The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-12
LETTER FROM MOBILE.
MOBILE. Nav Z. lS7.

uAobfLE, MAY 1917.
Editor Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
What has become of YOUR respected corres
p9ndent from this side of the gulf, " Themis,'
whose communications to yonr valuable
weekly * were read by so many Of your subscrib
nave not heard from him for some time, and
hence our inquiry. His silence has been sorely
leit IN our midst. We hope that his modesty
, .,s not induced him to forego the domain of
| the pen as your Mobile correspondent for the
| arena OF oblivion, we cannot afford to lose
MN; and, therefore, he must not be offended
II these few lines will arouse his dormant
procilVltics to sense of communication. 1t
Is the wish of his many readers that he should
| not retire into secluson until his lot is fixed
among the number of those around whom the
"wood-bine twinethn and we hone to hear
from him again and that ere long.
In this sandy and dusty city of ours, we are
not SO dead as our silence would Indicate. Not
unlike unto yourselves, we are go-ahead peo-
pie: Silent as the unruffled waters of your
majestic river, we are steadily advancing to
the goal which nature and religion would have
us reach. In religion, for weeks back we have
ones for the battle of life. Scarcely. has
Sunday elapsed since our beloved Bishop re-
turned from Cincinnati, where he had been as |
sisting at the conservation of Bishop Gilmour,
OF CLEVELAND, chat he has not been engaged in |
administering the Sacrament of Confirmation
to many of our children. 1t was only last
Sunday that he administered the same divine
rite to the children of st, Pafrick,a Church |
This parish, although, comparatively speak
ing, new one is rapidly becoming one of the |
first in city under the business tact and
zealons labors of it's pastor, Father Brown.
In and around the neighborhood of the church
are centering all the railroads that run to aud
from Mobile. We hope that the parish will
continue to prosper in the future as it has
done in the past and that il will more than
fully realize the wishes of its NEST ardent adj
mirers. The building of the church was well
timed and the SELECTION Of the lot admirable.
IL was commenced the year after the war and
oh u, f1rtaI
residence and magnificent school house for
boys and girls, with q rapsdly growing con-
gregation. The pastor is, we understand,
for his schools. Next Sunday week-the feast
If Pentecost-the Sacrament of Confirmation
will be administered in the Cathedral and at
't. Josep1's; The latter church is under the
charge of Father Imsand, S. j., who is no !.
loyice in the art of organization-the one
hing alone necessary to the existence of every :
oGiety, as the many eodalities he has estab-
ished in his church will prove. He, too, has q | q
arge school attached to his church, which is e
veil attended both by boys and girls It was h
My the week before last, that he closed his v
air for the benefit of his parish school, which, /,
We are happy to learn, was . glorious success, Il
nd we heartily congratulate Rim on it. The 8
n nn ~ SfteE OF Trinity Sunday, the saera-
1 n OF Conhrmation viii be administered in r
'reek and at whistler. By the bye, that re- p
Kinds me that your editor-in-chief Father Il
'yan, has been for some time past lecturing e
reek to large audiences, mostly from the city. =,
We would not be astonished if among the con- VI
rmandi at that place there were many con-
erts. We hope that the good seed of his elo-
hence has not fallen upon her barren soil, but Z
hat, like the creek itself from which it gets n,
s name, it will overflow the banks of indif- 9,
'rentism, in that neighborhood, purify them ~
nd bring forth an abundant crop of souls to II
le vineyard of Christ. There have been q Ii
Nv already baptized and confirmed from that a.
strict in one of the churches of our city. We
lpect to hear of others as the fruit of his
ous and unceasing labors. co