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Show I I burcb Univcrsa! CHURCH CALENDAR. Sunday, Oct 99. km- . PteW St'"?, e,nth aCter IrnnHaw . . "rJ Salome. Monday, EL Most Holy Kedwmcr Tuesday. 24.st. Bel"' UeS?Sn25-Sai and Thursday .l'6.-st. Evaristus. baturday, 28,-Saints Simon and Jude. Oaote- associates net.es and works. Wednosdafor conl gndons. Thursday for sinners FrWay vAsssr saturday p JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN. "othi"B is known of Bernard. Bie that he was a monk at iip dm abbey of Clunny. Fran fn the relftta ;;;'pr.?T- a(1 5? -rote a S I kd De Oontemptu Mundi." inwhi; h this hmn and several others were translat.d. Dr. John M. Neale. (Lon- 3f ,!4', 181East Grimstead. - , iODD; as ine translator de-P-rv. s much of the credit for the great jK.pularity of this hymn. The visor Hnd freedom of his version may 'fee judged by comparison with the first lines of the Latin original: Tibs Syon aurea, patria lactea, cive decora, "Omne cor obrius, omnibus obstruis et cor et ora "Nendo, nescio quae jubilatio lux tibi qualis, "Quam socialia guadia, gloria quam special is.") Jerusalem, the golden, With .milk and honey blest! peneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed-I oppressed-I know not. O, I know not What joys await me there; What radiancy of glory. What bliss beyond compare. They stand, those halls of Zion, All jubilant with song. And bright with many an angel. And all the martyr throng? Th Prince is ever in them. The daylight is serene; The pastures of the blessed Are decked in glorious sheen. There is the throne of David; And there from care released, The song of them that triumph. The shout of them that feast; I And I hey, who with their leader Have conquered in the fight. Forever and forever Are clad in robes of white. 0 sweet and blessed country. Shall I eer see thy face? O, sweet and blessed country. Phall 1 e'er win thy grace ? Kxult. o. dust and ashes, The Lord shall be thy part; His only, his forever Thou shalt be and thou art. Buffalo's Catholic Population. 1 have been told by one of Buffalo's prominent priests that my estimate of tail week in plat-ins i he Catholic population popu-lation of the city at 1C0.OUO is very much too low. it is recalled that a religious census taken under Protestant Protest-ant auspices a few years ago. showed the Catholics to have more tlrir one-half one-half the total population; those who have given the subject expert study say the exact figures are 61 per cent.-Ae cent.-Ae Buffalo has a population of about 380,000, its Catholic population, therefore there-fore must be very close to 230.000. What a dominant influence this immense im-mense body would wield did it "pull together!" "Popourri of Catholic 1 Jajon and Times. ! Teaching Catholic Truth by Mail. A little advertisement in an English Catholic weekly that has excited our curiosity lor som- time states that any ' one wishing information regarding A Catholic doctrine by correspondence J V i an be put in communication with a member of the Correspondence Guild for Enquiring Protestants by applying to the secretary, whose address is given. giv-en. The idea of such an organization Ft ruck us as an excellent thing, a thoroughly thor-oughly up-to-date method of spreading Catholic truth, says the Catholic Xews at New York. In this country the magazines are filled with advertisements advertise-ments of all sorts of correspondence' schools that undertake to teach everything every-thing and anything by mail. Why not then a corersponder.ee school to explain CathOUc doctrine? The method is surely sure-ly in harmony with our well developed non-Catholic missionary movement. That the Correspopdence Guild for Enquiring Protestants is doing a vast amount of good in England is demonstrated demon-strated by the Guild's second annual report, issued a few weeks ago. "Established "Estab-lished only two years ago." we read in the report, "it (the Guild) has already more than justified its existence by reason of the not inconsiderable number num-ber of converts that have been added to the Church through its widespread activities. The knowledge of its existence, ex-istence, and the recognition of its usefulness, use-fulness, are by no means confined to the British Isles. It has made its way into Belgium and France: it is not altogether al-together a stranger in Denmark: even so far alield as India and the West African Af-rican coast it has done effective work; while at the moment of issuing this report re-port there is every . prospect of establishing estab-lishing a flourishing branch in the United States of North America. Nor does the Guild benefit English-speaking people alone; it has among its members those who can correspond in French. German, Spanish and Italian, and on mure than one occasion scope has been found for the exercise of this linguistic advantage. Intended, primarily, pri-marily, as its designation implies, for 1h instruction of those who are Protestants Prot-estants In the usual acceptation of the term, the Correspondence Guild is far from limiting its Operations