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An Epoch-Marking Book
Authors: McNabb Vincent 
Published: July 2007

The title page of this book runs thus :Synopsis Evangelica. Textum Graecum quattuor Evangeliorum recensuit et justa ordinem chronologicum Lucae praesertim et Joannis concinnavit R. P. Maria Josephus Lagrange, O.P., sociatis curis R. P. Ceslai Lavergne eiusdem OrdinisBarcinone. Apud Editorial Alpha, Via Laietana 30 MCMXXVI.We venture to speak of this book as epoch-marking because to find a precedent for it we should have to go back to Tatians Diatesseron. Indeed, if Tatians work was drawn up after his apostasy we have no precedent for Pre Lagranges Synopsis. Not that scholars have been without the almost indispensable help of Greek Synopses. Pfcre Lagrange, always so courteous in his thanks to scholars, whether believers or unbelievers, is at pains to show how the precedent set by Tatian has been followed of late years by such critics as Tischendorf, Huck, Larfeld. His own words of Latin preface are significant: Verum, quod mireris, ipsi critici a synopsibus graecis conficiendis non desistunt; inter quos Tischendorf, Huck, Larfeld nullus autem vir catholicusab omnibus laudantur. (Nevertheless, we may well wonder that these critics have not ceased to draw up Greek Synopses; amongst whom we must give praise to Tischendorf, Huck, Larfeldbut no Catholic!).If, then, Pre Lagrange has ventured upon a Greek Synopsis, and if Tatians Diatesseron is the work of a heretic, this Synopsis, dated from Jerusalem, WhitSunday, 1926, marks the close of one epoch of Catholic biblical study and the opening of another.
Mane Nobiscum Domine
Authors: Gray John 
Published: July 2007

Stay with us Lord, the day is travelled far;We meet Thee at its close.Lord, at our humble table sit and share,And be, our sweet repose.Pledge of our hospitality, the bread Is broken by Thy hands.Our quaking love, our most confiding dread Beholds and understands.Food of our souls enlightens and updries Our darkness and our tears.The Breaker and the Broken to our eyes Is all, and disappears.We cannot be without Thee, Lord, because The night is perilous;And anxiously our earthly journey draws To evening; stay with us.John Gray.
The Illusiveness of Modern Thought
Authors: Clayton Joseph 
Published: July 2007

Cardinal Newman held that modern thought needed reforming in the light of the Christian revelation, not the Christian revelation in the light of modern thought. The opposite and Protestant view prevails with the greater number of our neighbours who profess a theism and do not disdain to be known as Christians.But what is this modern thought,’ which daily with the steady destructiveness of an encroaching sea wears and crumbles the faith of Anglicans and free-church-men, and from time to time detaches Catholics from the household of faith? Whence comes it? A new impression of the Hibbert Lectures on the Reformation, delivered by Dr. Beard—a nonconformist divine—rather more than forty years ago, prefaced by Dr. Ernest Barker, the distinguished Principal of King’s College, London, bids us place the beginnings of modern thought in the break up of Christendom in the sixteenth century—in ‘the specifically religious revolution which we call the Reformation.’ Dr. Beard, with the persuasive reasonableness of a good Victorian, is content to let modern thought whittle away all Christian dogma, believing that mankind will thereby ‘penetrate more and more deeply into the glory and the wonder of God.’ Dr. Ernest Barker, maintaining that ‘the fundamental meaning of the Reformation is a new theology; and the new theology ‘a purer revelation of God direct to each Christian soul,’ hopes, with Dr. Beard, for ‘a new kindling and a further brightening of its light.’
The Sisters
Authors: Clegg Mary 
Published: July 2007

