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Show I - j r glrnl) Universal i i 1 THE GENERAL INTENTION f Recommended by His Holiness, j Pius X. rATH'LTC HOPES. rh0 practice Jf the virtue of hope oucht t" bc oasy f"r ur Associates-TMilv Associates-TMilv wo repeat our Act of Hone, by x Vh we petition for grace in this life s,-fi olorv in the next. "an wo doubt 5 ,h'n our' prayer will be heard? Surely ! ?j'V-.'i Savior, we shall come to know i jVve and Its power. If our Lord i i n loves and has the power to aid, f hv if TV0 DUt do our r:lrt' sll"uld we ,,1'tit or be if little faith? Then, too, I '-have our hopes for the Church. The riiir'-! ' Ilis r"'use without spot or 1 ,,,.,'. jeh 'VVe have His own word for i , ,'h',lt "the g-ati-s of li.-l! .shall not pre- j j against Her." Her fin:tl triumph J ,J ,.cfiii-ei beyond the shadow of a I inii'l'b Iiut w,,rn an l!mv that tri- I .Vninh' ic come has not been re- ! v.'a'll to us. He Himself said of Hisi '! (;lfiili that when He would be ijft'-d "P He wou1,1 draw all things i nto Himself. May not something; ' f'nul'ir be true of His Spouse? May S not ,:ke I1"11- nave to b lifted up in Woss? She may have to en- riurp jjs trial?', suffer persecution, bear p.nrn HH'l ipnominy. nay, .She may I ven i,;,e t" suffer from Her own un- fl(jti,ful ehildtvn and lie betrayed by ' t '., itil'Sf soiis. Hut we most not lose ' Y,o;ri h:;v' the promise of Our t oVi Himself, that in the end Hi:? hnivh shall triumph. Moreover, if i r j jVpI? the- sorrows on the air; if I ' ci.Ml.os the lilies of the field, so I iiat evru Solomon in all his glories 'r '.jj,. ,,( arrayed like one of these, -with vli.it tender affection must He watch t wis lurch. When the Apostles Vrr battling with the wind :nd the i v,-;lVl'! out on ihe Lake of OV.riec in the j f:enn. the Master, wat-d them all jiicht through the daKness, till the i feuit.'i watch, when the morning light ; Tirnk' ovit the mountaintop. At length, I t dm dawn, when the Apostles were ! weary and discouraged, -when the oars vore slipping from their hands. He I e:!iie walking' to them on the waves. e cJaied the storm. Jie bade the winds he (Uiet. and the boat was at : the land. So it is in the life of His ; Chureh. when the storm is loudest, and the wnves highest, and the skies darkest, dark-est, the .Master is nearest. So in like manner is it in the life of the indi- : vida.'l. in the life of each of us. THE WINGS Of REST. ! Ti e marble door before Thy face, ! ; What is it but a little dust? i ! The ehaliee, golden, rubied vase , ; Will drop away as all things must. Thus fleeting are the things of sense, I Thyself alor.e eternal are; i 'et mere the universe imemnso, Thy heme, than any human heart. i n this dim room the tides of time i Are ( hanged and ever changing still, IhTc while the hour-bells steady chime, 3 AVerks out serene Tiiy Timeless will. ; i ! 1 stand before Thee but a space, ; If faith be seeing, sight is dim T'i Mniirs mercy show. Thy face i F"r sunset eyes of seraphim. ; And they my friends, who travel far, j They do not leave me, for ith Thee j Distance is not, and every sar I Whirls round Thy finger ceaselessly. i (""harles L. p'Donnell in Sacred :; H-an Review. Race Suicide Threatens Parish. I Thai there is a growing tendency i EniDiip the people of today to avoid the I responsibilities of married life and I 1'ireniape and that this1 failing has a ; frm e hdd on the people of Ca-ian- c. isua. X. Y and vicinity was the sur-' sur-' I'nsiriR declaration of Rev. James T. Loucherty. j. as tor of St. Mary's church. I Father Dougherty backed up his stale-i stale-i T ; m with detailed figures l iK;n from : R f-r-nsiip which l:-j has covnpiled after R iinnal isit to every i'ath-.lio fain-, I'y in the parish, r Father Dougherty said that the rig- tire? nf the census atipeared to ph-nv i that many of tlie young people had no ? intention whatever of getting' married : t:td that many of those who were mar-I mar-I tied had small families. The total number of individuals in the congrepaiiuii is 2.738. Of thesi? are men 1G years old and over, 0G9 k iro women 16 years and older, and 32 tve children under IC. There are 304 r srried ni n. of whom 42 are "widowers ) snd married women, of whom 1077 j erp v i,iolV.; males. 16 years of age, 'j tTA f,:der, are single, and at least 3i0 of : V:- an- men who have ?ach1 rna-f rna-f Jrity i'.r.d ; re of a marriagtable age. TkDvr D-.ugherty stated that he be- l.