to any one class of non-Catholics; it exists in the interests of all. And even to Catholics ii has been of considerable use. in furnishing them with Information they have been at a loss to discover for themselves in recommending suitable books for their perusal, and in assisting assist-ing them in- various other ways in their own efforts to bring home the 1 ruths of Catholicism to their non-catholic non-catholic friends. The Guild is composed com-posed without exception, of lay members mem-bers of the church, and to this essentia essen-tia !!y lay he c haracter of its organization organi-zation is undoubtedly to be attributed ihe success which has attended its efforts ef-forts to co-operate in the conversion of those outaith- the unity of faith. The special sermons delivered by e'o-quent e'o-quent missionary preachers, the increasingly in-creasingly vide diffusion of chfap Catholic literature, and' the church's stately ritual and impressive liturgy, directly lead in many cases to conversion: conver-sion: but there are not a few who. while more or less powerfully moved by in-Qnehees in-Qnehees such as these, are held back from thoroughly investigating the church's c laim to be the oracle of God by a deep-rooted, and therefore not . isiiy eradicable. prejudice against coming into personal contact with a Catholic- priest, yet who have no such prejudice against putting themselves la communication with a Catholic layman. lay-man. It is to this class, therefore, that the Correspondence Guild ie-eml-nently appeals, and it is especially for the benefit of such that it has been established. es-tablished. It may be that they see the Guild's ad ci tisement, whic h i"'ears in the Catholic Times every week, or a framed copy of the Guild's notice, which is displayed at the entrance to a number of churches throuehom the-land; the-land; or they may learn of the Gui'd's existence In some other way. What-"rer What-"rer be the medium through which jt ; rgMiicK known to them, they have in - the discovery an inducement to pursue their enquiries, and to seek the. removal ot their difficulties and the solution of their doubts, which otherwise would be theirs. There arc many, again, who never have entered a Catholic church, heard a Carbolic lecture, nor read a ; Catholic book, yet who, if they chanced upon the Guild's advertisement, might feel prompted to make use of' the means thus suggested to them of enquiring into the claims of the church. Clearly, therefore, where such are concerned, the Correspondence Guild has also a wide field of usefulness." Our English brethren are to be congratulated con-gratulated on the way they have, for the benefit of Catholic truth, made use Of the correspondence school idea, and we trust that it will not be long before we shall have a branch of their excellent excel-lent Guild In this country. Bishop Spalding Suffers Relapse. Bt. Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, bishop of Peoria. Ills., arrived in Louifville, Ky., last week, where he suffered a second stroke of paralysis, and was taken to St. Anthony's hos pital. He was in charge of his cousin, Dr. W. H. Wathen. Bishop Spalding suffered the first paralytic stroke in Peoria last June. When he had recovered sufficiently to travel, he went to Lebanon, Ky., where he has many friends, to spend the summer. The second stroke came on Monday . Since the arrival of Bishop Spalding Spald-ing in Louisville during the early part of last week, however, his general condition con-dition improved rapidly and Saturday his attending physician, Dr. W. H. ! Wathen. permitted him to travel unaccompanied unac-companied save by his nurse and housekeeper to Indianapolis, where he is the guest of Bishop Chatard. It is now the purpose of Bishop Spalding to remain a week or ten days in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, and in January he will go j to Florida for the balance of the winter. win-ter. Dr. Wathen said that he was confident con-fident of the final recovery of Bishop Spalding. The Church in California. E. J. Leberton, who a short time ago presented to the Little Sisters of the Poor an Old People's Home complete com-plete at a cost of $250,000. has decided to give a similar institution to the same order at Los Angeles. t Mr. Thomas B. Minahan, president of the National Federation of Catholic Societies, was the guest of honor at a little luncheon given by Mr. Joseph Scott at the California club last week for the purpose of meeting certain representative Catholic gentlemen of Los Angeles. Father ZephyrihEngelhardt, O. F. 1L, who is now making a tour of Mexico, Mex-ico, visiting the old missions and examining ex-amining the archives of the various Franciscan institutions, will soon return re-turn to California to take up aEain the work of completing his extensive history of the missionary order on the Pacific Coast. He will be the guest of the Rev. Raphael- Ruhr, for a few days before returning to Watsonville. Father Zephyrin's work, when finished, is likely to be a most important addition addi-tion to California