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K CTRINAt POPULAR APOLOGETICS. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY REV. JAMES WALCHER. I. Religion—-{food Enough for tht i* a People. I* Objection: Religion is .necessary for the people, that is, for the common people without a higher education, a8 a means to Keep them in check but the educated need no religion to live decently. Answer: 1.) Either religion is tfufe, or it is not true. If it is true, it 1s true also for the educated. But if .. it is not true or only half true, it would be & shame and disgrace to try to keep the people in cher)| by means of lies and deceit. That would be using bad means to attain a good end, which is toeVer allowed. 2.) Where does higher education begin? With the high school or college graduate? With the girl who has graduated from an academy? With the capitalist who lias never studied anything but the daily paper and the stock exchanges? With the laborer who, instead of going to church on Sunday, goes to the club or some so cialistic meeting and there hears a lecture on "education"? *3.) That all men, also the educated, fried religion to live decently "is a m&tter of daily experiences and is de manded by sound reason. Where do we find the greatest scandals, if not fat the ranks of the educated? But "most of these educated people are ^without religion, which explains their .unscrupulous conduct.. i II. Religion—a Matter of Taste. Objection: Whoever has no taste for music should not be bothered with it. I have no taste for religion and hence don't want to be bothered with it. Answer: My dear sir, please tell me what do you mean by religion? What! You ddnt'know and still you pass judgment on it? Religion is the relation of man to God, or to be more exact, it is the sum total of the truths and obligations arising from this relation. Or we can say: Religion is the worship of God in the wider pense of the word. *The religious obligations are at least sacred, I should think, as the duty of1 paying one's taxes. If one should say: I have no1 taste to pay taxes, tyence 1 don't want to be bothered "V^ith it, he would soon find out the differ 6rice between duty and taste. III. Religion—a Matter of Sentiment Objection: Religion is a matter of sentiment therefore good for children and women. We men exercise our un derstanding and our will and have no k^|t'6"l6r sentimentalities. 'Answer: What a grand man! With your clear understanding and firm will yOti are 'just made for religion for ,tile conviction of the truth of the doc trines of religion and the faithful ful filment of religions duties are the very essence of religion, whilst senti ments are only accidentals. Senti mental, untrue and unreasonable feel 1 ings are even harmful to true religion. True religion does not consist in "camp-meeting antics, but in .faithfully doing your duties towards God, your neighbor and yourself. 2 IV. Religion—Something for Women. 1 Objection: Religion is good for women. The man must tvork and tend. to business, the woman may pray. Answer: The woman must work tdo with her, too, idleness would be the beginning of all vice. But the :man must pray too. Work for the -love of God is one part of religion therefore a good intention in all our doings, and prayer and religious wor ~ship i^ the other part. Both must practice the whole of religion, not a part only. Work and pray! V. Religion— Invention of Priests. Objection: Re.lgion is an invention of priests, Answer*- #utr my dear sir,-whence the priests? According to your view there mu§t have been priests before there' was- religion, before God was worshipped. That is just .as smart as to say that railroads are*an invention of railroaders. SEPTEMBER, DEDICATED TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS. It might at first sight appear a little incongruous that this month should be sacred to the memory of Our lAdy's Dolours. September disputes •with May first place among the twelve months of the year for beauty and attractiveness. At no other sea pqn does external Nature feast our fej'es with feuch a wealth of color, such tranquil skies, such mystic-^lendor'of sunset or golden glory o». Mvn. The heats of summer are over, the winds of winter sufficiently refcote and if the reddening tints upon the trees are harbingers of decay and symbols of dissolution, there affe the crowded granaries and thickly dotted corn e are not inter-night of Nature there is a -sense of deep contentment, of garnered harvests, of Sabbath rest, after the days of toil. It might well seem, then, as if sorrow %ere an impertinent intruder at such aftime, as if, indeed, it were almost want of gratitude for God's lavish bounty to let our thoughts dwell upon the darker side of lif6. %mlA* to remind us tfhat we -%n£rspared' for the long wlr haf TV V But alas! in human"life soiWw knows no seasons and keeps no calendar. George Eliot, in the greatest of her works, has a reflection so ftill of poignant truth that it deserves a '•Trail citation: "What a glad world 'this looks like, as one drives or rides along the valleys and over the hills! I have often thought so when in foreign countries. Where the fields and woods tomb looked to tn* like .»