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QUESTION fANSWER.
Name some books that treat of voca
tions to the religious life.
The following books treating of vo
cations to the religious life can be pro
cured from any Catholic bookseller.
"Questions on Vocation," by a Vincen
tian Father "Choice of a State of
Life," by Father Rossignoli, S. J. "In
troduction to a Devout Life," by St.
Francis of Sales "Devout Christian,"
by Bishop Hay "The Practice of Chris
tian Perfection," by Father Rodriguez.
These and many other books of a
similar nature deal more or less di
rectly with the questions that apper
tain to the religious life and treat the
question of vocation thereto. In this
connection one may read with profit
the lives of the Saints who, by their
exemplary fidelity to the call of divine
grace, are examples which all may
imitate in following the vocation to
which God calls them.
1. Whom did Cain and Abel marry?
If they married their own sisters, what
were their sisters' names? 2. Are the
American Indians of the race of Adam?
If so, how did they cross the ocean
from Europe?
1. Cain married his sister. How
could it be otherwise? Adam and Eve
and their sons and daughters (Gen.
v, 4) were the only people on earth at
the time. There is no mention in Holy
Scripture of Abel's marriage, nor are
the names of the daughters of our
first parents recorded. 2. Belief in
the unity of the human race postulates
the descent of the American Indians
from Adam and Eve. The route which
they followed in coming from the Old
World to the New has not been traced
•with any degree of accuracy. It is
commonly supposed that they crossed
from Asia to America by way of the
Aleutian Islands, which form a chain
across Bering Strait.
Will you please tell me where I can
obtain Lourdes water and whom I
should address?
Some priests keep a supply of water
of Lourdes always on hand. If your
pastor cannot supply you, you may
be able to procure some by writing to
the Reverend Marist Fathers, 506 Ce
dar Street, St. Paul, Minn. If they
cannot accommodate you, procure the
address of the Fathers in charge of
the Grotto at Lourdes from your pas
tor and write them directly.
Can a novena be made by saying the
prayers at home and going to church
to receive Holy Communion on one of
the days, if one is prevented from go
ing to church to say the prayers?
rv
In this department, questions of general interest in regard to
answered each week in the order in which they are received. All communi
cations must be signed, though the name will notbepublished. Address:
"Question and Answer", care The Catholic Bulletin, 315 Newton Bldg., St. Paul.
In these circumstances it is not
necessary to go to church to say the
prayers. Furthermore, if a person is
prevented by illness or other cause
from receiving Holy Communion dur
ing the Novena, he can fulfil the re
quirements by the reception of Holy
Communion as soon afterwards as pos
sible.
Can a Catholic marry a divorced
Protestant provided the latter becomes
a Catholic? Under what circumstances
can they get married in the Catholic
Church?
The laws of the Catholic Church do
not permit the marriage of a Catholic
to a divorced person whether the lat
ter is a Catholic or not, if there has
been a real divorce. If the first mar
riage of the Protestant is recognized
as valid by the Church, then he cannot
lawfully contract another marriage
whether he becomes a Catholic or not.
What is the price of a year's sub
scription to the Catholic Bulletin for
the United States and for Italy? Must
it be paid in advance?
The subscription "price is $1.50 a
year for the United States, and $2.00
for other countries. It must be paid
in advance and, unless the subscriber
renews promptly, the paper will not be
sent after the expiration of the time
for which the subscription is paid..
Who was St. Olaf?
St. Olaf was King of Norway in
the eleventh century. It is probable
that he was baptized by Archbishop
Robert at Rouen in France, about the
year 1010. When he became King of
Norway he made a determined effort
to introduce Christianity into his
kingdom. With this end in view he
endeavored to exterminate the old
faith and heathenish customs of his
countrymen. He demolished the
temples of the pagan gods and built
Christian churches in their place. His
continual endeavors to bring about
the unity of Norway and his efforts
on behalf of Christianity aroused the
resentment of the people who rose in
rebellion against him and forced him
into exile. After a brief exile he re
turned to Norway at the head of an
army and, in the battle at Stiklestad
in 1030, he received a mortal wound.
Many miraculous occurrences are re
lated* in connection with his death.
Belief in his sanctity was wide-spread
during the middle ages not only in
Norway but in Denmark, Sweden and
elsewhere. In 1856, a Church was
erected in his honor in Christinia
where a relic of him is preserved
and venerated. St. Olaf is regarded
by the Norwegians as a great cham
pion of national independence.
Is there any obligation to assist at
Benediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment?
relj£on
wlU
There is no obligation binding un
der pain of %aortal sin to assist at
Benediction. But Catholics who rea
lize what Benediction means, and
what graces it conveys, will make it
a point to be present whenever it
is at all possible.
POPULAR CATHOLIC LITERATURE
The Biblical Book. Meditations
and Prayers. By Joachim M. Cullen.
