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Show I 1 - Church 1 i . I which over ! ATfj w ccmeth the 1 U Universal;. sr j . ' CHURCH CALENDAR. j Gospel. St. Matt x; 20-24: In Justice j of the Pharisees. I Sunday, June 22 Si. Palinus, 13. O. f .Monday, June 23 St. Etheldreda, V. M. Tuosday, June 24 Nativity of St. I ,'lohn Baptist. f Wednesday. June 2Z St. Julia. Ab. (I Thursday. June 2C Ss. John and j Paul. YV M. i Friday, Juitp 27 St. Ladislas. K. C. j Saturday, June 2S St. Leo, P. C. (Written for The Pilots When the l;iy is dark and dreary, ' J With no sunny spot in sight: ' Wlirn the heart is sad and weary, J Waiting, watching for the light; j When the lowering sky is leaden. t'louding- all life's cherished joy, 1 S.iaving griefs that serve to leaden i And discourage; and annoy, I Sursum corda. ! Wrtn misfortune waits upon you I Turning gain to grievous loss; i ! A lull the works that might have won I you Fame, but bring you dreary dross: t 1 Viicn the gay who once attended 'j in you. sharing in your gain. : I Will not see you now befriended j J Or participate your pain, I j Sursum corda. j lien your trusU-il friends deceive you I I With'u bitter, cold disdain, f And when sins and sorrows grieve you ' And your fondest hopes are slain: (f When the cold world's woes distress you, M ' , And your heart is fit to break. 1, K.tise your heart and he will bless you, lie who suffered for your sake, i Sursum corda. I r I Though the world may be rejoicing I While you shed the bitter tear. V liaise your heart its anguish voicing, lie will send vou hoe and cheer, j Ib-pe, that radiantly will guide, you, i Cheer, the world can not bestow, j Joy. that those who now deride' you Cmi nut tarnish hero below.' f I Sursum corda. 1 ! your sweetest .joys will waken, He who stilled the surging sea, j He will comfort the forsaken, I He who bore his cross for thee, liaise your hearts and ho will treat you ; With' a :kntitude of love. I : .And in joy and glory greet you ;l "In celestial bliss above. ! j Sursum corda. i 1 Li ; T T MeOintv. ; A LEGEND BEAUTIFUL. ' The highest beauty dwells in sinceri- j ty. The following exquisite legend, J which we find in an old number of the I j Ava Maria, may make this truth -plain r J to our little readers: : In days long ago, in the ages of j faith, there stood inthewooded valley , v, an old gray monastery. Here for (many long years had the brethren dwelt,- praying much and laboring hard. Most of., them were oil, and at last it came about that not- one I of them -could sin,?. So the father abbott agreed that many parts of the ) office that were genei ally., sung should henceforth be recited only. One exception.' excep-tion.' however.' he made. J "We .must, my . brethren." he said. . "always sing the Magnificat.' We i must do our best for we cannot con tent ourselves with only saying our . lady's song."' . - So every day at vespers the "Mag-! "Mag-! nificat" was sung if such a word could rightly be applied to the dis- I corda nt sounds that arose ; from the voices seme cracked, some tunesless, and all feeble of .the brethren. The birds outiide w'ief tightened anaAed I awav. The brethren knew this, but in all humilitv of heart sang on. It j was Father Abbott's decree they had t only to obey. 1 And this lasted for years. Put one ' Christmas eve a young man came to the monastery door and offered him- Fclf as a postulant. In turned that 1 among his qualifications was a good I voi.-e. The monks Lade him sing, and i loud' -and clear the re,- rose up the ! sound of a magnificent tenor. ' f The monk were enraptured. "Now." i j thev said joyfullyr "the 'Magnificat 1 I will be beautifully sung." So they ad- niHied the candidate and at vespers I that verv evening there rose up. a ' J "Magnificat" from the monastery 'choir j f Vuch as the monks thought must have 1 I "been sung by a seraph. !Thp birds came flying back to listen. Tin- monks were too much adsorbed in pra-ver and praise to notice the look of pelf-complacency on the young man's fare: and they could not, of course, j-oa, his thoughts, which ran: "What 1 a gain I shall be to this community f tvio nn!v ..re who can sing! I shall get 1 ,,n well'. How lovely is my voice! How 5 thev are all admiring it!" 1 The night drew on and the monks j i v-ore wrapt in prayer when suddenly .