A French PortraitMile. Marie and Mile. Jeanne de Grandet were the last of a distinguished family of the Midi. I have often visited their little town, and I knew them and their ancient dwelling well. It was approached by way of a cobbled street, running close to the foot of the citadel.It was a charming place, rambling round a courtyard spaced and shaded with bay-trees and oleanders. To the world its aspect was grave and reticent; but giving on the paved and formal garden were galleries flecked with sun between the twisted branches of vine and wisteria, and purple to the spring and autumn skies. Old grey roofs were set with dormer-windows, from which you might watch the changes of light and colour on Pyrenean snows, or the flag flapping against the blue on the top of the Chateau Fort.Within, the house was dark. People of the Midi fear the sun, knowing him in his might; and so, at high noon of brightest midsummer, the house was full of mystery and shade. Such light as filtered through the shuttered windows fell faintly in the sombre rooms, lay still on the panelled walls, the aged tapestries, the ancestral furniture. Perhaps, after all, it was airless. One felt at first a little breathless, restrained, enclosed, as in a narrow valley among high mountains where the air is still and no flower stirs in the grass. But slowly the restraint became safety; the lack of movement, rest; the noiselessness, peace. Slowly there was distilled of ancient perfumes, of forgotten airs, the meditative voice of the race and family, enunciating eternal and Catholic verities to the grave and tranquil measure of the great French grandfather clock.
The Ethics of Prohibition
Authors: Isham Gyles 
Published: July 2007

The United States of America began eight years ago to deal with the drink problem on a national scale. Professor Gilbert Murray has ranked that experiment in the New World with another great experiment in the Old World, the League of Nations. These two stand for him as earnest of world progress.The vast majority of people in this country dismiss Prohibition with a shrug, and complain that it has nothing to do with them. They are hostile to it, as an idea, just as they are hostile to Bolshevism as an idea, but with this difference: the latter is a useful pawn in current politics : the former is not. I doubt very much whether the Liquor Popular Control Bill (known as the ‘Oxford’ Bill), and its rediscussion in the House of Lords in an amended form, has done more than annoy the Brewers and hearten the Temperance Societies—not that the ‘Oxford Bill is a measure of Prohibition: it is a measure of the country’s interest in liquor control. The Observer, which is a regular champion of the Bill and Temperance in general, takes to task the Government spokesman in the Lords debate for dismissing Prohibition in America by a contemptuous reference to Bootleggers. Yet American fiction and drama, as studied in this country, are largely responsible for this. The strength of Socialism in England could hardly Be gauged by the references of music-hall artists.Let there be no mistake. Prohibition is the biggest political issue in the United States since Slavery. In both contests, ideas and principles are at war. How little this is realised, even in America, can easily be shown.
The Romance of Philip D'Auvergne
Authors: Bracey Robert 
Published: July 2007

In the Ardennes, in what is now Belgian Luxemburg, there lies a wide tract of land some one hundred and fifty miles in extent, covered with mountain and forest, well wooded and well watered, which for long centuries formed the Sovereign Principality of Bouillon, under the suzerainty of France. Its tiny capital (known to every tourist) stands at the bottom of a little valley, where the river bends sharply round a precipitous rock crowned by a grim castle, once the home of the gallant crusader Godfrey of Bouillon. Its history, and that of its later Dukes, of the great French house of La Tour d’Auvergne, warriors and statesmen, Huguenots and Catholics, Generals of the Fronde, and Cardinals of Holy Church, may be found written by the Maurist Benedictines in one of those monumental compilations which were the glory of the eighteenth century.In the years preceding the French Revolution, the reigning Duke of Bouillon, Charles Godfrey de la Tour d’Auvergne, dwelt in his splendid Chateau of Navarre, near the city of Evreux, an anxious and troubled man. He had vast wealth and great estates, a park of one hundred thousand acres well stocked with game, a palace which was a miniature Versailles (Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire and Charles Edward Stuart had been its guests, and the ex-Empress Josephine would one day hold in it her sad little court). He had his gardens and his orangeries, his aviaries and menageries, his great stables filled with plunging horses and lumbering state carriages, his hot-houses, lakes and fountains, his pagodas and oriental pavilions. His house was filled with statues and paintings, and tapestries and lustres and porcelain, silver and gold and costly gems, obsequious courtiers, guards and lacqueys.
The Political Theory of Don Sturzo
Authors: Carter Barbara Barclay 
Published: July 2007

