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Show ! F j " ; j r - Church A the victory j 1 I which over- ' f : " 9 w cometh the - i universal. I laitu. j I - i : : t ! I THE QUIET HOUR. i Oil, for a iiiot hour with Thee. My in';irt to Thv Heart driven. ; Thy Mill d!iKhts pervading me. j ! Till earth swiiif changed to Heaven. Oh. for a sih ht hour of praver, ! ' Thyself iiliino to lw:ir mi. And not a thought ..1 worldly care J To cast its shadows near me. Sister M. A. Downing. "WEEKLY CHURCH CALENDAR. Nov. IT, Sunday Twenty-fifth after Pen- tecost. St. Grecrorv. Nov. !, Mntn lay Dedication "of the Ba-silicas Ba-silicas of SS. Peter and Paul. Nov. Tuesday St. KIi7.al.eth. i Nov. 0. Wednesday St. Felix de Valols. Nov. L'l, Thursday Presentation of the j Hies: "il Virgin Marv. Nov. ... Friday St. Cecelia. Nov. 3, Saturday St. Clement. IRELAND'S MISSION". I Irish Bishop of Elfin Defines it in a Recent Sermon. At Syracuse, X. V., recently, th-i learned bishop of Elfin made an address ad-dress covering conditions in Ireland and the destiny of the Irish people. I Speaking of the religious aspect, he I eid: God had ordained that Ireland should be a missionary country to infuse new f-piiitual life in the human race. The. episcopate and priesthood and conventual con-ventual life of America and Australia and all other English-speaking countries coun-tries are recruited from forces of Irish birth or of Irish blood. Nor is the missionary spirit of recent growth in Ireland. In the fifth, sixth and seventh sev-enth centuries missionaries from Ire- In nd were to be found in every part of Europe. St. Columbia established a monastery at Iona in the north of Scotland. St. Colman became the apos-: apos-: tie of the Picts in the north of Eng- , ; land. St. Frigidian and St. Fridolin ! passed down the Rhine, establishing ! convents and churches wherever they . ' ; vent. St. Gall founded a monastery i in Switzerland from which the town ( of St. Gall has taken its name, and ; Columbanus established a monastery in the heart of the Apenines, not far 1 i jiuin jumie useii. inus was Ireland I 5n the earlier stages remarkable for I j nor missionary zeal. Nor is the spirit 1 ; f the missionary wanting even in our Irish laymen in other countries. Ev-; Ev-; erywhere he has made himself a home . be is the center of Christianizing in- - , j ftuence to those around him. When the Irish came abroad to America thev constructed your canals and railways. They opened up the industries of the j country from the Atlantic to the far I ""'"st. They have labored , in building ; 1 UP the vast republic of America, and while doing this in the commercial and I industrial departments of your coun try, they have served to introduce the I haven of faith into the democratic and social life of your great republic. Only yesterday a distinguished priest at Uuffalo told me that if vou take away front American life the Irish element in it. there will not be much remaining of the Catholic Church to which we belong. This is true, also of Australia. Aus-tralia. South Africa and of East India. "We therefore take great pride as a people in this land, and we will remember re-member that: we ar( the custodians of the gift of divine faith and will utilize that for the benefit of those around us for the ''atholie Church in this land will Ind qmong Its ablest and most sympathetic supporters the children of I st- Patrick who have come here to I ; found fi home. HOSPICE OF ST. BERNARD. Telephones All Along Shelters in the " Climb of the Alps. f ; Modern inventions are invading ! places and knocking the romance out I r many institutions which have Jong j ' ' )(0n cherished for their association i v.;th the spirit of reverence and ad- venture. We are told by the Electrical "World that the telephone has been in- 1 stalled in the various shelters on the ' way to the famous Hospice of St. HernarJ in the Alps. Our contemporary says: John W. Gates of the United Slates steel corporation tel's ttnn. i about a friend of his who went into ; the- Alps last summer. "Ijy friend be- iai the ascent to the Hospice of St Jkrnard." said iir. Gates. "When iibout an hour's climb from the pass lie was stopped by a dense fog. He waited gleefully, expecting to be rescued res-cued by the dogs, and so he able to come back to us with a thrilling story. 1 he dogs did not come, however, arid" the fog partly lifted, so he resumed his climb, and finally arrived at the hospice, hos-pice, where he was welcomed warmly by the brothers. His first question was: 'Why did you not send the dogs out in so dangerous a fog?' He nearly dropped from his chair when one of the brothers said: 'You did not telephone tele-phone us.' 'Telephone you?' he ejaculated. ejac-ulated. 'Yes.' was the answer. 