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Show T : ; . . " " : ELEISCHMANN. pipt i the man whose gleaners (lather all the grain that fell; Who. pacing through the Valley of Rata," Dipcih f'.r others a well; IVho bestoweth a cup of cold watct And cooteth the burning head; tVho hringreth hope to the weary And giveth the hungry bread". forwards of life are fleeting, ' The rich man "has his day." put "all he holds in his cold dead hand Is what he has given away." 'Tit.- only the gift that survivcth The living and the dead; io receivcth life eternal "Who giveth the hungry bread. Ah. ye vhn love well doing More than the world's applause. And prize the simple "God bless you" Above the grand hurra hf, po climb the hill of opportunity And stand where Flieschiiiann stood, liVho gathered in the outcast And gave the hungry bread. Jrhn carland his grave with flowers. Sweet tribute to actions done, Andx rowii it with wreaths of laurel. In honor of battle won. And carve in the pure white marbcl That towers above his head: Ho earneth the praise of the Master Who giveth the hungry bread." Ptillman F. Kneeland in New York tun. CHURCH CALENDAR. tierfsnber. Immaculate Conception, unday. IS Fourth of Advent, jp. 1 Corimiiians, iv, 1-5: Josp. Luke ii, 15-21. Expectation of the Delivery of Our Lady. j Monday. IP St. ICemesion. Tuesday, 2ft Vigil. St. Dominic Sylos. Wednesday. 21 St. Thomas, rhuraday. 22 St. Flavian. Friday. 23 St. Servulus. (Fast)., Saturday. 54 VigiL (Fast), St. Del-phinus. Del-phinus. Petitions for prayers from Associates Associ-ates of Leag-ue of Sacred Heart Sun-Bay Sun-Bay for Reminarists and novices. Men-lay Men-lay for vocations. Tuesday for parishes, Wednesday for schools, Thursday for MiperJors. Friday for missions and re-, re-, treats, Saturday for societies' works: AT ST. PETER'S THRONE. Erief Account of Canonization of Two of the BlesBed. We take the following from an ac- Sount given to the Associated Press, ated Rome, Deo, 11: In the' presence of 60,000 persons assembled as-sembled in St. Peter's, Pope Pius X this morning canonized Blessed Ales-fcandre Ales-fcandre Sauli and Blesaed Gerardo Mai-Hla, Mai-Hla, descendants of whom, including Marquises Ambrosio, Sauli and Ne grotto, grot-to, assisted in the canonization, a ceremony cer-emony to rare in recent times that this is only the second time that it haa been w beld since 1S70. The basilica -was beautiful with electric elec-tric lights, its immense height showing the illumination to perfection. The ihrone had been erected behind the hign i!tar and chair of St. Peter, having a fievice of rays of gold with a picture of Ihe Trinity In the center.' Altogether the throne took up a space tf ninety to seventy feet. Four ban-firB ban-firB hung under the dome, showing, the thief miracles of the new saints. I The papal procession met in-the Sis- i tine chapel, entering the basilica by the thapel of the Holy Sacrament. The pope, in full pontifical costume, was tarried in the sedie gestatoria, with it? historic fans. The robust figure and Handsome head showed thogto the best d vantage, and when he entered the rhurch it wa impossible for the authorities au-thorities to repress an outburst of -loyalty from the multitude, .which .cried ' Long live Pope Pius." The scene was such as to evoke the Bevotion of the beholder, e-erything having been done to heighten the effect knd the central figure in the ceremonial presenting 'a scene never to be forgotten. forgot-ten. His holiness "was preceded, surround-H surround-H and followed by guards of the court mid high prelates. He looked pale, fatigued and less robust than a year tito, as though the triple crown were bearing heavily upon him. The pop- ivas thus escorted to the throne, the tardinala, archbishops and bishops t'irming a square about him. The ceremony that followed was interesting in-teresting iii the extreme. Pope Pius pontificated, preserving a calm, reverential rever-ential air to the end. although, as he tonfessed later, he was greatly fa-. fa-. Ucued. After the ceremony the procession fan reformed, amid murmurs of love mid loyalty. All the American prelates t uv in Home who assisted at the beatification beati-fication on Thursday of the saints can-rr.ized can-rr.ized today were present, as was also IV- faculty of the American college at t:nie. CALVINISM DOOMED. Not Long Before Every Shred Is Torn From Presbyterianism. (Providence Vii-itor.) "ie of i;)t.t week's sensations was ir l!:'' opening of the professorial " rin.irs f I'nion Theological Seminary leucines of other creeds. Whether t i (lirec.oes of tho. Seminary and five F.v.h;- of the faculty are Presbyterians, t i:i usiii.cj' themselves bound by the I barter obligation to teach the "stard-i "stard-i rds mi'i discipline of the Presbyterian ; ", u ?