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CONVERSIONS IN OSAKA.
The statement published by the
Right Rev. Jules Chatron on the re
sults obtained in his Diocese by his
missionaries is consoling. "The Dio
cese of Osaka counts 26 missionary
priests ministering to 3,872 Christians.
Last year 1,451 new names were
added to the Christian roll.
The Catholic schools have an at
tendance of 1,233 children. There are
eight churches in the Diocese and 21
small oratories. Twenty-one men
catechists and seventeen women
catechists help the missionaries to
extend the kingdom of Christ. There
are 418 orphans in Catholic asylums.
In concluding his report the Right
Rev. Bishop says: "These results are
rather modest and we cannot boast
very much. Still what labors, troubles,
attempts and reverses these 1,441 bap
tisms have cost to the missionaries,
God only knows! The soil that the
Church has given us to till is most
arid. Our poor people, in a mad race
for exterior civilization, progress and
industrial success, have not time to
lift up their eyes toward the spiritual
side of their destiny.
"Thanks to God our brave mission
aries are not discouraged. Even
though they cannot, as yet, provoke
a general movement toward Christian
ity, they spare no effort to gain souls
by lecturing night after night, and
distributing tracts and pamphlets. Let
us hope that the good Master will
bestow the grace that will open the
eyes and touch the hearts of our dear
Japanese.
"In the meantime, I have to face
difficulties, worries, reverses, disasters
and ungratefulness, etc., that embitter
my days and my nights. May God
mercy on us."
LAYMEN IN MISSION WORK.
The bulk of visiting and catechizing
is done by laymen in the field afar, at
least in countries such as China and
Japan. Hence a part in evangelization
is taken by the natives themselves.
But the part taken by native helpers
is, on account of their especial qualifi
cations, far in advance of the financial
responsibilities they are unable to
assume.
The Catholic laymen of our country
also have a duty to perform toward
the evangelization of the world.
ALMOST AN AMERICAN MIS
NONARY.
"I am here, at Wellington in charge
of an immense district comprising a
little more than 3,000 native Catho
lics," says Rev. V. Morin of the Dio
cese of Coimbatore, India. "All of
them or nearly all have been con
verted these last thirty years. They
are low, very low in the scale of so
ciety but nevertheless their souls are
precious before God. Their poverty
is great and the only income they
.have, comes from a ridiculous remun
eration they draw from Europeans
and soldiers they serve.
"Wellington is a small military sta
tion chosen as such on account of its
mild climate. The government some
twenty-three years ago built a small
chapel with a seating capacity of 200,
for Catholic soldiers. At that time our
native Catholics were so few that
there was room for them in the space
left vacant by the soldiers. But now
their number is so great and they are
so eager to perform their religious
duties that the government chapel is
quite insufficient. Moreover military
authorities are strongly objecting to
natives attending service in the mili
tary chapel. Therefore we are com
pelled to provide our natives with a
church. In the beginning of June last,
our Bishop, the Right Rev. A. A. Roy
Bishop of Coimbatore while making
his visit here entrusted to me the
care of collecting the funds necessary
for the erection of a church large
enough to accomodate 1,500 people at
a time, saying that the mission of
Coimbatore was unable to help me and
that I should begin at once to build,
lest our Christians having no place of
worship might lie tempted to join
heretical sects."
MODERN JAPAN.
Modern Japan, says a recent writer,
harbors.a strange mixture of beliefs
and tendencies. Every shade and
stripe of unbelief may be found—
skepticism, agnosticism, materialism,
and atheism, rung through all their
changes, each dressed in the garb of
Science, and all together contending
stubbornly with the old polytheistic
and pantheistic faith as well as with
Christianity. The real conflict that
Christianity has before it in Japan is
essentially the same which it has to
wage in Europe and America, theism
against pantheism and agnosticism
Buddhism is waning. It has 264 fewer
temples in 1908 than it had in 1904
and 280 fewer priests. The Shinto
shrines have lost still more.
INDIAN PARIAHS.
The condition of Pariahs is most
sad, they are at the foot of the social
ladder, rejected and shunned by all,
as the refuse of society. In fact they
are victims of the oppression of the
higher class people, their masters, who
claim them as slaves and hardly give
them enough to keep their bodies and.
souls together.