-nnongst them stood an angel form. I Verv beautiful and glorious was that veleMiai visitant, but yet his face was I ,-ad almost stein. He spoke and the monks listened in awestricken silence. ' " am sent hither." he said, "by my Lord and., my King to know why no 1 i .'Magnificat' has been sung tonight. ! . Km- manv a long year a sweet mel- ' j dv hath floated up to heaven from i f this choir, when with fervent, grateful hearts you sang' his mother's song ; 1 and his own. Why. then, in the first ' 1 Messed vespers of the nativity are ye ; I vilent? Xot a sound has reached the i 1 ear of Ood." . ; ' I 1 He did not wait for a reply. How f could p..or mortals answer hmi? They ! ; 'fell prostrate on the ground and the ( J angel passed away!" Tlv postulant de- parted and went to ponder over in an- ; I other monastery the great lesson of , - humilitv that had b"en taught. . And I I henceforth the monks, with hearts : swi-lling with hope and gratitude, sang I 1 BS loudly as they could the "Magnili- cat." The birds lied away again, but I Jesus heard in heaven his mother's ! song. ! i PRIESTLY HEROISM. I i Tribute Drawn From a Secular News- 1 paper Man by a Recent Instance. , 4 . (Victor Koville, in Buffalo Evening j . Times.) 1 - s a child I was trained into an I unutterable horror of the Roman Cath-oii- church: as a man I have lived and ! traveled with my eyes and ears open, I and Jiave formed my own conclusions. I 1 Vi a, newspaj.er reporter I have studied ! ' the condition of life in many of its ' 1 phases. I have been present at swc.l i so'ietv functions. and glittering recep- l tions:" have wandered at will through 1 .1... ..,.,.,.-.i.h lmpmcnts of New York; j J i hav,, visited the haunts of crime and 1 .-the hiding places of vice, lh- gilded : I palace and the dingy brothel; 1 have. ' j mingled with the cosmopolitan throngs : of emigrants at old castle 'gaiaen; I ' I have inspected the workings of many : J charitable institutions; I have, served ' in the army,r and I know by rersonal ! experience the horrors of fever camps i ' and worse things; as coroner's stetiog- ! lapher I have been resent at i?.o death- bed -if many a poor creature nia.ed into i eternitv by bullet, knife or powder " blast, and I have had plenty of op- -U j.ortunities to notice the ministrations ! ' of tehe teachers of all the various re- ' ligions and creeds in the ho.tr of trial. U 1 will recite one such incjdenr.,' nor will t 1 Jraw uian my memory or my imagi- 1 S natin for. the details. I will not revert, jt to the fever camps of the south or the " pestilence of the metropolis. I Avjll simply quote from the Times of a few days ago: , The Pev. Father 11. Burke, who is as sistant rector of St. Columbia's church, at Eagle and Hickory streets, is suffer- ' ing from smallpox. He is confined to j the Quarantine hospital.' The illness' of Father Burke is due to the fact that he attended a parishioner, Mrs. Rossney of South Division street, who died about two weeks ago at the Quarantine hospital. Father Burke visited her just before her death, and caught the disease from her. He made no objection when told that he would have to go to the hospital. It is, easy to be a he.-o amid the boom of cannon and the rattle of musketry and the biare of trumpet-? and the shrieking of lifes, when the heart is keyed to a wonderful pitch and no man dares to be a coward. Many of the greatest heroes of today, and the greatest heroes of history, are to be found in the ranks of the Roman Cath-I Cath-I olic hurch, who, even as Father Burke, I go calmly, courageously to their duty and shrink not at danger in its most I loathsome form. Cant and bigotry and hypocrisy may not stand before such as Father Burke, and when their work is ended, the danger past when, for them, time ends and eternity begins we may be sure that they hear the voice of the Creator saying: "Filius meus, absolve to." - A CLERICAL JOKER. Pere Monsabre Was Always Ready For a Little Fun". Pere Monsabre'may appropriately be called the Father Burke of France. He is just as fond of a joke as was his famous Irish brother. He once had to preach a charity sermon in, a little provincial town, where.' he was not known to' anyof the, priests. On arriving ar-riving at the -presbytery he put on .a very coarse accent, and, in very un-grammatical un-grammatical language, informed those, who had expected him that Pere Monsabre Mon-sabre was not well, so the superior had sent him to preach in his place. The poor priests were in despair; they tried every argument to dissuade him from preaching; they offered every inducement