalians Epis-copalians to discredit the significance of the movement. They say that there is no crisis; that the number of the disaffected ones is small; that the disaffection dis-affection exists only in spots. Bishop Coadjutor Mackay-Smith of Philadelphia is quoted as saying: , "Outsiders get the impression that the whole church is convulsed by this movement. In point of fact we hear very little about it, and the vast mass of church members really don't know that it exists." Still every issue of the leading Episcopalian Epis-copalian papers is 'full of comment on the situation, and therein are printed many letters from the laity discussing the significance of it. A Word to the Wise. The editor of the New Zealand Tablet, Tab-let, who is a priest, writes: "Unless the clergy had the science of angels and the voice of the last trumpet trum-pet they could not overtake the harm that is done in homes by the exclusive perusal of secular news sheets and by the false conceptions regarding Catholic Cath-olic faith and practice that from time to time are printed not necessarily with any intent to mislead in their columns. col-umns. The Catholic paper is the priest in the household. And we trust that the day is' near at hand when it will be as intimately and as formally a part of the church's many-sided activities as her churches, schools and institutes of charity. Meantime, the true Catholic paper is doing a duty toward the Catholic Cath-olic public as real as any of these, although al-though of a different kind. The Catholic Cath-olic public, too, have a duty toward the Catholic paper. The nature of that duty is sufficiently obvious. This is a case in which, to the wise, a word Is sufficient." "Presence-of-Mind" Smith. (Exchange.) Dr. Smith, afterwards dean of Christ church, when an undergraduate, went down to Iffley with a friend in a skiff. His companion fell overboard and caught hold of the skiff, and Smith explained, when he returned: "We would both have been drowned had I not, with great presence of mind, hit him on the head with a boat hook." He was thenceforward known as "Presence-of-Mind" Smith, and the unpleasant un-pleasant sobriquet caused him, v.-hen dean, to exchange with Ga'isford. |