The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-02
POPE LEO TO TIE FAITHFUL
URGES DEVOTION TO THE "MOST
 AUGUST YIRGIN MARY"

1ne Naiue and Ef1cacy of the Recital of
 the Rosary-rhe Form and Soul of the
 Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary is
 in This Prayer-Hopes it Will be Heard
 Unceasingiy in All Parts of the Globe.
 New York, Oct. 1.--The New York Freeman's Journal tomorrow will pub list translation of Pope Leo KITS most recent encyclical, of which the following is an abstract:
 To our venerable brothers, the patri- archs, primates, archbishops, bishops and other ordinaries in peace and com- munion with the apostolic see:
 Venerable brothers, health and apos- tolic benediction.
 How important it is both for public and private interests that devotion to the most august Virgin Mary be main- tained assiduously and spread with ever growing zeal, will be understood by everybody who reflects on the emil nent position of honor and glory in which God has placed Mary From all eternity He chose her to become the mother of the Lord who was to clothe Himself in human flesh.
 Until the approach of the month of October we were unwilling, venerable brothers, to fail to write to you again this year, but with our utmost ardor we exhort ecah one of you anew to merit ! grace for yourselves and for the church militant by the recital of the Rosary. This species of prayer seems in the marvellous growth at the end of this century in order that by it's means the Tagging piety of the faithful might be stimulated, as witness those temples, those noted and renowned shrines con- secrated to the service of the mother of God.
 In the month of May we offered fiow- CTS to this divine mother, and now we would that October, the month of fruits, be employed by all to honor her with a special devotion.
 Catholics are wont to establish under manifold forms those salutary societies of which we speak Such as clubs, StA eli 0eiiAoo, 6oIAACA1h6o 1lClO Oll 4CckSS days for the recreation of the mind, patronages for youth, confraternities and many other unions founded for ex- cellent ends.
 In the course of time they were con- firmed by law, endowed with privileges, devoted to service in the churches; coil- secrated to the wants of soul and body, they received different names at differ ent epochs.
 Amid these groupings we have no hesitation in assigning the place of honor to the confraternity known as that of the most Holy Rosary, for, con sidered in it's origin, it is distinguished above all similar institutions by it's an- tiquity since it has had for it's founder Dominick himself. Taking account of it's privileges, it has, thanks to the munificence of our predecessors, ob- tained them in the largest possible numbers.
 The form and so to say, the soul of this institution, Is the Rosary of Mary. The power and efficacy of this same rosary regarded as an obligation, inn posed on the members of the confrater- nifty to which it has given its name, are especially important.
 l Stimulated by the example of our I predecessors, we, too, venerable broth CTS, fervently exhort and encourage l you, as we have often before done, to cherish with especial solicitude this sacred host, in such wise that it may, thanks to your efforts, see daily in crease of effective membership enrolled under its standard; that, by your con- currence and that of those of the clergy under your charge to whom the care ] of souls in chiefly entrusted, the mass | of the people may arrive at true knowledge and appreciation of the vir- tues of this association and of it's utility for the eternal salvation of men. l We urge this the more earnestly since, within quite recent times there has a re-blossoming of one of those l forms of devotion to the mother Of i God in the Rosary-the Perpetual Rosary" We heartily bless this insti- tuition and earnestly desire you to con- secrate your zeal and activity to its 1 increase.
 l We entertain most lively hope that the praises and prayers of the Rosary will prove most powerful when, issu- | ing from the lips and hearts of great
 multitude, they go on increasingly and
 when day and night alternate in the
 different regions of the globe, the con- tinuous concert of prayerful voices rises | in harmony with meditation on divine things.
 And now as pledge of Heavenly favor, and in testimony of our paterna1
 love, we grant the apostolic benedic- tion most affectionately in the Lord to yourselves, venerable brothers, to your clergy and to all the people confided to l your faith and vigilance.
 DEER HUNTER KILLED.