- Ii. " in verthel. .-s the fuel that; Mich ti'.-o'hing may bo imirteil by I!h.-o wh i not subscribe, to. the W'-stniinsti-r Confession of Faith is re-CHt-ici r..nmving almost the last 'Miiie of ('alviuism from the instilu- l iii'ti; Seminary has had ' lots of t'"i-li'e in the last thirty-five yenrs. "j :i" present legislation is the outcome II b-e.Hh that started first in 1S70: c v hieh was widened when Dr. I li'-'s, after the famous trial for ("t-y. v;)S retained iis a number of ' 'acuity a'tiin:gh he had entered me l'i"t' lOpjscopal church. Thi' thouKi;i uppermost regarding Ib.s eoncessi'Mi is the strange on- itself. Kit her the directors of '' seminary are convinced "f 'he t"ii;h ef Calvinism r thoy are noi. If ' 1 r are not. th,. cause of prfbyterian-I prfbyterian-I i!i in America seems to ie rapidly dy-ff. dy-ff. n Hie othe-r hand, the direclors sincere in -l.,v f3;tj, the difficulty K i sr.. how thry can conscientiously ? ids; the leaching of what they deem 1 eniini , salvation to those who are !" "'-Tided 'ha', the presbyteri'mi church I :e: to perdition; in this supposition !i e liirc toes of he seminary and those ! "i "f th rrest.yterian belief leaching I "'" in .ion. ae in a dubious position I". I'oir th.' puhlic. With f.l! that the action of the -4 l" 'td of dnecto' - is not unlookel for. Vnong all th .-'cstant sects' the I' liceney of ;, y ; has been to dis-rgard dis-rgard ihe oi i ,eii , .. -md lo settle the t-i.vstci ies of and revealed re- by mere i . ..n unguided by. the hzhi f faith. . slow, steady progres-" progres-" towards i.' d--!ity has marked the Lend of everts; at 1 at last men have fonio to t.icve that there is no such thins at- i Jim Trinity: thai Jesus Christ, ethouch a perfect man, was not the' f-on of ;0rl; that the Sacred Scriptures tnust be read with an allowance f'T the j 1 hypeibolas which Christ made use of j J fc'1' speaking to the .lews. The learned i 1 rti -.n of the (ay. therefore, is the ration- I filist who believes what lie sees: and 1 w' J'thing e'se beside.. Such a man is 4 j I'.et aided as a scientist, and accepted a hadei- of thought by the elite; he publishes books and makes money by heiii; he ta.'e: his jdace at the he-id f the tabic Mherevt- Jie dines; where- Jas the man who lives in the old ideas of temperance, and the sanctity of marriage, and the necessity of a personal per-sonal God who rules the universe and to whom we are accountable for our actions here In his life-well such u man is to'eiated. but not' listened to, treated with courtesy generally but universally marked ;? a fool. In yielding up its legacy to those who legard it as worthless the Presbyterians Presby-terians have simply thrown it iway fiom their hands. The fact is thcre I was no treasure .to be preserved; and the event piovis that the Prtbyterians thorrfselvrr. arc at length beginning to leallee it. Jn this ihe arc merely following fol-lowing in the wake of the other sects: not one. of the great reformers but would turn in his grave if lie knew how far. his followers had departed .from Primitive sanctity and conservatism. The different c;nver.t:6ns which of ia;e have met and discu.-scd the burning questions of the day. and deliberate! about plan? for. the future, present the spectacle of. a helpless o'd man eagerly longing to be up and doing. The qucs tion for Protest milium now is not wlnl work is to br done in the future but rather how long will P; otestanti-ni 1: tH. THE GUAITD OEIENT. Trceniasons Control All Prcmoticns in the French Aimy. Not long ago in the Pre;i h chamber cham-ber charges were made and sustaiu-d that the French army was under the espionage of the Krand Orient, the governing gov-erning body or cabinet of the Free Masons. Gen .