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Show . - r'n Church ' ! i . . which over- j r 9 ft conieth the universal s ; i 1 i- I CHURCH CALENDAR. Sunday, Oct. 12. Twenty-first Sun-. Sun-. day after TentecoPt. St. Wilfrid. Ii. C. Monday, Oct. 13. St. Edward the Confepsor. Tuesday. Oct. 14. St. Callistus, P. M. Wednesday, Oct. 15. St. Teresa, V. Thursday, Oct. 16. St. Gall, Ab. i Friday, Oc t. 17. St. Hedwige, W. Bl. j Margaret Mary Alacoque. I Saturday, Oct. 18. St. Luke, Ev. j CATHOLIC EDUCATION. Financially and Morally It Helps the Nation. In an address delivered at Chicago at the recent convention of Catholic educators, E. F. Dunne said: "I am not a teacher in a Catholic school or univesity, and I have never been. I have never "been engaged in further-lng-the cause of Catholic education in any way, but I am glad to avail myself my-self of the opportunity of meeting so many eminent men engaged in furthering fur-thering the cause of education in Catholic schools, colleges and universities uni-versities of the United States, and of expressing, as an American citizen, my admiration and high appreciation of the splendid work they are doing, both for the youth of the land and the Re- VUblic at I.irrp " After discussing the way In which 1 these schools are relieving the state , of an expense amounting to millions of, dollars annually and assuming the burden upon their own shoulders, the speaker (and he is reported in extenso in Donahoe's September issue) added: "It is not from a financial standpoint alone tha't Catholic education is doing inestimable service to the state; it is doing service of a higher, broader and nobler character in that it is inculcating incul-cating among the youth of the country coun-try morality as well as education, and the morality which is enunciated in the religion of Jesus Christ. Even men who profess no religion, and who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ, concede con-cede that as a code of morals the Christian religion is probably the most perfect on earth. An education which is addressed to the intellect and not to the conscience, which tends to develop de-velop the mind and neglects the soul, is incomplete and imperfect. No education edu-cation can be completely successful which loes not appeal to the conscience con-science as well as to the intellect. The morality of Plato may be good, but the morality of Christ is better. The education and development of the intellect, in-tellect, accompanied by starvation of the soul, will inevitably result in creating cre-ating a nation regardless of moral right and engage it in unjustifiable conquest, and devote its citizens to a ferocious struggle for individual ag- grandizement. An education which eliminates morality will make its citi- ... , '""i" B"l"i'6. mm uin- mately lead the nation from lofty ideals into paths of oppression and unjustifiable wars." A Catholic Old Home Week. The Catholic Columbian gives this interesting in-teresting account of a. -Catholic "Old Home Week" in Ohio a state which once bade fair to rival Massachusetts as a stronghold of Puritanism, but which is now a great Catholic center: Somerset was the mecca of the exiled sons and daughters of Perry county last week, when the hospitality of the town was extended to several hundred visitors, all gathered to observe "Old j Home Week." to see old friends, and to I rt'i-all the happy memories of early . V days. Among the distinguished guests j Vwere General M. V. Sheridan, a native of the place, accompanied by Mrs. Sher-v Sher-v Man; Judge Burkett of the supreme " comt. Colonel Lew Green, and others, i It was a grand reunion and one never to be forgotten by the participants. As guests of the town, the visitors were entertained and treated royally. The relic room in the town hall was an attractive at-tractive spot to all. Here was exhibited exhib-ited souvenirs of the early days of Perry county, so rich in Catholic memories mem-ories and traditions. The chalice used at the first mass celebrated in the county coun-ty at the home of Mr. Finck, one of the first settlers, besides many interesting inter-esting relics of the early missionaries. One of the historic spots of the county- is, Finck's Spring, which in early days supplied water to the settlers for miles around, and about which there is a tradition that "whoever drinks of the water will return again." A pleasant plea-sant feature of the gathering was the ei. now in m. ictuiti au me spring, appropriately ap-propriately inscribed, under the direction direc-tion of Mr. Joseph Simpson, of Columbus, Colum-bus, who delivered an address and read an original poem commemorative of the event. In the evening everybody gathered at the town hall, where reminiscences of the early history of the county were given. Mr. Henry