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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
sIFTINGs.

Gods mercy findeth many ways
To comfort us when least we would
expect;
For ever the rocks whereon our hopes
are wrecked,
When we look back across the years,
shall stand
Like hallowed altars, reared by an
gels hands
For life tends on and upward. BY
mistakes
We learn. The hand which crushed
our idols takes
Our own and leads us to new shrines,
whose light
Shines but the brighter for past er-
rors night.
All sin and sorrow, shame, disgrace
and pain,
Are made His ministers. From loss
comes gain,
Out of all i'll it must be He will make
Some good to come for His dear mer-
cy's sake.
How small is this that has been asked
'Tis but to try;
Not our weak hand has been required
to set
With stars the sky,
Or swing the great gold moon above
clouds
Nor yet have we
Commanded been. to place the singing
shell
Beneath the sea;
But just to try, with but our humble
might,
With our whole heart;
Not waste our strength by doubling
that success
Will be our part.
Cora Lapham Hazard.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
A Filipino Student at Yale

There is d Filipino student at Yale
He is a Catholic and attends services
{ st. Mary's. When he learned that
the church was in charge of the DOM
inican Fathers, part of his homesick-
ness is said to have left him. 1t was
like old times for him to assist at mass
where the celebrant was robed as son
of st. Dominic. He expressed his sat
isfaction and delight to one of the at
tending clergy in a manner which left
no doubt as to his position on the
friars' question. He is but one, to be
sure; but he is one, and there is moth
ing illogical in taking him as repre-
sentative of the feeling of the Filipino
people respecting the monks. We have
been told repeatedly that the religious
were universally despised and hated by
the natives, and that there would be
no peace till the archipelago is ridded
Of The curse Of their presence. Then
how comes it that this young man, rec
commended by Governor Taft as fit
subject for an American education, is
SO delighted to place himself once more
under the spiritual tutelage of a Dom
inican friar? Is he the sole exception
among the native youth? Or has some
one been lying.-Catholic Transcript
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
The Vale of Silence.

All, have felt a silence, not Of earth,
Not sad, but peaceful with a peace
suDreme!
Naught broke its quiet but the golden
notes
OF souls thoughts in an ecstatic
dream.
And I have felt mantle, not of earth,
Thrown DER me, as to shield me from
all woe:
For I have glanced at times from
worldly paths
Into the Narrow Way, where the few
go.
Who are the chosen ones of Our Dear
Lord?
Whom He does beckon with a gentle
hand
To follow Him through earth's hard
stubblefields
Unto the brighter, happier heavenly
Land?
All. once my feet grew weary and de-
layed;
My perseverance could not bear the
test q
But o, the road behind grew rougher
far
For having seen the pathway of the
Blessed.
And now stand all silent and alone.
Before me lies a Cross, 1 fear to take;
While here behind, I loathe the cruel
world;
20 Lord I plead, "help me the trial
nakei
30. give me faith-the faith of Thy
dear few
Who follow in Thy own love-chosen
way!
So may grow more patient, fervent,
strong.
And nearer come to Thee, from day
to day"
World
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
The Need of sYnpathv.

One night, in front of the Cincinnati
City hospital a man boarded car
with a large package under his arm.
The package was covered with a black
shawl. There was no scat and the
man stood. There was some pleasure
party on the car, and in their fun
making they gave little notice to the
man, to his tattered clothes, and to his
desperate look. How anxious would
the people have been to give the man
their seat if they had known the con-
tents of that dark bundle. The mans
wife was dying in one of the rooms
of an old rookery, where some men
would not keep their cattle, but where
others have to house their children.
The mans baby had just died at the
hospital. He pleaded so piteously that
he might be permitted to take the dead
body home to his dying wife, that the
authorities, though it was against the
rules, granted his request. A reporter
found a little pine box in the cellar
of the hospital. 1t was this box that
the man had wrapped in the shawl
as he boarded the car. The nurses
and sick of the hospital contributed
their mite that the father might gatify
the desire to save the little body that
he. loved from pauper'S burial. The
little mound was the first foot of Gods
earth that the man had ever owned
1 believe God never made a heart
without pity in it, 1 doubt if you
could find in peniteniary, or even
on Wall street, a man who would not
be glad tc give the man seat ON the
car or help pay for his baby's grave.
But what the world needs is men with
sound minds as well as kind hearts;
men who can trace the misery of the
poor to it's source in law-made mo-
nopoly, and who give effect to their
good will by working in practical ways
for the abolition of those human insti-
tutions which exaggerate the differ
ence between man and man, giving
some riches that are unearned, and
cursing others with poverty that is
undeserved.-Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow
il the Pilgrim.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
ga Mothers Logic"

