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Show , : CATHOLIC OPINION A current Horn.; cable has a sensational sensa-tional account of a sermon delivered by a Naples priest, during which, as eileged, a man placed behind the 'altar rattled chains and groaned to make more real the effect of the sermon on hell which the priest was preaching in the pulpit. The people fled in terror ter-ror and the police warned the priest to be less realistic. The whole is highly improbable; nevertheless it may have taken place. , An item in the newspapers last week announced that at a Methodist assemblage assem-blage in Yonkers, N. Y., Bishop Mc-Cabe Mc-Cabe "made a strong attack on the Roman Catholic church, its defense of the friars in the Philippines", and Cardinal Cardi-nal Gibbons particularly." No further details are given. This Bishop Mc-Cabe Mc-Cabe is of the bigoted type of Methodism. Meth-odism. His specialties, if we may judge by the newspapers, are to proclaim pro-claim his patriotism and to attack the Catholic church. Why he should find fault with the church for defending the much-maligned friars we know not. If he spoke up for grossly slandered Methodist parsons we Catholics would honor him. - But he appears to be too narrow-minded : to act similarly. This Methodist bishop, we are sure, is absolutely ab-solutely ignorant of the friars in the Philippines, their , character and their work. He has read all the lies about them circulated by men as intolerant as himself. But ho has never learned the truth about the civilizers of the Philippines. Such men as he do not want to hear it. News. Harper's Bazar, a periodical devoted to women, loudly laments the dwindling, dwin-dling, tendency in the families of the best American stock. It thinks we shall soon travel the down grade and perhaps overtake France. It is unfashionable un-fashionable to have a large family in this country. It makes mothers prematurely pre-maturely old, and entails a long sla-i very at the treadmill of the cradle, j What is the Bazar going to do about 1 2 Has 11 any advice or remedy to offer? We could give both; but the 'best American stock" would not listen lis-ten to us. Western Watchman. The cable informed us last week that a distinguished apostate had made his Peace with God and entered a monastery monas-tery to do penance for his sins. It turns cut to be Count Campello, who 1 traveled all over, this country delight- J ing the preachers and telling such de- lectable yarns abo t his brethren in j Rome. He was one of the foulest perverts per-verts of them all; and we hope the order he has joined makes frequent use of the bath obligatory. Western uatchman. The tragic suicide of a Cincinnati girl in California was the end of ai short life blighted by the pace that kills. Events of this kind are becoming becom-ing altogether too common to be passed by without comment. - A false idea of I American freedom is being carried into almost every walk of life, but nowhere has it produced such lamentable effects ef-fects as among girls just budding into womanhood. The good old institution of the chaperon chap-eron has almost disappeared. The young American girl is presumed to be I able to take care of herself, and it is not to be denied that in many cases she is. But in many other cases she is not, as has been only too sadly proved by the instances crowding the columns of the daily press. The young iniss, who chafes under the restraint cf a chaperon, seems to take a delight in aping the "young bloods" of the sterner sex. She wants to be considered a "good fellow." She likes to be considered "chic," and she? regulates her action and speech accordingly. ac-cordingly. She will smoke a cigarette "on a dare;" and she will give an exhibition ex-hibition ( of high kicking at a chandelier chande-lier or a gentleman's hat, if no one is about but her own select coterie. After a little while she will sip a "high-ball" or dash off a "cocktail" With a cute little wink, that- makes her .popular with "the boys." " She hears someone talking abou" poker "Why, that's gambling! It is sport? Sue Golden plays it? Then I want to learn it.'-' She bets on horses, too, because it's- just devilish, you know. A few "wine suppers, attendance at a yellow masque ball occasionally, a slumming tour now and then because it's the thing, and." facilis descensus Averni." Montana Catholic. ' j, It is no use for a number of our Baptist contemporaries to attempt to hold the denomination permanently to i the doctrine that only those who have been immersed have a right to the j Lord's Supper. Those speakers at the i late Baptist congress who argued that unbaptized, meaning unimmersed, persons per-sons should be admitted to the ordinances ordi-nances as members of the church have a large English Baptist practice on their side; and with them is all the sentiment of Christian felolvvship, and all the distrust of obligatory physical religion. |