Published by the Westminister Press
(Gerrards, Ltd.) 411a, Harrow Road,
London, W.
This work was first published in
Spanish, in 1903, by the author, Joa
chim M. Cullen, Doctor of Laws, of
Buenos Aires, in the Argentine Re
public. The English translation is
made by the author from the second
Spanish edition.
The title of the volume is explained
and its contents indicated by the fol
lowing excerpt from the preface:
"The whole book, up to the Mass, has
been exclusively formed with the
biblical verses quoted at the end, put
together by order of ideas, and with
not a single word that may not be
found in the Sacred Books.
"This book then contains a textual
excerpt, although really imperfect, of
the Old and New Testaments. It has
no explanatory notes because the
abundance of the texts has made it
possible, without doctrinal inconveni
ence, to suppress those that, on ac
count of their conciseness or figura
tive style, require explanation." The
work is divided into two volumes
(bound together in the English ver
sion), the first cdntaining meditations
on God, on self, and on thy neighbor
the second prayers for Confession,
Communion, etc., as well as the Ordi
nary of the Mass. These prayers are
selections from the Holy Scriptures.
"The Biblical Book" is, therefore,
in reality a textual abridgment of the
Inspired Books in which the biblical
verses are joined together in the or
der of ideas. When one considers
the labor and patience involved in the
production of a work of this kind, not
to speak of the intelligence, original
ity, and natural ability which the
author must display in the selection
and arrangement, he is amazed at the
result. The text reads as smoothly
as if it were not blended in this
manner. The sequence of sentences
and ideas is natural and the different
texts brought forward under each
heading are apropos. The author
has succeeded in producing a very
instructive and devotional as well as
readable book. It is intended pri
marily for the laity, Catholic and non
Catholic but it can be used with
profit by priests who desire to have
in a compendious form' the principal
texts bearing on a given subject.
Copious references to the texts used
under a given heading are found in
the index at the end of each volume.
Secular News of the Week.
The Duluth, South Shore and At
lantic railway, subsidiary to the
Canadian Pacific, and which operates
in the three states Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan, in getting a
temporary injunction to prevent the
2-cent passenger rate law, enacted at
the last session of the Legislature, to
take effect August 1, from being en
forced, has based its attack on the
theory that a 2-cent rate would be
confiscatory, in violation of the four
teenth amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States. The tem
porary injunction is effective until
September 20, when the case will be
argued on its merits before three
Federal judges.
Work has been started on the Valier
Irrigation project in Montana. The
contractors have assembled a force of
one thousand men and five hundred
teanrs with which to push the work
of the contract, which is to be com
pleted by June 1912. The project calls
for the irrigation of 156,000 acres of
which water is already on 25,000 acres.
A committee of citizens from
Lawrence, one of the largest cities in
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
a chosen delegation of responsible
business men waited upon Gov. Foss
in July, and for the loan of $500,000
offered to barter away the right of
the citizens to govern themselves for
a period of ten years. A story of a
city's shame was told and its dark
ened history exposed. M. T. White,
former Mayor of Lawrence, now oc
cupies a cell in jail. Up to a few
months ago he was one of the most
respected citizens of the city and
widely known throughout the state.
He was accnsed and convicted of
complicity in graft cases. Then he
resigned the office of mayor. Graft
cries were raised every day and it
was found upon investigation that the
city was bankrupt. Hundreds of city
employes, mostly in the public works
department, have been discharged, as
there was no money to pay them.
It is believed in official circles that
France and Germany will be able to
unite the African knot by direct nego­
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THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, AUGUST 12, 1911.
tiations and without opening the
doors to the participation of Great
Britain and the other powers. Rosy
optimism, however, is not manifested.
The German foreign office was. fully
prepared for Premier Asquith's state
ment that Great Britain has not the
least disposition to obstruct a Franco
German agreement in West Africa,
and now asserts that it had earlier
assurances that Great Britain would
not intervene so long as Germany and
France were trying to settle the mat
ter directly.
"What will the harvesV be?" will
soon be solved once more for North
Dakota. With the threshing of wheat
in some sections of the state this
week, together with barley and oat
threshing, but with the wheat harvest
becoming general the fore part of
next week, it will only be a short
time before the threshing machines
will have told their annual story of
yields.
Barley seemingly yields well wher
ever it has been threshed, being 40
and 48 bushels an acre. Oats reports
received up to the present have not
been of the most flattering, although
the yields have been very fair. Wheat
reports up to the present are only
from districts that had light crops
and where the grain was matured too
early because of hot winds and no
rain.
Harvesting has been general in the
southern part of the state for some
time, but it will only become general
over the northern part of the state
during the coming week.
That actual work on the construc
tion of the Big Blackfoot railway in
Montana, admittedly of a branch of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound,
will begin at once has been announced.
