Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-16
MASS ATTENDED
BY WORK|NGMEN
At EARLY HOUR
R~edemptorist Fathers Conduct
Services at St. Johns
Church for Workers.

Several hundred w~orkingmen were at
the 5 o'clock mass this morning in st.
Johns Church, where the Rev. Joseph
Daily and the Rev. Thomas A. Calvin.
the Redemptorist Fathers, of New York
city, are giving a mission for men.
Men and women were at the 8 o'clock
mass.
The mission priests will begin hear
ing confessions at $3.50 o'clock today to
6 o'clock, and after the sermon tonight
they will hear men until 1920 o'clock.
This will enable w~orkingmen to receive
communion at ) o'clock mass, get
breakfast, and then go to their work.
Confessions will be heard before each
mass tomorrow.
Talks to Married Men.
Father Daily talked to married men
in the church last night. He told them
of their duties to God, their wives and
children and the community. He aid
that to be good husbands and fathers,
good neighbors and citizens, they must
be good Catholics. go to confession and
communion after, go to mass on Sun
iudyb dllu III odSSs aIo jim a NAAA~A
society, as an example for their som
and to benefit themselves.
Father Daily urged the men to be
temperate. He related some of his ex-
periences as a missioner for many years
with the deadly effects of drunken
ness on men inc their families, caus-
ing poverty and often murder. He old
of a 'longshoreman in the Redemption
iof-s Dortch -, Nnuy Vorh uyha rnado
81 a week, spent s12 to SIS of it in sa-
looms and his wife and children were
poorly clad and had little to eat. He
said a drunlkard of a father often made
sons drunkards and criminals and
daughters lead a Dad life.
E~xtravagance Criticized.
The priest also spoke of the IMPROVE
dence of too many Irishmen, who come
to this country having an advantage
over the German, the italian n other
foreigners because they spoke h Eng
lish, language. but they ~squandered
their earnings. for when friends called
they must have the best of every
thing" The priest told OF a man he
knew who paid rent for forty years. A
German and an Italian rented rooms
near his, saved money, bought the
houses, paid off the mortgages in a few
years and bought other homes. but the
Irishman kept or paying rent. Father
Daily counseled the men to practise
| economy and get a home for their old
age.
Father Calvin talked to several hun
bred unmarried men in the school hall.
Many youths of Is to 20 years were
present. The priest is the one told Of
in an article in the EVENING STAR
yesterday who Is ar expert in sign lam
guage of deaf mutes. He spoke of the
article last night n requested the
men to ask any Catholic deaf mutes
they know to visit him at St. Johns
rectory, % Mulberry street, any day
this week. He gave the men an illus
tration of how he instructs deaf mutes.
Father Calvin then gave the men and
youths good advice. He said 1t should
be their ambition to be representative
Catholic gentlemen. a credit to their
families, society and themselves. He
said they could accomplish this by at
tending loyalty to their religious duties.
avoiding evil companions and not
spending nights In saloons. After his
practical, instructive talk. the men
went across the street to the church,
where the Rev. Father Peel. the rector.
oflciated at the benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament.