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Show SIGNS OF THE TIMES. All the sects are now celebrating the great feasts. Christmas and Easter receive as much at tention from non-Catholics as they do within the Church's fold. "Time," says Frederick Harrison, "has vindicated every' Catholic principle.'' A leading lead-ing Methodist clergyman not long ago made the assertion that the arrangement of the Sundays, as it is found in the liturgy of the Church is now generally gen-erally followed, by Methodist preachers the world over. He goes further and asserts that many preachers preach-ers find excellent material for their sermons in the solid sermon books with which every Catholic priest is familiar. It was Billy Sunday, the famous evangelist, evan-gelist, who said that the greatest evangelist of all times was St. Alphonsus Ligouri, and that all modem mod-em evangelists are going to him for ideas. It is certainly a hopeful sign of the times when statements state-ments of this kind can be made without evoking those outbursts of . bigotry to which they would have given rise twenty years ago. Catholic Register-Extension. |