The Living Church, leading organ of
the "high'' Or ''ritualistic' wing of the
Protestant Episcopal body, publishes
the following poetic defense of the
Catholic practice of praying for the
dead, under the title, "a Mothers
Logic. The Monitor.
You are shocked at my strange con-
feSSion
OF an error, you say, that you dread,
That for my boy should be praying,
Even now, when l know he is dead.
1 confess I'm not skilful to answer
In the old controversial art;
The only defense l can offer
Is the logic that springs from my
heart.
Suppose you had loved. with passion
That absorbed all your thoughts and
your cares.
A boy that God placed in your keep
ing,
To be blessed by your love and your
prayers;
And then, when he grew into manhood,
Felt the touch of a sordid worlds
life,
And you knew the perils before him.
That threatened his soul in the strife
You prayed all the more in his danger
That his heart might be kept pure
and fair
Till it seemed that each waking mo-
ment
In its love was the breathing of
prayer.
Suppose that the shadow of suffering
: Deepened suddenly over the day.
And your heart stood still in its an
guish,
And you could do nothing but pray,
AS you watched and felt all too surely,
AS the darkness grew deep in the
night,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
Returns to the Church.

Reverend Count Campello, whose de-
fection from the church few years
ago when he was vicar OF ST. Peters
in Rome, caused something of a SEN
sation. has now come back to the fold,
humble and repentant. In a letter to
Cardinal Vaughan, a translation of
which is furnished by the Roman cor
respondent of the Liverpool Catholic
Times, Count Campello says that on
Dec. 8, he had the supreme grace to
abjure the Old Catholic sect with which
he had been affiliated since 1881. AS
a prodigal son he returns to the true
church of Jesus Christ, and while rep
ROTATING his conduct for the scandal
given, he finds no words strong enough
to express the depth of his sorrow for
having given pain to the faithful of
England when by his presence in Lon
don, he, as it were "triumphed in his
infamy. otherwise, apostacy," by Civ
ing lectures under Protestant auspices.
God be thanked" he continues,
that by a special act of His mercy He
has touched my heart and led me back
to the church which / should not have
abandoned. May He grant me grace
to lead back by my example those souls
who through my unhappy work have
been induced to wander from the right
path-a fact which now causes me in
consolable remorse. i am certain that
your Eminence. following the example
of our merciful Lord, will pardon me
the serious annoyance ! formerly gave
YOU. and / hope that this my sincere
return to the one true church of the
Saviour may move those distinguished
AnglicanS whom ] have known to en-
brace the truth. and that my sad con-
duct NAV not confirm them in the error
in which they were born and which
but for me they would perhaps have
abandoned owing to their virtuous
lives. as did Newman, Faber, Manning,
and other not a few. 1 shall be inn
mensely grateful TO your Eminence if
Won will make public this expression
Of my most sincere feeling. Thus in
nv great sorrow for the erroneous
course I have pursued ! shall at least
have the satisfaction Of having done
oil in NV power to make reparation
where great scandal was formerly CIV
an through my blindness. With a
heart overfowing with joy at finding
myself reconciled with God and His
church. I pay my homage to your En-
fnenre's dignity and with profound rev.
,orence have the honor to remain your
Eminence's devoted servant in Christ,
reverend d. c. Enrico di Campello."
The letter is dated, Collegio Pio-Latino
Americana. Sth December, 1902
Tho snirit of Count Campello's letter
is most edifying IT will be noticed
that hoth in his joy and in his sorrow
there is a note of great sincerity. his
heart oyerhows with delight on Delng
reeonciled to God> and His church; ana
he cannot find words strong enough 10
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
That everything dearest and truest
Was departing far out OF your sight

That everything dearest and truest
Was departing far out of your sight
And after it all was quite over.
And they'd taken his body away,
Then what would you do in your an
guish
That first night when you kneeled
down to pray.
When you came to the place in your
asking,
Where for years you had spoken his
name
Would you choke down the words in
your sobbing.
AS if for the thought there was
blame?
Is the God that you love so cruel
To forbid you this comfort so dear?
If you yield to your hearts deepest
promptings,
Must you do it without doubling
and fear?
Has his soul ceased to need Gods pro
lection
Gone quite out of the reach of Gods
care,
That there's nothing that God now can
give him
In response to your heartbroken
prayer? ?
He still waits with you his Lords COM
ing.
Not yet is he perfectly blessed;
His soul must grow purer and
stronger
God can give him refreshment and
rest
Surely, then, you would pray for those
blessings
Your heart could not help it, I'm
sure;
And in sight of the God that made
you,
All your prayers would be blameless
and pure
And each earnest prayer that you ut
tered
Would bring you more peace, if not
joy,
And keep you in closer communion
With your sweet-hearted, angel
faced boy.
And so had you loved him and
lost him,
You never could question your right;
You would kneel and ask God to bless
him,
As of old when you kissed him good
night.
-FranlS NJ WeStcott
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

guilty conscience never fails to find
warm condemnation?
That those who never help to defray
the church expenses demand the most
comforts and conveniences?
That those who make the least haste
to get to service on time are always IN
"a rush to get away before it is over!
That those who have spent years OF
their lives in sin expect to satisfy di-
vine justice by deathbed repentance
of a few moments. Strange inconsis-
sencies!-Church Progress.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
Church Calendar.

