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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
OUR LOST ILLUSIONS.

We are apt to say of one who has
gone through some particularly bitter
phase of existence that he has now
been disillusioned. That the world is
now plain to him in its aspect of I'M
compromising harshness- and that he
sees life as it really is-grim, inexor-
able, stern. All this only indicates
lack of perception ON our own part.
To lose belief in human nature is
not, strictly speaking, to lose ones IL
lusions. Goodness purity, Kindness,
honesty sincerity and existing virtues
Because you have been disappointed in
one person and found these qualities
lacking In his nature is no reason why
you should believe that the whole
world lacks them. We are far TOO
prone to indulge ourselves in generali-
ties of the most sweeping nature on
the slightest premise. H., ~
An illusion is fancy or belief in
certain things which do not exist If
we invest the Other Person with i'm
aginary qualities it is ten chances to
one that, we Will be grieved when we
find out our mistake. Naturally, since
since we are not given supernatural
gifts of divination we cannot find out
what is in the mind of the Other Per-
son. 1t Is just as we'll we do not, for
the loss of our illusions concerning
him would not be half so startling as
that. But if we do imagine in any
one person qualities which he does not
possess there is no reason having
been assured of our mistake, that we
should rail at fate and declare in Bit
terness, All men are liars and cow
ards"
1t must be a person of poor nature,
one incapable of any great depth of
feeling, who will let disappointment
sour and embitter him and turn him
against the world. 1t is selfishness TO
wrap ones self in ones hurt and re-
fuse to believe in or see the goodness
and the truth which really do exist. 1t
is hard to suffer, yet. how hard only
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
LoNDoN's FINE CATHEDRAL.

The conservation of Westminster ca
thedral, London, took place recently
1t is the only example of Byzantine
architecture in London. Archbishop
Bourne made the circuit of the church
three times. sprinkling the walls with
consecrated water. Returning to the
great door he knocked three times
with his pastoral staff and exclaimed:
Lift up your gates, We princes. and
be We lifted up, We everlasting doors
and the King of Glory shall come in.
The deacon inside asked: who is
the King of Glory?"
To this the archbishop replied: THE
Lord, strong and mighty; the Lord,
mighty in battle"
The door was then opened and the
archbishop entered. Ashes were strewn
on the floor and the Graeco-Latin all
phabets arranged saltierwise. or in the
shape of the st. Andrews cross.
About thirty archbishops and bish-
ops. as well as number of abbots and
900 priests. participated in the conse-
Grafton ceremonies. which were fol-
lowed by public services. which were
attended by great crowds of Catho-
lice
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
CRITICAL SITUATION IN SPAIN.

The anti-clerical policy of the Can
4lelas cabinet in Spain has apparent
brought the country face to face
with another of the great periodical
crises in it's history. From all quar-
eers there are reports of increasing
excitement among the people and a
number of violent collisions have al
ready taken place. Especially in the
provinces, the peasantry, who are de-
soCeuIy catholic, are meeting and vot-
ing resolutions condemning the course
Of the government.
An uprising of the Carlist faction is
threatened, and if revolution be added
10 the troubles of the present govern
ment the situation will be grave in
oeea' For years the influence of the
Vatican has kept the Carlists ouiet
but if war is declared upon the
church by the present government.
the Carlists will have at once a large
LoIloWlng in Spain Don Jaime, the
present leader of the Carlists, is a
son of Don Carlos, the old pretender
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
POPE Plus breaches.