C. Filler of Columbus, Colum-bus, read a highly interesting paper on the first days of the settlement, and the narrative was continued by Colonel Lew Green, a later arrival. The Very Rev. D. J. Kennedy, O. P., of St. Joseph's Jo-seph's gave a splendid talk on the Catholic history of the famous county. The celebration was in every way happy and inspiring, and its memcn-y v. ill long remain with the sons and daughters of old Terry. Attending Vespers. Away back in the days .when the church was young, one of the most beautiful services of the new religion was the hinging of psalms in the evening. even-ing. Work then was over, all the trouble and worry of the day were forgotten for-gotten for awhile and the people went to the places set apart for honoring Cod and there sang the ancient songs of Israel. Today we still have that ancient an-cient custom. Every Sunday afternoon after-noon or evening our churches are opened for the chanting of the holy iiymns ana lor tne nr.ai neneaiction of Christ. But although the service is so beautiful, although the scenes recalled by the psalms are so sacred, so time hallowed, yet unfortunately too few attend the closing religious service of the day consecrated to the Lord. In) the morning we have the summoning of Christ to dwell again under the form of the sacred elements among men, t.nd the morning services are well attended; at-tended; but in the evening when Christ nft St were is present to bid farewell to bis people, too mapy refuse to be present pres-ent with him in his churches. Probably this is due to carelessness, probably also to the lack of that sincere inte:est and love that were characteristic of the primitive Christians: but now that attention at-tention has been called to the beautiful evening service, certainly attendance at it should increase. Then Sunday is the day of the Lord, it never was in-t. in-t. nded to be observed as a day of abstention ab-stention from all right and Christian ?-y, but a few minutes should be Earcd every Sunday evening for communing com-muning with God, for listening to the ringing of his praises and for receiving his benediction. The blessing of God surely must not be lightly esteemed. Tt is the blessing the the Creator and Ihe Giver of all that will ever make life holy, happy and beneficent for fu-;ure fu-;ure salvation. The vesper services, f pen, must be better attended. Every mily, or at least some member of ev- ' i ' ery family, should make it a rule to attend the service Sundays. This be- , ing done the new week will be sanctified sancti-fied and the benediction of Christ will j be carried out from the church into the groat world that needs it so much. New World. Priest at the Bed of Pestilence. A short time ago the daily papers commented on the heroism of a Catholic Cath-olic priest, the Kev. R. Burke of St. Columbia's church, Buffalo, N. Y., stricken down by smallpox while ministering min-istering to a dying victim of the dread disease, and of the Rev. Francis May, a Capuchin monk of Tonkers, N. Y., for receiving into the - church and administering ad-ministering extreme unction to a poor woman, dying in the smallpox ward of the City hospital, that city. It seems j strange to Catholics that such matter-! of-course devotion to duty should at- I tract so much attention. The marvel j to us would be if a priest failed to brave the terrors of smallpox or any other contagious disease in the spiritual spirit-ual service of his people. The priest at the bed of pestilence, however, seems to have been the cause of the conversion conver-sion of the poor Protestant woman in the Yonkers hospital, and his prompt response to her call and subsequent administration of the sacraments were noted with the deepest interest by the Rev. Eninhanins Wilson, n 'Protestant clergyman, suffering from smallpox in the same institution. Catholic Register. Regis-ter. The Syrian Bite. Mass was said by a Syrian priest according ac-cording to the Syrian rite at St. Leo's church, Tacoma, last Sunday morning. There, are -quite a number of Syrians in that city, and whenever a priest visits them, he generally says mass for them at SL Leo's. The people of this parish are becoming familiar with this manner man-ner of celebrating mass, which is no longer a novelty. While the parts which precede and follow the consecration consecra-tion are different from the Latin rite, still the time 'of the consecration can be easily told, for what is essential is the same as in the Latin rite. Catholic Progress. ANOTHER GRAB IN VENEZUELA. If Mr. Hay were not losing sleep and suffering mental agonies over the woes of some people in far-off Roumania, he might bring his powerful intellect to bear on the case of Patos island at the entrance to the northerly mouths of the Orinoco river in Venezuela. That little