•* *v .«m- KSTURGIC -as*"* our English Loamshire—the rich land tilled with just as much care, the woods rolling down the gentle slopes to the green meadows—I have come upon something by the roadside which has reminded me that I am not in Loamshire: an image of a great agony—the Agony of the Cross. It has stood, perhaps, by the clustering apple-trees, or in the broad sunshine by the Cornfield, or at the turning by the wood where a clear brook Was gurgling below and surely, if there came a traveller to this world who knew nothing of the story of. man's life upon it, this image of agony would seem to him strangely out of place in the midst of this joyous Nature. He would not know that hidden behind the apple-blossoms, or among the golden corn, or under the shrouding boughs of the wood, there might be a human heart beating heavily with anguish." Another modern novelist has said very justly: "All the beauties and all the wonders of the world mak£ but a blurred- picture to eyes that look through the lens of tears." Iadeed, in hours of real a!Tliction, our sorrow is only accentuated by the contrast between the corroding care within and the tranquil beauty of the out ward world, in its seasons of, repose. We are all more or less victims of what Ruskin calls the "pathetic fal lacy," the belief, that is, that Nature should sympathise with our inward moods, mourning with the mournful and rejoicing with the glad of heart. But it does not. Rarely has there been a more beautiful Autumn than in 1914, when some of the fairest por tions of Europe were being converted into shambles. During the Battle of the Rivers an English officer wrote th'at his regiment was operating in the midst of a glorious landscape, and that in the lovely woods around the birds we/e singing, undisturbed by the roar of the guns. More terrible irony could not well be imagined. The howitzers could annihilate regiments of strong men but could not silence the tiny linnet! Even in September, then, our eyes may be forced to gaze upon the Autumn woods through "the lens of tears." And this September how many millions of eyes shall be al most too seared by tears of hopeless anguish even to notice the deepening yellow of the forest, the richer pur pie on the hills. Besides, our enjoy ment of Autumn, at best, is always sobered by an underlying hint of sad ness. It is glorious no doubt, but its glory is like the final strains of some high symphony that reaches its climax at the close. Not so unfitting ly then do we think of our dear Moth er's sorrows, those seven great and aojenin. moments in her earthly ^pifc grimage, in which she was privileged to share in that chalice of affliction which we all, in more or less degree, are forced to taste, and which her Divine Son was to drain to the bitter lees. She could hardly have been Mother of our "Sufferng God" with out a part in His sorrow, and could never have become the Consoler of the Afflicted, the Mother of our anguish-stricken race, with comfort and healing for the heart's deepest and most terrible suffering, if she had been exempt from the common doom. But, so far from being exempt, she had the special privilege of pre-emi nence in sorrow. Her Dolours ap proximated more than those of any other creature to the unfathomable suffering of her Son, and it is as Mater Dolorosa she wins her way most directly to the general heart of Chris tendom. Above all, when the chalice of affliction or bereavement is pressed to our lips, and we must drink it whether we will or no—it is then that the contemplation of her Dolours enables us to whisper Fiat, and strengthens us to stand upright under the shadow of the heaviest cross. It is then that we get a keener insight into the meaning of the mystery of pain. An intolerable heartache, that would otherwise wreck reason, is softened into Christian resignation by the reflection that God surely gave His most precious gift to her whom. He called Mother, and that gift was a diadem of thorns. And if, in spite of such reflections, the smouldering fires of revolt will flare up in the tortured breast, and patience and resignation seem too much for our sorely tried hearts, let us turn to her in fervent prayer and beg of her to obtain grace for us to bear our dolours as she bore hers. WTe shall thus make them, as she made hers, the source of incal culable blessings, of immeasurable mer% #pd unending reward. THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS. In the Communion of Saints, as un derstood by the Catholic, there