Sunday morning the Holy Father
took part in a solemn gathering of the
Congregation of Rites held in the
Consistorial hall in the Vatican, at
which three interesting DEGREES were
read.
The first contained the formal de-
claration that virtue had been prac-
ticed in a heroic degree by the Ven
cradle Margaret Bourgeois, foundress
of the Congregation of Our Lady who
is famous for the apostolate exercised
by her during her long life in Cana
da during the eighteenth century A
similar declaration was made in the
cause of Identification Of the Vener-
able Paul Liebermann. founder of the
Congregation of the Sacred Heart of
Mary, celebrated for his conversion
from Judaism and scepticism and for
zeal in preaching the faith in France
and pagan countries. The third de-
cree proclaimed the heroic virtue of
the Venerable Florida Cevoli, Capu-
chin Nun of Citta de CASTILLO, and dis
ciple of St Veronica Giuliani.
After the reading of the decree the
Holy Father delivered homily on
the gospel of the day.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
THE CITY OF REST

1t is hidden from afar. but we know
it is there
For the pulse of is silence comes
sweeter than sleep.
And the CLEAN of its light, in our mo-
ments or prayer,
Like a star shows the way where
the shadows are deep.
We have seen it afar at the close of
the day,
Where the sunset illumes all its
towers with gold:
And we know we shall reach it, nor
fall by the way,
When the dawn of some day like a
rose shall unfold.
o, the way, may be long ere its portals
we view;
And the work may be hard ere an
entrance be won;. -..
But the end win not come till our
trials are through, ..
And we shall not go in till our tasks
are all done!
For the City of Rest'it Is builded afar,
So that sorrow and pain may not
reach over there; III.
But we know where it is: we have
--- seen, like a star,
The CLEAN of its light from the hill
tops Of prayer.
John P. Sjolander.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
CREMATION.

The following is a summary Of de-
crees from the Sacred Office regard
ing cremation of the human body:
L. Catholics are forbidden to be
members of any organization that pre-
scr1bes the cremation of its members
bodies.
2. Catholics are forbidden to order
his own body or the body of anyone
to be cremated
3. The last sacraments are to be
refused to any man or woman who in
sists that his or her body shall be Gre
mated.
4. It is forbidden to hold funeral
service over the remains of anyone
who was to the end set upon having
his dead body cremated.
3. No mass can be celebrated pub
licly for such person, but mass may
be said privately
6. Where the deceased did not or
der the cremation of his body, but
whose remains are to be cremated by
order of others, the last rites may be
held over the corpse in the home or
in the church, but no services are per-
mitted in the crematoTies.
Z. If the person was ignorant of
the Church's prohibition and wilIed
his body to be cremated, he may be
given Christian burial
Where a will was made to have
ones body cremated, but where the
dying person revoked it openly, but
could not change the will before
death, 1t is permitted to give such
person Christian burial
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
DEATH OF GRAY NUNS MOTHER
GENERAL.

Sister Marie Praxede Filiatrault,
mother general of the Gray Nuns OF
Montreal, died on June II at the age
of Il, after long and painful illness.
She had been a member of the order
for over forty-six years and had held
with remarkable efficiency its most
responsible positions. For a long
terms of years she was superior of
Nazareth Asylum for the Blind, in
Montreal Later on she was appoint
ed mother vicar with jurisdiction over
her sisters in the Montreal district In
1897 she was elected superior general
and in that capacity visited all the
houses of her order, not only in the
east, but in Manitoba, Saskatchewan.
Alberta and the far north, impressing
all by her gentle but firm admins
tration. After serving her full term
or five years she was allowed a rest
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
NOTED CHURCHMEN.

Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the recent history of biology in
what concerns the attitude of science
to faith is to be found in the fact
that a number of Catholic clergymen
have been among the most distin-
guished workers and most successful
Investigators in this department of
science.
Only in the last 10 years have we
come to realize it, but it is universally
conceded that the greatest worker in
the biological sciences during the lat
ter half of the nineteenth century was
the abbot of an, Augustinian monas
terry at Brunn in Marovia. Our bio
logical journals are now filled with
discussions of Menders works and
Menders laws. Our biological inves-
tigators are mainly engaged in con-
firming, and extending his observa-
tions on animals and plants; our BIZ
ologists. are mainly occupied with
studying out the complete significance
of his discoveries, and we have en-
tered on the period of Mendelism to
succeed Darwinism in biology OF
science and faith in Mendel's case
there can be- no doubt, though there
is also no doubt of the depth of his
knowledge of biological principle.
the study of the plants in his monas-
terry garden and elucidated problems
that were to remain utterly obscure
for a full generation after his time,
because his work did not receive the
attention that it deserved, he was
elected the abbot of the monastery
and spent the last fifteen years of his
life in this position. His election was
mainly due to the conviction of his
brethren that he was man of deep
piety as well as profound learning,
and he died almost in the odor Of
sanctity.
There are, however, many other
Catholic churchmen who have reached
noteworthy distinction in nineteenth
century biological science One of the
best known of these is still alive, the.
Jesuit Father Wasmann, S. j., who is
looked upon as one of the greatest of
living entomolOgists, 20 whom we owe
several articles on ants and their par
asites, and who has described some
900, new species of insects. mainly
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23

