The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-03-16

w hiadsa eeAlna u. vHns asa
" locked doors q TIE oonvsntA
no one can tell
There is certainly . vurposs IN us
secrecy. A Plaza In the hiGh fsnosa =
necessity Tor the iookec doors. WAS
are theyf
the last Menace % the ~Trumpha of
the Cioisier" no woman In noruL
state of mind. after the facts we're
known. would remain IN such . ptAoa
u she could g., out
Il may be. too. that females vho %
IN soon cross the bridge ever vhieh
they never have q desire 10 recrosa.
Certainly. and forever ssstsed n 10
that a. 4 doctrine. aacctickm ia
dead. it has no place o. useful ox.
istenoe In modern ilfe and aotivfo.
II is false-it Is a wieked decsStiea
to say that a woman. ahut up under
conditions az portrayed IN the Ne
OF a Carmelits nun. is better. boiler
more devout than her sister IN the
| busy world. resisting temptation. and
building a character OF purity ana
beauty In ooas out In The vorid
way.
Saved IN the midst OF evil. and not
OF n. Ia n true test Of virtue; a. the
/ Hebrew children walked In the flames
OF the furnace and yet were not
/ burned.
All neral philosophy teaches that
character can oniy be secured In frec-
dom. not in the cloistsr. Even tho
well informed priests" the sSrlols
says. have objected 20 estAbliaAinE
the Carmelite converts In America"
The Menace believes. aftrr reading
the account that no such tnstitotion
ought 90 exist on American soil for
the very good reason that asoeticism
destroys virtue. weakens the will
blinds the Judgment and makes the
victim think there is holiness in a
separation from temptation. from care
and from responsibility.
Jesus condemned the Jews for rust
such things and asked them n thAy
could. by taking thought. add 10 theif
stature. lie positively taught diner
. entity when he said: Il pray not that
thou take them out Of the work. but
that thou shouldest keep from them
, tho evil"
I
! doing penance in a monastery. Deeda
are the fruits OF the spirit
But these converts seem 70 ssrVa
another purpose. namely: 10 take
wcuen who have prospective fer
tunes, and by hook OF by crook-and
more often crook-turn that money in.
, to the Golfers OF the Roman church.
. Almost daily. clippings from an
, over tho United States come 10 this
. ONCE telling how wis are broken,
heirs cheated, murders committed aud
convent and church and hierarchy.
mother superiors, and courts are all
tied up together. in fierce struggle
We cut from the Newark Evening
: journal clipping which suggests
, many things not printed. Here is a
case where the womRn's name is
changed. where a nun is dead, and a
: nun wants 10 set aside her fathers
J. will. The supreme court has given an
! order for the mother superior OF ths
J. convent OF ST. Vincent de Paul TO ties.
. tify and produce records. The Men.
= ACC prophesies that she win do
neither.
n But here is the item as printed By
n the journal:
! Arthur =. Hsnel, the attorney en-
+ reed. nun. into to set set aside the viii 81
Charles 5. Reed whom she claims was
her father obtained from suprsms
c Court Justice Davis an order directing
tho Convent OF 81. Vincent dc Paul, "a
/ testify and produce records,
r The Mother Superior will be asked q
n tell ell she knows about the late sister
T under which Jessie Il. Reed is known ir
the religious order. but the attorneys
for the Reed estate have been inform "a
that woman in the convent known a.
the last two years They want 70 ash
:. the head OF the order all about this de,
/, cendent 20 find out II they can identifJ
]. the living Sister Berchmsns.
!. fisher. LETT his $50, 600 estate I,
= strangers. lie divided e equally be,
q tween DR.. Fiske. OF No. 7s wes
;, Eighty.slxth street and Mrs. William
s. What show have the heirs under tn,
r. will against that bunch. or who knowl
S when or how the deceased womaI
!: came 10 her death. or what sort o.
A. records Margaret Cullen keeps In IN,
l. convent?
/ Sometime the public will becom,
It weary with convent duplicity anS
r. hierarchy Vaccinations, with womeI
5, In converts, with high walls, anC
n. locked and barred doors-these pub
d lie places where girls are lost ar,
forever disappear - this religion
II maelstrom that sucks in its victim
Is with remorseless fatality. Sometiho
do you say? Why not now?