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Show I ' I ! gburcft Universal I ! I : : . I THE GENERAL INTENTION. Tlcoommcnded by His Holiness, Pius X. I Social Works. A preat many people are laboring to lielp others, some wisely, some unwise- 3.v: some profitably for themselves and 1 others, sonic unprofitably for both. I It used to be the fashion to speak of I spiritual or i-urporal works of mercy, I "when there was question of helping I others: because the only persons .con- I sideied as objects of help were those "1 were actually destitute and en- I lii-ely dependent upon the compassion- i I ate dispositions of these who assisted j I them, the sonful, the sick, the hope- 1' ssly pooi-. j Now it is not considered enough to I j lift a soul out of siii. to nurse the sick. I 10 relieve the poor. Even the innocent s,,ul must be upliHed. the convalescent1 5 Dust be strengthened, the poor must j be aided to better his conditions. Hence wc have a variety of organizations or movements devised f,,r this purpose, 1 The settlement, alliances, brotherhoods, j I legions, chapters leagues, auxiliaries, i s mother?' c lubs some form of society or 1 other for the social betterment or up- lifting; of those, encouragement, pro- lent ion, guidance. f Even our charity organizations no linger stop at feeding the hungry or floihing the naked or standing between S the sick-bed and the grave. They ! study how to make the" hungry feed I themselves, the naked clothe them- I selves, and how to confirm the sick in ;eahh arid vigor. j What aie you doing? Criticising the ; efforts of your neighbor in this direc- i in it as misguided, scmsn or laddisn: i I"c plorinp that so many are striving to s;,ve others who cannot save them- 1" pelves? Justifying your own lack of j real by Hie pretext that you do not f-el worthy to engage in work for oth- rs? Are you of those who deplore the I social Inequalities without ever lifting I a finger to alter them? Do you even l May that those who sincerely try to l lp others may succeed and reap the I blessing of their zeal and charity? The I Messenger of the Sacred Heart for March treats this subject at length. und every member of the League j t-d-ould read it and learn how by helping I others one really betters himself. I Where Poverty Is Unknown. i Keggars and tran.pb are seldom seen J 5n Denmark, and the shame and scan- I lal of the unemployed are unknown I there. The Danes divide the unem- f rloyed into three classes and in this 5 "way separate the real unfortunates from the degenerates and wilfully idle. The aged poor of spotless character in Denmark do not, strictly speaking. cmiie within the poor law at all, but! in effect pensioners of the state and j Hieir position involves no social dis- I J 1'onor or loss of civil rights. ' For the pensioners who have no sop- j urate homes there are maintained in s ihe cities of Donmaik comfortable in- j Mil ut ions where married and single 1 cop are provided for. even to the ex- I i nt of free entertainment in a theatre i and music ball. They are not required to work and are free to go in and out pt will. The aged poor whore poverty js their own fault are provided for in a hospital, where they are required to work according: to thf ir powers. These ' bse their franchise and are restrained from their liberty. However, their earnings over and above cost of maintenance main-tenance are paid them in cash. Denmark's Den-mark's third class of poor the beggars Ssu.d drunkards are ssved from sarva-tion sarva-tion and crime in reformatory colonies, where they are requi ed to work at gardening, gar-dening, forestry and manual trades for the state, but on a wage scale which I k the best of them in a sense independent in-dependent and ambitious. The Danish system is not an experiment, but has long been in existence, insuring a degree de-gree of happiness to the deserving poor and reclaiming and restraining the worthless and idle classes. Home Jour-Jii.il, Jour-Jii.il, Yonkers, N. Y. Note Your Holidays for 1907. I Ash Wednesday, ihe beginning of l,cnt. falls on Feb. March 24 will be Palm Sunday. March 29 Good Friday Fri-day and March "1 Faster Sunday. There will be two eclipses of the sun nrd two of the moon. The fust eclipse .f the sun occurred Jan. 14, and was in-risible in-risible in North America. There was s ;, partial eclipse of the moon Jan. 29. : lartlally visible in the Tinted States. ; There win b