Jan. % OH Sunday after Epiphany.
The Holy FamiIy-Jesus, Mary and Jo-
seph.
Jan. 26 (Monday). st. Polycarp'
Bishop and Martyr.
Jan. p (Tuesday). st. vitalian, Pope
and Confessor.
Jan. 2S "wednesday. st. John
Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor ana
Doctor.
Jan % CThursday). St. Francis de
Sales, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor.
Jan. 80 CFriday). St Felix ~. Pope
and Confessor.
Jan. 81 Saturday. st. Peter Nolas-
GUS Confessor
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

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An organ for the use of the rs,s..
church in Pekin is the first fns,rr-.-.
of its kind to be taken into tho p'..
dom of the CelestiaIs. The mart, asSS
Government has r,obit,f+...r .L 1"'l-'s
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
Hidden Deeds

The rain drops fall from leaden skies
And seek a hidden goal,
To fill with life the tiny seed,
And tender leaves unroll.
Thus do the hidden deeds of love.
The greatest strength impart,
And fill with life that unseen world
Where heart doth speak to heart.
Marie Kierstead.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

There are in China whole families
that have been Catholic. these 500
years. From these faithful Catholic
families the church obtains a host of
native sisters. without whose help the
missionaries would not be able to con-
vert Chinese women; and from this
same source the church gets hundreds
of native priests.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

The pope will celebrate his silver iu-
bilee Feb. 20, and it is proposed that
each family, parish, diocese and nation
observe the day as one of Thanksgiving
to God for the holy fathers long and
successful reign. A golden tiara will be
presented to his holiness as an Offering
of love from all his children.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
Self-contrnl.

Prune thou thy words, thy thoughts
control
That Ger thee swell and throng;
They will condense within thy soul
And change to purpose strong.
But he who let's his feelings run
In soft luxurious flow
Shrinks when hard service must be
done.
And faints at every woe.
Faiths meanest deed more favor bears.
Where hearts and wills are weighed.
Thou brightest transports, choicest
prayers
Which bloom their hour and fade.
Cardinal Newman.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

Flfteen young Cuban candidates. for
molly orders were presented to the hoIv
Iatner by Archbishop Chrapelle. apos-
tollc delegate for Cuba and Porto Rico.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

According to report. the Catholic wife
OF President Diaz of Mexico has at last
persuaded him to resign his Office.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

From 1877 to 1887 the Catholic mis-
slonaries in Korea had 5000 baptisms Of
ADULTS; last year they had 5.203 In the
last twenty-five years the native Chris
tan population has risen from IL 900
to $4,000, and the priests from two TO
forty, besides eleven native priests
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

Cardinal Serafno VannuteTi has been
appointed vice chancellor of the Cath
olic church in succession to Cardinal
Parocchi, who died recently The haste
with which the pope filed the vacant
office is much commented upon Car
unal Vannutelli is now regarded as
the probable successor of Pope Leo. as
vice chancellor of the church is one of
the highest positions in the papacy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

LII VI Jug uSSC 4uOld.
Ihe difference between Goa-that
territory in India owned by the Portu-
suese-and some other parts of that
country under British sway. is set
forth by a recent traveller in that re-
gion:
The population of the Goanese ter
rltory are nearly all natives of India,
put they are Europeanized in their
| uress, manners and habits, that it is
dl1ncult to realize that they are natives.
Inc houses are like European villas
neat, clean, furnished in good taste. L
speak, of course, of the we'll to do
classes. Perhaps the most striking
feature of the little territory of Goa
and Salsette is the total absence of any
signs of religion other than the Cath
olic. One felt one was in a Catholic
country. Not pagoda, not a pullia-
var, even, is to be seen, but in their
place wayside cross or the shrine of
some saint, and from inquiries l learned
tnat, as a matter of fact, only 8 per
cent of the population of these two dis
frlcts are non-Christians and they are
not encouraged to make a display of
their worship.
PORTUGAL may be a small country,
and now shorn of much of her terri
tory, but her territory of Goa is as last
Ing monument to her glory of how
she could Christianize the lands she
acquired, as the churches in her terri
tory are of her Catholic instincts and
of her care and solicitude for the main
tenance of becoming decorum in
Catholic worship. Much, alas, of the
pious work of Portuguese missionaries
in the east has been undone, but if we
may judge by what remains on the
west coast and in the territory of Goa,
there are still left, abundant signs of
the piety and zealNo of the Portuguese
crown"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
Ave Maria.

