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We are- hearing and reading every
day
of what the church should do in
the present condition of human affairs,
says
Father Yorke. In this country the
voluble gentlemen of nearly all the
denominations are vociferating "Recon
struction" with the pained and sur
prised accent of the disillusioned hen
who sees her chicks take to water.
The Voluble Gentle-
So Much Talked
About in These Times, Receives the
Attention Due It at the Hands of
Rev. Father Yorke in the San Fi
Only Rome is silent—.with, the deep
silence of the everlasting years. What
in the world are they all gabbing
about, anyhow? Was the church sent
into the world to make wooden legs
or crock eyes?
Was the Apostolic Mandate to teach
typewriting, chemistry, electric engin
eering or the noble art of circumvent
ing the neighbor in business by day
schools or by night?.
If sterling is on the bum, and marks
unmarketable, and francs disfran
chised, did the doctors deliver to the
saints the secret of restoring them to
par?
If economics are up in the air, and
stocks walking on the ceiling, and
gamblers frothing at the mouth, are
the exorcisms of the church to be used
to cast out the disturbing spirits?
What has Christ to do with Belial
or Jerusalem with Athens?
Let Capital work out its own salva
tion.
Let Labor fight its own battles.
Lei. Caeskr c«u-ry the burdens that
belong to Caesar.
Our Lord did not lay down any po
litical or economic or educational or
reconstructional or cultural policies,
He said, "Let the dead bury their
dead."
Among the Bishops, Now Rounding Out
Ten Years of 8ervlce, Are Heffron
of Winona, Corbett of Crookston,
O'Reilly of Fargo and Wehrle of Bis
marck, North Dakota.
During the year 1920 many prelates
of the church in the United States will
celebrate sacerdotal or episcopal Jubi
lees and other anniversaries marking
their careers in the church.
Heading the list will be Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimore, .who on June 80
will, enter upon his sixtieth year in the
priesthood and on the same day will
begin his thirtieth year as a member
of the sacred college of cardinals.
Only a few years behind the vener
able Baltimore prelate In point of ser
vice in the' priesthood is Bishop
Thomas O'Gorman, of Sioux Falls,
who on November 6 will reach the 56th
anniversary of his '.ordination as a
priest
Two bishops will celebrate their
sacerdotal golden Jubilee during the
year. They are Bishop James Schwe
bach, of La Crosse and Bishop Fired
erick Eis, of Marquette, both of whom
were ordained half a century ago.
Bishop Joseph M. Koudelka, of Su
perior, Bishop Thomas Beaven, of
Springfield, Mass., and Bishop Maurice
F. Burke of St. Joseph, Mo., will cele
brate their 45th anniversary 'in the
priesthood.
On May 22 Bishop John P. Farrelly,
of Cleveland, and Bishop Michael J.
Hoban, of Scranton, will complete forty
years In the priesthood. Later In the
year .similar anniversary will be ob
ed by Bishop Jo]in J. Monaghan,
head of the Wilmington, Del., diocese.
Among the prelates who will cele
brate their 86th ordination anniver
sary during the year are Archbishop
Sdward,T. Hanna, of San Francisco
and Bishops Donahue of Wheeling,
LflHs of Kansas City, MeDevltt of Har
rlsburg and Lawler of Lead, South
The 80th anniversary of their ordi
nation win be celebrated fey Arch
bishop Dennis J. Dougherty, of PhO-
men as a Shouter
Many Will Observe
Jubilees in 1920
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He did not speak of those that are
careful and solicitous and over-anx
ious concerning'food and raiment and
the morrow, and He did not give them
a cure for their care or a remedy for
their solicitude or an insurance policy
for tomorrow. He said: "After all
these things do the heathen seek."
The plan He laid down then is the.
plan for the church now. "Seek ye
first the Kingdom of God and His jus
tice, and all these things shall be added
to you."
The Kingdom of God is not in dollars
or drives or committees, it is within.