-ved !i,;tt the majority of the mature ; I;:"n "f the parish v.ere Ptill single. A i t'i;:.,i ef 4;4 women, 16 years and older, 5r- s-ni sine:!,. a;:d t wo-t.h.irds'of thom j Er "f a mar? dug. ;'ble age. In calling i !ittenti,,n , these facts. Father Dough-i Dough-i '"V "rt'-d upon the parishioner.' that it was thejr clty to marrj-. .so as to ner-T'uare ner-T'uare the race and children. In ro- FJ'-fl to tlie number of children in the D'rish. Fath'-r Doiiclurty eV'd.ucd that t' hgur-s were actually startling. He 'u although there were 625 tam-ri'-s and separate homes in the parish. t:,ere (in,y s, ohjidron i;nd"r i6 Jeai-p ,,f 3L,r. or nn nve'rage of a little ; cv.-r f.Slf. (.j-pi(3 to each family. Of C'Lrpe in this connection the fact must c'"nsiderei that in counting families i 't-sus .-..nsiders any two or more Tysons ha ving a separate home nrid r""''t'-d by e;thr blood or marriage, as far. ily. it is safe to say. however, i-'iit there are at least 400 families in f 5;rish made up of a man and wife. , t"is i'ta there is an average of cniy ? 1 -i'di. n to eaeh fa lily, 'ail.'r Tougherty - s.t was indeed 'fiinli"c to c.mside: rge number ' Sng';i,M- ,1K.n ;ir r -i :,nd the ;.:J!an "uinber .f cl .. the fs;n- ; .""s of those that an a . d. He je-l je-l :ti,irt1 if this order of ; was con-; ! 'u?! lhat some one , their de- ) pr,il;in1s ''oust bury ;,. .-oming gen-j gen-j '!,;"is. He pud thi'. il e American ;.,7'"' s""!llf:''I anxious to get away the responsibility of married life lit ' ' U,"I were anxious oi.ly I E,'.. l '( 'v "W'n welfare and enioyment t.touuht nothing of their ditty s ard r.osurity. He urged the yomg i ti'ip f3"'1 ff"ni" to break tway from t Us'' stand.irds of life lhat appear I. end ' P'wing tendencies o' the time;; 1 f,'ir , dueate ai.j prepare t'lemscl ves I imiT't du'-ies :s husbands and wives j ' ':iheip al)lj i,K,thers. j 'Jodernism" in ItalNow Dying Out I F!x ioS,Kl:U"d in U:,nip tl'Ut five of the i c-al t 'S "f lh" rf''-f't anti-encycii- I rai expressed to the Ecclesiasti- Un th hnnii,'s lh,ir contrition for ihe additin ,l""k in xh!it publication. In I fhr,. ,.,,K s,UrJii Religiosi of Flor- I ""'lii vk"3 by D"n Ralvatore Min- I fi'j1 , 'h was perhaps the first re- Jlal" to unfurl the banner of I Modernism, will announce that this number is the last. In France the Modernist magazines, "Deinain" and "Quinzaine," have disappeared. It is certain that another condemnation cf the Modern "Rinnovamento" of Milan is imminent, and more Mian likely that the censure will not be limited lim-ited to the last number, which consisted con-sisted almost entirely of criticism o defiance of the Encyclical "Pascendi. If the Vigilance Committees of the Papal document have not yet oeen definitely constituted everywhere in Italy, the Bishops are using the utmof t vigilance, especially over the orthodoxy of the professor of their seminaries. In I short, the publication of the Encyclical 'has put an entirely new face on things, and in Italy, at least. Modernism is rapidly shuffling- into its place among the abortive sects that have been. 10,000 INVITATIONS. How a Pastor Prepared for a Mission to Non-Catholics. St. Agnes' church, Cleveland, has just been the scene of a most successful success-ful mission to non-Catholics, conducted; conduct-ed; hy Fathers Kress and Martin, of the diocesan apostolate band. Every non-Catholic in th'1 district of Pt. Agnes' Ag-nes' parish received an invitation to the course of lectures. 10,000 copies of the following thght-provoking appeal ap-peal having been handed into their homes: "Arrangements have been made with the Cleveland Apostolate to give a course of lectures in St. Agnes' churc h to non-Catholics. We went you to know more about Catholic doctrine; our solution of the great problems that have vexed mankind from the begin ning. "You believe with us that Christ is the Son of God: that He established a church to continue His work to the end of time. We claim that historically historical-ly and doctrinally the Catholic church is that church.. Let us tell you why. You believe with u that Christ commissioned com-missioned His apostles and their successors suc-cessors to 'go into the whole world and ttach the gosoel to every creature' (St. Mark xvi. 15). 'He that heareth you, heareth Me' (St. Luke x, 16). At the ps me time He placed unon the world the obligation of hearing and obeying. 'He that will not liear the church, let him be as a heathen and .-i oublican' (St. Matthew xviii. 