in-ducement for his return to Paris. He, of course, remained obdurate to all appeals. ap-peals. "He'd do his best," he said, "but they must be sure to give him a good breakfast beforehand." He kept up the joke until he got into the pulpit. The delightful surprise of the anxious priests may be imagined when, instead in-stead of the harsh, provincial utterances utter-ances of the uncouth stranger, they heard the soft, mellow tones of the great preacher. Another story told of him is that one day, just as he was going to preach, a. message oam$ to him that a lady wanted to .see him. She was. worried wor-ried about an affair of .conscience; she felt like she'd like to see him, etc. After Aft-er much waste of time she came to the point. She ..was given up .to vanity. That very morning she had looked into her looking glass and yielded ' to - the temptation of thinking herself pretty. Pere Monsabre looked at her and said -quietly. "Is that all?" "That's all."- : . -' "Well, my. child,' he , replied, "you can go away in peace; for to make a mistake is not a sin." DISGUSTING ORGIES. A cable dispatch from London tells : of the Brrysfctdea'of i.feH'brating the signing of the treaty of peacfe'between England and the Boers. The combination combina-tion of peace and :the coronation gives the gluttonous and bibulous Britisher an opportunity to show this side of his make-up and he is doing it with a vigor fully up to the standard. The cable tells the following story: The combined joys of the new-found pace and of the season of the king's enthroning have, taken; possession of Ixmdon. or, if stated from another point of view, the people of the.jnetrop-olis the.jnetrop-olis have seized- the . double occasion as an excuse for" a month of restrained or unrestrained self-indulgence. Monday's so-called peace celebration certainly devoleped a disgusting orgy, such as has never been seen in London Lon-don streets in recent years. Scores of men and - women lay drunk on the pavements of fashionable West End thoroughfares' at midnight. The horseplay horse-play reached' the point of murder, which was committed through sheer passion for violence, and outrages committed com-mitted in the name of peace only reached the knowledge of the general public in the past day or two through the medium of the courts and the coroners' Inquiries. Decent London feels itself disgraced, and no wonder.- The press today rings Willi l'luer.i lliu i onwvijlllrt.l.iii. ll occurs to no one, apparently, to inquire in-quire into the underlying significance of such an effect on victors, who at last succeeded in crushing a nation that defended its - independence so valiantly. !t is naturally feared that similar or worse scenes will disgrace the-coronation days. Already it is evident, evi-dent, that there will be as large an exodus ex-odus from London as during ihe jubilee jubi-lee of 1897 of those who -dislike mobs, however peacefully inclined. COMMENCEMENT , OF ALL HALLOWS HAL-LOWS COLLEGE. Th sixtern-th annual commencement of All Hallows college wa-.s celebrated at the. Theatre Monday night. An audience au-dience that completely filled the lower part of the house witnessed the ceremonies. cere-monies. . the officers and .acuity occupying occu-pying boxes', which were decorated jn colors, while the main auditorium was thrown open to the friends of the institution. in-stitution. . The programme commenced with "n selection by the college band, after which Richard Harding Davis one act drama. "The Orator of Zepata City." was given by the boys. It was a very creditable presentation. J. Gallagher as Abe Bar rows, the .prisoner, who pleads for his liberty, was easily the best actor in the cast. The plav was followed by the rendition rendi-tion of a Mendelssohn concerto by Ar-thud Ar-thud Pedersen. the toy violinist. It wa-3 a marvelous feat, both in memorizing and execution; jor "i years, and ho was givn an ovation. Little H-iward Barnes as Jakie Siegel gave recitations that AVer.e heartily.cn-joved. heartily.cn-joved. Hugh O'Neill, a Chicago attorney, then delivered an oratinn on "American "Ameri-can Ideals." He sketched the industrial indus-trial growth of this country, spoke of its financial power., arid said that these things, the result of ideals, have placed merica in the first rank of nations and astounded the world. The American Ameri-can flag has always : been victorious. JJr. O'Neill maintained, - because of ideals. ' rre