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Show HAVE MOVED ' THE WORLD There will bo two centenary nnnl versnrles this venr that 'vlll command moro than passing attention. Koch of the persons, whoso iiihlcvcmenta wc will commemorate marked a pivotal point In our civilisation, for which wo shall ever bo their grateful dob-tor. dob-tor. One wnb pn American nnd the otiitr r Hrltntn. Uo"i worn writers nnd i of or in rs who uttud: fedilissi) ,i tl. cills of the'i tinnv and made the win Id bettor for their having lived liv-ed To Americans tha nami of Hur-i Hur-i let litochei Stowe autnar of "Un cle 'if m's Cabin" will stand foi centuries cen-turies to fome ns one of the moving foiccs in our native lltcr.iiuie While not comparable perhaps In the elo H.uitc of Its diction tJ tho work? of. sfine other American aulhci" th irhcent powei of this homelj stor ,f u poor slave had an apooul to our Imagination and sympathy excited by no book published before or since It crvstnlled the abolition sentiment In the north and gave Impetus to t'.in movement which made Inevitable Can emancipation of tho b!ak ni".n While Cluules Dickens, the otner w i Iter, whoso nnnlversary we celebrate, cele-brate, wrote mcio "gest hellers" than did Mrs Stowe, no one or of his commanded tho world wide attcn tlon or caused such u political upheaval up-heaval as "Uncle Tom's Cabin' provoked. pro-voked. Yet In his own field Dickens was us powerful nn Instrument for good nnd did much to Improve tho condition of tho masses of tho United Kingdom. Itoth he nnd Mrs. Stowe got close to tho sympathies of their nudlenco by talking to them on theso commonplaces of llfo that aro fundamental funda-mental nnd strlko a responsive chord in every heart. As tho spokesman for tho man underneath, what they said seldom missed tho mark against which It wns dliected. More than ever) ev-er) thing else they demonstrated tho Innnto sense of Justice of tho people when appealed to for tho correction of a wrong. Yenrs before, Patrls't Heniy hnd shown the effectiveness of this appeal In his famous, Gi o mo liberty or give me death" i eoh. but between the work of tho orntoi and tho book there Is this difference Die book speaks nnd Inspires millions and Is Imperishable, while the orator addresses his eloquence to a few and Its tin ill usually Is soon forgotten. Tor treating deep and lasting Impressions Im-pressions the written word is tho thing that supplies us with the motive mo-tive power for much of thnt "which we do By Its power of suggestion It moves us often unconsciously to an appreciation of things and condi tlons, the existence of which we do not suspect or passvely realizing, do aat comprehend. Whllo "Uncle Tom's Cabin" undoubtedly wns the most 1m- pcrtnnt contributing rnctor to mo civil war, It was tho editorial of Horace Hor-ace deploy In the New York Tiibunc, cnlllng upon Lincoln to free the slaves, that caused the martyred i resident to Issue his emancipation proclamation at that time, Instead of Inter In our own times wo have hnd a striking exnmplo or this sf-ne pew cr of suggestion In the historical work, "The Catholic Ch'in h In the United States," which brought so con cretely nnd vividly to the attention of Plux X, the marvelous growth of that body In this country that It Is inld to lave deterralneJ li'm to 'in-'pili'f 'in-'pili'f time now American nriiinai? liiEtc.nl of one Tho slngulir thing about "I ncto Tom's Cabin which was wiltten by Mrs Stowe from incidents in-cidents t&sslng under her cb-orvnt'on whllo living In tho south, and about Dickens works, Orcelo s editorial anil the Catholic history which Is a mosaic or the writings of somo C.000 nuns, priests and laymen and women, collected by tho Catholic Kdlting Co of Now York, Is that their authois never anticipated thnt their labors would cause tho profound stli In the political, social and rollglous world that they did. The Interest In tho Dickens and Stowe centenaries as In that of Greelov's Inst spring will bo world wide, spontaneous and reverently rever-ently slncore |