To many Catholics the condemnation of the ActionFranfaise by the Holy See has brought a sharp awakening, firstly to the dangers of dependence on a movement of alien spirit, and secondly to the need for a political theory giving full and adequate expression to the Catholic ideal.In view of this a study of the work of Don Luigi Sturzo is of especial interest, a work of which the informing principle, constant and invariable, has been the effort to permeate the political and social life of his country with the religious, moral and social elements of Christianity.If as a theorist this distinguished Sicilian priest ranks among the foremost political thinkers of the day, it is impossible to dissociate his theory and his practice, for he has invariably translated his ideas into action.His early education was classical and literary, with aesthetic tendencies, giving a large place to scholastic philosophy. Having completed his theological studies with the Jesuits of the Gregorian University of Rome he became professor of philosophy and political economy in the seminary of his native Caltagirone. Rerum Novarum was then four years old and the Christian Democratic movement in the ardour of its first youth. Under its influence his free hours were given to work among the peasants and workers whom he organised in co-operative, agricultural banking associations and trade unions, helping them in their fight against usury and exploitation.These activities, the charitable institutions and municipal bodies of which he was administrator, his work for afforestation, his position as Mayor for fifteen years of a city of 50,000 inhabitants, as General Vice-President of the Association of Italian Municipalities, as Secretary General of Catholic Action, as founder of the National Foundation for War Orphans, of the National Emigration Association, and institutions of kindred nature, make him appear more the man of action than the student.
Nature-Morte
Authors: Gray John 
Published: July 2007

La levre creuse et spheroide de l’air avide Suce nos &cres essences; desseche et vide De ses teintes virides la matière exquise D’une feuille qui s’attenue et se brise.Bulbes de lumi&re h queues tordues,L’imagier nous fait giser sur un plateau nu, Qu’agrée l’étoffe rayée qu’il a tendue dessous Pour faire plaisir à lui-même, que sachons-nous? Qui nous a créés, crois-tu, sceur oignonne, Dont nos joues nacrées nous-mêmes étonnent? C’est un chrétien des lointaines lies de la Gaule Qu’une fois voyait Gautier le plaid sur l’épaule.John Gray.
Ephesus and England
Authors: McNabb Vincent 
Published: July 2007

It is seldom that so good a book is given so good an Introduction as the Rev. Spencer Jones gives to the book of the Rev. S. H .Scott. We have rarely read a statement which made a greater appeal to be quoted in full. But we can quote only the following :’ After all, we shall find no sanction in Scripture for contradictory communions of Christians; nor at any time in its history does the Christian community appear without a prominent visible personage at the centre, in the Person of the Man Christ at the outset, of St. Peter, afterwards of the Pope; while it is into this community, not into the Church of England as such, that we are all baptised, and to which our profession expressly pledges us.‘Now, as the great Tractarian leaders came to see this, and to appreciate the significance of the Anglican appeal to antiquity and particularly to the four first Councils, an appeal to which all parties alike are pledged and committed, they came to see also that the Catholic revival was resolving itself gradually and inevitably, not only into a counter-reformation movement, but also into a movement towards Rome; and that if “Rome” was not always meant by the mover, “Rome” was certainly what the movement itself always meant’ (pp. 8, 9).The little book which has been served so well, though not unduly by its Introduction, is a paper recently read by its writer before the Society of St. Thomas of Canterbury. This paper is a summary of a fuller work of the same writer which the University of Oxford accepted for a research doctorate degree.
For a Goldenl Jubilee of Priesthood
Authors: Benvenuta Mary 
Published: July 2007