island is the strategic gate to those important sea avenues, .and because it is such, the English have impudently seized it, in defiance of the Monroe doctrine in which all Americans but Mr. Hay hav a profound belief. It is not English territory and would never have been claimed as such, were it not that Venezuela is torn just now by a fierce insurrection and the American state department is not controlled by a Grover Cleveland or a Richard OI-ney. OI-ney. Seven years ago a similar attempt at international burglary was made on another an-other part of Venezuela, and we remember re-member what happened. Mr. Cleveland, Cleve-land, not a particularly strenuous official, of-ficial, but a man of peace, temperately suggested that it would be a good thing to settle the dispute by arbitration. arbitra-tion. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, retorted retort-ed by ordering a lot of Maxim guns to be sent to the scene of trouble. Trie British parliament blustered, and the London papers sneered at the "shirtsleeve "shirt-sleeve diplomacy" of the "insolent Yankees." Yan-kees." Major General Gourlay of the Musquash, Nova Scotia, fusiliers, mobilized mo-bilized his forces for a march on Washington, Wash-ington, and grim-visaged war lifted his gory front all along the northern boundary. boun-dary. Then Mr. Cleveland, still peaceable peace-able and unstrenuous, wrote his men-j men-j sage telling the British that if they did not care to arbitrate the question he would do so himself. And the lion came down, tail foremost, as usual. Does the animal now think that President Roosevelt is so completely under the influence of his pro-British secretary of state that he will tamely allow it to take by force today the prey which it dropped at the first sign of objection in Washington seven years ago? Apparently it does. Perhaps It is right. Mr. Roosevelt allowed Mr. Hay to trade mules for dishonorable dollars a few months ago. But for tne interference of the senate, the same pliant tool of England would have been allowed to surrender our rights on the isthmus and to transfer our control of the isthmian canal to the hands of our He was allowed to hand over 2,000 square miles of American territory In Alaska to Canada, ''temporarily," or course, and on the understanding. that she would give it back if we were able to prove, before an arbitration committee commit-tee of Britons and pro-Britons, that it did not belong to her or was not worth having a row about it. These two betrayals, or attempted betrayals, be-trayals, of his county's Interests, were perpetrated by Mr. Hay under the presidency pres-idency of McKinley, but Mr. Roosevelt has tacitly accepted Mr. Hay's policy with Mr. Hay himself, the tail with the hide, as it were. His worst enemy could not wish him worse luck than to be handicapped by such a meddling blunderer, while boasting of his. personal per-sonal independence and national stiffness stiff-ness of spine. Pilot. Catholics Protest Ag-ainst Blasphemy Brooklyn, Sept. 29. Catholics to the number of 20,000, most of whom are members of the Holy Name society, participated in the great rally yesterday yester-day to protest against blasphemy. There were in reality fifteen separate parades, but the movement was spoken of as one demonstration, to publicly manifest veneration of God's name. Fifteen churches In the diocese were designated as central 'rallying points, and the different parades were in streets in the district in which the ral lying church was located. Bishop McDonnell Mc-Donnell reviewed the parade in his district dis-trict and heartily sanctioned this great protest against blasphemy, which is held annually under the supervision of Vicar General P. J. McNamara. The vicar general, as part of the demonstration, demon-stration, delivered an address in the Pro-Cathedral. Mention of the rally was made in all the churches in Brooklyn Brook-lyn yesterday morning, and the men in the various parishes were Invited to join in the demonstration. In a letter sent by Vicar General McNamara Mc-Namara to pastors, which was read in all the churches yesterday; Monsignor McNamara said: "It is hoped that the demonstration this year will, more than ever "before, by its - magnitude, make an abiding impression upon the minds and hearts of Catholics and non-Catholics alike, and that the lively faith and united prayers of those who take part will, under heaven, accomplish the most important results in stemming the tide of blasphemy and promoting veneration of the Holy Name." ; ' The Sore Spot on Catholics. In making an appeal for the orphans through the medium of a pastoral let' ter, the learned anci eloquent Bishop Horstmann of Cleveland, O., makes one suggestion which has a g-eneral application, appli-cation, r The sore snot on which the