'You se,., shelters have been built all along til- climb, and each shelter has been provided with a telephone. If a fog conies up all one has to do is to go to the nearest shelter and telephone. We . t . immediately send a man and a dog to that shelter. The dog carries bread, cheese and wine. As we know at just what shelter the climber is, no time is lost in looking for him.'" Mr. Gates says his friend was so disgusted with having his romantic notions knocked in the head that he left Switzerland at once. CATHOLIC BELGIUM. Intensely Pious People and Host Prosperous Nation in Europe.. Belgium, where most of the religious orders- recently expelled from Fiance hrsve sought refuge, is probably the " most prosperous country in Europe. Its inhabitants are almost wholly Cath olics, and they are an intensely pious pfcple. It is therefore not surprising, although somewhat unusual, to hear of a family, nearly all of whose members have given their services to the church We are told that Dom Jean do Hemp-time, Hemp-time, a Henodictine monk of the abbey ab-bey of Maredsous. celebrated sonr days ago his first mass in the chapel of St. Joseph's orphanage at Malt-brugge. Malt-brugge. near Ghent, his youngest sister sis-ter making her first communion during thi? mass at the hands of her brother. Additional interest was lent to the edifying edi-fying function by the fact that the ! young priest was assisted at the altar by two of his nrotfcers, one a Benedictine Bene-dictine novice from the same monastery, monas-tery, the other a member of the order of Friars Minor. A third brother, who s i a novice among the Trappists at Gorges, w as unable to be present . on i the occasion. Monsignor Hildebrand de ; Hcmptinne. abbot primate of the Bene- I ! dictines. and uncle of the newly-or- 1 ! i dt.ir.ed priest, presided at the touching j ceremony. Among the friends who at- I i ' ter.ded the fete on the invitation of 1 Count Paul de Hemptinne. father of I ' , rom Jean, were Reilly, his former I . O'-mpanion-in-arms in the Pontifical 1 ! Zouaves, who fought side bv side with f i !" t. Mentana and Monte-Rotundo I I Arother member of this excellent fam- I is abbess of the Benedictine nuns of I 111 the monastery of Meredrat, in the diocese of Namur. An Illustration. St. Augustine tells a story or Genna-dius, Genna-dius, a physician of Carthage, who , ..,u.va i.ui uciinc in me immoriaiiiy of the soul. One night he had a j dream in which he saw a beautiful young man clothed in white standing before him who said: "Dost thou see me?" He answered: "Yes; I see you." The young man rejoined: "Dost thou see me with thine eyes?" "No," answered an-swered Gennadius, "for they are closed in sleep." "With what, then, dost thou I see me?" "I know not." The young man continued: "Dost thou hear me?" "Yes." "With thine ears??" "No. for these, too, are wrapped in sleep." "With what, then, dost thou hear me?" "I know not." "Are you speaking to me?" was the next question. ques-tion. "Yes." "With thy mouth?" "No." "With what, then?" "I know-not." know-not." Then the young man said: "See now, thou sleepest and yet thou seest, hearest and speakest. The hour will come when thou wilt sleeep in death and yet thou wilt see and hear and speak and feel." Gennadius awoke and knew that God had sent an angel . to teach him the immortality of the soul. Daily Offering. . Our Lord said to St. Gertrude on one occasion: "If you believe that I offered of-fered myself to God the Father on the Cross, believe also that I now desire with the same love to be daily offered to God. the Father for each .inner in paiticular; so that however heavy be the load of sins beneath which a man feels himself oppressed, he may take comfort in the. hope of pardon if he offer .to God the Father my most spotless spot-less passion and death, and may be assured as-sured that he will reap abundant fruit of mercy and indulgence." Xyrle Bellew. We learn from the Colombo, British India. Catholic Messenger, by wav of the Bombay Catholic Examiner, that Mr. Kyrle Bellew; the well known actor, ac-tor, has become a Catholic. His conversion con-version is reported to have taken place ... iiusuona. 1)lr, j-senew s re putation in this country hitherto, in consequence perhaps of the notoriety of J certain of his stage associates, has not been of the very best. Lourdes' American Shrine. , Bishop McDonnell of Broklyn, has re-r re-r turned home from Lourdes, France. , where he officiated at a service that . was of great pleasure to him the con-. con-. secration of an altar in the name of the American clergy, at the famous shrine. In the consecration ceremony the bishop bish-op was assisted by his secretary. Mgr. Barrett, and several American students studying in Rome. After consecrating the altar the bishop celebrated the first mass. The erection of the altar completes com-pletes the fifteen shrines in the upper church at Lourdes that represent the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. The American altar was dedicated to the mystery of the coronation of the Blessed Bless-ed Virgin, which Is the fifteenth mys-terv. mys-terv. This has been a cherished work of the bishop and the privilege of seeing see-ing it accomplished has proved a great i pleasure and happiness to him. The United States was one of the few countries coun-tries -not represented by an altar or shrine at Lourdes and this apparent neglect by the American Catholics had for many years been a source of great regret to those visiting the grotto. Bishop McDonnell was one of the first to agitate a movement for the collection collec-tion of funds for the erection of the American altar, and it was principally principal-ly through his endeavors that sufficient money was raised for the cost of erect-i erect-i ing the altar, all of which was