The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

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music and eloquence. are distinctly an
American Catholic ngregation. They
were founded for the purpose OF con-
verting America. Father Hecker. their
founder, and all his first companions
/ were converts.
They are the originators of the mis-
sions to nonCatholics" and of the
question box" through which inouir-
ers after truth ask for all manner of
. information. and they are also the
founders of that pioneer Catholic mag
azine known as the Catholic World.
Cardinal Gibbons traces his own de-
cision 10 adopt the clerical life to the
eloQuence of the first Paulist mission
aries, even before they had yet organ
( lied as new religious congregation.
feature of the music in their great
Church of st. Paul New York. was the
singing OF the Able LIFTS Thou Art
Peter by their famous vested choir of
90 boys and men under the direction OF
/ their venerable organist and choir
master, Sir Edmund ffurley.
The services We're attended by one
cardinal, three archbishops, three bish-
ops, Is onsignori, nearly 200 priests
and q congregation of 5000 worshipers,
half as many more being turned away.
While the argument, post hoe, prop
ter hoe is not always a safe or con-
elusive one, it is quite safe to say that
many retail clerk who enjoyed the
! unwonted boon of early closing in st.
Paul. Mimi, last Christmas eve, through
the efforts Of Father Lawler, pastor of
/ the cathedral in that city, will see in
his promotion TO the dignity of auxil-
iary to Archbishop Ireland within six
weeks after that event the just reward
/ of his efforts 10 ameIiOrate the condi-
tion OF the Iaboring classes. The pa
pers at the time hailed his success as
the solution of the problem of early
closing throughout the country. 1t
would certainly he a happy fruition, if
/ the general movement begun at that
time should culminate successfully at
Eastertide, on the eve Of Bishop Law
+ ler's conservation as auxiliary bishop
of st. Paul. MINI.
The recent celebration of the compile
ton OF Father Albert Lacombe's six
tieth year as q missionary has attract
ed attention once more TO a life more
thrilling than any romance. The good
missionary, now in the eighties, is Still
in full possession of all his faculties.
How he braved death in battles be-
tween savage tribes, winning the conf
denee and admiration of both the op-
posing forces; how he saved the Cana
dian Pacific railway from the intended
destruction by hostile savages Of it's
newly constructed line through the
Blaekfoot country; how the rising town
Of Calgary waited up all night in 1855
TO hear and welcome him as he came
back from a conference with powerful
Indian chiefs, who agreed. at his re-
/ quest, not to attack the then helpless
whites, and many more great deeds,
viii be told some day as the most i'm
portant events in the early history of
E
further north. The present episcopal
see Of ST. Albert was so named by
Archbishop Tache because of the bap-
tismal me of his then young priestly
companion. Rev. Albert Lacombe.
Fifty years ago the gray nuns ar
rived there and the anniversary of
their foundation. coineiding with
{ Father Lacombe's so years of mission
airy life. was one of the great events of
) the year.
In I77S the failure of the English
general Hamilton TO hold for his gov
ernment the Northwest territory from
/ the Allegheny mountains to the Aissis-
sippi river was due to the energy and
enthusiasm of three men This terri
tory includes the present states of Ohio,
+ Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Michigan.
General George Rogers Clark, Fran
els Vigo and Father Peter Gibault met
in Kaskaskia. g town on the bank of
the Mississippi, composed of French Ca
nadians. Father Gibault supplied the
controlling influence among the French
Canadien settlers and induced them to
east their lot with the cause of the
! Americans. He proved to be an untir-
/ ing enthusiast in the cause of the
: American revolution
Some years after the war Father Gil
bault. who had sacrificed all and risked
/ his life in the cause Of his country, pc
titioned the government for little
! patch Of five acres Of land near IA
: hokia, whereon he might pass restfHly
! his old age. His appeal was unavailing.
/ He received no recompense and in his
/ poverty and Old age he left the Hi
! nois country and returned TO New Ma
drid then Spanish territory, where he
i died in 1904
II is now proposed TO mark his grave
( in a betting manner, some recog-
milton. however tardy, of his services
! 20 his country. But it is not even Ger
/ tain that his last resting place at New
! Madrid, Mo. can be successfully 10
Gated.
Plans have been made to celebrate
the three hundredth anniversary of the
! Introduction of printing into the Phil
! lppIli6S bS uOluiiIS n Stdnu convention
| of printers and lithographers in the
near future. The year 1910 is generally
! accepted as the one in which the art
was introduced.
| History shows that a printing press
was set UP in the Dominican hospital
Of San Gabriel. 1t shows that the first
! known printer in that country was a
/ Christian Chinese, Juan de Vera. He
used this press TO do his printing. The
same press eventually found its way
into the University Of Santo Tomas
and remains there to this day, making
/ the printing establishment of the uni
versity the oldest in the Philippines.
It is, however. stated that the first
book printed in Manila was printed in
| Tagalog in 1892. The Franciscan faith
ers also established a printing press in
the Philippines at Pila, May 20, 1910.
In the same year the Jesuits had their
own printing plant also. In 1913 the
Augustinians established a press in
their convent at Bacolor, Pampanga
In the seventeenth century there
were printed in the Philippines from
! 1902 to 1898 122 books and during the
/ eighteenth century 223 more.
In connection with the antiquity of
printing in the islands il is interesting
to remember that Philadelphia could
not boast of a printing plant till 1868,
Calcutta till 1880, Bombay till 1872, or
Australia till 1875.