The justice of God is not in
treaties or bargains or plans or laws.
It is in the moral la,yn.
The business of the church is to
proclaim and apply the moral law.
It is her prerogative to judge the
efforts of Caesar to administer the af
fairs of Caesar if they are counter to
the moral law. It is not her business
what to do with his own within his
own rightful sphere.
It is hers to stand for justice and
to hold up the banner. "Thou shalt
not steal," but she is no policeman.
It is hers to stand for the rights
of man and to plead the cause of the
lowly, and to be a mainstay for the
oppressed, and to lift up her voice to
call to heaven for vengeance against
those who deprive the laborer of his
hire, but it is not hers to sit a,t table
or to be a divider among brethren.
The one thing we need today, and
that we don't hear enough of, and that
is the Kingdom of God. Instead, our
ears are deafened with the rattle o»'
the money of Simon Magus. We sadly
need the vigorous and refreshing
words of the Prince of the Apostles:
"Pecunia tua tecum in perditionem."
To hell with you and your money be
cause you think the gifts of God are
for sale.
John S. Gunn, Archbishop of Natchez,
Archbishop George W. Mundeleln,
of Chicago, will celebrate the 25th an
niversary of his ordination on June
8. Other prelates »who will observe
their silver Jubilee in the priesthood
are Bishop P. A. McGovern, of Chey
enne and Bishop Joseph F. McGrath,
of Baker City.
Bishop Joseph P. Lynch, of Dallas
and Bishop Thomas T. Walsh, of Tren
ton will celebrate the 20th anniversary
of their ordination.
In June Bishop Benjamin J. Kelley,
will celebrate his 20th anniversary as
bishop of Savannah and In November
Bishop Herman J. Alerdlng, will com
plete his second decade of service as
head of the diocese of Fort Wayne.
During the year the following pre
lates will round oat 10 years of ser
vice at the head of their respective
dioceses. Bishops O'Donoghue of
Louisville, Heffron of' Winona, Cor
bett of Crookston, O'Reilly of Fargo,
Nllan of Hartford, Rice of Burlington,
Vt., and Wehrle of Bismarck, North
Dakota.
Archbishop George W. Mundeleln, of
Chicago, will complete five years as
head of the Chicago archdiocese on
December 9.
In October Bishop Anthony J.
Schuler, will round out Ave years of
service as bishop of the El Paso dio
cese.
THE WELL-BRED GIRL.
The girl who is well-bred never
finds it necessary to announce. the
fact to the world. Good breeding is
as natural to her as breathing, and
as necessary, too.
She never gossips or listens to tales
about her friends. This sort of con
versation is not pleasing to her.
The well-bred girl seldom apologizes
—it is not necessary for her to do so,
because she Is always careful of other
people's feelings, and she never talks
of her private affairs.
Tha jrell-bred girl never make*
self conspicuous In public plsess,
does not permit herself tobe drawn i»»
to any
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The Irish problem is an Ulster prob
lem, writes Lindsay Crawford, presi
dent of the Friends of Ireland. Were
there no Ulster the Irish question
could be solved amicably over night.
To understand the Irish problem,
therefore, is to know Ulster. To para
phrase Kipling: "How can they know
Ireland who only Ireland know?" It
is the misfortune of English statesmen
that their eyes are riveted upon the
Sinn Feiners at a time when all the
resources of statesmanship should be
employed in unravelling the knotty
problem of Carsonism.
Irish Unionist Movement.
