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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-18
THE FERRER CASE.

The truth is out at last. The
Republican group in the Cortes
was anxious to reopen the Ferrer
case in parliament and as pre-
liminary measure authorized an
eminent Spanish jurist, Mel
quiades Alvarez, to make study
of the judicial proceedings in this
celebrated trial. He reports that
they were entirely in conformity
with the judicial requirements.
This confirms the opinion of i'm
partial judges and is in the nature
of a final disposition Of the case
as far as the public is concerned.
Of course, it. will not prevent Fer
rer's friends from trying to make
him out martyr. What will Nc
Clure's Magazine do now? Its
Mr.. Archer has been shown to be
unreliable, and the magazine
which fills it's pages with his pre-
JUDGED views of the Ferrer epis-
ode must lie under the same i'm
putatiOn. The series Of articles
from the pen Of DR.. John A. Ryan
Of the St. Paul Seminary which
The Catholic Bulletin published
recently robs Ferrer Of the halo
which his deluded admirers would
place on his anarchistic brow; and
effectively disposes of the titles
to greatness which they tried to
forge in his behalf.
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er, which should suffice to put
people on their guard and save
them from the useless labor of
making copies.
The prayer varies in form and,
when it is not a mere tumble of
words, is usually very simple. One
Of the latest is as follows: Lord,
| implore Thee to bless all man
kind; keep us by Thy Precious
Blood, and make us to dwell with
Thee This prayer, in itself, is
all right; and can be used very
appropriately by any person
Though why it should be called
can ancient prayer" is not very
clear. Substantially, it is old, no
doubt; but not older than many
another prayer of similar tenor,
There is no reason to think that
the mere copying of it nine times
has any special virtue. The ignor-
ant and the superstitious may be
caught by it's promises and its
threats; but Catholics who under,
stand their religion know very
we'll that the Church gives no
sanction to such methods Of dis
seminating prayers. Much less
does she attach any value to the
mere copying of prayers. Prayer
to be Of value must flow from the
heart and not from the nib of a
pen.
The Church never makes use OF
such channels to spread devotion
Her prayers are authenticated in
such a way as to leave no doubt
Of their commences; and they can
be easily recognized as having her
approval. Any one who receives
a chain-prayer should consign it
to the flames and thus put an end
promptly to this superstitious
nuisance
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A WORD TO OUR READERS.

The "Question and Answer
department of The Catholic Bulle-
tin was organized for the benefit
of those who desire information
about the doctrines Of the Cath
Ollie Church. It is open to all sin
cere enquirers after truth. It is
educational in scope; and will en-
deavor to help all who have re-
course to it. Certain regulations
have been laid down for the guild
ance of those who patronize it.
They are given at the head Of the
department; and we trust that all
will govern themselves according.
ly. In the first place, the ques.
tons must be of general interest
that is, they must be free from
local or personal application; and
not prompted by mere curiosity
In the second place, those who ask
questions must send in theil
names, not for publication, but as
q guarantee Of good faith. Other
wise, their letters will be thrown
into the waste basket. Of late q
number Of communications have
found their way to that recep
tacle. AS our space is limited, W.
cannot answer each week all thu
questions asked of us. They ar
attended to in the order in which
they are received; and we hope
our correspondents will not be i'm
patient if their questions are no
answered as soon as they wisl
them to be.
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Great Britain.

In Great Britain a grave scandal has
reached its climax in the solemn de-
nunciation and accommodation of
two erstwhi1e priests Of the Noting
ham Diocese, who some time ago, aft
er several acts of disobedience and re-
peated indulgence on the part OF their
lawful superiors received episcopal
conservation from an ex-priest of the
name Of Mathew, who left the Church
as long ago as 1889 and is now mar
ried and styles himself Anglo-C Catholic
Archbishop of London, having himself
received conservation some two years
ago from the hands of the old Catholic
Archbishop of Utrecht, who possesses
Orders. The remarkable part Of the
Reale and Howarth affair was that
after this fragrant act Of disobedi-
ence and disloyalty the two priests en-
deavored to continue to officiate at
their respective churches, declaring
they had referred their cases to Rome.
Now comes Rome's answer, which,
though it pleads for prayers for these
misguided men and expresses the hope
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THE SECRETARY OF WAR ON TO-
TAI ABSTINENCE SOCIETIES.