those know who have gone down into
the deeps of heart wrung anguish and
cried aloud for help, but it is making
the hurt ten times deeper, more hurt
full, more miserable, to center ones
life in 1t and from that viewpoint of
resentment and pain look at all the
world.
This is a good world, this is kind
world, individual experience to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Pessim-
ism never helped any one. The most
beautiful, tue most lovable people we
know are those who have come
through great trials and have been
sweetened and made more loving and
gentle by their sorrow. These have
lost no illusions" Perhaps they
have made mistakes in judgment,
perhaps they have been deceived and
disappointed in those whom they loved,
but they do not argue therefrom that
they are deceived by all the rest of
mankind.-Sophia Kerr Underwood.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
LEGEND OF THE sCAPULAR.

The following beautiful incident is
related in the Chronique du Carmel:
A Christian named Joseph Gemonat
was on his journey toward Bagdad
He passed through the desert of Killa,
in which there were many lions
Whilst nearing Samona Joseph sud-
denly heard the roar of the dreaded
beast. and in another moment saw 1t
furiously rushing toward him
The poor traveller abandoned all
hope of escape. and his horse stood
still and shook with fear. Death ap-
peared certain, Gemonat recommend
ed his soul to God and then taking his
scapular from his breast held it before
the lion and said: "In the name of the
Blessed Virgin, 1 command thee to do
me no harm At this the lion stood
still. ceased TO roar, turned and fled.
Thus, as on many occasions was
verified the power of our Mother that
the Scapular is "a safeguard In dan
GER
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
MY DREAM.LADY-

o, she is fair beyond compare,
The Lady of my dreams;
Supernatural grace illumes her face,
The Lady of my dreams:
Her eyes disguise no inner ruth,
She smiles no wiles, but open truth.
And round her figure CLEANS
The bright pure light of souls all
white,
The Lady of my dreams.
She visits me full frequently,
The Lady of my dreams;
In visions fleet but passing sweet,
The Lady of my dreams;
Her glance a trance Of rapture brings
Her worth all earth exultant sings
Till, in my heart, meseems,
I'd fam retain her ceaseless reign,
The Lady of my dreams.
No phantom, she, of poesy,
The Lady of my dreams;
She lives indeed life's fullest need.
The Lady of my dreams;
l pray one day to reach her home
OF love above earth's spangled dome,
Where evermore she beams,
Serene of mien, high Heavens Queen,
The Lady of my dreams.
Arthur Barry O'Neill, c. S. c.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
THE STATE AND THE FAMILY.
CIV. E. Campbell. in the July Catholic
World ! 10

The business of the state is not then,
to detach the members of the family
from their organic body in order to
make them separately and selfishly eff
ficient-we only cut off a member from
the body as a last and dreadful re-
source to prevent organic poisoning.
The business of the state is rather that
of helping the family, to a healthy, CO.
operative, and productive unity. What
it must avoid, except in the most ex-
IRENE cases, is treatment of a kind
which would tend to the entire separa-
ton of members of the family from
the family as whole, whether in the
matter of feeding. education, instruc-
ton, or employment. And what is
more, when help is given through the
state, it should, as far as possible be
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
AMUSING BLENDERS.

