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Show "Fifteen hundred dollars to keep my grave green forever," was a provision in the will of a late Salt Laker. Few honest men will envy the good luck of the trustee in this dry climate. o The situation in China has assumed all the characteristics of the modern "hold-up." "Hands up," say the powers pow-ers "your gold or your life." And, of course, the hands go up and the "brick" comes down Dispatches announce that the crown prince of Saxony wil! in all likelihood apply to the pope for the annulment of his marriage with his princess, after he has obtained a decree of divorce in the civil court. He may obtain a decree de-cree of separation "a mense et thoro," but an annulment of his marriage never. "What God has joined together, j let no man put asunder." Out of seventy persons who have been tried, convicted and sentenced for murder in the first degree in the state of Utah since statehood, not a single one has reached the services of the public executioner. Has statehood paralyzed par-alyzed our judicial machinery? Is it any wonder that the criminal confraternity confra-ternity is infesting our neighborhood, and that the zeal of the police department depart-ment is flagging? He v. P.. Nobbs, a Baptist minister, writing to the organ of his church, the "Watchman, asks: "Could the early settler in Boston have dreamed of a day when the churches of the Puritans would be utterly ut-terly outnumbered by the churches of Home, whom his soul abhorred? Could Dr. Bentley of Salem have imagined, I v hen he offered to act as pastor to the few Catholics then to be found there, that the time would come when the Catholics would outnumber the membership mem-bership of the Puritan churches nearly fifteen to one, and outnumber Protestants Protest-ants of all sorts put together three to one?" There is no effect without a cause. The great increase in the Catholic population Is the result of two causes: First, their church teaches truth, and sooner or later, when old prejudices die out, truth is bound to triumph. Secondly, she preserves the family at any cost, will not allow her children to be divorced, di-vorced, or indulge in the abominable and unnatural crime which limits the family circle. She strictly adheres to ! the divine command, "Increase and multiply." Within her broad folds there is room for all classes, rich and poor, learned and unlearned. She knows no distinction, distinc-tion, has the same code of morality for the colored natives of South Africa that she has for pale-faced Europeans. Speaking of the bright future in store for the church in the present century, M. Brunetiero gives the following signs of strength, vitality and progress: 1. The utter downfall of materialism, and the precarious tenure of the agnosticism ag-nosticism which has succeeded it. 2. The prodigious gfowth of Catholicity in the United States; a growth so won- ' derful that Pobedonosteff, the Procurator Pro-curator of the Russian Holy Synod, confesses himself terrified at it. 3. The conversion of types of men so diverse as Newman, Manning and Hecker proves that every aspiration of the age will find Us satisfaction in the ancient laith. |