speaker expressed the belief be-lief that Canada, the last relic of mon-arohivmi mon-arohivmi on the western hemisphere, will in due time come under the guidance guid-ance of the sjars and stripes. He scored would-be American aristocrats, to whom he referred as grumbling s-ycophants, and modern lories. The American school is the; place for I the American boy. he said, and he hoped that no student of All -Hallows would so far forget himself as to accent ac-cent a-scholarship t in Oxford or any other foreign university, where the mind is prepared to come back here and destroy American ideals. He ad vised the students to do everything towards to-wards crushing anarchy. While the terrible struggles between capital and lntor have led some Americans, to believe be-lieve that they must take to socialism to avoid rank imperialism, he believed that Americap ideals would solve the problem. The oration was followed by selections selec-tions from the college orchestra and the valedictory was delivered by Paul McCormlck. his fine effort being heartily heart-ily applauded. The following degrees were conferred by President Larkin: Bachelor of science, upon Joseph Burri. Tillamook, Ore.; Thomas Bro-gan. Bro-gan. New Chicago, Mont.; Paul Mc-Cormiek. Mc-Cormiek. jr.. Billings, Mont. Degree of master of accounts, Fred-crick Fred-crick Luddy, Jefferson City, Mont.; Thomas Drew. Cripple Creek, Colo.; William Coltharp, Vernal, Utah; James Cloonan. Pocatello. Ida.; Declan Allen, Robinson, Colo.; John Minogue, Salt Lake. , . RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The queen mother of Spain has sent the Trench government W.OOOf. for the Martinique Mar-tinique sufferers. The Jesuit Fath.-rs of Spokane, Wash., are contemplating the erection of a church edifice that will cost in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of J75,0oi. Nearly all the inhabitants of the Mar-quesar Mar-quesar islands are Catholics.. Forty-two churches und chapels are in existence, and there are schools conducted by the Brothers of Ploermel and Sisters of St. Joseph of ('luney. Bishop Martin's "palace" "pal-ace" at Atuona is a mere box of two rooms. Rev. T. M. Jones, who was well known in Washington, died suddenly in mid-ocean mid-ocean on a voyage to Italy last week. Father Jones was the grandson of Commodore Com-modore Jacob Jones, who served in the American navy during the second war with-. England. , -?- St. Elizabeth's church, Denver, will be consecrated June 8. The German Catholics Catho-lics of Denver in 1S7S numbered about one dozen families. In ISfU an $18,000 monastery monas-tery of the Franciscans was built, then came St. Clarn's orphanage, -and then St. Elizabeth's school. At the close of the Catholic congress of Bari. Italy, not long ago, a banquet was given to 300 poor persons, who were waited upon by the archbishop of Bari and ten bishops. Sister Cesarene do' St. Theresa, whose name in the worl dwas Mary Walsh, who died recently in Baltimore, was born in the county of Cork. Ireland. She entered the Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor at the mother house in France. seventeen sev-enteen years ago. St. Mary's Springs "sanitarium. Oshkosh. Wis., has been dedicated. The building was erected to the memory of the late Mrs. Mary Boyle, mother of Mr.- John T. Boyle, the millionaire yeast manufacturer, and cost $50,000. Twenty of the converts who embraced the. Catholic faith as a result of the recent mission held in Stl Mary's church, Joliet, by the Paulist Fathers, Handly and Ilea-ly, Ilea-ly, have been received into the church. Madame Josephine Errington, R. S. IT.. mistress general at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Manhattanville. N. Y.. died recently, aged 40 years. She was born in Ireland and entered the Sacred Heart order when little more than 20 years of age. Rev. P. O'JIahoney, S. J., who recently completed his theological course at the St. Eouis university, -has gone to Spokane, Wash. In future he will be connected with Gonzaga college at that place. $ Rev. James A. Dalton, L". S. A., of Philadelphia, left for San Francisco last week, where he will take the arrny transport tran-sport June. 15 for Manila, where he will act as chaplain of the Fifth United States cavalry. The Very Rev. Joseph F. McGrall of Worcester, Mass.. chaplain of the I'nited States training ship Dixie, has gone to Martinique with the relief expedition.-. expedition.-. . 