Now half a hundred golden years are gone;For golden were they in the sun-thrilled haze Of youth’s enchanted morning, till the day’s Young splendour paled and passed; and high noon shone,And golden now again before the wanGrey ashes of the twilight quench the blaze That gilds again more gloriously the ways Your feet have trod, as though God smiled thereon.Is it indeed life’s transient sunset light,A-shine with memories that shift and fade?Or is it He Whom on the western heightThe poet saw in ‘pomp of blood’ portrayed? From feet and hands and Heart the red rays smite The golden road His alchemy has made.Sister Mary Benvenuta, O.P,
The Case for the Liturgy
Authors: McCann Justi 
Published: July 2007

Something was said, in the last number of Blackfriars, about the modern liturgical movement and about a German centre of that movement, the Abbey of Maria Laach. It was hinted also in that article that behind the movement, especially in Germany, there lay a definite theory, or body of theory, regarding Catholic worship and devotion. The movement in Germany is in fact especially characterised by its insistence on the doctrinal foundations as distinguished from antiquarian or aesthetical considerations. It is essentially theological in its nature, bases its appeal upon doctrine, and asks for a full realisation of the implications of the official Christian liturgy. In the present article some attempt will be made to expound the criticism which this militant movement would pass upon our present practice, and to set forth the claims which it makes for the liturgy. We shall not attempt to set the matter out in full, but endeavour only to give a few of the main ideas which lie behind the liturgical attack.Abbot Herwegen is of the opinion that there has been nothing short of a revolution in our devotional attitude as compared with the devotional attitude of the early Church. On the one hand, he argues, we have an objective, sacramental and social worship; on the other, a highly subjective, personal and individualistic effort. He conceives it to be the main work of the ‘liturgical apostolate’ to reform this state of affairs and to infuse into our present-day religion some measure of the ancient spirit. And he believes that the instrument of such a reform lies ready to our hands, is in fact nothing else than our current and official liturgy.
The Convert from Nature Worship
Authors: Childe Wilfred 
Published: July 2007

The delicate, high and gentle yoke of Christ Be on my fierce blood and my wandering feet, The myrrh of His pure tears be far more sweet Than the world’s honey luxuriously spiced;I saw the dawn ascending like a queen Beyond the mountains and the desert sand,But, lo, she was but light shed from His hand, Born of that awful Effluence serene.The mice and coneys of the wilderness Were of His family, the spine-stemmed flowers Chaliced His glory within purple veils;The intolerable weight of lonelinessWas peopled with His Whisper, the cold hoursOf midnight chanted how His Love prevails.Wilfred Childe.
Darwin Redivivus
Authors: McNabb Vncent 
Published: July 2007

Atheologian is too conscientiously concerned with truth, even with physical truth, not to take a deep interest in the yearly meetings of the British Association. Especially does he interest himself in the Presidential Address, which is given with such an accepted sense of finality that it is not open to the discussion of the subsequent meetings. Part of the theologian’s almost exaggerated respect for this Presidential Address is his reverence for Human reason when it flies, as Dryden says, at ‘its own quarry.’ Every theologian guides his thoughts by the profoundly humble wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. ‘Since Scripture can be explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a particular explanation only in such measure as to be ready to abandon it if it be proved with certainty (certa ratione) to be false; lest Holy Scripture be exposed to the ridicule of unbelievers and an obstacle be placed to their believing The theologian’s failure to accept the assured findings of Science would be an infidelity not only to Science but also to Theology. Scientists who, as such, are not dealing with ethical categories can have no idea of the theologian’s concern to accept and assimilate every truth which comes to him with the ‘certa ratio’ —the certainty of a unanimous science.But our modern scientists will bear with us when we profess—or confess—that we do not know where to look, whether eastward or westward, north or south, for this unanimous verdict of Science.
The Abbé Bergey
Authors: Gwynn Denis 
Published: July 2007