is presehted to him, as never to the Protestant, says Monsignor Benson, the satisfaction of that which, per haps, next to the soul's need of God, is the deepest desire of his, nature— the need "of an open and authorized approach to the spirits of the blest. To the Catholic death is a separation on our side only, never on the side of the saints. To the Catholic believer "Mary looks down with her motherly eyes upon even the most miserable of the children df Eve: sinners, who by penitence have risen to sanctity, themselves help us sinners by their prayers and their sympathy holy vir gins intercede for the defiled, and martyrs for those who suffer. Indeed, God gives to the Catholic for every joy he renounces a thousandfold more for every darkness a hundred dawns for every human relationship that is sacrificed for Christ's sake a heavenly, instead for "lands and houses" the whole earth Which is His footstool for every cross a crown. And all this a hundredfold,. now in this present time, as well as life enrea* lasting which is eternal, ji vf, *•&%. 'if it" -IV A SAINT FOB THE WEEK. i ST. LAURENCE JUSTINIA. Laurence from a child longed to be a Saint and when he was nine teen years of age there was granted to him a vision of the Eternal Wis dom. All earthly things paled in his eyes before the ineffable beauty of this sight, and as it faded away a void was left in his heart which none but God could fill. Refusing the offer of a brilliant marriage, he fled secretly from his home fit Venice, and joined the Canons Regular of S. George. One by one he crushed every natural instinct which oould bar union with his Love, In th£ inces sant combat which he now waged with himself he measured hlsl suffer ings with the crucifix, their duration with the eternity for which he sighed. In sickness he bore unflinchingly wounds which the surgeon' trembled to inflict. He begged alms of his brother nobles, and stood their scorn unmoved. As superior and 'as gen eral he enlarged and strengthened his Order, and as bishop of his dio cese, in spite of slander and insult, thoroughly reformed his see. His zeal led to his being appointed the patriarch of Venice, but he remained ever in heart and soul a humble priest thirsting for the sight of heaven. At length the eternal vision began to dawn. "Are you laying a bed of feathers for me?" he said. "Not so my Lord was stretched on a hard and painful tree." Laid upon the straw, he exclaimed in rapture, "Good Jesus, behold I come." He died A. D. 1435, aged seVenty-fonr. When Laurence first entered relig ion a nobleman went to dissuade him from the folly of thus sacrificing every earthly "prospect. The young monk listened patiently in turn to his friend's affectionate appeal, scorn, and violent abuse. Calmly and kind ly be then replied. He pointed -out the shortness of life, the uncertainty of earthy happiness, and the incom parable superiority of the prize he sought to any' his friend had named. The nobleinan could make no answer he felt in truth that Laurence was wise, himself the fool. He left the world, became a fellow-novice with the Saint, and his -holy death bore every mark that he too had secured the treasures which never fail. LOST TREASURE 4 The dream was over, but with its going Susan's life had hung in the balance. Skill, the wonderful skill which science has attained saved her. She came back out of the shadowland to life, but not to its joy to the habit of existence without its hope. No one among her own, save her husband, had dreamed that Susan could feel so in tensely. Her sisters, Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Carter, were astonished. It was too bad about the child, but, then, they had kept Susan! For when Susan turned from them, parching for that which she had lost, «nd nearly—oh, very nearly!—finding it, only then had they realized What Susan meant to them all. "As for the baby, she will not miss it: she has never had it," they said. Susan would have laughed in pure mockery if she heard these words But, seated in her low wicker chair on the sunny porch, a thick shawl about her and the glory of her gar den stretching before her eyes, she heard nothing, said nothing she lived her own inner life and kept all others shut out from her. John Harrison was heartbroken, "Talk to her, make her talK to you," said Father Perry, of St. Anne's —Father Perry who had offered his daily Mass for her during that troubled week in which her life hung by a single thread. "Let her rid her self of this brooding spirit by putting words to her thoughts." They tried hard enough, Father Perry himself and her husband. But in the middle of a sentence Susan would pause and her eyelids droop wearily. After that she would say nothing. When he could stand it no longer, John Harrison went to Dr. Phelps. "She's not getting well." he Said abruptly. "She must get