The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
CATHOLICS ARE
Being AROUSED
Over Importance of Missionary
Movement Among Laymen
NEWS OF THE CHURCH
Rabbi Leonard Levy of Pittsburg Is
Voted Annual Salary of $4,000
and an Annuity of $4,000
After Retirement
BY ID. v. FRANCIS

| New York, April pa special.)-I you
read the great symposium on the lay
mems missionary movement which I sent
you last week. I am quite sure that you
will not be surprised to learn that the
people who have heretofore been left
ou- of the great uprising are beginning to
feel rather sorry about it,
There have been plenty of suggestions
from Roman Catholic quarters that they
were only too sorry that they were una
BILE officially to show the sympathy with
the movement which was in their hearts.
1t is, of course. quite impossible to do
more than allude to these expressions of
sympathy and goodwill, but here is an
outspoken statement from the chief mis-
sionary monthly of the Roman Catholic
church in this country, Extension says
that the laymens missionary movement
carries its lesson to us with every great
meeting and exclaims, Dear Lord, isn't
1t too bad We Catholics cant get to-
gether What a movement we could
swing if we did! These great cities are
from a quarter to a half Catholic. II
we Joined foreign and home efforts in a
rousing rally in every great city a wave
of Catholic enthusiasm would sweep ev-
cry laggard off his feet Can it be done
Look at the missionary congress But
We will do it. So far as the work of Ex-
tension is concerned it would begin to-
morrow. Heart and soul would we go
in to make the movement a success. The
laity are hungry to do something worth
while. And all that stands between the
great awakening and those willing work.
ers is a simple understanding and agree
ment on the part of all our Catholic
missionary movements not to unite In
one organizations, but to unite in a stir
rims up of the missionary spirit for the
benefit of all, and, therefore, for the
glory of God and the salvation of souls -
The many friends of the Rev. DIR. j.
Wilbur Chapman, so well known in this
country as evangelist of great power,
are congratulating the people of Cardiff,
Wales, to whom he is going for the pur-
pose of conducting religious revival.
A six weeks campaign has been plan
neil and the great evangelist takes with
him his devoted band of co-workers
Prominent among these are Mr. Charles
Nj. Alexander, the sweet singer who has
moved SO many hearts, and Mr. Robert
Tie DldDlSt ana composer OF
hymns and songs of the present day
There are also in the party Mrs. AL
exander. Mr.. Haftzger the singer: Mr..
and Mrs. William Asher. saloon evangel-
lists; Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph c. Norton
personal workers, and Mr.. George T. B.
Davis, who has just returned from Co
rea. Speaking of Mr.. Davis recalls his
marvellous achievement in distributing
upward of million copies of the pocket
cd Of thn cta,, ont IN,
where he reports that a most remarka-
Bile religious awakening is in progress.
/ wonder how many of my readers are
prohibitionists? That term has been so
monopolized by a great multitude of peo-
pie who believe that the manufacture
of spirituous liquors should be absolute
ly prohibited that it is hardly neces-
sary to explain the term; and yet 1 often
wish that the manufacture of a great
many other articles might be equally
prohibited and that public sentiment
would assert itself with sufficient ear
nestness to give the word ''prohibtionist"
Il much wfer Specification than 1t has at
present. One of these days I propose
giving my readers statement of the
wonderful change of feeling in regard to
the opium traffic which has been COM
ing over the world during the last few
years.
The Chinese appear to be terribly in
earnest in their zeal for the prohibition
OF the cultivation of the poppy, and the
manufacture of opium depends upon IT,
but there is no time to speak of that at
the present.
What prompted my writing was the
pleasure I have just experienced in read
ing the report of a recent address of
Governor Stubs of Kansas. Governor
Stubs was speaking in Chicago and he
came out with a most emphatic declara-
ton of the overthrow of the theory that
absolute prohibition would bring CONNER
cial ruin to a community.
prohibition in Kansas is not a result