Some of the most comical blunders
are created by mixing metaphors, as
in the famous instance of Sir Boyle
Roche's rat 1T. P.'s Weekly" cred
its an amateur historian with this
fight of fancy: "All along the ever
flowing stream of history you can dis
Germ the silent footprints of the
crowned heads of Europe"
The village reporter on the death of
the village poet: THAT dauntless pen
shall write no more, for its eyes are
closed forever"
From the speech of a rising young
politician: THE fierce light of pub
lie opinion shall dog their footsteps
until it strangles them. Then shall
they swallow the bitter pill and drink
its dreps"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
BISHOP HESJJN

Much apprehension is felt through
out the Catholic diocese of Mississippi
over the continued illness in Memphis
OF Bishop Thomas Heslin, the veneer
able head of the diocese. Although
reports from the bedside state that
Bishop Heslin is slowly improving. the
advanced age of the venerable divine,
coupled with the nature of the mall
ady, give rise to the fear that COM
plete recovery cannot be expected For
the past year he has been compelled
to delegate many of his labors to the
vicar general of the diocese, owing to
his falling strength.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23

given through the father, who, as the
responsible head and bread winner, is
in the highest place of directive au-
thority. Why tear asunder this ma
terial and spiritual whole which God
has made and made to cooperate into
discovered units. who must each in the
most self-regarding and selfish man
ner, look to the state for food, cloth
ing, shelter and the rest? The state
was never meant to appropriate to it.
self the main parental duties and re-
sponsibilities. 1t was rather meant to
prevent other people. exploiting en-
pioyers and the like, from appropriate
ing them. What parents, especially
poor parents. need most of all just
now is wider, freer, healthier family
sphere in which to be properly par
entail
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
1T TAXES COURAGE.

To say mo" squerely when those
around you say yes
To speak the truth when by little
prevarication you can get some great
advantage.
To refuse to knuckle and bend the
knee to the wealthy, even though
poor.
To refuse to do thing which you
think is wrong, because it is custom
airy and done in trade.
To stand firmly erect while others
are bowling and fawning for praise and
power. ... -
To remain in honest poverty while
others grow rich by questionable
methods. J.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
THE WISDOM OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH IN EDUCATION.

The New England Journal of Edu-
cation in an editorial pays this beau
tfuI tribute TO the wisdom of the
church in education: There is one
church which makes religion an es-
sential to education, and that is the
catholic Church, in which mothers
teach their faith to the infants at The
breast in their lullaby songs, and
whose sisterhoods and brothcrhoods
ana priests imprint their religion on
souls as indelibly as the diamond
marks the hardest glass. They in
qrain their faith in human hearts
when most plastic TO the touch. Are
they wrong? Are they stupid? Are
they ignorant, that they found schools,
academies, colleges in which religion
is taught? Not if a man be worth
more than a dog, or the human soul,
with eternity for duration, is of more
value than the span of animal exist
ence for a day. If they are right, then
we are wrong. Looking upon il as
mere speculative question, with their
policy they will increase; with ours,
we viii decrease. We are no prophet,
but it does seem to US that Catholics
retaining their religious teaching and
we our heather schools, will gaze
upon Cathedral crosses all over New
England when our meeting houses
will be turned into barns. Let them
go on teaching their religion to the
children, and let US go on educating
cur children in schools without recog-
milton Of God, and they will plant corn
and train grapevines on the unknown
graves Of the Plymouth Pilgrims and
the Puritans Of Massachusetts bay and
none viii dispute their right of pos
session. We say this without express
ing our own hopes or fears, but as in
eytable from the fact that whatsoever
q man soweth that stall he also reap"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
AS THE TWIG is BENT.

