The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06


NEW YORK, Sept. Archbishop
O'ConneIl, addressing the delegates 10
the Catholic federation convention IN
Boston. referred to the present condi-
tions in this country in the following
striking words:
1T is idle TO imagine that phlan-
thropy viii have any power to stem
the tide which infidelity and irreligion
have started. 1t is mere folly TO at
tempt to supplant faith by humani-
tarianism. If life is 70 be reduced
to the mere process of getting, no
amount Of material giving will ever
satisfy its Unsuitable hunger :.
Moral content alone produces real hap
piness, whether a man be as rich as
Croesus or as poor as Lazarus. And
there can never be moral content with
out moral life; and there can never be
moral life without spiritual law; and
there is no spiritual law that has any
lasting foundation, any substantial
hope, any universal and eternal mo-
tive, but the law of Christ living in
his church.
IF there be any form of government
which needs for its permanence and
prosperity the conserving forces of
right moral Christian sentiment it is
republic.
RELIGIOUS TRAINING URGED
The people are merciless in their
logic when once they have learned
we'll their lesson. II the whole period of
their early education is spent with no
instruction in the divine truths which
lead toward God, they. can hardly
be expected later, when passion and
self-interest have grown stronger, 10
find their way to him.
IF all their childhood passes in the
effort of merely mental training, and
no thought is given to instilling into
their childish hearts the moral curbs
and restraints and Influences which
hold the appetites in check, or If the
only basis of moral restraint is human
respect, who is TO blame il IN later
life self-will and self-seeking shall
burst these weak bonds and sweep
before them whatever stands in their
way?
The lack of religious influence in
early years in the home and in the
school has already begun to bear its
fruit in every phase of our national
life. And this unwelcome fact is so
palpable that at last the once enthusi-
astic devotees of a purely secular educa-
tion cannot close their eyes TO the in
herent weakness Of the system and its
vicious effects upon the whole life Of
the people"
IN oNhOO1S
Meanwhile, 'iout of their slender
means our Catholic people have erected,
at the cost of millions and millions of
dollars, schools and institutions wherein
their children might be taught that
there is a God 10 whom all men must
be responsible; that the moral law
emanating from that God binds them
during all their lives; that all authori-
ty is from God: that civil rulers are
L.
OF the land is obeyed under penalty of
Gods displeasure; that the rights of
property are sacred; and all those 9TH
er inviolable principles of right and
duty which stand for order in the
world and the peace of humanity"
On the fiftieth anniversary of the
last apparition of the Blessed Virgin
by a remarkable dispensation from the
Holy Father. Manager Grasselli of
Viterbo celebrated mass at o'clock
in the evening, said to be the exact
time Of the final apparition. Some
60. 900 persons were present from all
parts of Europe.
REMARKABLE CURES REPORTED
About two weeks previously a
girl from Brittany had come to Lourdes
with her head bound in flannel. She
was the daughter of chemist of Lam
bale and she fell sick in May, 1907.
She had suffered for months from vio-
lent headaches and vomiting, and then
was taken TO DR.. Chevalier, a specialist
for diseases of the nose and head. at
Mans. He discovered that the bones
of the left side of the forehead were
diseased, and seven operations were
performed without arresting the prog
ress of the disease. When she reached
Lourdes on July Is the forehead was in
full suppuration, the wound was loath-
some to look at and gave out fetid
odor. During Mgr. Grasselli's mass
the pain suddenly ceased and the spp-
puration disappeared. The next day
the wound was entirely healed, and she
presented herself before the medical
bureau at Lourdes In perfect health.
Among other cures recorded at the
bureau this year we note the follow
ing. On May 16 Veronika Sperling of
the duchy OF Baden was, during the
procession OF the blessed sacrament,
suddenly cured of lateral amiotrophic
schlerosis. The next day Virginia
Laudebourg of ons-Io-Saulnier was
instantly freed from vescical and renal
tuberculosis. On the evening of May
81 Noemi Nightingale of London, Is
years of age, who had been deaf for IL
years and was given up as hopeless
by several specialists, recovered her
hearing while reciting the rosary at
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