This is not to say that there are two
Irelands, for the history of Unionism
in Ireland is the history of a move
ment which has maintained its separa
tist character down to the present
time. The Irish Unionist party in the
House of Commons, although a wing of
the British Tory party, has maintained
a separate political existence, having
its own caucus and chairman and its
own wing. For a century it has been a
thorn in the side of the British Tory
party, retaining its independent or
ganization the better to influence Brit
ish legislation and to perpetuate its
domination in Irish affairs. The his
tory of the past century, since the Act
of Union, has been a record of undoing
of wrongs on the part of England as
a result of Irish agitation. Step by
step the alien laws and institutions im
posed upon Ireland in the past have
been revoked proof, if any were need
ed, that the agitations that provoked
these reforms .were justifiable, and that
the Irish agitators knew better thi}ji
English statesmen what was good for
their country. But the undoing of
these wrongs interfered with vested in
terests and divided Ireland into two
opposing camps.
The Rump of Protestant Ascendancy.
Carsonism is the rump of the old
Protestant Ascendancy, the residuary
legatee of the special privileges
claimed by the Protestant settlers. It
is a sorry remnant of the old van
guard that so stubbornly resisted the
great reforms that marked the advent
of democracy. So long as penal laws
and religious disabilities retained ab
solute political power in the hands of
the Ascendancy party England was in
constant fear of their separatist ten
dencies. The native Irish, down to the
time of the Union, had no lot or part
in the government of Ireland. The
fight for national Independence in
1782
and again in
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The Ulster Problem
is Not Religious
1798
was the work
of the Protestant settlers. The his
tory of the Irish Parliament from the
earliest times folowing the Anglo-Nor
man invasion, is the history of contin
ual conflict between the British settlers
and the English government.
Catholic emancipation, the Reform
bill, disestablishment, and land reform
made serious inroads on the ProteBt
ant Ascendancy. Since the Union this
Ascendancy rested on four main pil
lars—the state church, with its exclu-
Archbishop John J, Glennon Denounces
Immoral Dances and Prevalence of
Divorce.
Sex literature and immoral dances
were assailed by Archbishop John J.
Glennon, of St Louis, recently in a
monthly sermon at the new cathedral
In that city.
The prelate also deplored that many
persons regarded marriage as a "Joke,
an experiment, a very doubtful expedi
ent, largely a lottery—a gambling de
vice, wherein one may win or lose."
He said upon the sanctity of matri
mony largely depended jrfiatever of
civilization we have—the home being
the basis upon which the nation Is
built, and to destroy the home meant
to destroy the nation.
Divorce Is Denounced.'
Denouncing divorce, lie said statis
tics show one in ereqr
lead to the divorce const.
"Girls," he said, "spend
jpar
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sive privileges, the land, with its evil
land laws, castle government, with its
class patronage system, and higher
education, .which for generations had
been the exclusive prerogative of the
established church, and which was
only fully extended to Irish Catholics
in the last decade. The fall of the
establishment and landlordism trans
ferred political power in the Irish Tory
party to the Presbyterian manufac
turers of the North, who aped the ways
of the old landed gentry, rivalled them
in title-hunting, and in many cases en
tered into possession of their estates.
The sway of the almighty dollar suc
ceeded to an aristocracy of birth and
culture and the last state of Unionist
Ulster was worse than the first. An
Irish wing of the British Tory party,
the Unionists of Ulster, have always
led in the van against every measure
designed to widen the power of the
people and to improve the lot of so
ciety.
The Bubble- of Carsonism.
The bubble of CarsoniBm has long
been pricked in Ireland by the South
ern Unionists who, for years, were
bled financially to keep the Ulster agi
tation alive. Today the Southern
Unionist is against partion. Certain
propagandists say all Ulster is behind
Carson. If tj}e figures published in
the Carson organs are correct, the huge
majority of the people of Ulster are op
posed to Carson. This explains his
stubborn opposition to a county plebis
cite on the Irish issue. The figures
given at the time of the signing of the
covenant, a/couple of years before the
war4\vere iis follows:
Population of Ulster over 16. .1,074,000
Covenanters (218,000 male
and 229,000 females) .... 447,000
Against the Covenant .. 627,000
Ten persons out of every seventeen
in Ulster refused to sign the Covenant.
