The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04

Lake Champlain, amid unabated en-
thusiasm. An indication OF the espe-
cial appropriateness of the splendid
lectures arranged for the session was
manifested in the request of the Asso-
ciated Press for the scholarly lectures
ON Modernism" delivered by Rev.
Thomas F. Burke G. S. p, of New
York
One of the most significant move
ments in the history of the summer
school is the Cliff Haven stock COM
pany, founded by Rev. John Talbot
Smith, president of the summer school,
to ascertain the possibilities of pre-
senting to the world the great MASTER
pieces of the Christian drama: the
great classic Christian plays of his
tory, SO full of beauty and yet un-
touched by the playwrights. The ap-
pearance of Frank Keenan, during
August in The Orange and Green"
proved a grand climax to this venture;
and fitting end TO a successful sum-
mer of weekend performances
"A press has also been founded for
issuing books especially adapted to our
present day needs. The school bids fair
TO accomplish its purpose of keeping
Catholics in the forefront of genuine
and enlightened progress.
PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR
During the celebration next year of
the tercentenary of the discovery Of
Lake Champlain the summer school
viii naturally be a great center of in
terest To accommodate the crowds
that are expected then several city
and private cottages are under con-
sideration.- and the Champlain club is
planning to build $25,000 casino with
all modern conveniences and equip
ments.
During this years session of the
Catholic summer school at Cliff Haven
a bronze tablet was unveiled to the
memory of Warren l.. Mosher, the
first secretary of the summer school
The tablet bears the following inscrip-
ton This tablet is here placed in
memory of Warren E. Mosher. who de-
voted his life to Catholic education; a
leader in the reading circle movement,
the originator of the idea of the Catho-
lie summer school, one Of its founders
and its secretary from 1892 to 1906
TROPHY FOR ATHLETES
Archbishop Farley while in Rome in
troduced to Cardinal Merry del Val,
papal secretary of state. Rev. +. j. Sui
livan president of the Catholic athletic
league in New York. who presented to
the cardinal a solid silver cup two
feet high as an American trophy to
be contested for in the International
athletic competitions to be held in the
Vatican in honor of the pope's jubilee
The holy father recently visited the
Belvedere court, the largest in the
Vatican. where the athletic contests
Will be held. A tribune for his holiness
has been erected on the court. The con-
tests We're to have taken place between
the 23d and 2Sth of September About
1000 athletes We're expected. including
a party from Canada and two from
Ireland. The latter were to arrive In
Rome on the 21st. There was also
question Of q third group from Ireland,
representing the Catholic Young Mems
society
1t was found necessary to prevent
the formation OF a great many of these
pilgrimages of Catholic athletes owing
to the difficulty of providing for their
proper accommodation.
MISSIONARY CONGRESS PLANNED
The board of governors of the Cath
Ollie Church Extension Society of the
United States has completed plans for
the first American Catholic missionary
congress, to be held In Chicago No
vember 10. 16 and H.
Every missionary order Of priests in
the world viii be represented. The
delegates Will be members of the
hierarchy of Canada and the United
States. the board of governors of the
FAttllSlbu SOCltlS, ntduS OF. religious
orders. directors of diocesan or other
missionary work in North America.
AS special delegates there will be the
pastors of churches, two laymen from
each parish appointed by the pastor
two representatives of each religious
community and representatives of Cath
Ollie societies.
Among those expected to take part
are the papal delegate, Mgr Falconio;
A lahf ,alI
bishop Quigley of Chicago. Sir Charles
Fitzpatrick, chief justice of Canada and
member OF the British privy council
the archbishops of Quebec and Toronto
and Rev. a. f. Burke, president of the
Canadian Catholic extension society.
ut is believed that the congress will
mark new era in the history of the
Catholic church in this country.
NEW ERA IN RELIGION
An enthusiastic correspondent thus
writes of the eucharistic congress-: AS
the conquest of the air by an intrepid
inventor opens a new era in the world
congress in London marks a new epoch
in the religious world. 1t is perhaps
the most significant. the most pregnant
and Spectacular religious event of the
century
There is an old prophecy which
reads thus: When a tree that has been
cut down for more than 300 years shall
return to its trunk, take root and
grow again, England shall return to
its ancient Catholic faith In West
minister cathedral, erected to replace
Westminster abbey torn from the Cath
Ollie church more than 500 years ago
was witnessed the most perfect re-
union of past and present that could
possibly be imagined There were the
same ancient ceremonies, the same
Latin tongue. the same sacred chants
the same gorgeous vestments the
miter. the cope. the crozier and the
cardinalitial insignia, the same HER
archy-though including new nations
and peoples like the United States. Can
ada and Austraia-the same pontiff of
Rome, represented by a 1egate. inst
as in the days of Cardinal Pole or
Edward the Confessor and all believ-
ing the same ancient doctrines CEN
tered in the great eucharistic dogma
of the real presence. Truly the tree
has returned to its trunk, and all the
parts We're found to dovetail together
as perfectly as if they had never been
separated by a lapse of more than three
centuries. Wonderful indeed. are the
ways Of providence