another cclinse of- the sun annular on July in. and this also 'I vill be invisible in North America. The f lst eclipse of the moon will take place f on the night of July 24. and will be vis- 1 5ble throughout North America. Of f- nil ihr holidays Lincoln's birthday. Feb 1". will fall on Tuesday; Wash-j: Wash-j: IncUm's birthday. Feb. 22. on Friday: St. Patrick's day. the ITih of March, on , Sundav: Memorial day. the 29th of ) Ma v. on Thursday: the Fourth of July. ' ',; Thursday. Labor day. the first I Mondav in 'September. Thanksgiving j rbv mi the 2Stb of November, and I r-h'ristmaa. Dec. 25. on Wednesday. This I i saving nothing about All Fool's day, v,-i;!vli w ill fall on the first day of April. Killed Patrick. j P.ishop Kroderick tells a good story of Archbishop Patrick Ryan of Phil- , idelphia. Once every month Archbishop jiyan preaches in one of the Catholic churches of Philadelphia." said Bishop Urodtrick. "His sermons always at tract large congregations, and the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia newspapers report them f rather fullv. One of the papers has I been in the custom of sending a par- I licular young man make a report of I ihe archbishop's sermon, and the young man had always written a report that ! iran accurate and pleasing to the arch- bishop. Some time ago this young man I was siek. r off duty, and the city ed- i Itor of his paper assigned another re- j.orier to cover the- sermon. He wrote 1 a long storv of the seimon, but it was f full of inaccuracies and attributed to f Archbishop Rvan e xpressions that were nothing less than heretical. The archbishop arch-bishop was still thinking of it the next ' il.iv when be met the editor of the pa- ! per on the street. The archbishop i liaikd him. and naturally he referred to the j-fport of his sermon. "Vou didn't send the same young man Ilo report my sermni that you usually do." said the archbishop. ? -So: be was not available," replied the editor, t " -Well, vour new man has got me b.io a peck of trouble.1 said the archbishop. arch-bishop. 'He has me uttering the rank- vt heresies. You would do me a fa-Mir fa-Mir if vou would not send that man a sain to report my sermon.' The editor ed-itor apologir.ed with the archbishop's request, but added that the reporter Mas one of the Lest on his staff and a member of tlf Catholic church, and he could not understand how he had oomc to misquote the archbishop. . "What is his name?" inquired the v irehbishop. l "Kilpatiick," responde'! the editor. , "Wen. he came pretty near domg it." said Archbishop P.y&n, as he moved j r i ) m ' . I THE RECITATION OF GRACE j AT A FAMILY TABLE j Prayers Established by Church and j Commended to Faithful for Daily Use at Home. The church has established prayers which should be said before and after meals. In religious communities these prayers are always said, and are somewhat some-what long. Put for the faithful generally, gen-erally, the church has made them so short that even the most simple peo-j peo-j pie can and sohuld say them always before and after meals. The prayer I before the meal is this: "Rless us, O Lord, and these Thy gifts we are j about to receive through Thy most gracious bounty: through Jesus Christ : our Lord. Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary . . ." And w hen the meal is j over, we should say: "We thank Thee, ! O Lord, for these Thy gifts Through j Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Our ! j Father, Hail Mary . . " t That is not so much to ask from any one of us for the food that nourishes nour-ishes our body. And yet how few-there few-there are who ask 'lod's blessing on the food they are about to eat or to thank him for the victuals they have eaten. : It certainly seems that many a quarrel and many a complaint made about the food, or the way it is cooked or served, would be averted if the blessing of God had descended upon the caters and their food before the meal began, and, again, that better health and more peace in the family would result if all when they got up from the table would say. in all sincerity sin-cerity of heart: "We thank Thee. O Lord, for these Thy gifts." And they are God's gifts. Do not forget this, dear brethren, whatever comes to us is from God. The sum with all its power to make us bright and cheerful as the rain that helps the earth to give us the fruits and vegetables we need, both are the result of God's