We can never forget the warning of
the Scriptures which tells us that if a
child is properly trained in youth he
will not in old age depart from the
path of virtue. We are of those who
believe that this Scriptural injunction
is being neglected and that the relig-
ious element cuts very little figure in
the development of today. AS a re-
suit conscience is losing its power
and morality is diminishing. There is
too much matter-of-fact in our edu-
cation and too little of the religious
element Selfishness predominates
and where selfishness enters refine
ment is likely to depart Let us never
forget that religion is essential to our
morality and the religious instinct
properly guided is the best influence
in the direction of that which makes
the true man and the true woman.
We cannot too loudly ring out the
cry among our youth for greater
respect for age and holy things,
love for the clean and the pure and
disgust for all that defiles and de-
grades
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
Church Universal

mat the Fuller Saturday dinner was
baked beans and nothing else, and this
story is told: "One evening the chief
Justice possibly forgetting that it was
saturday, asked distinguished Eng
iish Jurist home to dinner with him
Mhen tho beans came on the Eng
Isnman promptly declined them. Mrs.
ruler showed some embarrassment.
whereupon the Englishman amiabIy
SAID Never mind, I'll make it UP in
Ihe next course But, good Lordn
eAclalmed the chief justice, there isn't
any other course!' and there wasn't, -
Catholic Universe
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
IAN N1ACLAREN.

ut is now known" writes DR..
Robertson NicoH of Ian Maclaren, in
a biography of the deceased novelist,
Just published, that during the early
years of his ministry he adopted
much of the Catholic discipline. He
observed the fasts; ne wore hair
shirt; he aimed strenuOusly at self
&C inquest and self-knowledge as we'll
as at knowledge of books and men,"
DR.. NicOll, indeed. insists that if we
are to understand DR.. Watson's per-
sonality Alright, the two chief facts
that we must bear in mind are that
he was an Irishman. and that his an
Cestry on his mothers side was
Catholic, his grand-uncle being a we'll
known and influential priest in the
Highlands. Il am a pure Highland
err" said Watson himself on one Oc-
casion. MY mother was a Maclaren
and came from Loeb Tay, and spoke
the Gaelic tongue. My father was
born at Braemar. AMI Gaelic was the
language of my paternal grand
father"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
WHEN THE CLoTnIER PAINTED

A London clothier was never known
to acknowledge that he didn't have
anything possible customer might
ask for. One day customer entered
the shop and asked if he had any
trousers made especially for one
legged men.
"Certainly," replied the merchant.
what kind do you ,want?"
Dress pants" said the man. 1.-The
best you've got"
Hurrying into the rear of the shop
the enterprising merchant snatched a
pair of trousers and shipped off the
right leg with pair of shears Hasti-
ly turning under the edges he present.
ed them to the customer.
That's the kind want. What's the
price,"
Thirty shillings."
'Well, give me pair with the left
leg Off"
A month later the clothier was pro-
nounced convalescent,-Lon Globe,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
RULES AFFECTING STUDENTS OF
RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

The latest issue of the official bulIe-
tin of the Vatican, the Acta Apostol-
icae Sedis announces the program of
studies laid down for students of re-
hglous orders and congregations to
be followed in all houses both in for
elgn countries as we'll as in Italy.
THOSE houses whose subjects are
bound not by VOWS but by mere prom
lse of perseverance, also come under
this regulation. In future when men
ton Is made of a theological course
one is to understand a course of four
academic years.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
Training School for Nurses.

The Columbus Hospital Training
School, under the supervision Of the
Sisters of Charity, is established to
give a thorough course in two and .
half years for trained nurses.
REQUIREMENTS: Twenty to tIir.
ty-fiye years; good moral characters
sound in body and mind.
ADVANTAGES: Course Of instruc-
ton by hospital staff and superinten-
dent; two courses Of didactic lectures:
practical experience at bedside Of pa
TENTS; a handsome nurses apartment
Address Sister Superintendent OF
Nurses, Columbus Hospital. CSreae
Falls. Mont.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
ARCHBISHOP M'EVAY ILL.

The Catholics of Cenada and in
deed citizens of all classes and creeds
will regret to learn of the illness of
His Grace Archbishop McEvay. His
grace has overworked himself. No
man could stand the constant strain
to which he has been subjected, par
ticularly within the past two years.
On the 18th of last month the sec
ond anniversary of his installation as
Archbishop of Toronto occurred: ILL
ness prevented him from celebrating
the occasion.