To be the parish priest of St. Emilion—that home of a great vintage whose name is more ruthlessly profaned than that of almost any other in the cheaper English restaurants—is in itself a picturesque and interesting title. But the Abbe Bergey, who is in fact the cure of that famous little town, is far more picturesque and interesting than his title. There has been nothing like his incursion into French politics within modern memory ; and in France he is regarded more or less as the prototype of M. Clément Vautel’s bestseller, Mon Curé chez les riches. The resemblance is only superficial; for the Abbe Bergey is a genius of extraordinary vigour and abilities; and M. Clément Vautel’s hero was a very retiring little country priest who came back! from the trenches, talking army slang and scandalising the bourgeoisie by his preference for the society of common people.Allowing for differences of character, however, and still more for the absurd ideas of M. Clement Vautel as to how his ecclesiastical superiors would regard such a man, the Abbe Bergey’s career has been somewhat similar. As a young priest he left his parish to serve in the trenches, and like all the French priests with the army he distinguished himself by his personal bravery and his moral example. It is since his return from the war that his story becomes really exciting. He did come back very much with the ideas of the plain blunt man who had learnt a good deal in the war, who felt that the comradeship of the trenches was the biggest thing he had ever encountered, and that those who had not experienced it belonged to a different world.
Chesterton as Poet
Authors: O'Connor John 
Published: July 2007

The book is worth the money, there is such a lot of it, but the editing is defective, the misprints are the work of the devil, because they alter or obscure the sense, and the index is almost a joke. The second edition of this book, if done with better cunning, should be more valuable than the first, seeing that there are omissions to be made good and better proofreading to be expected. On p. 10, 1. 5, ‘the news dragons’ is not a shy at Northbrook or Beavermere, but a misprint for new dragons. On p. 21 ‘Great Dostoievsky’s dance’ should be ‘Dostoiesky dance,’ dance being a verb in the subjunctive, a mood abhorred of casual or half-educated persons in every land. And on p. 115 no hand hath ere let fall ‘is obviously the error of an amanuensis which ought to have been put right in printing. Mr. Chesterton cannot be expected to correct his own proofs, they are so many, but someone is expected to be careful for him.We miss a ballade or two, such as the threnody for Queen Anne, and that one beginning
O you that dwell where city smoke and grime
containing the memorable lines :
Hearing below bridges o’er the giant slime Returning rivers to the ancient sea.A poem on the Christian Social Union meeting at Nottingham would have been worth including forasmuch as it adds to the gaiety of this nation. However, it requires a note by the author, since in this case he does not write in his own name nor in any known onomastic, but solely as an impartial, too impartial, onlooker. We do not deny that a complete
Community Singing
Authors: Maginty Edward A. 
Published: July 2007

Af EW months ago ninety thousand sporting men, before settling down to the serious business of football at the London Stadium, sang the well-known hymn ‘Abide with me,’ or ‘Mane nobiscum quoniam advesfer ascii’ A Catholic who had heard it told me it was Great.’ He meant that he had no other means of describing the powerful effect of the hymn thus sung by this huge, haphazard choir. I asked about tHe general demeanour during this act of Christian devotion. My friend informed me that the hymn was sung with apparent reverence, with conviction, and with unmistakable satisfaction by every man in that vast assembly.The episode is significant. The world has dis covered a fact which the Church has known from her cradle: that where two or three units, hundreds or thousands are gathered together, they want to sing. Hitherto almost the only outlet for this urgent instinct has been congregational singing in the churches; but as men have, in the main, given up church-going altogether, the instinct runs to waste. The thought occurred to somebody that it might be organised to suit a useful social purpose. The result is community singing. But, although the catalogues have all been ransacked over and over again (for community songs must be old songs), the organisers find a difficulty in providing acceptable fare. The crowds are hard to please; they will not swallow every bait. At a pinch, for want of better, traditional Southerners will sing the federal John Brown's Body, invoke again for the thousandth time the ghost of Annie Laurie, and grow happier while ‘Poor Mary is a-weeping’ ; but the kind of song that forces men to sing, and women too, even though its words are only vaguely comprehensible, is Shenandoah; for the successful community song must have its special characteristics.