, 1891-05-22
SOUL SAVING SCHEME.
A Wisconsin Priest Starts a
New Insurance Society.
Aristocratic London Shocked
by a COurtly Peeress.
Athletic Exhibition by IN
diana School Girls.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 2l.-Father
Durin OF St. Joseph's Catholic church OF
Depere, Wis, is the author OF a new and
unique species of insurance. in which he
has successfully interested the members of
his own and surrounding parishes.
Worldly agents entice people into the
scheme, which promises reimbursement
for losses by fire and water; to compen-
safe the insured for the pain and time
due to injury by accident, or To equip
bereft families for the unequal battle
with the world by the payment of a
stated sum on the death of the policy
holder, hut Father Durin goes a big
stride in advance of any OF these schemes,
for his plan involves the saving of the
souls OF the insured after death. The
parent organization is known as the
Deliverance Society, with its main office
at st. Joseph's rectory, Rev. j. f. DARN
being manager. The prospectus OF the
society states that it is organized on the
same principle as a mutual assurance
society. The offering for admission fee is
twenty-five cents and the annual con-
tributIon ten cents.
There will be no reserve fund" il
states, but all contributions will be i'm
mediatelY employed in the celebration of
mass for the deliverance Of the souls in
purgatory.
There is also a spiritual fund. This is
intended TO interest children and all those
having no money at their disposal who
wish to offer acts of charity aud virtue.
The benefits and advantages in detail are
a. follows:
!. Participation IN prayers and masses
said for the society.
2. Special share in the novena or masses
said in st. Joseph's church from Novem-
Der . TO 10.
3. A novena of masses will be said for
any member Of the society as soon as the
news of his death is received by the direc-
tor.
All members of the society are re-
quested to offer special prayers, like rosa
RES, stations OF the cross. etc. for the de-
parted member during the month follow
ing his death, or, rather, the notice of his
death.
5. Members are earnestly requested to
notify the director of the death of a co-as-
s~ociate. Promoters are solicited in all
cities of the United States where branches
may be established with the privileges of
the society.
Father Durin says the deiiverance So
ciety was entirely original with him and
that it grew out of his exceedingly strong
belief in purgatory as a place where the
sins of the departed can be expiated and
their souls assisted therefrom through the
prayers of good Catholics. He considers
the scheme as an application of business
principles to spiritual matters. Insurance
companies are effective in saving to their
members property and effects from losses
by fire or accident, So. in a similar man
ner, he seeks in this society to unite the
efforts of the members of the Catholic
church to save the souls of their members
who might, through carelessness or ignor-
ance, have committed some sin which, al
though not deserving punishment in hell,
would prevent their entrance into heaven,
and, perforce, justly demand their deten-
ton in purgltory until his society could
be heard from. The society has already
a membership Of several hundred. Father
Durin says the scheme is approved by
brother priests aud his superiors in the
church as it is the logical outcome of one
OF the sIncerest beliefs of the Catholic
church. Father Duriu is a native OF
France. He assumed charge of his pres
ent parish five wears ago. coming here
from Detroit. Mich. He is a hard worker
and is unremitting in his d~evising meth
DDS for the building up of his parish.