17). Without faith it is impossible to plas God' fHeb. xi, 6). "We are trying to carry out our commission: we respectfully ask a hearing from you. "The world is filled with religious confusion a hundred warring and contradictory sects am clamoring for recognition. There is but one true church we ask von to consider her claims. The Catholic church is the Church of Christ the church of the first Penticost, the mother of all Christians. "These lectures "will not be an attack unon the doctrines of others, but an explanation of our own. No word will be spoken to offend any one. Come and hear what we have to say. Sincerely I yours in Christ, "GILBERT P. JENNINGS. "Pastor." THE POOR IN RICH CHURCHES An eastern bishop, in speaking of a famous center of refinement and fashion, fash-ion, within the limits of his own dio-Cpse. dio-Cpse. recently made the statement, in mv hearing, that the average Catholic millionaire of that particular place gave about as much to the support of religion as the average servant girl. This simple statement was the sever- est possible indictment of the fashionable, fashion-able, frivolous, pleasure-loving class to whom he had reference. Let it not be forsrot ttn, however', that our wealthy Catholic people, as a rule, have very littfe to, do with what is known as the real smart set. Fortunately they are men and women of simpler tastes and have nc desire to engage in the empty struggle for social honors, which occupies oc-cupies the attention of the. idle rich. Neither was tlfe good bishop's statement state-ment so startling as it appears at the first glance. In reality he wa- not Imparting any new or unexpected information, for the pastors of many of the so-called wealthy weal-thy congregations have learned as the result of a chastening experience that the noble are not always the generous. Th?y have found, too, that the last wonie upon whom they can depend, in a financial emergency, are the reputed leaders of high society. What is known as "a wealthy parish" is frequently only another name for a shabby-gen-tceel Institution, which depends chiefly chief-ly for its support upon the maids and men of all -work and the poor people who live within its boundaries. It is an old saying among priests that a parish without a goodly sprinkling of the cemmon people is the poorest kind of a parish. In the long run it is the common neonle who do things in religion re-ligion as "in all . things else: but let it not be forgotten, again, that some oi the best specimens of the common pi oole are tho -e who have - acquired weaith honorably and honestly, who live simple lives and do their share, and sometimes more than their share, towards the bearing of the church's burdens. The Counterfeit Variety. Tt. is not these, however, but the cheap imitators of the real smart set, who have been chiefly instrumental in bringing wealthy parishes into disrepute. disre-pute. The sham aristocrats, who are everywhere living beyond their means and devoting all their efforts towards keeping up the outward appearance of real wealth these are the people of whom it can be said: "Blessed are those who expect little, for they shall not be disappointed. " With them, as with their prototypes, everything is subservient to t"he desire to cut a figure fig-ure in that inner circle of select mortals mor-tals whose doings are chronicled in the society columns of the daily papers. In their eyes even the church itself is valuable val-uable only insomuch as it helps in furthering fur-thering their social ambitions. As a class they are notoriously poor pays, along all lines. They live on their fashionable fash-ionable avenues, pay high rents, and j the true secrets of their being able to do all this, on a meagre annual income, in-come, lies simply in their ability to evade their just debts. They go to ehureh'largely because church-going is in good taste, in fashionable circles, but tha family pew merely serves to remind the pastor that the world is full of disappointments and that even in i elision it can frequently be truly said that all is not gold that glitters. A Baltimore pastor was telling me recently of an aggravated case of this kind. The family, to whom he had reference, ref-erence, belong to his parish, but as far as financial returns were concerned, con-cerned, they might as well have lived, in Hong Kong. They occupied a three- i story rented house, kept a couple of maids, held receptions and functions, to which the gentry of the city were invited, but their credit was exceedingly exceed-ingly bad and the maids had to go to their own lowly humes from time to time to get what in commonly known as "a square meal." Their charming manners made up, in a measure for their financial shortcomings, but the pastor pitied them from the depths of his sou! and deplored the pathetic, bur foolish, vanity which reduced them to such desperate straits in order to keep up the outward anpearpnee of real wealth. There is, unfortunately, altogether too much of this in the larger "cities. Woman's desire