The Irish standard., 1912-08-24

OSAoSts SAoAe nave UeeH freak perlOu-
tcals and papers; and if review of
these is necessary, in fairness to your
readers you ought to enlarge your
magazine and give room for sample
of them ALL The reputed size of the
circulation should not be the test.
We who pay for our paper I assume
do SO with a view to getting above
the level of the ordinary newspaper.
We would seek a quiet hall where
thoughtful minds are assembled to OK
change their ideas, to gather a COM
prehensive knowledge of real public
opinion, to watch the trend of real
literature. The merely ephemeral is
of no concern. The merely low and
violently partisan should be barred
out of such assemblage.
Bishop Spalding once said:
THE newspaper is the sewer of pub
lie opinion. 1t is we'll this should have
issue, but when we drink or battle we
seek pure fountains and CLEAR
streams"
You can hardly avoid some mention
of the Catholic Church for her pres
ence among us is a real and vital
thing. 1t will not do to ignore her
and yet how much more dignifed
such a policy than to clear your ros-
trum for space in which to advertise
fh0ca W
ing is by slandering the Catholic
Church. 1 venture to say that your
paper and our condescending friend.
The Independent, do not ever give
serious thought to the spiritual side
of the Catholic Church. How few the
Catholic books which you review!
How seldom you mention a Catholic
paper!
Let me say this one thing to you,
and. if You please, to your readers:
There Is one very important fact I'M
DERIVING the activity of the Catholic
Church which critics and reviewers
are ignorant of, or seeing, do not I'M
derstand.
We Catholics are trying to save our
souls. The Church in her work with
the souls of men has been carrying
out her Christ-given mission. She
goes on through the ages. helped
rather than hindered by the persecu-
tions of all kinds which have assaulted
her She has to expect persecution.
Christ said to his disciples "Thay
will put you out of the synagogues.
Yea, the hour cometh when whoso-
ever killeth you, will think that he
doth a service to God"
The Catholic Church Is praying, I'M
ceasingly praying for the coming Of
Gods kingdom. Israel Zangwill in his
italian Fantasies" says:
There are two torrents that amaze
me-the one is Niagara, and the other
the outpourng of reve~ent PRAYER
falling perpetually in the Roman Cath
Ollie Church. What. with Masses and
the exposition Of the Host, there is
no day nor moment of the day in
which the praises Of God are not be-
ing sung somewhere; in noble church,
es. in dim crypts and underground
chapels, in cells and oratories. Mag
ara is Indifferent to spectators, and
so the ever-falling stream of prayer.
AS steadfastly and unremittingly as
God sustains the universe, so stead.
lastly and unremittingly is He ack-
nowledged, the human antiphony an
swering the divine strophe.
There be those who cannot bear
that Niagara should fall and thunder
in mere sublimity, but only to such
will this falling thunder of prayer
seem waste"
Mr.. Steele, in a communication to
the True Voice, says that the fore
going letter addressed to the Literary
Digest was answered personally and
In friendly spirit, but without pub
LEGATION. 1t may have been an error
of judgment on the part of the Digest
editor to copy from the Menace, but
II he copies again after this objection
he cannot expect his weekly to be
popular with Catholics. Funk and
Wagner, the publishers, may issue in
structtons to leave out clippings of
the sort referred to. Plenty of de-
cent publications to quote from.