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Show 1 " " " - t MARY. " I ;? (Catholic Universe.) ; I ih i honored name, beloved Tor human ! lira. , I Hut loved and honored first that One j was given ' ;i living proof to erring mortal eyes That our poor earth i near akin to i lh a ven. fwer-t word of dual meaning; one of. I trace 1 A !! born of our kind advocate above; ( ' .A; 1 "lie by memory linked to that 1 dt ar face f f That blessed my childhood with its mother-love. .A .1 taupht me first the simple prayer ;i -To thee. ' ": ! banished sons of Eve we send .v.v erics." - T!:"-"il the mist of years, those uords r.'. all to nio , - hildisJi face upturned to loving 1 ,s. " " ,. -I 't to some the name of Mary : .,. -pfrial meaning and no gracious powers; 1 iii.it dear word they seek for hidden H.arcs. .-' wasjs find poison in the sweetest i tb'W.T. 1 I V-n faithful hearts can see, o'er doubts .iii'l ''cars, Tli.' Virgin link that binds the Lord :o earth; Which to the upturned trusting face ;i Pilars A more than angel, though of human : ii tll. i i;. sv ert-faced moon reflect? on li'filess night 11k. rays of hidden sun to rise tomorrow; tomor-row; : N" unseen God still lets His promised ; : cist. Through .Holy Mary, shine upon our sorrow: CATHOLIC SINGERS IN PROTESTANT PROTEST-ANT CHURCHES. Many of t be newspapers have. been! hi' 'ting at' an' exodus of Catholic singers sing-ers to Protestant churches. The law prohibiting a.Catholie from Mining in a Protestant church is not a huv established by the church, but a i-.iw of (jod contained in the first com-ndment com-ndment : "I am the Lord thy God, . .hiii) shalt not have strange gods before The Catholic child is taught that i"!ii-isi established but one church, to hi'h all riiust conform in order to be :aved. and consequently the child is taught and believes that all other forms of worship established by man are false and erroneous, and that no I'atholk- can be present or take part in any of hese religious exercises. The mere presence of the singer at such a .-erviee is a violation of the first eom- niandnient. She deliberately attends a v-orship which her conscience tells her is false. The non-Catholic, while- he is hound by the commandments of God. .iu st as much as the Catholic, does riot f' aet against his conscience, for in the t lrnjnrity of eases he honestly believes one religion ip as good as another, and that Christ left to man the selection of tiie method and manner of worshipping f him. In attending the different churches be nets according to his conscience. The Catholic acts against bus conscience in attending another form of religion, and sins by so doing, eve.t if it were not a ' 'luestion. as it is. of violation of the frst commandment of God. Moreover, all Catholics know that such persons , eannot receive absolution while engaged in this practice any more than they could while habitually violating any of the other commandment?. The Guidon. GREGORIAN CONGRESS CALLED. To Carry Out the Pope's Mandate Re- garding Church Music. Washington. May 13. A eominuniea-tinii eominuniea-tinii from Dr. Kmil Wagner, professor ' ,:i The University of Frieburg. Switzer land, announces to the American church authorities that a Gregorian congress has been called to meet under the patronage pat-ronage of Pope Pius X. in Strasburg, Germany, from Aug. 16 to IS. The con-jm'-ss is called for the purpose of carry - 'ag out the reform movement in chureh music contained in the new pope's ' "Motu Proprio." The American church is allowed by; the promoters of the congress to send i j-s many delegates at large as they may I ish. Invitations will be sent to all wominent musical directors, editors of j 1 "atholie organs and priests, who take I : .n. unusual, interest in . the choirs, : among them Professor Lingerberger of ', St. Francis. Wisconsin; Professor Ot ten '' Pittsburg. Professor Uothier of New f York City and the Reverends Henry ' I 'I'fi'pen of Covington. Ky.; Raphael J ! ;ihr of J,ns Angeles. Cal.: Charles ;. - I'.e. ker of St. Francis. Wis., and Fa- h. ;s Voting and Bowin of New York I a ' i P.uffalo, respectively. Prifessor Wagner, who is directing ; th.- i ongress. is well known here as a !i'or to the Catholic university with in-other, the Rev. Nic holas Wagner, -,u,r of Holy Trinity church, Brook- Monsignor VaUghan. Moi signor Jc in Vaughan of London h f ia retired from public life into the - hi.-im of the Carthusian order, says "j London correspondent of the Daily r '';-; ateh. - He has run his brother, Fa- j r Heniard Vaughan, pretty olosely ;o,uiarily a- a preacher alike in ' - r . i. , u. in t: rlh of England, in :w. and 1 Riviera. The an- J .: and m-i ', ' ''. . ..ly, which in one '4 F- .'tation gj v jv of its sons to the 1 r.i.reh as pri nf and four daughters 1 - - : uns. and 1'X- itrred the first arch- i t.' -hop of Sidney, the third archbishop 1 ' Westminster. th' saintly Clare, the f 'atigable Jesuit Father Bernard. !'a;!,er KeiKlm ar.d Father Jerome j ' 'ajchan, who has created at Fort Au- :v-tuj in the hi-rhlnnds of Scotland. Ij J createst school of Plain Chant, in h- lit it ish Isles. The family has been I - diverse in characteristics as it has elosely linked in affection. Ion- I .