to be in what is known as "society" is largely to blame for such conditions. People of limited means live in a state of chronic financial finan-cial stringency, happy in the thought that they are aping the ways and manners of the real rich. Catholic Citizen. One Source of Their Weakness. Asked to explain the weakness of French Catholics, Abbe Kiein Is reported re-ported to have said: "Just as the radicals have not been able to make any distinction between the abuses of a certain clericalism and the necessary practice of religion, and have tried to destroy even the idea of the Deity, so the conservatives have not been able ti separate in their minds the republican form of government, which is in itself good, from the evil deeds and laws for which the party that governed the republic was responsible. respon-sible. Since the conservatives made up the majority of the friends of the Church, she naturally shared in their defeat without being in the slightest measure the author of their mistaken ideas. The Church never commanded them to fight against the republic. The Church has no doctrine which upholds or condemns any form of eovernment. "The only doctrine that is a moral teaching on this- subject, is that each person should respect the constitution of Ids country, and the only time the Church, as sucbbas intervened in the political affairs of France was when its official head, Pope Leo XII, reminded the Catholics of France who were not intelligent enough citixens, and advised ad-vised them in a solemn letter to accept ac-cept the republic. Many Catholics of France were not intelligent enough to obey him: this was not his fault. They only furnished another proof that political po-litical acuteness is a different quality from religfous fervor. The two things are compatible, they are also separate. I congratulate the Catholics of America Amer-ica at having been able hitherto to unite them, and especially to understand, under-stand, as did the other denominations, in this country, that the greatest misfortune mis-fortune for the peace of a nation and for its moral prosperity is to bind together to-gether politics and religion." A Passing Type of Fiction. If the supply of ultra-Protestant fiction fic-tion has fallen off in recent years, it is doubtless because the demand and encouragement en-couragement are not so great as formerly. for-merly. The time has happily gone by for this sort of literature. It no longer finds favor with the general public, and even the secular press is now disposed dis-posed to denounce it. Of a recently published tale with a prevalent anti-Catholic anti-Catholic flavor, the publisher's circular says "As an attack on the Roman Church, it is full of bad manners, ill temper ana uncharltableness. The only possible effect we can conceive it will have upon intelligent readers is to prejudice them against the particular form of religion it wishes to glorify." And the London Tribune,in concluding a scornful notice of another such production, pro-duction, remarks: "For the sinful soul, this book may be recommended as a salutary penance." Ave Maria. Of Ecclestistical Origin. ' It is interesting to learn that the group of type names, such as pica, brevier, etc., had an ecclesiastical origin. They were derived from the first books in the composition of which they were employed, all ecclesiastical books. . Thus, brevier reminds us of its first use in the printing of the breviary. The printer goes back to the Primarius, or the book of prayers, to the Blessed Virgin; canon, used in printing the Church canons. .Pica, in a less plain path leads back to the Ordinale, or book prescribing the order or-der of the offices of Hie Church and the succession of feasts. The original black letter of this size, set solid and with narrow width of type body, gave to the page aljpeculiarly speckled appearance, ap-pearance, which suggested the mottled plumage of the pie or pica. Bishop Scanlan Quoted. In an interview with a Salt Lake Tribune reporter, Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan expressed his hearty approval of the president's- action in taking the motto, "In God We Trust," from the new coins. "I entirely approve of Roosevetl's action," said Bishop Scanlan. Scan-lan. "It is sacrilegious to use that motto, mot-to, for it opens the name of God to much ridicule and derision. I think it was a wise and judicious action on his part, and one that should be appreciated appreci-ated by the God-loving American people." peo-ple." Catholic Citizen. Many people read about safe deposit vaults, but do not know exactly what they are. 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