good bishop puts his finger, so to speak. i3 not merely local; it affects the whole Catholic . body. He calls attention to the singular paucity of bequests for orphans in last wills. Very few of those who make them will remember the charities of the diocese when giving giv-ing their instructions for the disposition disposi-tion of their estates. The exceeding fewness of those who leave anything to those charities has been to Bishop Horstmann a matter of painful wonder, won-der, and so he truly reminds those concerned that "it is a bad will which does not make Almighty God one of the heirs, and therefore too frequently disputes have arisen concerning such wills, with a result that often the lawyers law-yers have sotten most of the estate. The best rule is to do good-with your wealth during your lifetime. Make friends to yourselves of this Mammon, and thus send them before you to plead your cause before your Divine Judge." Catholics make a very umavoraoie showing in this matter, when contrasted con-trasted with people who have not the blessed privilege of being Catholics. Let one but look at the list of bequests be-quests in any of the great daily papers pa-pers and see how paltry are the sums donated for Catholic charities as compared com-pared with the munificent bequests for other institutions. This may be as much the result of mere carelessness or forgetfulness on the part of testators as anything else. It is a foolish habit to postpone the making of one's will until the period of illness, when the physical and mental faculties are usu-aly usu-aly impaired more or less, and many essential things, therefore, forgotten. Standard and Times. Chicago Church Jubilee. Parishioners of St. John's Roman Catholic church, Clark and Eighteenth streets, held a" silver jubilee, the occasion occa-sion being the twenty-fifth anniversary of the building of their church. In the morning there was pontifical high mass and in the afternoon the new parish hall in the basement of the church, named for the first pastor of the parish, par-ish, the Rev. John Waldron, was dedicated. dedi-cated. I Foxy Koslowski. "Bishop" Koslowski of the "Independent" "Inde-pendent" Catholic church of Chicago and a number of "independent" Polish Catholic priests have signed a petition asking to be admitted to the Protestant Episcopal church. Koslowski, with an eye to the main clause, inserts in the agreement that "we would expect in any agreement between yourselves and us to retain our jurisdiction over our own clergy and any congregations organized or-ganized or to be organized by us, composed com-posed of foreign speaking residents in our land coming out of the Roman communion." Paris Shopmen Protest. A petition to the French government govern-ment is being circulated for signature by shopmen, seamstresses, commercial travelers and others suffering from the closing of the religious institutions, which closing, it is declared, has resulted re-sulted In a considerable falling off in their business and caused many to lose their employment. The petition urges that all authorizations applied for under the associations lav be granted so as to save the petitioners from poverty. Shed Blood For Papacy. Rome, Oct. 5. Remarkable assurances assur-ances of fealty to the Vatican were given giv-en Pope Leo in connection with the conference of the Society of Jesus, which was opened here yesterday morning. morn-ing. In the course of an audience with V, n nnrA V-.fV.nr rianaral Afacttn o c sured the pontiff that the Jesuits were ready to shed their blood in defense of the papacy. Pope Leo thanked the head of the order for his loyalty and said that the hostile feeling against the Jesuits, especially es-pecially in France and Spain, was much to be deplored. He encouraged the members of the order to persevere in hope of better times. The Priest's Escape. Father Richard of Detroit, the first Catholic priest in the United .States legislature, had a large scar on one cheek which was caused in the following follow-ing way, so says the American Catholic. Catho-lic. Historical Researches. Father Richard's own words are quoted: "I was a priest in France at the time of the revolution conducted by Robespierre. Robes-pierre. I saw some of the soldiers near my house one day and heard them asking for me. I knew what that meant and jumped out of a rear window. win-dow. As I landed on the ground a woman in an adjoining house threw a teapot at me. It broke on my cheek, inflicting a deep wound. I ran out on the street until I was exhausted. Seeing See-ing some men digging a ditch I jumped into it. They were friends and covered up my priest's garb with their coats and vests. I was not seen any my pursuers pur-suers passed by. I worked in that ditch until I got a chance to leave for America in a vessel." |