3 ' By order of King Alfonso of Spain, a courtmartial has acquitted a young Protestant Pro-testant soldier who was placed on trial at Santiago for refusing to kneel at mass. tiueen Natalie will accompany Queen Marguerite on her visit to the Holy Land. Both ladies will receive Pope Eeo's special spe-cial blessing before they start out. Mgr. Hurtin, bishopof Dacca, India, is in Rome at the procure of his congregation, congrega-tion, that of Holy Cross. On his arrival a week ago he learnfd that his episcopal city had been destroyed by a cyclone. A parish for Hungarian Catholics has been formed for those resident in New York. A 3,00 church is now in course of erection The centenary of the foundation of the Christian Brothers was commemorated in Dublin on the second inst. His grace the archbishop presided and the lord mayor and members of the corporation attended in state. At a mission lately given by the Re-demptorist Re-demptorist Fathers in St. Cyprian's church, Washington, D. C, the unusual number of 1,775 confessions were heard. Abrahem Slimmer, the well known Hebrew He-brew philanthropist of Waverly, la., has arranged to surrender his home and the surrounding park in that city to the Sisters Sis-ters of Mercy of Dubuque for the establishment estab-lishment of a .hospital. The property Is valued at 130,000. . Two Franciscan nuns recentlv celebrated cele-brated their golden jubilee in Glasgow. Scotland. Rev. Mother Clairs and Sister Agatha.' in their respective spheres of activity, have accomplished much for j education and religion in Scotland. a. An interesting incident of this year's observance of Memorial day was an address ad-dress to G. A. R. veterans in St. Peter's church. New York, by Rev. Theodore McCormick, C. M., of Germantown, son of that brave old veteran Colonel McCormick Mc-Cormick of the Pennsylvania volunteers. His eminence the cardinal archbishop of Cracrow is in conference with the Benedictine Fathers to induce, them to come to Poland. There, in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Cracrow are the ruins of the old abbev of Tyntets for S00 years the hallowed hal-lowed home of the Sons of St. Benedict. Father Powers has begun his novel open-air meetings in Edinburgh Grass Market. Scotland. Large crowds attend at-tend ' these meetings, and a unique feature fea-ture is the pledge to abstain from all intoxicating in-toxicating liquors on Saturdays from noon until midnight. It is know., as the twelve-hour pledge. South Germany's oldest monastery, the Benedictine abbey of Wessobrun. founded found-ed in 1733 and confiscated in 1S03. has been restored to the Benedictine order by Baron von Cramer-Klett. a Protestant, and will soon be' re-occupied by monks. The baron bought all the lands and re-mainng re-mainng buildings of the old abbey for PW.ooo marks from the Bavarian etate and sold them to the Benedictines for a nominal sum. From Stuttgart. Germany, news conies of the organization of a society of Catholic Cath-olic teachers, recently, n 'the ' ancient city of Clm, in the diocese of Rattenburg. More than 4") Catholic teachers participated partici-pated an.l Bishop Keppler was present, urging and directing the movement, as were a number of other prominent prelates. pre-lates. Papers on several vital topics 'were read and discussed. As a whole the meeting meet-ing was one highly gratifying. .. In the tour of inspection that the archbishop arch-bishop of Turn has beea. making of his different parishes in Ireland, he expressed express-ed himself as thoroughly pleased, ami spoke of the satisfaction it was to him to see the flourishing state of religion, education and temperance. The Catholic press cannot live except by continually pushing outward and onward. on-ward. The true friend of Catholic literature litera-ture will never stop his paper, but -will rather seek for the Catholic journal new subscribers in his vicinity. i The Vincentian mission at Cambuslang. Scotland, accomplished a . noteworthy event in founding the Sacred Heart Confraternity Con-fraternity ' for men -and women and the enrolling over 1,000 members. The statement is made that' the distinguished dis-tinguished Austrian author, Joseph 'Zink-Malshef, 'Zink-Malshef, has become a Catholic in Vienna. Vien-na. He is a thinker of considerable influence, in-fluence, an. even nobility was present at his baptism. He began life a Protestant, Protest-ant, but for many years has .belonged to the camp of Liberalism. |