Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
FATHER DOYLE'S WORK
HAS RAISED FUNDS FOR SUPPORT
OF MISSIONS.
Question of Finances for Carving or
Operations Discussed in Mission
airy Conference Today.

The meeting of the missionary conferences
az the Catholic University this morning
was one of the most enthusiastic of the
conference. The great question of the
ways and means of carrying out the mis-
sionary work of the church was brought
up and earnestly discussed 1t developed
during the discussion that the principal
burden of this work has heretofore fallen
on the shoulders of Father Doyle. c. s. p,
secretary of the Apostolic Missionary
Cnion. Father Doyle it was said. has been
the bone and sinew of the organization. and
through his personal efforts has done more
than any single man toward keeping Il to
the forefront. This condition of things is
not what any delegate to the conference
would wish. and consequently means wec>
taken this morning, which ii is hoped will
have the effect of removing some of the
burden of raising the funds from the Shout
ders of Father Doyle and will permit all
the mission workers TO share il with him.
The discussion of the ways and means of
mission work was brought up by Rev.
Father Edwin Drury of Kentucky in a
paper on ways and means" II was
Father Drury who first informed the MEM
bers of the conference as to the work
Father Doyle was doing. although they
had in general way known that he was
one OF the great workers in the field and
had much to do with the support of the
organization. 1t was brought out that the
method of making collections was not what
IL should be. and various suggestions were
offered. Bishop Macs. the presiding officer.
took part in the discussion and paid an
eloquent tribute to Father Doyle.
Yours has been personal work." he
said to the secretary. but it had to be.
Every great work from the time of Jesus
Christ has been personal work. And a
personal work ii will no doubt remain
The priests and bishops and arch bishops
of the country will be appealed to in the
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more and more this work of the missions
among the many works that engage their
resources. but to succeed it must con-
tinue to be a personal work And I urge
you to continue it, even though you find
yourself crucified to it."
Priests in Discussion.
Several priests took part in the discuss
sion and offered suggestions as to the
best course of action. All these SUCCESS
tons were considered and seemed to be
embodied in the resolution which was Of
fered by Father Xavier Sutton. the PAS
sionist, which provided that the Mission
airy Union should control the funds gath
cred for all purposes; that its periodical.
the Missionary, shall be the organ for the
development of the lay apostate through
out the country; that a society be organ
lied which it is hoped will cover the
country and which, it is planned will
take IN every parish and family so that
Milling the church's commission IT is
proposed that this society shall call upon
It's members for contributions, the sums
TO be limited to the means of the nersop's
ashed-ior support. Thus. IL was proposed
the children in the church could be asked
&c give cent each week for the mission
work, and it was stated that if this ra-
ito should be observed throuphout the
society a considerable sum would he re-
aHzed The resolution was favorably
acted upon
r>Izz
The next three papers dealt with the mis-
SION work in the south almost entirely
KEY. Father +. Callahan of east Tennessee
told OF the work in his section of the coun-
try Rev. Father Punch spoke of the work
IN kentucky and Rev. Father Price of
North Carolina read a paper on localized
missions. Father Price declared that il
was as much the mission of the parish
priest to look after souls of the thousands
Oh noh-Cathohes In his parish as after the
members of his church There are eighty
millions of people In the United States. che
said, of whom sixty-five millions are nom
Catholics These are the people the mis-
s1onarieS must work upon and IL is the class
OF the people the parish priest should also
be required to deal with.
Taste of Catholicism.
1t is very gratifying to the church to be
able to look on mission meetings when
hundreds of n-catholics are given their
first taste of what Catholicism means. But
If these people are not looked after and
carefully led on to the church itself by the
priest OF the parish in which they live
the work OF the missionary is very likely to
go 10 naught- While the parish priest is a
busy man. Father Price declared he can
not De said TO be too busy to devote some
OF his attention to these affairs Let him
deputize some of the members of his con-
gregation to assist him with the non-Catho-
Hes but he must do much of the work HIM
self and he must not permit himself to
overlook such an important element of his
work; Father Price declared. The speaker
depiored the fact that some of the seminal
r1es were training priests for parish work
and some for mission work While he be-
lieved that certain additional education
should be acquired by the purely mission
worker, at the same time he believed that
the seminary for the parish priest should
give him knowledge of the important eie-
ments of mission work The morning ses-
sion was closed with the conclusion of
Father Prices Paper. This afternoon Rev.
Father e. r. Dyer. S. S. rector of ST
Mary Seminary of Baltimore, read papers
on the seminary as trainer of the mis-
sion worker.