Ave Maria." a maiden breathes.
When golden sunlight filters thro'
The lofty boughs of Nazareth's trees.
Ave Maria" again we hear,
When shadows darken DER her way,
And compass her with doubt and fear.
Ave Maria" breaking heart
is Weary, fainting in the strife
With which it fain would play no part.
Gentle QueenI Plead with thy Son,
His grace, her comfort and her guide.
Till HeaYen's robe and crown are won.
-Jo. Nichol.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

According to the last computation
the number of Roman Catholic
churches in Siam is sixty-eight. Five
of these are in the city of Bangkok
and the others are spread throughout
the interior.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

Rev. Edward Hannin, pastor of st
Joseph's church. Toledo, o., for the past
forty years, died last Sunday week
He was 76 years old and in April last
dedicated $4,000 church which he
himself designed and the building OF
which he superintended
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

A New York priest, returned from
Rene, tells how Pope Leo XIII hears
the news of the world every day with
out reading a newspaper. He reads a
journal published in the vatican or has
a secretary read it to him. This jour
nal consists of brief abstracts of ev-
erything interesting which the papers
published in Germany, England, France
and America and other lands have re-
corded.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

The new altars of purest Carrara
marble in st. Elizabeth's church. Chi
cago, were completed and used for the
first time on Christmas day. They are
counted among the very grandest in
the west.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A movement has been started in St.
Louis by the knights of Father
Mathew TO erect a statue to Father
Mathew in Forest park, st. Louis, to
be unveiled in August of the World S
fair year, when the convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence union will
be assembled in that city.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

Bishop Burton of Clifton England
during his recent audience with h
Holy Father, presented him with
copy of the Greek Grammar by Fra.
Bacon. lately discovered at Cambrila
by Father Nolan, the president Of P1.
or Park college, Bath. reprinted ami
edited by him. Leo XIII was much ia.
terested in the volume
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

A valuable crucifx which mysts4.
ously disappeared from st. Josars,
church in San Antonio. Tex. a5~
four months ago. has been mysterious
restored. 1T was carefully deposited 4,
the steps of the side entrance to III,
church.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

Most Rev. John MacEvilly. D. D.,
Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, is dead,
aged S5. He was the author of the
only full commentary of the New Tes-
lament in English except the Abpoch-
aipse, and his work is universally
used as a textbook in Catholic col
leges.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

An organ for the use of the cst5,..
church in Pekin is the first instry~.-.
of its kind to be taken into the t'-.
dom of the Celestials The parts ol
were packed for export i'm ffty-ons Il.
ferent boxes. Until now the Cb7o.,
government has prohibited the nes /.
such instruments in Catholic cbur,s..
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-24

on the occasion Of his ~
audience. The ponrfn 71aee,s M.
young men very cardf,I[s received 2
them to kiss his har5 .''' .y pern.
mem mem ui WITH apostolic ben.5ta.Is ''i aIsn.s
Guoa ;a and Porto Rico. T5ar ton y
ing their studies in Rome are rr-..
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-12-02
Treaty Formally Opened.

Panama, Dec. Minister OF Foreign
Affairs Esprilla arrived here from Colon
yesterday with the new canal treaty. The
treaty was discussed last night
Rear Admiral ]. 6. Walker arrived on
the same train that brough, Scnor rs
prilla. Senors Arrange and Arias. with
some Of the ministers OF the republic. met
the party al the railroad station. Senor
Esprilla drove into the Povcrnmen, palace,
where the chest containing the treaty was
placed on a table in the main Office
Al i O'Clock in the afternoon members
of the junta and of the ministry assembled
~ the grand salon OF the palace. The
chest and two small tin boxes addressed
20 the members Of the junta and bearing
the seals Of Minister Binau Varlla we're
placed OH a table in the center OF the
room.
Surrounded by the spectators who were
seated about the table, Scnor Esprila
opened the chest and withdrew the cotton
wrappers, finally bringing TO light the
treaty, cnvcloped in the Panaman flag.
The document was addressed to the mcln-
hers OF the junta by Minister Buna,i-
.afilla.
Senor Arias then broke the seal and
formally handed the paper to the mem
hers Of the junia. There was only one
copy in the English language.