providential providen-tial ways, and we must be grateful to him for sunshine and rain. Away with all complaints about the weather, and away with all fault-finding about our food, and let us be more generous in our thanking God for rain or shine, and let us establish in every household the Catholic practice of saying say-ing the grace before and after meals. Begin it today at dinner. Let the head of the family lead the prayer before and after every meal. Await the results! re-sults! We promise you that God's blessing will follow. Begin today. Catholic Transcriot. i i He Had None. Rear Admiral Coghlan. commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, whose reputation rep-utation as a relator of good stories has inc reased each time be has spoken, at a dinner, told a story a few nights ago which was given to illustrate his distaste dis-taste for being the last speaker. "Having the last word, reminds me of a story I hoard not long ago," said the admiral. "A certain man died and a clergyman was engaged to offer a eulogy. The worthy minister prepared a sermon of exceeding length and strength, but just before he entered the parlor to deliver it he thought that it might be advisable to learn what the dead man's last words had been. So he turned to one of the weeping younger young-er sons and asked: " 'My boy. can you tell me yourifa-ther's yourifa-ther's last words?' ' 'He didn't have one,' the boy answered; an-swered; 'ma was with him to the cna. " He Took a Hand. Mr. ajid Mrs. Stockson Bonds are inveterate in-veterate bridge whist players, and their home is the meeting place of bridge players of all grades. On one evening, in every week they are "at home" to any of their friends who wish to play, and on other evenings they entertain en-tertain parties of their own selection for games which range from a cent a point to a much higher figure. Recently, Recent-ly, long after the house has been closed, a noise was beard downstairs, and. regardless of his wife's protests, Stockson Bonds went below to ascertain ascer-tain the cause. The noise continued and grew- louder, but 7io answer came to the wife's calls from above. She became alarmed, opened the window, ; saw a policeman, and he made a rush i for the basement door. A few minutes later the husband appeared before his panic-stricken wife and told her he had found the servants playing bridge and wrangling over the propriety of a certain cer-tain play. "Did you send the whole party away?" asked the wife. "Why. no. I took a hand and decided the question before I realized where I was." New York Tribune. So the Quarrel Began. The gossip put her bead over the garden wall, and thus addressed her neighbor, who was hanging out her week's washing: ' "A family has moved into the empty house across the way, Mrs. Jones." "Did you notice their furniture?" "Not particularly." "Two vanloads. and I wouldn't give a guinea for the lot. Carpets: I wouldn't put them in my kitchen. And the children! I wouldn't allow mine to j go within six yards of them. And the mother! She looks as though she had I never known a day's happiness- The father drinks, I expect. Too bad that such people should come into this neighborhood. I wonder who they are : "T know them." "Do you? Well, I declare! Who are they?" "The lady is my sister." And now they never speak. Prescribing -in Sleep. "T had an unusual experience once." said a celebrated London doctor, "which illustrates how accurately the brain may sometimes carry on the activities ac-tivities of the day during the interval of sleep, although such unconscious action ac-tion would not do to swear by. I watched all night at the bedside of a patient. Farly in the morning I lay down, telling the nurse to call me if such and such changes occurred. The changes came, and she did call me. I rose, went to the bedside, examined the patient carefully, changed the medicine medi-cine and ordered a different treatment. Then I went back to bed. When I awoke again and the nurse referred to the change in the night, I did not know what she meant. I had not the faintest faint-est recollection of having been called or of having prescribed anything else. I examined the patient. She- was better. bet-ter. Then I turned to the remedies. They were Just what the case required. I had carried on the proper course of reasoning and. had met every emergency emergen-cy of the case, and yet I was sound asleep all the while." |