In an open letter advocating the
formation of total abstinence societies
in the army and navy, Secretary of
War Dickinson writes:
IT believe in everything that en-
courages voluntary abstinence both
within and without the army. All
other things being equal, the man who
abstains is better qualified to be USE
full and law-abiding citizen, and to
promote his own happiness and that
of his family and friends. One of the
greatest burdens on our country is
that of crime which is the direct re-
suit of drink. When the Romans
achieved their greatest successes they
were water drinkers
Secretary Dickinson is right, and we
hope his letter will have the desired
effect. Police court judges, and others
in position to know, declare that
four-fifths Of the crimes committed in
this country are caused by drink
G.. T. A. u. Advocate,
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WHO SHOULD LEAD.

When Cardinal Manning held a
meeting to inaugurate the league of
the Cross, he asked if any were pres
ent who had taken the pledge from
Father Mathew. He asked the dozen
or more who rose in answer to his
call, how the great apostles work
could be restored among the people
Call upon the clergy to take the lead
and guide us" was the reply. The Car
dinal declared he would not ask any
one to do what he was not prepared
to do himself. II, as is my duty as
your pastor, as your Bishop, will be
your leader" And as long as God
left him among them he was their
leader, and he never allowed any other
work to crowd out the work of tenn
perance.
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A TRIBUTE To THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH
A Non-Catholic Speaks of the Church's
Work for Art, Literature
and Architecture.

William Winter, the eminent drama
tic critic, recently paid the Church
this glowing tribute in the World
Herald
"To think of the Roman Catholic
Church is to think of the oldest, the
most venerable and the most powerful
religious institution existing among
kind; that, possibly, is my misfortune;
but I am conscious of profound OBJ
legation of gratitude to that wise and
august, austere, yet tenderly human
ecclesiastical power, which, self-cen-
tered amid vicissitudes of human af-
fairs and provident of men of learning,
Imagination and sensibility through
out the world, has preserved the
literature and art of all the centuries,
has made architecture the living SYM
boil of celestial aspiration, and in
poetry and in music has heard and
has transmitted the authentic voice
of God.
81 say that I am not a churchman;
but I would also say. that the best
hours of my life have been hours of
meditation passed in the glorious
cathedrals and among the sublime
ecclesiastical ruins of England. 7 have
worshipped in Canterbury and York,
in Winchester and Salisbury, in Lin
coin and Durham, in Ely and in Wells.
have stood in Tintern, when the
green grass and the white daisies
were waving in the summer wind, and
have looked upon the gray and russell
walls and upon those lovely arched
casements-among the most graceful
ever devised by human art-round
which the sheeted ivy drops and
through which the winds Of heaven
sing a perpetual requiem.
Il have seen the shadows OF evening
slowly gather and softly fall over the
gaunt tower, the roofiess nave, the
giant pillars and the shattered arcades
of Fountains abbey, in it's sequested
and melancholy solitude, where an
cient Ripon dreams in the spacious
and verdant valleys of the Skell, 7
have unused upon Netley, and Kirk
stall, and Newstead and Bolton, and
Melrose, and Dryburgh; and at mid
night hour have stood in the grim
and gloomy chancel of st. Column
bias cathedral, remote in the storm
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-18
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
CHOOSE.

Father Doyle of the Apostolic Mis-
sion House, Washington, and former
secretary of the G. T. A. u of America,
makes this comparison between the
Church and the saloon:
1.-THE Church thrives on the religious
instinct which, born in mans heart,
leads him to offer an acceptable service
to God The, saloon brushes that in
stinct and thrives on the horrid cray
ing for alcohol, which, once created,
it seeks to foster by the most ingenious
devices. until the one whom the Church
would have made noble, God-fearing
Christian becomes a besotted, trem-
bling, slavish victim.
The Church has it's sacrifices; so,
too, the saloon. It's votaries offer on
the counter, behind which stands the
high priest, the choicest tributes o
man can give-his health, his reason,
the happiness of his home, the honor
of his daughter, his life i'm this world,
his soul in the next.
The Church has it's moral code-it
is, "Deny yourself; the saloon teaches
drink and be merry; the Church says,
here is the prayer book and the ros-
airy; the saloon says, here is the bottle
and the glass. The Church says, Sun
day is the Lords day, to be given to
rest and religion. The saloon claims
it as it's day, to be given up to rioting
and debauchery. The Church calls it
Sunday; the saloon makes it sunday.
(Which shall it be-old men, you
who have seen red streams of precious
blood flow to cement our free insti-
tutions till there was hardly a heart
left that did not ache? Which shall 1t
be, the saloon or your country? Which
shall it be? Christian people who are
wondering why the Church is losing
ground, why the epidemic of unbelief
is sweeping over the land, which shall
1t be, the Church of God or the sa-
loon? Which shall 1t be? You cannot
serve God and Mammon.
Choose
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that they may return to the one true
fold, sets aside forever their false and
presumptuous claims and cuts them
off from the living body Of the Church
as schismatics.
Also the recent debate this week on
the Mccain mixed marriage case,
which took place in the House of
Lords and was raised by certain peers
who hoped to cause trouble for the
Catholic authorities regarding the "Ne
temere" decree may lead to unex.
pected, and to Catholics, agreeable con.
sequences. For the British Govern.
ment is now considering the policy Of
having it's own ambassador at the
Vatican!
SENTINEL.
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CONTINUED from page ~
SCIENCE AND THE SUPER
NATURAL.

