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Show ' glwrcl) Universal j ! Calendar. Aug. L S. 9th after PenticosL St. , Peter in Chalns-E. 1 Cor., x, 6-13; G. ! J Luke, xix, 41-47.-920,689 for thanks- I 5 giving-s. 2. M. St. Alphonsus. 1,314,064 for I those in affliction. 3. T. Finding of St. Stephen's Body, f f S34.S36 for the sick, infirm. ' 4. TT. SU Dominic 593,459 for dead Associates. 5. Th. Our Lady of the Snow. 586,- 152 for Local Centres, f 6. First F. day Transfiguration of our Lord. 522,744 for Directors. 7. S. St. Cajetan. 722,453 for Pro- moters. S. S. 10th After Penticost. St. Cy-riacus. Cy-riacus. E. 1 Cor., xii, 2-11; G. Luke, xviii, 9-14.-1,142,082 for the departed. THE GENERAL INTENTION FOR AUGUST i Recommended by His Holiness, Pius X. Foreign Missions. . After ninetee. . ituries of Christl-s Christl-s anity the wor" . . )t Christian. The east, with its, i.i.. tg populations, is .; still heathen; - C' .; Japan and the j Indian peninsulas pa i gods are wor- I shipped and pa;a.vr.trs performed side i by side with the- sa . f.ce of the mass; .1 in the very land oL i ;c llehem and Cal- vary the impost;! o- Mecca Is invoked by millions; In Af.ica- there are myr- i iads to whom the lipht of faith has not I penetrated; while ami I the snows of ; Alaska and northern Canada totemism j and idolatry hold sway over the Eski- f mo and the Indian. But if the field for missionary labor 1 is vast, vaster yet is the courage and i virtue and apostolic spirit demanded f for the missionary. He must be an- ' other Christ, whose affections are fixed for God alone, and whose only desire is to scatter over the earth the fire of ' God's love, and to hasten the coming of God's kingdom. The cross must be his crown, toil and suffering his repose, failure itself his only worldly success. Where are such men to arise, unless God raise them up? And how will He i do so if we do not pray the lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his harvest? The emissaries of evil are diligent in j their work of rapine: money is lav- ished by heretics on Bibles and tracts and missionary families; home and i country are cheerfully given up by - thousands, in order to spread a false C faith and proselytise for protestantism; and shall we sit idly by and not even breathe a prayer for those who know i nnt dnfl" If iv rnnnot contribute more actively to missions to unbelievers, we can unite earnestly in the intentions of V the League, and make our daily acts I this month each a petition to the Sacred ! Heart of Jesus to further the salvation of the souls for whom He died. Fiat. ! God's blessed Will, what'er it be, f Must be the very best for me, I On Thabor, or on Calvary. O sacred Star! ! O sweetest comforts in the shadows :, gray, ! His Love's dear ray Must be my ceaseless day. ' And what the joy, to feel, to know that J He i Planned this for me, ; In the far mornings of Eternity, And He will be i My Light, my Hope Eternally. s And tho my heart may bleed and break, t I will be strong, and for His Sake i I will be true, knowing what He i Has planned, has done, is best for me. He knoweth all, the thought is almost l bliss, He can do all. Can there be more than I this? Tes, something more, what has been, 1 what will be i His Will, His Purpose is, i And He loves me. j Notre Dame Quarterly.' ALFONSO BORN A KING. I ! Father Had Regained Throne Lost by Isabel II. I It "is just thirty-four years since the present ruling family in Spain, by one f of those amazing and sudden changes which characterize Spanish politics, was called back to the throne which it thought had been wrested from it for ever. Alfonso XII, father of the present I f king, was still a child when his mother, I ' Isabel II, was dethroned by the will of i her people, in 1868. He was educated in ! . France, Austria and England, and was only 17 when Martinez Campos pro- . claimed him king, in 1875. Spain had nominally had a constitu-; constitu-; " tion since 1S12, but it was in name only; I the real power In the time of Isabel II ; was absolutely in the hands of a pal- j ace camarilla and the priesthood. All this was cleared away by the bloodless 5. revolution, which Spaniards still speak of as "La Gloriosa," and Alfonso was called to the throne as a strictly constitutional consti-tutional monarch. - He himself took part In the war which i once for all put an end to the machina- tions of the Carlist pretender, who had for so long steeped his country in blood and fratricidal enmity, and he confis-ti confis-ti catp.i the snecial "fueros" of the Bas ques, which had given them the position of a little republic in the midst of a S monarchy. His first marriage ended tragically. After a time he married again to please his people, the Austrian Archduchess, who filled the difficult post of regent during the minority of his son. He died, while still in his first youth, after a short illness, leaving two young daughters and the possibility of a thiid child. Alfonso XIII was, in fact, born a king on May 17, 1886, six months after his father'3 death. For a time the boy was delicate, and gave little promise of growing up to be the tall youth that he is today. It was due to the wise care of the queen regent reg-ent that he did. His experience of life has been the exact opposite of that of his father; the only resemblance is that while Alfonso XII was called to the i . throne at the early age of 17, his son .' . took the oath to observe the constitu- l:u tion for there is no ceremony of coro- lfl nation in Spain when only 16, and he has just reached his twenty-third birth- f f He married the Princess Eno Victoria (ft i of England on May 21, 1906. Three chil- I dren have been born to the royal pair the Prince of the Asturlas, the heir apparent, on May 10. 1907; the Infante Jaime on June 23. 1908. and the Princess Beatrice on June 22 of the current year. Where are you going, little Rill? "Alas. I cannot say! I leaped the fountain on the hill, And ventured forth to play; And now it seems, against my will, I am a runaway." Father Tabb. So 'Tis. f Hope is the thing That plants the seeds; But digging's what Knocks out the weeds. Boston Herald. |