The Irish standard., 1912-11-16

think that in some small way 1 helped
to found and establish this citadel of
grace in your parish. 1t must have
taxed your time and energies a good
deal during the past twelve months.
but hope to be permitted when I re-
turn to the Old Country once more to
help You. 1 believe God blesses our
work in the measure in which II has
cost US trouble.
what a winter you have been
through: My heart almost bled as
thought of all the privations and mis-
cries entailed by strikes in the East
End.
Discomfort Everywhere.
Discomfort seems to be like a poison
in the air. Out here, where there is a
livelihood for any man who will give
in exchange for it IN honest DAYS
work, this restlessness, this desire to
De what You are not and to have what
You cannot. is everywhere prevalent.
II would seem that nobody has enough
II someone else has more! The num-
ger and thirst to quit work and set to
play is becoming a sort of plague. 1t
is the ruin of character and the death
and burial of religion. How anybody
could be so demented as to try and
make his heaven on this planet is be-
You'd knowing. Those who have the
biggest share of this worlds toys,
prizes and geegaws are not at all SO
happy as many a man I could name
in your Guild with only a meagre
Wage-less anyhow than he deserves.
have just finished my new book on
Socialism from the Christian Stand
point and l do sincerely hope it will
help to arrest the attention of some
persons who fail to see whittier So
cialists are drifting.
Work and Experiences IN the States,
You will want to know what have
been doing since left my native
shores. 1t would almost be easier to
say what l have not done. From New
York to the Klondyke-in mining
camps. lumber camps, in coal mines
and in canneries. preaching in Cathed.
rails. working in the slums, and giving
addresses in theaters, almost fancy
ords going on all the time. 1 have
been picture-show giving all sorts of
Gospel stories and experiences of men
and scenes. Even on the trains 1
have had to give talks. I have adj
dressed some 100000 people. This is
great country for public speaking.
In one town arrived at p. m, gave
; lecture in the theater and shook
hands with most of the people, as they
were presented to me, at 10 p. m. Then
we adjourned and dined. There were
twelve speeches at the banquet, the
/ Bishop in the chair. I got home at
a. m.. and had to say early Mass as
my train left by s:15. This is strenu-
Gus.
The Catholic Church in the New
World.
The Catholic Church is the light of
this New World, and the salt of this
new earth. Nearly 100000 of men,
bers from all nations under the sun.
In one gold mine 1000 men and IS
different nationalities! Paddy ia in
evidence everywhere, and he is
Catholic as we'll as an Irishman. In
New York and Boston he f1ourishes
most of all. Many multimillionaires
among them. They have built up the
Church, for here as elsewhere they are
generous to a fault. In every part in
which I have been have come across
many of those knew in England and
Ireland. Strange to say 1 have found
l am known in the States almost as
we'll as in London and Dublin, and
many poor fellow has been proud
to show me my portrait hanging on
his mantelpiece or pasted on log
, cabin.
|, My affectionate blessing to every
man, woman and child in the parish.
Tell them to put me in their prayers
as I put them in mine.
B. VAUGHAN.
The Missionaries.