-:.'-!or John, the student theologian and I thoughtful, impressive preacher, the I 'itual director of many of the most I ' '! and devout Catholics, is the com- I - t' ' tit of the strenuous cardinal and I h- brilliant Jesuit. On entering the test contemplative order in the j; oh. Monsifjnor Vaughan renounces j ' - Uornan honors and his canon ry at '.tn.inster. as well as all connection 'It the external world. Even if he I " M-e u w rite more books they would : -ohably issue without his name, as the v rk of a simple Carthusian priest. SACRIFICE. I "Miss Florence Clemmone. sister of j '-v. Howard Gould, once a gay and ' '.Uiant beauty of New York society. ' v jVPS j,, obscurity in the heart of i '-.;i Francisco's Chinatown, a teacher ! a little Chinese mission school. Hei vocation is of her choosing and vV is content with it. although it has i' rated her from all her old asso-h.iions asso-h.iions and caused her family and all h. r wealthy and influential friends to ' otini-e her. "iiily six years ago Miss Clem-"ons Clem-"ons gave up the gay life of New V.,rk society, left ease and luxury behind be-hind her. became a convert of the ''atholie Church and vowed to devote 'he rPf:t Qf npr jjfe to the conversion of the Chinese. Today she lives in a shabby shanty, surrounded by rookeries, in the bitter-''st bitter-''st poverty, and supported only ' by I ffh scant charity as finds her out f '' '") and then. ' ' "For six years she has toiled among he Chinese children, seldom going out-iie out-iie tht limits of Chinatown, and her ' 1 aHv'r6 ha? been rfcWarded by the lov- OrientS,l?UrWqUe ,itUe baUd f Ut-kiSeate Ut-kiSeate t0 he, see!1 c!igi"e to her Ke" sLiY8 i them from picture onf;, 3if sis &odmoUier to a number fyj i tle4C,!iese thildien and is idolized idol-ized by the Chinese mothers ,.'S.he 18 ,nteisely -religious and is at woik on the translation of a book of fcunday school stories, which she hopes to produce in the Chinese language, for pamphlet circulation among San Francisco's Fran-cisco's 30,000 Chinese; . "Through the six years of her voluntary vol-untary exile she has toiled laboriously and patiently in her little school bv aay and diligently studied by night, that she might conquer the Chinese language. ,vhieh she now speaks and writes with fair ease." The August in- j WHEN IN CHURCH It ls the Correct Thing Always to be in time ' for Mass and other services in church. To take holy water upon entering the church. To make th- sign of the cross on the person and not in the air. To genuflect on the right knee and to have it touch the floor. To remember that the King of Kings is present on the altar and to order one's conduct accordingly. I To avoid whispering, laughing and I looking about in church. To walk. gently up the aisle if one is unavoidably detained until after the services have begun. To make a short act of adoration on bended knees after entering the pew. To be devout and recollected at the different parts of the Mass. To remember that mere bodilv presence pres-ence in the church with the mind wandering wan-dering to temporal concerns, does not fulfill the precept of hearing Mass. To pay attention to the sermon, and I make it the subject of one's thoughts j during the day, as also during the I week. - ; To remember when special collections are to be taken up. and to have a contribution con-tribution ready in your hand. To give the usual offering every Sunday. ; To teach children to make a little offering every Sunday. To listen to the music as a means of elevating the heart to God. For all persons occupying a pew to move in when others wish to enter. To avoid coughing, moving the feet around, or making any noise to the annoyance of clergy and people. To leave babies at home or with a neighbor when going to church.. For a mother who has a child with her at church to get up and take it out when it begins to cry or fret.' To be punctillious in following the i-n rmuMiais oi me cnurcn, standing, kneeling, etc.. at the proper times. For non-Catholic who go to Catholic Catho-lic churches to conform to the services and to remember that this is a requirement require-ment of good breeding. For members of the choir to sing for the glory of God and not for their own. To take an earnest Protestant to hear a good sermon. To remain kneeling until the last prayer? have been said and the priest has retired to the sacristy. The Correct Thing for Catholics. MEMORIAL DAY. (The Atlantic Monthlv.) BY' M'LANDBURGH WILSON. From out our crowded calendar One day . we pluck to give: " It is the dav the Dvlnir mnw To honor those who live. i ' - . . SINS OF THE TONGUE. Some person s-eem to think that they do no wrong when they circulate false reports, tell injurious truths unnecessarily, unneces-sarily, and turn friends into enemies by backbiting or slanderous stories. . They go along as if they were not to blame. A few of them . .unconscious apparently appar-ently of their sins of the tongue, go to Holy Communion frequently, while the ruin they have caused continues to spread, and their piety, in the midst, of their destructive tale-bearing, causes additional scandal. They have need to look in the catechism for the answer to. this question: What is he bound to do who has injured in-jured his neighbor by speaking ill of him? Catholic Columbian. MODEL CATHOLIC LAYMAN. I Not the least of the great men of the i sixteenth century who have affected deeply the hiftory of the world is blessed Thomas . More. Sir Thomas More, cham'elor of England.' .pronounced- by the church "as excellent in sacied learning and courageous in the defense of truth." and placed among those "who in ancient and more recent times of persecution have been put to death in' 'England for Christ and foe professing the truth of the Catholic faith." - The life of such a man affords food for thought in an assembly of Catholic ) j laymen Jjecaiise he is declared "blessed" by tie church and because he J is pre-eminently a model Catholic lay-! lay-! man. Sir Thomas More was born in London in 14S0.' . ' He was educated at Oxford and afterward followed the profession of law. 'He entered parliament in Henry Hen-ry VI I s reign. Henry VIII in 1518 invited in-vited him to enter the service of the state. He. remained in the service of the king eighteen years. In that peri! he was speaker of the house of commons com-mons and x-hancellor of England.. After the divorce of Henry VI II became be-came a burning question in England. Sir Thoifia More resigm.ed his chancellorship chancel-lorship and went into private life. Henry Hen-ry VIII. having ailed to obtain papal sanction-for his .separation' from Kath-erine Kath-erine of Aragoh.- finally, in defiance of all right and justice, put her aside and made Ann "Boleyn his queen and reputed re-puted wife.. The refusal of More to take the oath that was required of the king's subjects by the act of supremacy caused his arrest, imprisonment, trial and execution on July 6. 1535. The charcateristie virtue of his life was loyalty to truth and principle. No spectacle more hisriiring than this hero and saint almost alone, abandoned by friends, surrounded by enemies, threatened, threat-ened, deceived by promises, foul and fair ai"i-Jiis loving heart, stirred to its depths by' the tears and entreaties of an affectionate wife and . ah . idolized daughter..: ' It is easy to cling to truth: when all around are" a justive ving people. But when iniquity sits in high places, when leaders of Israel disgracefully and cowardly betray their. high trust, when losp of earthly goods.- imprisonment and death threaten jis. then is the day that tries men's souls, and only the truly noble come forth . conquerors. How heroically and grandly does Sir Thomas Moore stand forth, the model Catholic layman, devout, religious, thoroughly Catholic in belief anC practice, prac-tice, loyal to his country, his church and his God and giving up. cheerfully ' and willingly his life for the principles of right and justice. . . . , Fortunate indeed for us if the one great lesson of his life his loyalty to principle sink deeply into our hearts. In these modern days there is need of men who love truth and righteousness and who are not deceived by specious arguments that would make right wrong and wrong right, but ose guiding light is always the white light of truth and honor. Often live inspirit with the noble dead. Dwell upon their hemic lives. We become like our ideals. Unconsciously Unconsci-ously they mold and fashion; our char- Ever remembuv-tbat.lhc-only-truly.J courageous man is the one who believes be-lieves in God and the accountability to the creature of his Creator and ever follows in the steps of the' Divine Exemplar. Ex-emplar. Who is the Way, the Truth and the Light. Rev. Philip R. Mc-Devitt, Mc-Devitt, Catholic Young Men's Union, Philadelphia.- VERSES. Like swift wing'd birds that piercing pierc-ing through the blue Up soaring in their heaven searching search-ing flight " And seeking as their goal the glorious sun. So my Beloved! ere morn has yet begun To realize the dreams of wifctful night My thoughts swift wing'd by love go seeking vou. . GRACE PARKER LYON. CATHOLIC VS. PROTESTANT (MORALS. The following communication, pub-, lished by the London Catholic Times, contains statistics and deductions that will prove of value in controversies concerning the comparative morality of Catholic and Protestant communities: communi-ties: The London Times (Sept. 3, 1003.) stated that "the population of Saxony is overwhelmingly Protestant. The i Catholics only amount to 4.7 per cent., i i though thev have creatlv increased in recent years, having nearly trebled since 1SS0. The number of Jews is very small. As is everywhere the case in Germany, illegitimate births and suicides sui-cides are more numerous than in the (.'atholie districts." As your correspondent, corre-spondent, Mr. J. R. Sugars, has shown, " 'Protestant Prussia' is a long way from