The contracting firm of Clinton and
Applegate will at once begin work on
the new road's first unit, a twelve
mile stretch from Bonner to McNam
aras Landing. The road will tie up
with the logging road of the Big Black
foot Billing Company. The new road
will open up a rich country in the
Blackfoot valley, and it is expected
will eventually reach Great Falls.
Efforts are being made by the Dead
wood,. S. D., lodge of Elks to get a
herd of elks from Wyoming tor the
Black Hills. This movement com
menced nearly a year ago, when it
was first taken up with Congressman
Martin. Mr. Martin assured the local
men that he would exert every in
fluence at Washington to procure the
animals, but that first the Legislature
must pass a law creating a closed
season in South Dakota for elk before
the government would consider the
proposition. This was done by the last
Legislature and now the governors of
both South Dakota and Wyoming are
urged to use their influence to have
some elk brought from the Jackson
Hole country to the Black Hills, and
from present indications the loeal
Elks will be successful.
A. Beaumont (Lieutenant De Con
neau) won the $50,000 prize offered by
the London Daily Mail for the circuit
of Great Britain aviation race of 1,010
miles. Vedrines, a fellow country
man, will get second honors, the two
Frenchmen having distanced all of the
competitors. For miles along the
route they flew neck and neck, with
their machines, going faster than a
mile a minute. Both Frenckmen re
ceived an enthusiastic reception from
a huge crowd at Brookland, England,
the finishing point. Beaumont, on
alighting, was seized by admirers and
carried shoulder high to his tent.
Interesting sidelights on the pres
ent situation in Mexico and on the
probabilities of the return of the reg
ular army troops to their stations,
are shown in an article in the latest
issue of the Army and Navy Journal,
the official military organ of the gov
ernment.
It is said in the article that de
velopments probably will necessitate
the return of the troops to the bor
der in the near future that the Mex
ican trouble has only begun, and that
from all appearances news of any im
portance is suppressed by the new
government in Mexico, thus prevent
ing the real state of affairs in that
country from being known in the
United States.
President Taft, governors of states,
United States senators and profes
sors of the largest universities of the
country will unite to make the next
session of the National Conservation
Congress at Kansas City, September
25 to 27, an important event.
President Henry Wallace, follow
ing a conference with Thomas R.
Shipp of Washington, secretary of the
congress, this afternoon announced
that Mr. Taft will be there without
fail. The government will be repre
sented, in addition by Walter L. Fish
er, Secretary of the Interior Henry
L. Stimson, Secretary of War Sen
ator Bristow of Kansas, Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska and probably
Speaker Champ Clark. Incidentally
several aspirants for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency will at
tend. Among these will be Governor
Harmon of Ohio, Governor Marshall
of Indiana and Governor Wilson of
New Jersey. Mr. Bryan probably will
attend and Mr. Roosevelt has not de
cided definitely.
The Winnipeg civic authorities are
closely guarding against any attempts
by workmen to lay gas mains or
erect overhead pole lines on streets
without proper permits.
The expiration of the thirty-day
notice from the Winnipeg Electric
Railway company of its intention to
proceed with excavations for gas
mains has caused double precautions
to be taken. Every policeman ie
armed and has instructions to demand
permits from workmen for any dis
turbing of streets.
The city's municipal power will be
ready for distribution within a month
and the company hopes to block its
delivery.
Its efforts to educate the children
of the Iowa Sac and Fox Indians in a
school a few miles from the Indians'
farms, commonly called a reservation,
having proved a failure, the govern
ment is abandoning the Indian school
at Toledo.
It has been nearly impossible for
the government to compel the In
dians to send their children to the
school, and it has been possible only
by using force. The Indians object
ed to having their children away
from their homes at night.
So the government, after years of
unsuccessful effort, is abandoning the
big building which has cost Uncle
Same $20,000 a year to maintain, and
will erect a school building in the
midst of the Indian farms.
People all over the state are realiz
ing more than ever before the im
portance and benefits to their county
of an exhibit at the Minnesota State
Fair. Last year twenty-three counties
were represented at the Fair and this
was thought to be a large number.
This year, six weeks before the open
ing date, thirty counties have engaged
space and made arrangements for
larger and more representative ex
hibits than ever before. The prospect
of the Minnesota State Fair becoming,
what it ought to be, a composite
picture of the state's resources and
possibilities, is increased by the grow
ing interest in county exhibits.
(Continued from page i.)
CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION.
orders. It is easy to see the reason
why. It is sad to think that many
Catholics fail to appreciate what the
religious have done and some not
knowing even depreciate their work,
make little of it. Only the ignorant
do that, however.
Don't Patronize Secular Schools.
