Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21

and responsibilities of the workingman
and at the same time he became the
stoutest defender of his rights and prerog-
atives. and no man in modern times did
SO much to defend the rights of labor
against the aggressions of predatory
wealth.
Statements of Leo XIII.
Some of the statements of Leo XIII,
like the oft-repeated words of Lincoln,
are full of wisdom and at the same time
couched in such concise and terse Ian
guage that they drive home to the human
heart as some of the great fundamental
truths of humanity. Gathered at ran
dom from his writings are the following
luminous statements, which may be
counted a message to the twentieth CEN
fury: The greatest misfortune is never
to have known Jesus Christ. Christ is the
fountain head of all good. Mankind can
no more be saved without His power than
ii can be redeemed without His mercy
when Jesus Christ is absent human
reason fails, being bereft of its chief pro-
lection and light, and the very end is lost
sight of. for which. under Gods provi-
dence, human society has been built up.
TO reject dogma is simply to deny
Christianity. 1t is evident that they
whose intellects reject the yoke of Christ
are obstinately striving against God.
Having shaken off Gods authority they
are by no means freer for they will fall
beneath some human sway.
God alone is life. All other beings
partake Of life, but are not life. Christ,
from all eternity and by His very nature
is 1.-The life" just as He is 1.-The truth, -
because He is God of God. "If any one
abide not in Me, he shall be cast forth as
a branch. and shall Wither. and they shall
gather him up and cast him into the
fire. and he burneth." John. Xv:6D
Once remove all impedments and al
low the spirit of Christ to revive and
grow in nation and that nation shall be
healed
The world has heard enough of the
so-called rights of man" Let it hear
something of the rights Of Cod
The common welfare urgently de-
mands a return to Him from whom we
should have never gone aStray; to Him
who is the way, the truth and the life
and this on the part not only of indi-
viduals, but of society as whole
Tells Of Plus K.
Father Doyle then related in a most
graphic way his recent audience with the
present holy father. Plus X. During his
reception Father Doyle said he. told the
pope of the work for missions for nom
Catholics as it centers about the Apos-
tolic Mission House here, and received his
special blessing and commentator for
the general progress along all lines OF
activity.
II impart my blessing to the Apostolic
Mission House." said the holy father, ac-
cording to Father Doyle, Ito all mission
aries who have gone out of it and to all
who have co-operated by their generosity
i'm carrying on the work OF missions Tor
non-C atholics May God foster this apos-
tolic work and so make it flourish that it
will not be long before every diocese will
have it's band of missionaries, and the
great work of the conversion of America
to the true faith will be an accomplished
fact
THE words he spoke seemed to have
special JUNCTION, as though they came from
the bottom of his heart" continued Father
Doyle. He expects great things from