contributed con-tributed by the bishops and priests of the United States. It was solely to perform the ceremony of consecration of the new altar that Bishop McDonnell sailed for Europe on the Kaiser Wil-helm Wil-helm der Grosse on Sept. 24. The bishop was abroad only five weeks. "Robert of Sicily" Dramatized. Baltimore Correspondence Freeman's Journal: The Dramatic association of Loyola college, this city is rehearsing 1 a play for public production on Dec 36 that is invested with ouite a mmanJ i : , tic history. It is entitled ."King Robert Rob-ert of Sicily," and seems to be an adaptation of Longfellow's poem of the same name. The manuscript of the play was found in one of the Jesuit colleges of the north several years ago, covered with dust and yellowed by age! On some of the pages the writing is almost undecipherable and obliterated. There was nothing about the manuscript manu-script by which its authorship could be traced or its origin identified. None of those connected w ith the institution where it was discovered could supply any information regarding it. and it is supposed the author died soon after the completion of his work, and perhaps per-haps did not consider it of sufficient merit or importance to attach his name to it. Rare dramatic power was discovered in the construction of the play, and it was submitted to a leading American stage manager, who gave it much praise, reduced it to acting form and supplied the stage business by 'direction 'direc-tion of the Jesuit fathers. This will not be the first presentation of the play. It has been performed very successfully suc-cessfully at several Jesuit institutions, but has never been witnessed in this city, or at any place south of it. It will have an extraordinarily strong cast at Loyola. The scenery is being painted by one of the ablest artists in the country, and the accessories and properties will be in every way accurate. accu-rate. Owing to the singular mvsttry surrounding its authorship and its general excellence as a dramatic com- " position, considerable local interest is being exhibited in the forthcoming performance. Help Save the Indian Children! A "Society for the Preservation of the aith Among Indian Children." ap-j ap-j proved and recommended by His Era-: Era-: ir.er.ee James Cardinal Gibbons, the . Most Rev. M. A. Corrigan, D. D., and . the Most Rev. J. P. Ryan, D. D., has t'fer established for the support of the Catholic Indian Mission schools. The conditions of membership in the sociei are two: First An annual subscription of 23 certs. Second To pray for the success of the society. This society w ill endeavor to secure a membership of 400,000 as soon as possible, possi-ble, which should not be a difficult task, since there are in the United States more than 10.000,000 of Catholics To insure success promoters are needed in every parish. We urge our readers to assist In this most necessarv and meritorious work, and to apply for information in-formation and blank ; certificates of membership, to Rev. William H wMm; 9P Ptreet northwest," ashington, D. C. Marvels at "Lourdes. 'A"na,s ot Our Lady of Lour-QU?tes Lour-QU?tes Dr- Brunelle of Laval aVraiT 38 W0 " 1 am nt afraid to say that I have seen facts that cannot be explained except bv panting supernatural intervention I have verified miracles scientificallv, and i dare to challenge any physician io ! V the world to give me a natural explanation expla-nation of those cures," and then justly remarks: "And yet in the face of statements like this, a few materialists, delving for knowledge where knowledge i3 not, stop shaking their dusty retorts long enough to say: 'The age o." miracles mir-acles is past,' and for them it will be past till they come to realize that He who made matter is Just a little bit superior to His creation. When they can explain scientifically how a leg can instantly increase its length two j inc hes; how an osseous tumor of three i years' standing can be instantly healed i and covered with new skin, or how-acute, how-acute, pulmonary tuberculosis and natal na-tal blindness can be cured by a simple bat!., then we will feel that they have some right to talk as they do." First Mass Since "Reformation." Broughty Ferry is away up in the north of Scotland, and on Sunday last the seeds of her rehabitation were sown; she had the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated there for the first time since the so-called Reformation. The celebration took place in the Good Templars" hall, the celebrant being the Very Rev. Father Russell, C. SS. R., being in the sanctuary. In the course of a short sermon. Father Russell Rus-sell called the attention of his small congregation to this fact, and told them that when in the future the history his-tory of Broughty Ferry came to be written that daj-'s service would rank as one of the first event. Certainly be-' be-' fore God and the angels of heaven hat day's oblation was of the utmost importance. im-portance. London Universe, Oct. 12. Browning Ruling Abrogated. Washington, D. C The secretary of the interior formally abrogated what is known as the Browning ruling, which, in effect, holds that it is the duty of the service to fill the regular government govern-ment schools before permitting drafts on the Indian