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SATMr.
DICKENS ON RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY.
In the otrigjiutl,preface to "Barnaby
Hjldge," Charles Dickens, the eminent
English novelist, has this to say eon
esrning religious bigotry: "These dis
turbances (the No-Popery Riots) are
impartially painted by one who has
HQ sympathy with the Romish Church,
though he acknowledges some
esteemed friends among the followers
of its creed. It is unncessary to say
that these shameful tumults, while
they reflect indelible disgrace upon
tUe time in which they occurred, and
all "who had act or part in them,
teach a good lesson. That what we
falsely call a religious cry, is easily
raided by men who have no religion,
and who in their daily practice set
at naught the commonest principles
of right and wrong that it is begot
ten of intolerance and persecution
tjiat it is senseless, besotted, inveter
ate and unmerciful, all history teaches
us."
THE CATHOLIC CONCEPTION
CHARITY.
OF
It will be a sorry day for humanity
"when the mediaeval conception of
Hiarity departs entirely from the
World. That charity has a spiritual
quality, blessing, like mercy, him that
gives and him that takes, is the simple
truth. The best exponent of the
mediaeval conception of human rela
tion is Francis of Assisi, that joyous
friend of man, who mingled with the
throngs of men to bring them peace.
i ..This prophet of poverty, whom
our generation is rediscovering and
appreciating as he lias perhaps not
•been known and appreciated since
they made him a saint, is certainly
the most fascinating and complete
embodiment of mediaeval charity,
with its lofty superiority to economics,
eugenics, organized charity, systematic
theology, and many another science
that was not yet born, sciences which
ill our own day have yet here and
•here to be reconciled to that other
wisdom which Francis presents.
Tempting as the mendicant friar's
philosophy is, however, we regretfully
liass it by for an even more authorita
tive source, viz., the teachings of that
THE LEADING OF A RACE TO GOD.
The spread of Catholicism, says
Sheila Alahon, is the only hope for the
iSegro of the future, for, despite edu
cational advantages, he is sure to fail
Without religion to guide him. It is
an established fact that the Colored
people of the South do not become
virtuous when they join the various
sects that flood the country. It is
only the Catholic Negro that shows a
wholesome respect for law and order
and his duty as -a citizen. There is
little or no crime where the Catholic
Negroes are in the majority whereas,
ou the other hand it is recognized
that a colored population especially
where illiterate preachers abound
Show no improvement—that the
jourts are filled with criminals in
ftriking contrast to the simple good
lives of the Catholic Negroes who
liave been carefully instructed in their
religion. The piety shown by this
$lhss of Negro is proverbial and their
lives an example that many of us
itoight follow with advantage.
It was to heli the Negroes of the
South particularly that the Board of
Catjiolic Missions was founded by the
Hierarchy arid 'the Rev. John E. Burke
wns made Director-General. He is
sending relief to poor missions and
helping to build schools and churches
ami paying the teachers. The Negro
children is his special care—to bring
them up good Catholics and train
them to be good citizens is his one
•aim. Every one should help in the
greatest work of the century—the con
version of the Negro of America.
HHp all you can by your prayers or
donations. He needs them all, for the
Work is a stupendous one— the lead
ing of a race to Cod. Millions and
ifiillions of souls will be the reward.
Help him in his great work. His
address is, Rev. John E. Burke. Di
rector-General of Catholic Missions
fi»r Colored People. The Metropolitan
iUdg., 1 Madison Ave., New York-
THE SISTERS OF THE BLESSED
SACRAMENT.
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacra
luent, of which Mother Katherine
Brexel of Philadelphia is the Found
er, afe accomplishing great things
among the Colored children in New
York,
says
house,
inv
Shiela Mahon. In*a small
e.aHereby
courtesv a convent,
right in lie earner of a densely popu-
lilted N- uft^iisl^Lct -these sisters live
otiu^-es to the teaching
op olt* f*ldren. Their school is
situated -O'l. iiie opposite side of the
sireqt, the building consisting of two
l&own «toiie houses made into one
ti accommodate the Colored children.
Ifere^the children flock in such num
bfers that Already plans have been
lAade for the erection of a large paro
|rial school and a site furnished for
taat purpose. The good sisters find
tpe children clever and quick to learn
tke great fundamental truths of Chris
tianity. Many of the children's par-
tK:cuy*e from the South seeking in
York the work they cannot find
home, the conditions in the South
being wretched, particularly for the
HOUT
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angelical doctor whom Pope Leo XIII
has declared to have supplied what is
even yet after seven centuries the
sound and natural basis of theological
instruction in schools and seminaries
already founded or to be founded for
the education of the Catholic clergy.
What says Thomas Aquinas as to the
test of the genuinely spiritual quality
of any charitable act? His test is that
true charity will inspire in the bene
ficiary a desire to pray for the giver.
And now what will be thought of an
attempt to drag such a proposition as
this from its scholastic setting and
offer it for serious consideration in a
modern journal of constructive phil
anthropy?