In other .words, 60 per cent of the peo
ple of Ulster repudiate Carson and his
policy. Only 218,000 men and boys
could be persuaded to sign. Where, is
the army of a million Carson ,warriors?
In 1913 the population of Ulster was
divided as follows:
Protestant population of Ulster
over 16 605,000
Covenanters 447,000
Balance 158,000
In Ulster, therefore, are 158,000 Pro
testant men and women who could not
be persuaded or coerced to sign the
Covenant. These calculations are
based upon the assumption that all the
signatures to the Covenant were genu
ine. Carson does not represent even
60 per cent of the Pretestant of Ul
ster.
Would any other country in Christ
endom be martyred for such, a shoddy
remnant of an Old Ascendancy that
belonged to the days of the penal code
and absentee landlordism? And what
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and to happiness—the pace that kills.
It may come to a matrimonial conclu
sion, but in the end it Is fatal. Tou
ask: 'What about the young men?'
Whatever our young men are, they will
not be benefited by our young women
not being the heat
"It seems that the so-called mar
riageable class doesn't attend ser
mons."
Sex Literature Aesailed.
"There is also much talk in the
world regarding the ware of sex litera
ture that prevails. All your group/ of
romance in story books center on the
subject They are filled with .Inci
dents that' are risque and all the
psychological analysis of is hasty sub
ject. At fhe end, they attempt to
apologise tor an their nastlness by a
"It woukj be better if the marriage
brought oC at the start of the
book Instead of being preceded by 21*
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Perhaps, if this
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Putting It Mildly, Canon Adderley,
Vicar of St. Paul's Covent Garden,
Admits "Many English Christians
Are Becoming Paganized and Many
Pagans Are More Christian Than
Churchgoers."
Now that the British Government is
keeping the cables busy libelling Ire
land in the eyes of the world, a con
sideration of the position of morality
and religion in Great Britain may not
be amiss:
Strong denunciations from the pulpit
have recently emphasized the growing
indifference of the general public to re
ligion, evidenced by fast diminishing
congregations at the churches, irre-'
spective of denomination and creed,
says Reynold's Newspaper,. London.
Despite frequent crusades, revival
ism, missions, and efforts to brighten
the churches and present religious
teaching in a more attractive manner
than hitherto, it is asserted that pic
ture palaces and other places of amuse
ment are increasingly popular on the
Sabbath in inverse ratio to the empty
ing of the churches. Is this tendency
but a passing phase or a definite and
permanent break from our old ideas
of religion and its value in our daily
lives?
That the lapse is due to an entirely
wrong conception of worship, anjl the
lack of realization of its value as an in
dividual asset was the opinion ex
pressed by Canon Adderley, the well:
kno^n .vicar of St. Paul's, Covejit Gar
den, wbep interviewed recently.
"1 think," he said, "English people
are certainly becoming more and more
indifferent to organized religion in the
shape of churches, but I do not think
they are indifferent to religion.
"Church and chapel people must
show quite clearly that their work and
their worship are intimately connected.
At present the masses .feel that the
churchgoers behave in their lives ex
actly on the same principle as the non
cliurchgoers.
"I should not say that England is
Pagan. I would rather say," he con
cluded, "that many English Christians
are becoming Paganized, and many
Pagans are more Christian than
churchgoers."
An extremely pessimistic view of the
present-day attitude of the general pub
ic towards the churches was expressed
by Father Bernard Vaughan: "I grieve
beyond everything," he said, "to have
Veteran ef Civil Wsr Declares Adop
tion of Mason Resolution Would Not
Disturb Friendly Relations With
Great Britain.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 10.—A stir
ring appeal for the recognition of the
Irish Republic was made in the house
last .week by Representative Isaac R.
Sherwood of Ohio, one of,the veterans
of the Civil War.