nature. Armed with this conviction
in the irremovable possession of this
assumption, the scientist advances to
investigate the claim of Christianity
Judged by the canons of historical cri-
ticism these claims he finds to be in
disputable, but-and here is the rub!-
those records and documents and liv-
ing beliefs narrate and profess mirac-
ulous occurrences. How is this! Are
not miracles assumed to be impossi-
BILE? Yes; hence those records must
go by the board; this history (most
authentic, genuine history must be de-
clared mythical and legendary! So
history irrefutable history-is repudi-
ated in the name of science! When
science, so-called, finds itself reduced to
such straights, is it not its plain duty
and rational course to revise it's as
sumptions and reconsider its preju-
dices-which if strictly applied to the
study of all history, would land us in
universal scepticism in regard to past
events? If we reject the gospel his
tory, of what other event can we feel
certain what other past event is bet
ter authenticated? True science in its
genuine discoveries, in its proven con-
illusions parent of SO much that is
good and great, the motive power of
material progress to which the race is
deeply indebted-entails no such dire
consequences. Prejudice and assump-
ton, and we might add unwarranted
presumption, are alone responsible for
the antagonistic attitude of science to
Faith and the Supernatural The in
trinsic value of this prejudice we shall
estimate as it deserves in later con-
tribution.
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he includes what is false as well as
what is true-Shintoism and
Christian Science and any and
every vagary of the religious con-
seriousness of the race then it is
not worth while taking issue with
him on his statement. But if he
means that Christianity has been
forced by science to yield up any
Of it's dogmas, he simply makes a
statement which he cannot prove.
In the entire range of the history
Of thought there is no chapter
more deplorable than that which
tells how one school Of infdels af-
ter another strove in the name of
Science to subvert Christianity,
and yet, there is no chapter more
instructive, for it shows how each
generation of unbelievers undid
the work Of the preceding genera
ton and how out Of the mouths Of
it's enemies Christianity was vindi-
Gated. Science has changed her
own dogmas many a time. "Our
little systems have their day. but
Science has not wrested from the
Church jot or title Of the de-
posit Of truth committed to her
keeping for the teaching Of the
nations. .
The public is growing tired Of
hearing amateur theologians air
ing their views on religion. 1t is
yet fresh in the minds of our read
ers how President Eliot shocked
the common sense Of the country
by his address on the Future Of
Religion. Before taking up his
duties as president Of Harvard, Mr..
Eliot was professor Of Chemistry.
To his chosen department of
knowledge he made no contribu-
ton, but he saw nothing incon-
gruous in formulating a new
scheme Of religion for the world.
The quondam professor of chem
istry and ardent champion Of spe-
cialization suddenly began to pose
as a prophet. Still more recently
Thomas A. Edison felt moved to
thrust his religious opinions upon
his fellow-men. His creed rejects
everything that makes life worth
living By what right this man
dictated to the world what it
should not believe is very hard to
explain. He is an admirable illu-
stration Of the truth that mature
is subdued to what it works in,
like the dyer's hand.'' He is Of
the earth, earthly. AS to DR.. Slo-
bin, if he possessed the true con-
ception Of the teachers vocation
he would stick to mathematics. It
is just such sciolists in theology as
/ he who are turning the universities
into hotbeds Of atheism where our
young people acquire some know!
ledge of secular branches at the
expense of their religion.
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THE CHAIN-PRAYER
NUISANCE.