As to the recommendations of the
committee to the Knights of Colum
bus as a body we feel that just at the
present moment the best possible
thing that could happen would be to
have a body of men like the Knights
recognize that our Catholic education
had developed very wonderfully and
that there now is no excuse for send
ing Catholic youth to secular schools
If the recommendations of this com
mittee should accomplish no more
than that next year no child of any
Knight of Columbus that could go
to a Catholic school should be sent
to a secular school, we feel that very
much would be accomplished. After
this the most important thing is that
Knights out of their knowledge should
become educational apostles and
evangelists, men who have accepted
a mission to announce the good tid
ings of Catholic education to all other
Catholics and especially to Catholic
parents. As a rule, Catholics are not
nearly so familiar with what is being
accomplished by our people as they
ought to be. This is particularly true
with regard to education, literature,
art and music. Every Catholic should
make it his business to know what
Catholics are accomplishing in these
lines. We have much more than our
share of the literary men, poets, and
the artists who are doing things
worth while in this country and the
same thing is now getting to be true
of education. Let us hope that Catho
lics generally will come to realize that
above all that the Knights of Colum
bus will do so.
Endowments Needed.
Moire than anything else just now
money Is needed for the development
of Catholic education. A distin
guished foreign jurist occupying s
high political position who visited this
country some time ago, said that tli
surprise among foreign Catholics wss
that thus far no wealthy Catholic ha?
given any great gift to education.
One such gift, that of Count Creigh
ton in Omaha, has been made and is
being used to magnificent purpose.
There is no doubt that in the midst
of the present reaction of the con
servative methods of education gen
erous giving on the part of American
Catholic millionaires would give Cath
olic education great prestige, and an
opportunity for successful teaching
that would be well taken. In the
meantime let the laity among Catho
lics feel ashamed at how much less
they have done for Catholic education
than our clergy and religious, and let
us be ready to make some of the per
sonal sacrifices that they have made
with such wonderful zeal and that
now, thank God, are being crowned
with such magnificent success.
WANTED
By an experienced cook and house
keeper, a position as housekeeper for a
priest in or out of the city. Address:
C. T. Care: The Bulletin, St. Paul.
HOUSEKEEPER
An American Catholic Lady of middle
age wishes a position as housekeeper for
priest. Address: J. J. Care Catholic
Bulletin.
FOR SALE
New three story brick building. Home
for street car
men.
at.
*&•.
Large dining room.
Rooms always filled. Bargain. Owner
retiring account ill health. Write Frank
J. Raway, 616 Mew York Life Building,
St. Paul.
BETHLEHEM ACADEMY
-Faribault, Minnesota^
Under the direction of the
Sisters of St. Dominic.
Classical, Scientific, Normal and Commercial Course*.
Special Facilties for the Study of Music and Art.
For Year Book Or Information Address DIRECTRESS
ST. MARGARET'S ACADEMY
Conducted
by
the Sisters
of St. Joseph
DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
ACADEMIC, COMMERCIAL AND PRIMARY DEPARTMENTS
MUSIC—A new Conservatory with ex- ART—Superior advantages for the
cellent facilities for vocal and in- Study of Drawing, Decoration,
strumental training in all branches. Oil and Water Color Painting.
ELOCUTION AND EXPRESSION
Address the Sister Directress
13tfi St. Between Hawthorn and Linden Aves., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
HOLY ANGELS' ACADEMY
643 Fourth St. North, Minneapolis, Minn.
Boarding and Day School For Girls
FOR TERMS APPLY TO THE DIRECTRESS
COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS
ST. PAUL, MINN.
Under the direction of Archbishop Ireland.
Faculty of thirty instructors, priests and lay
men. Catholic military college, twice designated
by the War Department as one of the ten "Dis
tinguished Military Schools" of the country. Sit
uated in beautiful and extensive grounds on the
banks of the Mississippi. New residence build
ing costing $125,000.00 in course of construction.
a e u o a a n e i i o u s a i n i n o i n e
with the best methods of mental and physical de
velopment. Collegiate, commercial and prepara
tory departments. Nearly seven hundred students,
representing fifteen states, registered last year.
For illustrated catalog, address
Very Rev. H. Moynihan, D. President
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LE SUEUR. MINN.
HIGH SCHOOL and Elementary Branches are taught.
A COMMERCIAL COURSE is offered to those who do~ not wish to follow a
full High School Course.
THE MUSIC COURSE is thorough and complete.
Those desiring to prepare for Teachers' Examinations are given special
attention. Pupils may register at any time.
For Particulars apply to
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH Le Sueur, Minn.
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AT onY,
CCLESmS13ICJlL
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STEEL CEILINGS. SMOKESTACKS, VENTILATING PIPES
Manufacturer-of Galvanized Iron and Copper Cornice. Sky Lights and Ventilators.—Roofing in
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Tri-Stale Phone 7118 so. ST. PAUL, MINN.
W. H. GRADY 6 CO.
General Contractors
General Office: 367 Prior Ave. St. Paul, Minn.
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