General Sherwood told the house
that the adoption of the resolution In
troduced some time ago by Represen
tative Mason of Illinois would not dis
turb the friendly relations between
the United States and Great Britain,
but would, on the contrary, inspire
Lloyd George to give the largest mess
Ore of Justice in the home rule plan for
Ireland. He said:
"As an American citizen with not a
single drop of Irish blood in my veins,
I can make a plea for Ireland with
out being accused of being pro-Irish.
If being born In New England of Eng
lish and Scottish ancestry Is a test of
Americanism, then I can pass the add
test, for my ancestors came over in
1632, not in the Mayflower,
the boat was full, but on the
boat
Pays Tribute to Ireland.
"Ireland has been struggling for
autonomy and independence for over
700 yews. Ireland is a continental
on all sides bf
is separate
by the wide Irish ssa.
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Rapid Growth of
Paganism in Britain
Sherwood of Ohio
Pleads for Erin
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to say how my countryfolk in bulk
not accept the diviue personality
our Lord, that is to say, they do
give wholehearted belief in the
tles' Creed.
And
am making this statement' without
foundation—on the contrary, what Is
"thrust before me more and more ever*,
day is that not even the language id
terminology of Christianity is under
stood by the people.
"Read the latest book on the subject,.
Paganism due to the war? Not a bit
of it. The war has been the occasion
of revealing it, that is all.
"If you want to know what has de
christianized the country," he con
tinued,
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do,
of
not"
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ChriBt they
only
know aB a name always to reverence
and sometimes to swear by.
"Do not for a moment think that
The Arnjy and lleligion: An Inquiry,^
and its bearing on the religious life
of
the nation.' It is compiled out of
300
memoranda resting on the evidence of
many hundred witnesses.
"When you have put that book down
you will find that there is hideouB rea-'
son, lamentable reason, for believing
that Christ, to 85 per cent of our
be
loved countrymen and country,wom&n
is today on]y one name among others,
like I'lato, Sophocles, or Marcus
Aurelius.
"Not a Living Force."
"To this growing section of the com
nnmity, Christ is not a living force, in
spiring their lives and christianizing
their conduct.
"Must 1 Bay it," he continued, "that'
we are living upon the afterglow of
Christianity, which before the great re-,'
ligious revolt In the sixteenth century
was woven not merely into the reli
gious, biit into the legislative, philo
sophic, social and domestic life of 'Meh'
rie England' for a thousand years.'
"To convert England to Christianity
we must start like our Cath6lic mis-'
sionaries among the heathens, with the
children. Alas, parents to whom Chris-.'
tianity is nothing and its dogma worsef.'
than nothing will refuse to have their
children respond to our Divine Mas-'|
ter's call. 'Suffer little children to^
come linto me, and forbid them not'-'
"Somebody will ask me, Is this neo-
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point my finger to the pro­
vided School from which Christ has
been turned out j*dth the door slammed
in His face.
"The thought of it makes me bun'
my face In my hand and sob with sor
row and shame."
world safe for democracy Ireland
should have eerlous consideration,
"The Irish are a homogeneous peo
ple, and no other people In either Ms
rope o^Asla or the western continent
has ever made such a constant
enduring struggle for autonomy asid
independence aa the Irish race. T^JSJ
hold the undisputed world record tor
long-continued constancy and courage
Praises Irish In America.
"Let us not forget that Irish patriots
bore an Important part In all th*
struggles df the thirteen American
colonies for Independence."
General Sherwood cited the fact t|M
through the Instrumentality of fbm
United States Poland Is nqjm tree, and
that other nationalities in Euf&n
have been given their lndependenca.
He added:
"I am tor free Ireland for the Mpm
for free Poland for the Poles Apr
Armenia for (he Armenians for 8gfla
for the Syrians!, and for all pegiflm»
around the world who have shtfim
fidelity snd courage and nniislsngj,""
that they are entitled under God*i |e^
nign providence to live their tfwn
livee."
L. A, A. O. H. BOARp TO MEET,
The Hennepin County Board Hr
A. O. H. will meet with Division lfe.
10 in their
Club,
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