-al Andre, the head of the army, was implicated in the affair, j-.nd obliged to resign. The fombes miiir i islry at the Uni3 just saved itself from defeat through an accident created by I an imprudent incident. A member of J the opposition, resenting a remark j made by General Andre; slapped that ! . fliccr in the face. Whereupon the gov- i ernment won by a. vote of cpnlidence ii the ministry. . ' The Liverpool Catholic Times explains ex-plains the dishonorable methods of the government in i recent editorial: The system by which the Freema- j sr.na exercised sway over the French army was on the whole very simple. An inquisition was made into the lives of the officers and their families. The ers, some of whom were members of Masonic lodges. It w.ns written on slips called fiches," and these slips, of which there were 12.000, were divided ii.to two series marked "Corinth" and "Carthage." To be placed in the "Co- i rinthian" category meant promotion, 'ind to have one's name set down amongst the ' Carthagei.ians" was to be doomed to find promotion absolutely tarred. The members and favorites of the Masonic lodges were "Corinthi-ens," "Corinthi-ens," and the officers who went to church or whose families attended religious reli-gious services were "Carthagenians." General Andre at first denied' in the Preneh chamber that promotion was regulated by the slips, but when hundreds hun-dreds of applications for promotion were produced bearine in his own hand writing, the words. "See slip," he could enly maintain that the penalising of Catholics was necessary in order: 'AO Mirge the army of anti-Republicanisilf. The specific instances taken verbatim from the slips make it clear that the extinction not of anti-Kepublicanismi but of the Catholic; religion was the object ob-ject aimed at. A captain's name is Tut on a "Carthage" slip because he "belongs to all the Catholic religious works" and his wife collects for Va Catholic school. A general of division js treated In the same way becausehe-has becausehe-has a son in a religious institution, and his daughter is' about to enter a con vent. A major of artillery is similarly punished because he has two daughters i:i"a religious institution 3nd his wife busies herself with parish works. A tr.ptaln of a regiment of infantry is marked upon a "Carthagenian" slip as "absolutely worthless" because he has a son at a Jesuit college, and is re ported to be ashamed of his country for persecuting the religious. A commandant com-mandant who went to church with his family, and induced officers and noti-, commissioned officers to do likewise, and whose wife taught catechism at a Catholic school is placed amongst the ' Carthaginians" and described as "fanatically "fa-natically clerical." It is imputed to a colonel as a crime that his son, an officer, offi-cer, has visited a parish priest, and gets off his horse in the street to pay reverence to the Blessed Sacrament, which is referred to by the informer in j offensive language. All this system of tunishing honorable men for worship-Ping worship-Ping God was. carried out in secret by the war office and the. Freemasons. Officers who served their country faithfully faith-fully and earned promotion by every legitimate title found themselves passed over agsin.and again, and General Andre' An-dre' who. as the head. of th? army, dealt thus 'with them had not the sense "of ji.s.tice or the manliness to tell them at the outset that because of Iheir religious re-ligious "practices, there would be no promotion, for t hem. The chivalry of the Combes ministry was represented by a general acting as a man does who is without honor or principle. The Masonic' dictatorship in the French army has been exercised in a riaimer brazenly immoral. M. Combes has got General Andre to resign in order or-der that h'e might save his cabinet, but he has not de. dared that he was unaware un-aware of what was going'on or repudiated repu-diated the wretched despotism. On the (ontrary, he is reported to have stated te a journalist by whom he has been interviewed "that General Aiidr;'s successor suc-cessor would not abandon his policy. When people bear even for a short time with a ministry that outiages rc-l.gfon. rc-l.gfon. justice and everything that is honorable in public life, the political 1. trizon cannot he deemed bright. France is decadent. If there is to be a national revival it must be preceded by ft great moral reformation which will one again turn the people's attention t'. the old standards of religious faith and justice. ; . - PACIFIC COAST NEWS. I Church Progress in This Acre of the Xords Vineyard. Sunday morning. ' Dec, 4, ' the new ehtirch of the Immaculate Conception Mas dedicated at Seattle. Wash. All the Catholic fraternal societies of the :ty joined in procession from the old church to the new. including the lady Foresters, led by the uniformed A. O. II. The dedication ceremony, was performed per-formed by PA. Hew Jtishop