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Show j : : ' f : . ICHUKCH CALENDAR. Jan. :i. Saturday St. Agnes. Jan. "-. Sunday Third after Epinh-m Epinh-m p H"ly family and Anastasiue. :1 -'!. Mrnday Espousals B. V M f.;;i!!. :'4. Tuesday St. Timothy. J.:.. Wednesday Conversion of l,T;:-. Thursday SI. Polyrarp. Jul'. :T, Friday St. Chrysostom. 1 j.-.n. - Saturday St. Julian. Wall Street and the Church,, ( 'atlioliu Union.) s f w.hinKton. .Tan. J. An interesting ' 5 ' f aihoIie news has voinp from J j;;, ti .M'i'f during the past week. A ; 3. ...--ntative of J. rierpont Morgan j i ,v ,i 1 . 1 several vonl'erenees with hi.s j , ,,, ,), 1 . Cardinal Gibbons, with a . . i voming to some agreement J ...... t.t u.iiaii?inK the finances of the 2 .r;,.:i- university. It is understood 1 it -t Mr. Morgan is willing to take up i I ; . . loudness of Thomas F. Wag- j so far as it relates to Cat ho- ; nonunions and "atho!ic- prelates. I i- fiirth.-r stated that if Mr. Morgan W , ! !h" i..rdinal can reach an agree- H ; . 1. .New ifirk bankers will not on- K :,K" tip the debt but will begin in g . i."ar future to pay the university tl .-. l : iiO rate of three or four per vent a 1 iiium interest. The bankers r .r,., will loan money to the institu- if ; "h at the same rate of interest. I Ti.; is not so alluring a prospect I .Mr. Waggaman offered, when he 1 s ii'"d . possession of the university's I , ,: TingfiU fund upon promise to pav .. j . , . ent indefinitely; but there is I u -' id- difference between a plan li- f 1 by J. Pierpont Morgan and one i :. which only local celebrities figure. V. :; her the cardinal and other pre- .,: involved in the Waggaman laii- , ,.: wiil consider Mr. Morgan's propo- s - mti favorably is not known. The J ; -"tier in fill its aspects is now being I i M'fi'-red by the Metropolitan of Hal- ? !;:rr.ie. by the rector of the Catho- ( university. Msgr. O'Connell, and 1 . the apostolic delegates, and the l .- -iiibcrs of his household, all of wiicin are heavy losers by the Wag- ..iii Mi failure. I'.ut Mr. Morgan's suggestion is, in ; Popular language, only a "feeler." For s ni" years past, men with trenien-o trenien-o en; resources, like Mr. Morgan and li associates on the "street" haw i 'i tasting envious eyes on the pos- si'mliiies of investment in church , I p-operty. Catholic chur.ch property in this country is in nearly, ever diocese 1 -id in the name of the bishop and :h" archbishop, and these prelates are ! ;M" to their last cent for debts con- I united. It has appeared in near- all cases, too, that a high rate of in-?'!"st in-?'!"st is asked for money loaned on church property, which, to all in-i"ii:s in-i"ii:s and purposes, is as safe as gov-ciii'iicnt gov-ciii'iicnt bonds. Mr. Morgan and ;.uhti 'ss there are others of like mind - would like to control this immense fund. They would pay three or four p.T cent for endowment funds and :ive absolutely safe security. On the other hand they would lend money at ' two or three per cent; a proposi- ' tioii which looks tempting, especially ' in this vicinity, where many pastors f f;ie paying five and six per cent, and their indebtedness. Such aiTangeme-nts as Mr. Morgan propopps are common in Europe and h;,vp ben found eminently successful. 1; would give prelates opportunity to make necessary improvements on ih-ir holdings without burdening themselves with too heavy a debt. 7t is needless to say that Mr. Morgan will not carry out this ambitious m home without opposition. How-ev-r willing the bishops and archbishop!; arch-bishop!; may be, they. .'will have local interests , to consider. "'"The.' bankers tiiid T-eal estate men of the great cities will light Mr. Morgan's proposed curtailment cur-tailment of their prerogatives. Still it will be a tremendous advantage to th" church authorities to know that they can get money 'at low rates of i t"ifst, when local resources fail Vi'fin. Developments in the Waggaman case .'j,e slow enouch to test the qualities of Jeh. One of the most serious aspects of the case came to light last week i v. hpn Mr. Waggaman was made the i '".'