being one of the most moral countries coun-tries in Europe. Catholic Ireland easily leading." It may be interesting to note that Ireland is not all Catholic, and that Sir John Forbes, one of her late majesty's physicians, in his memorandums memoran-dums made in Ireland in the autumn of 1S52. gives the result of a return on the subject of illegitimates which he obtained from the Poor Law; Commissioners Commis-sioners in each of the four provinces of li eland. He found that "the proportion propor-tion of illegitimate children coincided almost exactly with the relative proportions pro-portions of the two religions in each-province, each-province, being large where the Protestant-element is large and small I where it is small." The proportion of marriages in Ireland to the population at that time was about one-half the number in many other European countries, coun-tries, and.: though improving, is still low. A low rate of marriage ought naturally to result in increased illegitimacy. illegit-imacy. But. as Mr. Sugars has pointed out. Ireland has the lowest rate .of this evidence of immorality of all countries in Europe. These facts may be recommended, though probably without the least effect, ef-fect, to those slanderous defamers of the Catholic Church who are forever asserting that the confessional is a source of immorality, and that "wherever Romanism flourishes prosperity pros-perity and morality are evanescent, and the blessings received by the em- I oracing or Protestantism are more than can be numbered." Looked at in the light Of cold criticism. Protestantism Protest-antism has contributed tw"o leading ideas to the world the idea of private interpretation, which has made chaos of the people's faith, and the idea of divorce, which has made chaos of the people's morality. Today divorce threatens the destruction of home life in England, and those who read the newspapers know that the ever-increasr ing number of divorce suits ties primarily pri-marily in the sad condition of. English society. Yet 1 one of the enlightened Protestant journals in Ireland is forever for-ever lamenting that the Catholic Church is a greater hindrance to the Gospel than idolatry in heathen naj tions: that it "degrades the intellect, and that "it penetrates into all domestic do-mestic life and poisons it." A TALK TO THE GIRLS. ' -"'' : x New- Worlll . ) ' ' - '.. t , On reading one of the evening papr ers the other day I noticed a letter from a girl a young girl presumablyr-consulting presumablyr-consulting the editor of the' woman'- department, on how best "to catch -the man she fancied." giving some" rather humiliating examples of previous failures fail-ures to attract him. Now, girls are girls the world over and they wouldn't be near so nice if they tried nS.be anything any-thing else so I suppop? they cannot be blamed for always thinking of love and marriage. But when I seea let- ' ter like the one alluded toltit makes I me blush, and I ask myself,, 'jio'w can i a girl make such -a fool of 'herself ?" Putting one side the deplorable, lack of refinemert and all womanly feeling shown by the girl who deliberately goes a-hunting for a husband, the. fact of doing so shows an absolute -ignorance I of masculine human nature. Men are by instinct hunting creatures. The i fruit just out of reach is ever the par- 1 f ticular peach or cherry for which their soul longs. The girl who to us- the I common phrase "makes-hersejf cheap" I is just the girl, they don't want. Once I let them suspect they are being "run after." and good-bye to the chance of I the silly runner reaching her, goal! I I am. of course, talking of mj?n worth j marrying.. The weakly, conceited, ; brainless creature, who coul(t be flat- tered into matrimony by a gii's open I wooing, is not precisely the..nian cal- culated to make a desirable'husband! j TWO VISITS A CONTRAST. ! The poet Horace tells us that there ! is a mean In all things. Somewhere, j too. perhaps, the pagan sat'trist may j have said that there are manners for ! all things. And if he has Juot done I so. then let an. untutored philosopher I tell you that there really arc. As' there are manners for tli dinner I table, or the drawing room.;. so there are aiso manners for the h church, i While many of us scrupulously ob- j serve. the conventionalities oi. the so-j cial'.' salon." very many of usl alas: for- i : get the observances-due -to the house of. God. ?5,T6t, to. hurt the feelings of any particular wight, -let nie take the ' very . personal attitude. .Let-, me suppose sup-pose my neighbor Dives" invites ine to share the pleasures 'of his; hospitable Tr.ahogany I. aecept of . course; for ! Dives is worth his million ';. dollars at an inside valuation. I can see myself on receipt of .his invitation, asking me for the pleasure,- if you please, of my company on such . and such a date, smiling a smile of smug satisfaction and putting my card in the over-mantle over-mantle so -that my friends may know that Dives and myself are on terms of intimacy and friendliness. ; When the date