The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-07-15
THE SOCIETY or
THE DIVINE WORD

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The great work in Gods Church is
accomplished by divers societies, by di-
vers associations Of religious, each So
ciety emphasizing some form of re-
ligious work, says DR.. Thomas O'Hag-
an, Editor of the New World. At
Techny, ILL.,, an hours run by rail
from Chicago, is the Mission House
of the Society of the Divine Word
"a society founded on September
the 9Th, 1875, by the Very Rev.
erend Arnold Jansen, the first gen.
eral of the society, who died Janu-
airy Is, 1909, in the Motherhouse at
Steyl, Holland.
The membership of the society at
present embraces about $50 priests,
$50 brothers and 1000 students. Within
the past few years missions have been
established in rapid succession on
every continent: in China, Japan, New
Guinea, Togo (West Africa) and
among the Indians and colonists of the
various South American States. In
the United States the society is sue
cessfully conducting boarding school
for boys-St. Joseph's Technical
School at Techny, Ill. Some of it's
Fathers have taken up missionary
work among the negroes of the South.
Certainly God has blessed the work
of the society of the Divine Word at
Techny. They have erected a magnifi-
cent group of buildings there and
carry on a work of education and
propagation of religion through mis-
sions worthy of all praise.
This is an exceedingly practical age,
and our boys above all need to be in
structed in the daily work which falls
to their hands The Technical School
at Techny, ILL.,, does this exceedingly
WELL The courses there are most
thorough and practical and the boys
in addition to pursuing technical
courses have excellent intellectual and
religious advantages.
Morally the boys are carefully
watched over, their habits formed to
industry, punctuality and courtesy. In
deed, there is no better school in the
country for boys to receive technical
training-skill of hand and mind
than the Techny Technical Training
School for boys conducted with such
success by the Fathers of the Society
of the Divine Word.
From Techny also are sent out sew
eral Catholic periodicals in both Eng
lish and German, edited with much
skill and judgment. The Christian
Family has very wide circulation and
finds it's way into thousands Of Catholic
homes, edifying, inspiring and direct
ing the minds of our young along the
| lines of Catholic life and thought and
the practice of Christian virtues.
When one visits Techny the marvel
is how the good Fathers have accomp-
lished so much in a few years. They
have erected splendid group of build
ings and the equipment of their tech
nical school is up to date, while their
printing plant leaves nothing to be
desired. Indeed young Catholic
authors desiring to bring out their
works cannot do better than place their
manuscript at Techny where 1t will
be issued in book form and given to
the public in print and binding equal
to that of any publishing house In the
country.
] Among the trades that are taught to
boys at Techny are: Carpentering,
typesetting, electrotyping, printing,
bookbinding, painting, glazing, cary
ing, shoemaking, tailoring, farming,
gardening, butchering, steamftting,
plumbing, blacksmithing, mechanics,
tinsmithing, horseshoeing, tending
engines, boilers, etc.
But all is not work at Techny. There
is a splendid campus and every oppor-
tunity is offered every opportunity af-
forded for physical exercise Trips
are also made several times year in
the company of the Fathers and
Brothers to places of interest round
about such as Lake Michigan, where
the boys go fishing and spend happy
day.
The Fathers of the Divine Word at
Techny have indeed done great work
and the field of their labor il daily en-
Iarging. For the propagation of holy
faith, for the education and practical
training of our Catholic boys, for the
dissemination of good Catholic litera-
ture the Fathers of the Divine Word
stand prominent and their good work
deserves the hearty support of every
Catholic i'm our land.