O'Dea. as-fisted as-fisted by Very Rev. Father Prefon-taine. Prefon-taine. Very Rev. Father Kauten. Very ilev. P. F. Hylebos of Taeoma, Father , Jicmetrius of Lacey. Rev. Father P. O. Ittyne. ( SS. R.. Father Sweere, S. J.. Father Smith, S. J. The procession of priests and the bishop was preceded by the scholastics of the college and the pcolvtes, making an imposing scene. The dedication of Ct. Brigid's church, San Francisco, will take place J-uiiday.' Dec. IS. The ceremonies attending at-tending the dedication will be of an impressive character. Pontifical high mass will be celtbrated at 11 o'clock, Ilis Grace. Most Rev. Archbishop Montgomery Mont-gomery officiating. Knivcrsal sympathy will be felt and expressed for ihe bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles at the death of his ix-loved and venerable father, Patrick Conaty. Mr. County died Sunday Dec. 4 in the home of his sen. Rev. Bernard Conaty, Sacred Heart church, Worces-ler Worces-ler ?Yfase. The deceased was of that brave band' of" Iiishnien who were fcrced to leave their native land soon after the abortive revolution ol 1848. Jle prospered beyond his fondest hopes in. his new home at Taunton, Mas$ -Mr. Conaty had reached the ripe oldtfge of and possessed all his faculties tt j the end. May hi- rest in peace! y Sunday, the 11th insf., the: new I church of St. Joseph's at Rio Vista. Cal.. was dedicated by His Grace, Arch-bishopRiordan. Arch-bishopRiordan. assisted by a -large : number of visiting clergymen. A correspondent cor-respondent -of the Leader says it was "a day of rejoicing, not oniy for the Catholics of our beautiful city, but in fact for the whole community. Cou-friarulation.s Cou-friarulation.s :ire pouring in on our de-olod de-olod and self-sacrificing pastor, the Lev. J. J. Gannon, to whom Rio Vista is deeply indebted for the erection of the new church." ! A San Jose sp:cial to the Leader, I San Franeis.-o. Dec. 7. siys the golden jubilee of tile Feast of the Iniir.a. lil it" j Conception of the Hles.-cd Virgin Mt'.v" i was most impressively b.-orved i:i the j Garden City. Th j ceieb; alien took th--1 I form of a monster profession, in which i over S.000 people teok part, "it was i i I j oint of numbers th? largest puradc ever he'd'in the city of S?n Jose. The limited enngre srat ions r.f St. Patrick's, jSI. Muy's and St. Joseph's took juiit j i'i thi.-. grand public- demonstration in j honor of th; I'.lessed Mother of God. I r - j The P.ev. Brother Ed vard. who for i i hori time ks been sojourn: nr: in Cal- i'orni.i. goes ind-r oniprr- from lits s i- I eriors to Manila to examine into I hoohj which the aufhojitbrs wish to j Mace under th- management of the brothers of tJie Chrisil-.m f-ho..'s. More I Cian SCO teachers fro.n the- otder were I asked for, and none but Americans j were to bcincluded in the uuml.er. M;o-; M;o-; ti-er K.1 ward sailed on the transport j Logan. Thursday, Dec. 1. ! Queen Victoria Prayed Fcr Bead. Speaking at St. Margaret's C:iurcii I hall, Anlield, Liverpool," en "Why Dies the Church Pray for the Depleted?" j Rev. H. N. Th'impinn, vicar of t-avrn ; Street. J.-Je of Wight, stated that in the course of a four bouts' c.inver:-af i-Mi on prayers f:r the dead with the archbish- ; op of Canterbury, the primate. vbo was then bishop of Winc'uster. ar'.mit- j ted in private that, he himre'f said j prayers for the dead with the late (tueen. . The spe-iker'si wish was that the archbishop would make such a dec- j laration in pubWe, because it. would be j the means of ideat ing away many of the . difficulties with which members of thf English Church Union had to contend. J I Catholic Education For Negroes. The address of Booker T. Washington Washing-ton in the churches of Providence. R. I., last Sunday show him to be an educated edu-cated man and a gentleman besides, says the Visitor. No man in the country, coun-try, perhaps, should naturally be more indignant at the treatment of his race by the whites: and yet while Washington Washing-ton spoke on dangerous ground, told facts as he knew them, and spated not condemnation where he thought it was r.eeded, no part of the country, be it south or north, could take any offense at what he said. He had prai?e for the south and the north; he had blame, too, which he spoke fearlessly; and withal there was not a single harsh saying in all his speeches. It as Book-:r T. "Washington, also, who said several years"ago that the only hope cf the colored man was in the-Catholic church. Here