conies round I proceed to clothe my personal exterior in fine raiment, parting my hair in the middle with geometrical precision, give the' curl that cunning twist which has a fascination fascin-ation all its own and proceed-to mine host's abode wearing that-social smile which, for that evening at least, won't ; come off, and which pays its uncon- I scious tribute to his banking account ! and consequent importance; J can see j myself, in fancy, a model of prim cir- I cumspection and selt-possess'ion s I ! sit at table with his dollarship. Hofr i respectfully I listen to his platitudes and how -eagerly I enjoy Ms jokes, which. were antique before I left school. In the prerence of Dives, Mrs. Dives and especially the Misses Dives.. I like to think of myself as a very, very polite young man indeed. - And when the time comes round to pay what the French so aptly call my visit of digestion, di-gestion, am I wanting? Not-1. 1 am much too worldly wise and manj times too polite to forego so important a social observance. So much, then, for Dives.' I There'is. however,, another name on I my visiting list and a 'very-important one. I am due to" visit once a t week at the very least. Mine Host is. however, the most hospitable of hosts and will gladly see me once a day or whenever I care to call. How do I proceed about this visit? --Let me see: It is Sundav About S o'clock I awak- ...... i en to the consciousness that I must go to Mass. To do myself common Justice Jus-tice I admit the obligation , and mean to go! There are. I reflect, several choices. There is a short Mass at 9:30, another at 10. and then a long one, with a sermon, at 11 o'clock. But since, I argue, the priest can tell me in his sermon nothing that I have not already heard a dozen times. I choose the 10 o'clock Mass. decidii-tf; that my visit shall be a short " one. How gladly w!ouId I give that long-winded plutocrat. pluto-crat. Dives, three, five, six hours a night, if he only, asked me. But here there is none of the enthusiasm I showed on my visit to Dives, but with a bored and detached air I amble into the presence of the Host of Hosts by no means as concernedly as I do into a theatre, mike my genuflection with infinitely, less respect than I dispiay when 1 raise' my hat to Miss Dives who. by the way. will one day have. $250,000 to her "dowry take my seat and resign myself to putting up with the ordeal for forty-five minutes. Of devotion which' Tn this case would balance, the respectful enthusiasm. I displayed at the house of Mr. Dives I show none, for the reason that I have omitted to bring my enthusiasm, with me to church. At the most solemn sol-emn moments of the sacrifice I am still in my detached mood: my body is indeed present, but my mind is far away, and so I hear the service out I and am the first to rush away. Now, I though I sneak of my own shortcom ings, there are, I know, 20,000 just as careless as J. Let us change places, as the poet says, and point the moral for you. After all. yV a young man. a Catholic, and to be sure, wish to be as manly as you can. t'an you not see the unmanliness of such church mannerstheir man-nerstheir ungenei'ousness and their un worthiness? In the presence of Dives, who. between you and myself, is a pompous mediocrity, and who. host though he be, will be sure to make you feel the slightest want of disrespect you may evince toward him you would not for worlds neglect to excite his esteem by a courtesy that borders almost on the obsequious. To his house you cany all the courtesy you are capable of. Not for all Wail street, perhaps, would you fail to give a willing ear. to his tritest phrase, though you know in your heart of hearts that his life is blameless of a thing or a saying really original. But in the church you will not pay your host the. simple courtesy of your" attention atten-tion for three-quarters "of an hour the truth being that courtesy, which is the outward and visible manifestation of the charity that is in the heart, is only a superficial, not a native, attribute in your nature, which you take on or cast off according(to your company. To be candid, your courtesy is but a lively sense of favors to come: you are that worst of all undesirables, a man of company manners: you are on a par w ith the man who bullies where he has no cause, to fear you are, in fine, a young man without real manliness. Go and see the hidalgos of Spain enter the nresence of their God and take a lesson l.'om. theni; men whose forbears were illustrious when the Crusaders were I fighting for the cross and when your progenitors and mine must have been very small beer indeed. In them you will see a submissive respect and humility hu-mility which not one of them would concede to all the majesties of temporal tem-poral power. Know then that if you wish to be a "full" man as Lord Bacon understood the.term i. e.. a polished man. you will observe in church those manners you think would be most acceptable ac-ceptable to your host manners born of the truest expression of . the heart. Freeman's Journal. |