-fondant in a. suit brought by the 1 -i ' t U- Sisters of the Poor in behalf of to pensioners now in the home for the i'i-licent pom-. The case is one of the 1 most pathetic in connection with the t "Wacgaman failure and is being dis- i c.ised in connection with rumors that Mr. Wacgaman is liable to be subjected F any time to criminal prosecution. Another significant episode occurred on Wednesday of last week, when John Kidout, the leeal adviser of Mr. Wag- .ni.'in and his associates in many real V tate deals, was made the defendant bankruptcy jiroceedings instituted i" a number of people who are joint s ft'-nrs in the Waggaman failure. The whole affair promises to drag its ' v -'-ary length through four or five ?' i's. unless some man of large re- I s.cii. -cs takes up the entite debt with a .'-w to holding the properly involved i iil lie can make it pay for his trouble h : d 1 jsk. 1'nless Mr. Morcan is that tf 1 .11. l.e has not yet appeared above f ti'" horizon. I Out ef the Mouths of Infants. 1 S;. Paul asks "reasonable homage" I " in his coinerts. Mother Eddy ioesn't I ' t - i how unreasoiia 1 ile her disciples I i.,,ine .rovided Christian Science I i 1- full fling in their daily lives. "One J " 'n- favorite rUories of Mayor Col- I - "I Host on. is about a man who, I "M.'anHd by his little boy, had oc- I - :!! to cross a lot w hero a good- 15 1 i cat was feeding. The father v a Christian Scientist. As they : o hci the goat t lie boy showed I h"reat lir father told him 10 I : I- it pot jxissible for the animal to '11 him. but the boy. remembering : 'i'-us encounter with a goat in : it 1" came out second best, did not any braer. 'Papa, you're a 1 - stiau Scientist all right," he said, : so am I; but the goat doesn't , Father Ignatius. -a bad habit we all have of mak-: mak-: a ..!!! of other ijeiipki' deeds of y "iy. The fault is coniinon to the ; 1-: we received it from the serpent " 'i' Ciarcri to Eve that God was de-' de-' -n hoi- in the coiinnand not to Ml :":M-i ion fruit. So we condone the t universally, iii-i" is another fault coimnon to 1 ' i.oe also. Hut we have 110 ! ' for it. i'erhaps. il is because it ' nm from the de il but from our-''. our-''. ami tiieie is 110 excuse for it. J - habit of making other people ' i J - - -1 vith the story of ou'.' own mi-', mi-', ) 1.' , ,, ,,U!- life, miracles and rer- " .- al sanctity. e may be pardoned, t herefore, in 'f-K t" our leaders what we have to J- y ai.out the .story of Father Ignatius. 'Uli u-e shall not say anything good ; !" ut him. yet we cannot forgive him ; ! causing sudi a great sensation ' .'i.-ous hout the world by his own ver-Si" ver-Si" i of his supernatural powers. In-;'JJ. In-;'JJ. if all that he has told ab;-ut hitn- l 11 is true we IikH havp to tret haf-k t i the days of St. Paul to iind another 3-r;c hiin. Not content with working -Miliary wonders like the ordinary run c' ni'-n Rifted with command over the r-'ices. of nature. "Father" Ignatius, j ""rding to his own account, has even ;'i-fd the dead to life. Naturally ,nL'gh the secular papers had to got 3"ld of it and publish it far and wide. It is needed only to te,?t the whole . .. ftoiy iiy r,-,mmon tense to become ' r-'-'iivinrnj ihat Fatlier Ignatius could jave intended merely to play a little Joke on the public in giving such an ac- I count of his life.' The truly holy man 1 not he who sings his own praises. I ne man of God loves to be unknown, j to labor in e-ecret, to flee from the honor of the world just as Christ did w.nen the Jews wished to make him I '-nig. . s-o in the Jives of the saints we ieaa that this love of retirement was ineir most prominent virtue. , besides it is brange that the world icver heard until Father Ignatius gave it out himself that the dead were being raised to life even in our own da vs. it impossible to keep the fad o . a genuine miracle a secret. Anvthfng mat happens beyond the ordinarv course of nature travels faster than ie world itself moves in its orbit. And the news that a dead man had been taised to life right in our own midst v.ould have been most acceptable to the world at present, when it is claimed i many learned men that such a thing ;ls a n;iracle js imlKHible. The fact would have overturned their theories, theo-ries, would have shed new light on the. Muestious ti,.., HV0 mon:A i minds. would have destroyed the latins of the Catholic church to in-! ! la nihility, would have revolutioned the orld. A miracle of such import