history, and will represent rep-resent many years of labor. The author au-thor has already given to it a vast amount of time and it will be five years or more before the volumes are ready for the publisher. He has gone back to the original documents, most Of which are still in the possession of the order, and has unearthed much materialy that has not yet appeared. Los Angeles Tidings. I The Kt. Rev. Bishop O'Connell- of I Portland, Me., left San Francisco dur-I dur-I ing the week on his long voyage to the Orient whither he goes as the special spe-cial envoy of Pope Pius to the Japanese Japan-ese emperor. The bishop has so far said nothing of the nature of his mission. mis-sion. There is some room for speculation specu-lation but it is not likely that momentous momen-tous results await upon it. The most commonly accepted reason for his going go-ing is to counteract the effects of the imputation that the church in Japan is a French institution, and suffers accordingly ac-cordingly as France is taken to be the ally of Russia. The meeting of the legate and the emperor will be an unusual un-usual spectacle. The person of the Mikado is still held to be sacred and he shares in the nature of the divinities divini-ties of old Japan. To see him receiving receiv-ing a congratulatory message from the envoy of the spiritual head of the Christian church will be new in the annals an-nals of the Orient kingdom. Tidings. Golden Jubilee at San Francisco. Last Sunday morning the Jesuit Fathers began a week's celebration in honor of the golden jubilee of St. Ignatius Igna-tius college and church. San Francisco. The event was one of the most important impor-tant which has occurred in Catholic circles for a long time. Following was the order of exercises for the entire week : Sunday, solemn Pontifical Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Montgomery, sermon by the Rev. P. J. Cummins, pastor of Mission Dolores c hurch. fonday, Oct. 16. solemn requiem mass was offered for the deceased students stu-dents and professors of the college. In the evening a solemn "Tc Deum" was sung in thanksgiving for all the bless ings bestowed during the past fifty years. The sermon was delivered by th Rev. M. P. Dowling. S. J., president presi-dent of Creightoii university. Omaha. Tuesday evening was Alumni night. A literary and musical programme was presented in the college hall. Wednesday evening .a. public reception recep-tion of the former students and friends was held in the" college building. Thursday evening the Alumni banquet ban-quet was held at the St. Francis hotel. Friday evening the commencement exercises were held and academic degrees de-grees were conferred in the college hall. Disapproves Italian Celebrations. A Rome dispatch to the New York World says: Frequent complaints have reached here from American priests and bishops bish-ops that southern Italians residing in the LTnited States continue to celebrate cele-brate the feasts of their patron saints "more Italico." in the same manner they used to do in their native towns in Italy, with street parades, illum-I illum-I inations. fireworks and other features j which, the complainants intimate, are ' not only wholly unnecessary, but posi-; posi-; lively objectionable to Catholics and j non-Catholics alike in America, because be-cause of a different coneption of re-j re-j ligion prevailing in that country. The number of complaints received have nersUaded the Vatican authorities i and those of the propaganda that it is , traie to put a stop to such pageants. ; Tt has been decided to take immediate stpes regarding the matter through a .srecial circular addvsed to the Amer-I Amer-I lean bishons. which, while leaving j them some latitude in the matter, will I urge that measures be adopted for the gradual suppression of similar south-: south-: era Italian customs. It is known here by past experience that refusal on" the part of American bjshops or priests to give their sanction to the holding of these street ce'ebrations and the street parading of the s'atues of saints venerated in jne churches has often led to riots and disorders. j Bishop of Little Rock. Upon the, invitation of Rt Rev. Edward Ed-ward Fitztrerald. D. D.. bishop of Little Rock, and senior bishop of the province prov-ince of - New Orleans, a meeting of bishops was held last neck: at St. Jo- j ! seph's Infirmary. Hot Springs. Ark. The object of the meeting was to select se-lect a coadjutor to Bishop Fitzgerald, who has been an invalid for some years. All the bishops of the province had been invited, but three of them are now absent in Europe, and two others were unable to attend, so that there were but four present at the conference, con-ference, viz: Bishop Fitzgerald of Little Lit-tle Rock. Bishop Gallagher of Galveston, Galves-ton, Bishop Dunne of Dallas and Bishop Bish-op Allen of Mobile. The bishops took no action, as it was judged advisable, though not necessary, neces-sary, that a quorum of the bishops of the province be present. Accordingly, the meeting was postponed to Novein-; Novein-; ber. I |