children for sectarian school enrollment. As received by the Catholic mission board, the order says that "by direction of the secretary o the interior the Browning ruling Js hereby abogated." RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Rev. George Houck, diocesan chancellor, chan-cellor, is at present engaged in writing writ-ing a history of the Cleveland diocese. The work will be a voluminous one containing over 800 pages and will give the history of all the churches in northern Ohio up to Dec. 31, 1900. It will be published by the first of January. Jan-uary. This is not Father Houck's initial step as a historian, as some years ago he published a history of the church in northern Ohio. v Archbishop Elder has written to the German pastors of the Cincinnati diocese, urging them to preach sermons viia,,m, in uie ii,ngnsn language, for the benefit of the younger people whe have been petitioning for this privilege. An orator in Hyde Park, London, was arrested for creating a disturbance disturb-ance in declaring that "a Roman Catholic Cath-olic priest suggested the assassination of President McKinley." At the police ccurt he- offered to prove his assertion from the Book of Kings, but the magistrate, mag-istrate, declining to listen, bound him over to keep the peace. The sinews of goodness are courage, moral and physical, a fact which places all really good men and women beyond be-yond the reach of ridicule, and above the high-water mark of contempt. The Rev. J. Eeguin. O. M. I., who has been laboring for forty years at Fort Good Hope, near the Arctic Circle, Cir-cle, in the vicariate apostolic of. Ath-abaska-Mackenzie, has gone to France to be operated upon for cataract. He has, however, requested that if the operation op-eration fails and he becomes wholly blind, he shall be permitted to return to his Indian flock and die among them. At their recent mission in Milwaukee the Paulist Fathers made seventy-four converts. In an address byVierre Choteau before be-fore the first quarterly meeting of the Alumni association of St. Louis university, uni-versity, at St. Louis recently, he suggested sug-gested the propriety of erecting on the World's Fair grounds a monument commemorative of the achievements of the early Jesuits in exploring, reclaiming, reclaim-ing, and. to a great extent, civilizing the inhabitants of the Louisiana Purchase. Pur-chase. The suggestion was applauded warmly, and the association pledged itself it-self to devote its strength to the ac-. complishment of the work. This little statement of facts indl- ' cates how admirably the principle of 1 liberty of speech is being applied in ' Italv nnrter tho fpirtmn . I, the Catholic congress held recently at Taranto. the bishops of Taranto, Rovo and Leghorn delivered addresses on account of which they have been suspended sus-pended by the enlightened and liberal Italian government. This is reform in ( a flood, to borrow one of Justin Mc- j Carthy's ironical phrases. j Spain, in her legislation, is now reproducing re-producing the most objectionable fea- tures of the French law of associations. A recent decree orders all religious associations as-sociations in Spain to apply for authorization author-ization within six months. Foreign members of religious orders must inscribe in-scribe their names at their respective consulates. This drastic proposal has caused more than a ripple of excite- ! ment in ecclesiastical circles. It is expected, ex-pected, however, that there will be a gradual subsidence of feeling against the orders. Knights of Columbus throughout the country will be gratified to learn that the society in Wisconsin will soon be elevated to the dignity of a state organization. or-ganization. The constitution of the order provides that whenever four ccuncils with a membership of 500 reside in a state, a state organization wih be effected. Wisconsin now ha- i six councils of the Knights of Colum-bus. Colum-bus. each in a flourishing condition, and with an aggregate membership in excess ex-cess of 600. j- The Ancient Order of Hibernians is developing throughout the entire country. coun-try. Evidences of progress are seen on all sides. One item that will have un-, un-, usual interest is the announcement that at a recent joint initiation in Bos-tor. Bos-tor. 200 candidates were admitted to the order, and 2,000 members were present. The expansion of the order in Massachusetts may be gathered frorr the fact that there are 26,000 members in the Old Bay state, that interest in Gaelic studies is widely spread, and that the order shows constant and un'-form un'-form growth. Banker William H. Leinkauf, a Jew who died at Mobile. Ala., recently left S..00 to the Catholic orphan asylum. $500 ;? Protestant orphan asylum, and $1,000 each to the Jewish Widows' and Orphans' home, Mobile, and Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, the latter in j charge of the Little Sisters of the 1 j Fccr. j Now they are gambling on the Pope's ' ! life. A dispatch from Paris says that the local office of an American insurance insur-ance company has just issued a policv of 50,000 on his life . The company required a certificate from the Pontiff physicians before undertaking the insurance, in-surance, and w as only willing to insure him for a month. |