What is taken by force is not char
ity nor is that properly so called
which is given grudgingly, or after
much solicitation, or with humiliating
conditions, or with ostentation, or as
insurance, or for one's own spiritual
satisfaction, or impersonally, as
moral or civic duty. Such gifts may
relieve distress, or even prevent it,
but they lack the personal relation and
inspire no grateful prayers. It is not
true that the poor want only groceries
and clothing and shelter nor is it
true that even when they want these
it is a matter of indifference from
whom they come or how they come, or
at what price they are obtained. The
poor are human individual men and
women, young men and maidens
boys and girls and babies—not
"cases," not "dependent families in
their homes," not "widows, with de
pendent children," not "immigrants,'
or "tenement dwellers." Any one who
pretends to know the "poor," meaning
that he has solved a simpler problem
than to know humanity, is a charlatan
The charitable action which leads
one man to pray for another is not
limited to the plane of material relief.
It is not merely the hungry and the
homeless who ask for and accept what
they have not earned. Spiritual bene
fits, social courtesies, personal consid
eration, expressed in a thousand in
genious ways, will operate as charity
calling forth devout benediction, long
after all need of alms fias forever dis
appeared.
The unit of exchange will not be a
labor hour, but the inspiration of a
prayer.-* _E Devine, In The Survey
MISSION FIELDSA
Catholic Negroes or those who wish
to be instructed in the Faith. Many
converts have been made among the
Negroes—in New York, the children
being a great factor in bringing them
into the fold. So great has been
the success of this mission that the
Sisters find it difficult to attend to all
their converts and are asking young
Catholic women to come to their as
sistance as teachers in the Sunday
School and Christian doctrine classes.
The Board of Missions of which
Father John E. Burke is the Director
General, helps to support this mission
by paying the salaries of the teach
ers. This is only one mission out of
the many that the Board relieves.
Particularly is it busy among the
many poor missions of the South. The
more missions Father Burke is able to
help, the better pleased he is, but it
is with the poor Negroes of the South
that his thoughts linger on, for he
knows the difficulties they are labor
ing under for religious instruction—
and his great heart is with the heroic
missionaries who have gfven their
lives to this apostolic work. Why do
the Catholics not help more in this
spiritual work of converting the Ne
gro in America? Are we asleep or d®
we shut our eyes to the efforts that
our separated brethren are making in
this particular field of labor, spending
millions to prosletyze and win them
over to the various sects?. v_
If every Catholic in the United
States would send a donation no mat
ter how small—the end would be in
sight, for schools for the Negro chil
dren could be built and churches es
tablished and the great. work he
speedily accomplished.
No greater spiritual worj£. could be
practiced than helping in the saving
of souls. Our donations will act as
prayers for the convertion of the Ne
gro. Every stone put in a church
or school will hetp to spread the
fraith among them.
BISHOP NEEDS BOAT.
Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Epis
copal Church in the Philippine Islands,
has a mission boat which he calls
"Peril" but which according to Father
Truemper a Catholic missionary in
the Philippines is a misnomer. "It is
not the Episcopalians who constitute
the peril but the Baptists," insists
Father Treumper, "and neither is it
every bishop in these islands who* is
fortunate enough to have his own
boat, luxuriously furnished, as is the
case of the Protestant Episcopal
Bishop, Chas. H. Brent. My own
Bishop, the Right Reverend Bishop
O'Dougherty, has to do much -traveling
by boat, and he has to depend upon
getting passage as best he can. He
needs a boat, among a thousand other
things. He told me that he had writ
ten over two hundred letters to peo
ple in America with whom he was ac
quainted, but only a few answered and
they gave sympathy. I do not see
what the Bishop is going to do if
lie does not get the much needed help,
for as you Americans say, 'he is cer
tainly up against it.' I am working
here without a cent of salary, i get
my meals though, to suppose I
should not complain
'This island is the best of all the
Philippines. The cumaie is the best
of any part of the Philippines. It
is cooler here than in any other part,
and best of all the nights are cool.
The soil is the richest in the world.
It is 30 feet deep—a rich black al
luvial. We have the finest timber
land in the known world and land
can be bought from $2 to $10 an acre.
Then we have plenty of water and
good seasons. A person can raise four
crops here, and anyone investing in
cocoanuts can double his money each
year. I am in hopes that this island
can be regained by the Catholics for
it is the very Garden of Paradise."
Bishop O'Dougherty, in whose dio
cese Father Treumper is, is without
doubt, the poorest Bishop under the
American flag. Perhaps the price of
useless
luxuries that Catholics inflict
upon themselves, sent to him, would
mean the saving of his diocese. Any
donations received the Church Ex
tension Society, whose offices are lo
cated at 1133 McCormick Buildin
Chicago, 111., will gladly send him.
Intentions for Masses are especially
welcome. The reverend clergy have
been exceptionally thoughtful in send
ing surplus intentions to the Society
for poor priests in the mission. In
Father Truemper's case such inten
tions are especially welcome.
CATHOLICS RESPOND GENEROUS­
LY TO APPEAL.
In the July issue of Extension Maga
zine an appeal was published headed
"Some Things That God Needs."