The chain-prayer fever has
again broken out and the epidemic
is spreading. IAN ancient pray
er" is going the rounds which the
recipients are asked to copy a
number of times usually once a
day for nine days and send to as
many friends who, in turn, are
asked to do likewise, land see
what will happen. A promise
and a threat accompany the pray
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swept Hebrides, and looked upward
to the cold stars and heard the voices
of the birds of the night mingled with
the desolute moaning of the sea.
with awe, with reverence, with
many strange and wild thoughts |
have fingered and pondered in those
haunted, holy places, but one remem-
brance was always present-the re-
membrance that it was the Roman
Catholic Church that created those
forms of beauty, and breathed into
them the breath Of divine life, and
hallowed them forever; and thus
thinking have felt the unspeakable
pathos Of her long exile from the
temples that her passionate devotion
prompted and her loving labor
reared"
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A PROFESSOR OF MATHE-
MATICs ON THEOLOGY.

NJ CSCSAAAhS OA4 AeSAASAOh OhO
Progress" DR.. Slobin said in part {:
"Religion not only asserted a
mystery, but tprofessed audit still
processes numerous assertions re-
specting this mystery. 1t professed
to know it's nature in the minutest
detail, and claimed positive know
ledge. From the times of the
early mythologies, when intimate
acquaintance with the mystery
was claimed, down to our days, re-
ligion has been compelled by
Iscience to give up one after
another of it's dogmas.
"Dogmas constantly become ir-
reconcilable with facts
This paragraph appeared in an
evening paper last Friday and pur-
ports to be an extract from lee
ture given by DR.. Herman L. Slo-
bin of the University Of Minnesota
before the Liberal Club of that in
stitution. It is a curious little
specimen of liberal thought.
DR.. Slobin is not, as our readers
might be led to believe, professor
Of theology; he is simply an in
structor in mathematics at the
State University.
Our lecturer points out that re-
igion asserts mystery. And, truly,
religion without mystery is re-
lgion without God. DR.. Slobin,
we presume, does not belong to
that school Of science that hopes
to empty the universe Of mystery
He is aware that every line of
speculation leads at last to some
height that the mind cannot scale
or to some depth that it cannot
sound. Sane science serves to
bring out into clearer relief the
enigma Of things, it prepares the
way for religion. "
But while DR.. Slobin does not
berate religion for it's assertion OF
mystery he does accuse it Of claim.
ing to know the nature Of mystery
in it's minutest detail. Now, pas.
sing over the obvious confusion OF
thought in which the professor OF
mathematics is involved-how car
a mystery remain a mystery if its
nature is known ave cannot re
frain from expressing our amaze
ment that teacher Of an exact
science could commit himself te
such statement. For to explain
the nature Of mystery is thing
theology never dreamed of doing
Ii DR.. Slobin would make even {
superficial study Of the works o.
some great thinker Of the Church
he would come to conceive {
wholesome regard for the science
: which he travesties, and he would
quickly convince himself that il
dealing with mystery theology il
content with showing that while i
! transcends reason it is not con
trary to reason. In this as in al
: other problems theology shuns ex
tremes. In specializing reverend,
on the fountain head Of all mys
terry, the Being of God, it pro
claims that the object of man.
worship is not the definitely know
God, nor the Unknown God, no
the Unkowable God, but God ever
$ to-be known. For cogency ant
, consistency of thought the theolo
: gian has nothing to learn from tn
3 scientist.
n DR.. Slobin proceeds to say tina
! religion has been compelled b,
) science to give up one after an
: other Of its dogmas. Here again
) the professor Of mathematic
: shows a supreme disregard TO
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SPAIN.

In Spain things are at very deli
cate pitch. Senior Canelejas has King
Alfonso completely in his hand, but he
knows he has not the Spanish nation
and he is making desperate efforts to
reopen negotiations with the Vatican
without appearing to surrender any
of his points, while Rome calmly and
without haste informs him that,
though by right all the differences
which have arisen should be settled be-
tween the Pope and the King by mu-
tual consent, she is prepared to re-
sumo negotiations, but only on the un-
derstanding that no action is taken
further against the religious orders
until an agreement has been reached
to vary the Concordat, and, therefore,
Senior Canelejas, in declaring his in
tention of Immediately proceeding to
lay before the Cortes bill for the
regulations Of the religious commune
ties, is simply padlocking his own
means of graceful retirement from an
unenviable position.
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A quarter of an hour spent each
day in the devout reading of the
New Testament will bear fruit in
holiness of life and conformity to
the ideals of Christian perfection.
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The regime Of Lent could be
kept up with profit all the year
round.
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The lenten fast is a good spring
tonic.
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St. Joseph, pray for us.
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