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In material condition the Catholic
Pariahs are worse off than the pagan
ones. "Their former employers,"
says Father A. P. Antoine, an East
Indian priest, "either give them no
work at all or cut down their wages
as low as possible. Times are hard,
rain scarce, harvests poor and famine
frequent. Hence starvation stares in
the faces of my poor Christians and
in most cases scares them away from
the country, and so, many of my
Christians unable to withstand so
much misery, quit their homes and go
to seek better fortune abroad. I would
have no cause of complaint on this
score, if the immigrants took their
wives and children along. But no!
they leave them behind, exposed to
starvation and unheard of privation.
What will they do, poor souls? They
knock about here and everywhere but
hardly find wherewith to live from
hand to mouth. Their last, but the
best and surest, in their eyes, re
source, is the Priest, their supposed
mammon god. It is to him they come
in procession, a long file of helpless
women and children. By the way,
who has not remarked that it is to the
poor that God grants a numerous
progeny? Yes, it is to the Priest they
come and cry out: "Lord we perish,"
and Christ saved the Apostles in their
agony and my poor Christians expect
the same from poor me in their
despair.
"What can I do of myself? Ask for
help from the Archbishop? He has
done much and all he could in days
gone by. The mission is poor. I my
self am the poorest amongst the poor.
I must throw myself upon the
liberality of the charitable Christian
souls."
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
The scarcity of Catholic teachers in
the Philippine Islands is deplorable.
We are to be blamed for it.
The result is that non-Catholic
school teachers obtain an influence
over the minds of the young to our
detriment. At times, this influence has
been used to forward Protestant
teachings in the school room. It had
to be stopped by the burean of educa
tion in the Philippine Islands, and an
order was issued directing American
school teachers to take no part in re
ligious work even outside of school
hours. We have a religious duty to
perform in our colonies. Catholic
school teachers are sadly in demand.
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THE PRIEST'S STORY.
tiful prayers for the dying, he raised
his eyes to the image of Our Crucified
Saviour and again he repeated the
ejaculation, "Heart of Jesus, have
mercy on me!" With his eyes on the
crucifix and those sacred words on
his lips, he* breathed his last and
the soul of poor, good-hearted Tom
Dolan went forth to be received by
Him Whom he had but a moment
before received. Just as I had fin
ished reading the prayers for a de
parted soul, the house surgeon en
tered the room.
"Father," he said, slipping his
hand in his pocket as we walked
slowly down the corridor, "here is
something that was tied around this
man's neck and we removed it when
we were preparing him for the opera
tion. I know it is not a scapular, for
I have seen so many of them that
I know one when I see it. Perhaps
you know what this is, Father?"
'I took the little piece of soiled
cloth and found it was a badge of
the Sacred Heart, on which I could
with difficulty make out the words:
"Heart of Jesus, have mercy on me!"
"Yes, doctor," I answered softly,
"I know what this is, and I think I
shall keep it."
'Placing the badge in my pocket
book, and deeply impressed, I hast
ened from the hospital into the storm
again.'
"The good priest paused and gazed
steadily into the fire.
'But that's not all, Harry,' he again
resumed. 'Reaching home, I thought
over all the circumstances and decided
to get the main facts in the case, so
on the morrow I questioned my little
acolyte as to his knowledge of the
affair. I learned that his father was
taken suddenly ill that night and
Willie was dispatched for the family
physician. On reaching his house the
boy was informed that the doctor
was oi^t on a call and might
not be in until morning, and was
advised to get his assistant, who lived
down the next street about half a mile.
After delivering his message to the
doctor's assistant Willie started for
home, a journey which necessitated
his crossing the main-line railroad.
As he was nearing the tracks he heard
the 10:45 limited come thundering
along. When he was within about a
hundred yards of the crossing the
train passed, and through the blinding
storm he could distinguish the lights
of the express leaping through the
blackness of the night. Above the
rumbling of the heavy train and the
wind and fury of the storm he thought
he heard a moan—a terrible cry of
agony. With fast beating heart and a
hurried prayer for the soul in distress
he hurried onward in the direction of
the moaning. As he reached the
tracks he heard a faint cry and there,
about ten feet away, was a man, hor
ribly crushed and mangled. Going
over, he knelt beside him and, look
ing closely into his face, he recognized
the injured man. He didn't know him
personally, but he had seen him and
he knew that he should have been a
Catholic. He was joined presently by
several passengers and members of
the train crew, for the engineer, see
ing that he had struck some one, had
stopped the train. The crowd, headed
by the brakeman with his lantern, the
light of which fell on the injured man's
face, eagerly pressed around to catch
a glimpse of him. 'The brakeman took
the man in charge and bolstering him
up, made him as comfortable as pos
sible and supported him, awaiting the
arrival of an ambulance which had
been sent for. From the heart of my
little altar boy, who had started at
once for my house, there arose to the
throne of God fervent prayers that
God might spare the life of the dying
man until he could get a priest. Strug
gling onward through the storm, the
brave boy finally reached the rectory
in the condition in which I described
him. I shall always remember that
act, and I feel that the noble soul of
Jpoor Tom Dolan in heaven was instru
mental in bringing nearer to him that
heroic boy, who did so much for him
on that awful night for he afterwards
became a priest of God."