we have an exainpie of what education edu-cation and Christianity can do for th colored man. . Turkey and the Vatican." It seems, says the Rome correspondent correspond-ent of the London Telegraph, that Turkey, Tur-key, has been cui the alert to obtain any advantage that iriay be derived from the existing discord between France "and the- Vatican. - Seizing the opportunity afforded - by the present rupture, the Porte immediately set on fcot negotiations for the establishment if an Ottoman legation accredited to the holy see. This move was inspired by the opinion prevailing in Ottoman circles that'the protectorate over Catholics Cath-olics in the east would pass from France, and the object of the sultan was to prevent its falling into the hands of any other Euiopean power, as by the establishment of a Turkish legation the Vatican would be able to regulate any eventual disputes by direct di-rect negotiations with the sultan's representative. rep-resentative. Under the RampoHa regime re-gime Turkey had already tried the same tactics, but the idea was abandoned aban-doned after the receipt of a yiotest from France. It now remains to be s'.en what will be the attitude of the European powers if. in the event of cny difficulties of their Catholic subjects sub-jects in the east, the Vatican should have the right to fettle the question without their intervention. I " Will Not Retain Fet'crs. !The information given by - the "Niu-velliste "Niu-velliste de Lyon" is confirmed by the Paris correspondent of the lirr.es. and is, we may af-;u;ne. correct. It is to the effect that the holy lather is pre-j pre-j paring to send to the bishops of Franc j practical instructions tending to bring about unity of action in the conduct oi Catholis, based on a clear, pre ise system sys-tem in-order to ensure uniform tactics. If there i to be a separatkn hetween church and state, his holiness the pope wishes that it should be complete ana absolute, so that the church may recover recov-er its freedom toward Die state as soon as the pact nasi been dissolved. Were j the bishops and priests, in crdvr to rent i churches and reside in episcopal pa!- i aces and presbyteries, s'til! obliged to I have recourse to the government, that j would be according to the holy father, j j worse Mrvitude than before. In other i ! w.rds. his holiness is t;king treasures , to defeat the plans of ir-n who.- :- jnten-tion jnten-tion it is to do all that lies in them to i extinguish Christianity in Franco. The pontiff if-i well aware that thovgn they try to rivet fetters on the church when abolishing the Concordat their effcrts 'will prove vain, for if the clergy are completely independent of the government govern-ment they eafmot permanently be deprived, de-prived, of freedom. Liverpool Catholic Times. . : i The Power of Action and Association. The intention of the Apostleship of Prayer, this month, is most opportune, i Of course., the contemplative orders or-ders are most admirable. They form a glorious band in the church. A Baltimore priest, speaking of the Carmelites, declared that they were j "holy lightning rods." and often diverted divert-ed the wrath of, heaven; but the mili- I tant clergy ami laity are the grand armies of action, corresponding with j pious souls who pray, in the cloister, as i Moses did on the mount, when Israel strove against his enemies. I perhaps once before alluded to the famous . statement, of St. Isrnatius. "whan asked if he believed that "labor was prayer." He replied that "We should labor, as if everything depended upon ourselves and then pray as if everything depend-' ed upon God." I once attempted to il- , lustrate this in the following manner: : A man, in a boat, wishing to reach an objective point, says I will only labor, i and so uses one ear. lie spins around ' to the risht. He says I will pray, and, j with the other single oar.-. whirls? to the j left. Then he concludes "-to" labor and pray, using both oars, and darts to the ' goal. We ..all know what activ? j Catholicism accomplished in Germany. We see how a lak of that activity ami j the power of association has pr-'duced i t.he greatest evils. Let prayer abound , and activity abound all over the world, i among lay and clericals, and miraeu-i Iouh results will occur. A united Cath- j olic effort, in that direction, wcu!3 ! save innumerable derelicts ard strike terror to "Satan ' and the evil spirits j who go about the seeking the ruin of ; souls." Randall, in Catholic CnVjni-biar.. |