They were things that God permitted
Himself to need in the person of
His priests and the generous respon
ses that this appeal brought in are
only further evidences of the gener
osity of American Catholics when
once they realize that their fellow
Catholics are in want. Twelve
churches have been donated as a re
sult of this plea. Moreover, more re
sponses are coming in all the time.
American Catholics are beginning to^
realize their responsibility. They are
beginning to learn that the secret of
receiving much is giving something to
God.
The President of the Catholic
Church Extension Society has a the
ory that most people in good health
and holding steady positions, could,
at some time or other in their lives
build a chapel. They could inflict self
denial weeks upon themselves, or do
many things. He insists they would
never miss the money or rather that
they would receive again as much as
they gave. But there are many who
cannot save $500. They may not be
able to build a church but they could
do other things. Here is a list of
things the Society needs to fill the
requisitions of poor priests. Here al
so is the cost of things
Albs cost .from $6 to $15 each.
Altars cost $50 each.
Altar cards cost from $2 to $10 each.
Candlesticks cost $10 each.
Chalices cost $15 each.
Ciboria cost $15 each.
Copes cost $15 and upwards each.
Crucifixes cost $2.50 each.
Missionary Mass outfits cost from
$100 to $110 each.
Monstrance or Ostensoria cost $20
each.
Missals cost from $4 to $10 each.
Stations of the Cross cost from $7
to
$12
a set.
Statues cost $215 a piece.
Vestments cost $15 a set.
The Society has hundreds of requi
sitions on file for all of these articles
and also 14 requisitions on1 hand for
organs. An organ is a great gift to
a mission and supplies many defects
in the furnishings of churches. Other
needs are altar cloths. Surely the
making of altar cloths for poor mis
sions will appeal to many Catholic
needlewomen. Size and directions
will be gladly given upon request.
Any information regarding any of
these gifts will be furnished upon re
quest by the Catholic Church Exten
sion Society, whose offices are lo
cated at 1133 McCormick Building,
Chicago.
MOTOR CHAPEL "ST. JOSEPH."
The new motor chapel "St. Joseph,"
donated by a California woman, if
keeping the record set by the "St
Peter" for bringing fallen away Cath
olics back to the Church as well as
bringing in converts. Like the "St.
Peter, this car is in charge
of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
These fathers are tireless missioners,
going from one town to another in
the wilds of Texas, and needless to
say creating a sensation by means of
the "St. Joseph" which proves fruit
ful in the saving of souls. These
Mexicans, sadly neglected by our
Catholics, are very ignorant of the
fundamental truths of our holy relig
ion, and indeed one can hardly blame
them. Even the densely populated
centers of Catholicity where the lux
uries of worship are to be found, pro
duce but few saints, and if these peo
ple, forgotten" as to churches and
priest, produce many socialists and
even indifferenticts, one cannot blame
them for being ignorant of what t^ey
were never taught.
"One day," says ^Father liphlen, O.
M. I., "when I was giving a mission
to a ranchero on the Rio Grande, I
was saying Mass, and when I turned
around to say Dominus Vobiscum, a
Mexican woman, unused to the Mass
thought I was going to say good morn
ing. and she anticipated me. 'Good
morning, Father.' she called to me,
did you spend a good night.' It was
simply ignorance on her part and her
intention was good. These people
have been 'sadly neglected. We are
doing all .we can to bring them back
and renew the faith that they received
in Baptism in their souls, but empty
handed it is a hard work. The great
bait we have for them is stereopticon
views. A friend of mine loaned me a
set of pictures—they were mostly upon
the mysteries of the Rosary. When
we say the Rosary one of the Fathers
puts the slides on the screen and
explains the picture. These Mexi
cans are enamored of them. They
will walk
five
miles to
be
THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, SEPT. 26, 1914.
Saint Teresa Normal School
Full two year courses in regular normal
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Saint Agnes Grammar School
Normal Model and school for little girls.
Special Normal Diplomas in
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Gymnasium Work.
the pictures and incidentally at the
church. I wish I had the whole series
of Christian Doctrine, heaven and hell,
and purgatory, the life of Christ, and
views in the lives of the Saints. I be
lieve it would be a great benefit in
the conversion of these people. It
would prove a material help. Then I
could use holy pictures and medals.
I like to give them to the children,
and indeed at times to the grown-ups.
The chapel cars are doing great
work, but the work would be made
permanent by means of chapels. The
cars are or should be the precursors
of chapels. They should blaze the
way for little chapels along the plains
of Texas. If there would be more
chapels in this vast country Catho
licity would flourish here with a ven
geance. The Protestants are not slow
in erecting them, but we of the true
faith seem to lag listlessly in the
back ground."
Father Pohlen is but one 'bf the
many priests of the Oblates of Mary
Immaculate, who are laboring So zeal
ously for the conversion of Texas, and
the Catholic Church Extension Socie
ty, whose offices are located at ll33
McCormick Building, Chicago, have
been instrumental in erectirig many
chapels in the territories of these
priests. Any donations sent in for
them should be addressed to the So
ciety. They will be promptly and
cheerfully forwarded.
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