could not . have remained concealed from the knowledge of the public; ;nid the fact that Father Ignatius himself is the finst one to tell us about it is sure proof that he mv.st have raised the dead to ; life only in a very vivid dream. I If common ens-e Will not satisfv us on this point, the matter of fact ccr-j ccr-j tainly wiil. Father Ignatius is said , to have kept the evangelical counsels and to have observed the Benedictine I rule of silence. But he never fasted. for his health would not allow him to do without the necessaries of life. He (never appeared for midnight choir, 1 since that would have broken un hv; needed repose. He never kept to his1 abbey, but went ..bout giving missions, retreats and the like. He has acknowledged acknowl-edged no earthly superior. He is his own pope and consequently has obeyed no one but himself, p iV said that ' 4W Catholic priests offered their allegiance! to him and lie reprimanded them and told them to return to their superiors: , but those who. have investigated the j matter have not been able to iind even 1 a Catholic layman who ever took the. Abbot of Llanthony seriously. We have no dates, names, circumstances or ,' testimony to euibstantiste Father rr- '. Latins' story of his marvelous life ex- j cept his own word: nor can he give inj.. . is it any wonder, therefore, that no one will take the abbot au grand serieux? Another Canonized Saint. Pius X. the pastor-Pontiff, has just canonized John Baptist Vianney, a humble country pastor in the France of the last half century. I The pageant attending the ceremonies j of beatification was one of unusual ! splendor. A thousand French pilgrims. ' a score of cardinals, and the Tapal court stood about the Holy Father as ! the canonized the Cure of Ars. A nota- ' ble feature of the ceremony was the i presence of the members of the House ', of Savoy. I A pastorate of over forty years will! test the virture of any man. Those who ! knew the Cure of Are marveled as much at his vitality as at his sanctity. In the seventy-four years that John Baptist Vianney spent on earth he practiced virtue in an heroic degree. He moved among men. but his thoughts were in heaven. The labors of the village cure who spent in a mud house the brief hours he could snatch from the confessional confes-sional are' amazing even to those who can appreciate the lengths to which a saint's consuming zeal will lead him. Blessed John Vianney worked as if all depended rupon; his own efforts. -' He prayed as though all depended on God. Father Vianney was not a learned man he had a hard task passing the canonical examination for ordination. Better still he was a saint. His austerities amply vindicate hir title to the honors of the altar. As h was ripe for Heaven long before he died the Cure of Ars was long ago ready for and deserving of popular veneration. He wrestled with the wirld, the flesh and the devil. Probably the life of no modern saint can compare with his in the extent of personal and unremitting warfare with the enemy of man. Hie. love for souls was a magnet that drew to Ars thousands of penitents who recognized in him a master in the science of the saints. And by a happy coincidence a pastor Pope whose heart glows a wondrous , love of souls and ptecrf? the seal of the ' church's approval upon the career of the ideal shepard of souls in presenting to the faithful Blessed John Vianney, model priest and pastor. HEROIC RESCUE. Hamilton, O.. Jan. 16. Dramatic in the extreme was the heroic rescue of a child from death, witnessed by the pedestrians on Main street. A crowd of urchins were throwing snowballs when one of the children slipped and fell in front of an approaching ap-proaching street car. William Kinney of Boss street, a city employe, saw the little one's danger and. at the risk of his life, dragped it j from the rails. As he held it in his' j arms he almost collapsed when the tot ; 'cried: "Oh. papal" Ximt until the lit-j ! tie one had thus recogn'zed its par- I lent, was Kinney aware that his own! offspring was so near to death and . that in his peneral pn'icitude for ehil-! ehil-! dren he had s:ved his. own. Kinney I clutched the child close to his breast, 1 kissed it again and again, and with j teats "streaming down his fame hur-j-ied home with it. |