'Harry,' he said, 'this is the badge
of the Sacred Heart which was the
direct means of getting the priest for
a dying sinner twenty years ago
tonight,' and as he unfolded it he read
the aspiration: 'Heart of Jesus, have
mercy upon me! V
'I learned the whole story of poor
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, DECEMBER 9, 1911.
Tom Dolan and the sacred emblem
several years later,' continued Father
McNamara, 'from a priest who had
known him in Ireland. It seems that
Tom had always been a tender-hearted
and good boy, for this priest told me
that, when he was attending the
Christian Brothers' school with him
in Cork, he was held up as a model
of piety and devotion, especially for
his love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
After finishing his course at the
Brothers' school he went to Maynooth
to study for the priesthood but the
poor boy was fickle and evidently had
no vocation, for on his first vacation
home he fell in love with a beautiful
young girl whom he met at the house
of a friend, and of course never re
turned to the seminary. In about a
year afterwards he proposed marriage
and was rejected. This disappoint
ment blighted his life and he came
straightway to America and settled
in the city of Millbury. He took to
drink to drown his sorrow, and to
that relentless appetite he soon be
came a slave but his early devotion
to the Sacred Heart was not to go
for naught, and in his hour of need
that Heart of infinite mercy and com
passion did not forsake him.
'Now, Harry, my boy,' he said,
looking, it seemed to me, into the
very depths of my soul 'I \?ant. you
to accept this /little badge' of the
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Sacred Heart as a memento of the
wonderful tenderness and compassion
ate mercy of the Divine Heart of Our
Lord towards all who show love and
devotion to Him, especially by observ
ing that beautiful practice of receiving
Him on the First Friday of every
month for He in His divine mercy
has promised that He will be their
consolation in life "and especially at
the hour of death." You are young,'
he continued, 'and the world and its
temptations are ahead of you, and as
a special favor I now ask you to keep
this badge as a reminder of Our Lord's
infinite mercy,'and also that you never
neglect the beautiful practice of re
ceiving Him into your heart on 'the
First Friday of every month. I want
you to carry this precious souvenir
with you wherever you go, and when
you feel like shirking your duty I ask
you to look at it and remember the
story I told you tonight.'
"I took the prized gift from those
dear anointed hands and dropped on
my knees for his blessing, for I felt
I was talking to a saint of God, and
there and then I made a promise to
the Sacred Heart never to let a First
Friday pass without receiving Holy
Communion, if it were at all possible.
"That's the story, boys, but I might
add that Father McNamara died only
last week in a Chicago hospital, as the
result of a disease contracted whilst
in the performance of his priestly
duties. And now you know wbv am
so anxious to make sure of my con
fession tonight."
Tom Word worth was the first to
break the silence:
"I'm going down to church with you,
Harry, and I'm going to confession,
and tomorrow I'm going to begin my
'Nine Fridays' all over again."
"And you can count on me, too,"
put in my room-mate, Larry Ryan,
wiping a tear from his big blue eyes.
"Same here," spoke Ned Lennon in
a husky voice.
"And I'm going to begin making my
'Nine Fridays' tomorrow, also," said
Dan Butler in the humblest of tones,
"and you just bet I'm going to keep
right on making them, too."
"Well boys, I'm glad of it," I sa£id
warmly, as I noted how deeply each
was touched by the wonderful story
of Divine mercy.
We filed out into the night air in
silence, each one seemingly wrapped
in his own thoughts. Finally Larry
Ryan spoke: "I'd like to ask a favor
of the crowd," he said, his frank face
showing, deep emotion, "and that is
that before we leave the church to
night we all go over to the altar of
the Sacred Heart and say a Rosary
for the repose of the soul of Father
McNamara."
It was a happy. suggestion and we
all cheerfully agreed to it and those
who saw the five young men kneeling
there together with rosary in hand
before the altar of the Sacred Heart
little suspected their beautiful secret,
for each made a solemn promise that
night to receive Holy Communion on
the First Friday of every month.
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