wfell." h'& added, with clenched hand* "Well—" Dr. PhelpSiP looked thoughtfuL 'Til see." "When?" asked John Harrison. "Today," he answered. "I'll go out today." He kept his word. Reaching the gate he had grown to know so well during the past few months, he opened it quietly. Susan sat up with sudden interest on toer face. He was pleased, wondering. Then he saw that she was not aware of his pres ence—her eyes were fastened on the cool green beauty stretching before her. He went up the steps and stood beside hetv Even then she did not see him. "Mrs. Harrison," he said. "Oh, Dr. Phelps! Good afternoon!" She was not surprised in any way. "Feeling better?" "Ever so much. A lifUe tireJL but that is nothing." He took the empty chair beside her and picked up her hand, holding a\ practiced finger an her pulse. He did not speak. At last he -p«fc^ her hand back on her knee, and s^ung about, looking down her garden path' "Mrs. Harrison," he said sharply, "what do you see down there?" She started. A pink flush touched her cheek. He felt that had arouse# her. His eyes met hers. "You must tell me," he said. "No?, don't look away. Listen! There never was any hope—never, unless God chose to work a miracle, and for some Wise purpose of His own He difln't." "You mean—my baby?" Her fingers met suddenly wad to gether. He nodded. "You see, He did work one miracle. You were able to have it baptized. That was a wonderful thing. Had it lived—by any possible chance had it lived—a cripple on earth, an angel in heaven. Which would you chon«, if the choice was youre?" .. -•,* ^1, ,•* THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 11, 1915. John M. Qleason lirwtnr attfc Isiitiaintgr 111 SOUTH NINTH ST. MINNEAPOLIS uOOD me?" asked Susaijt/Wifti a catch in her throat. 5 She knew, then! A quick thrill of hope shot through the listener's heart. Beneath this dfeaftting faiftasy her sane and sehsiblOj self held sway" 'But how would it be later? How would it be as the day! weht by and .the vision seemed evei' more'iahd 'more, a reality?' What then? °s:jr" ":,i'•'* He reached hia offic iate in'" the afternoon. Johh ^Harrison had' been waiting ah ho»r,i:frac1rijer the- floor for the last twenty minutes of it." Now he faced the Doctor almost flinging himself upon him. ,: "Well?" he demand'ed. ,'i "I've done—something?' Phelps., "I've seen Mrs Harrison and Father Perry, and- now yon go, home and see Father Perry, too, If you agree, telephone Mrs. Car,ter to^'have her machine dowti tomorrow* Your wife is hardly able te traVe^ yet tho choice will'^ de^volve-on her*'-1 -V John Harrison :Jckriteid[ h-i| b6"W,iIde,r- ment. -...y"" "It -ls th% way^faid^ th« p^ystciah, "Mrs. HarriSbir ira^gTnes ihe sees a child playing in the gardens So we'll give her a real child to care for—God knows there are enough of them in this world that.: need mothering. Father Perry wili attend to that part of it." -i I, CCpntlnued. on .page 7j. Order for Credliors to Pr«nent C'laimx, Etc. .. STATE OF MINNK-SOTA,- COUNTY OF Ramsey. "ss. Probate Court. In the Matter of thie Estate of "Wenzl Weniscb^. Peceapctt ... -Letters of Administration on the ES tatp of "VT^ftzt of th^ Counts: -0(»BrJ, iiftajte (K Minnesota, being granted to George N. Gerlaefc. Allien all demands against the said dereased. required to filj 1 MINN. THINOS "Oh, I know!" she breathed, I try so hard! Bnt—" Her eyes drifted hack to the gairdeQ. He ffe/t that he had lost the thread. But he persisted. "Come!" His "Soice 'was^ stern. "You have not told me what yilu pee.". She did not answer. "Tell me!" he urged., A frown of- annoyance curved her brows. That stem voice hurt, but it compelled.an answer... "I see a little qhild," she said.-"He is playing in my garden.- JJe builds houses of «fcpne$ gaad pebbles." Her. voice died off drepmily, and npw sh§ spoke as if all thie .were but a dream. "Once in a while he tires of his play and lies down—beside.-thfe road* Arid his hair—his haif is a tpatch of light on the ground. He,sit8 up, rubbing his eyes. Oh, tftey are so bltiev' 30 bright! They are like«star»!" v She was trembling. "You are satisfed to sit here watch ing him?"'His tones we?^ gentle nojy —Very, very 'gen^K "Y.es—I thijiij:^}!.^ .®?ntfe day, when my( feet can bear jny" \yeight, I am going down jto htaT^ ^cifnnot do so yet." Dr. Phelps said nothing, ITe. waited his brow^ niet. .. "Why—why don't ryoit. are .the same i,n.tli.e Probate, Court ofr.sai^ tro«ntF. J^, esarfliii»atiotr and allowance,, or We fove.ver ba.riel. It Is irdfr^d, '{'hat tVif tirfsf Monday 33Arih. ni1". a. m., at bate Court, to i^id at the Court House, in the City of Pt,T&ul. Jn said County, be and thft-iWQet h«reiby is ap pointed as the tinife arid place when and where the sai Probate Court will examine aftd .ftdjusls, said claims and e a n s And It Is Further ©rU^red. 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