The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-03-08
BAPTISTS PLAN SCHOOL FOR
CATHOLIC MEXICANS.
Young Chicago Priest Fighting sturd-
lily TO Keep the Faith Alive in the
Mexlcans of Southwestern Texas.

lily TO Keep the Faith Alive in the
Mexlcans of Southwestern Texas.
Why is it that the Baptist Board Of
Home Missions as well as the Home
Missions Board of all the other de-
nominations must pay in the coin OF
the realm for acquiring the simple
knowledge that they cannot make good
Protestants out of Catholics? In the
large cities the denominations are
peaceable enough, but far out on the
frontier points the very weakness OF
their victims is as wine to their
veins. 1t gives them daring that the
well-organized, adamantine Catholicity
of the cities fails to arouse. The alb
sence of danger is stimulant to their
bravery The Baptists have claimed
Texas as God-given territory, and the
''poor, misguided Romanists" are
looked upon in the light of Heaven
sent prey. Religious liberation, the
practice of it, at least, seems to be
the unknown quantity where Baptists
are concerned.
Young Priest Has Lively Time.
Down near the Mexican border g
young priest-a Chicago man-is
laboring. We have spoken of him be
fore in these columns. He is fighting
single-handed and alone for the pres
ervation of the faith of this people
whose souls Christ died to save. Al
times it looks like a losing fight, fol
this young priest is doing battle with
as strong a band of proselytizers as
it has been the experience of any PEG
pie to meet. They are trying to econ
VERT the poor blinded Romanists with
the broken light of their King James
editions. Other churchmen of another
land once tried to make Professionals
out of the ancestors to whom we owe
our Faith. God grant these zealots
the same success! Baptists cannot
make Protestants out of Mexicans. A
Latin with a variation of Luther's
apologies tackled on his back is re
ligious monstrosity, and even an ignor
ant one seems to know it. But the
Baptists can make infidels out of these
Mexicans, and they are doing theil
best to bring about this result. And
it is against this encroaching infidelty
that the young priest is fighting sc
earnestly.
Wonderful Success With the Work
A little over a year ago this young
man went down there to die, but in
the excitement of living he forgot al
about dying and now it looks as
though dying would be put off for ar
indefinite number of years. He found
a field there that seemed crying aloud
for a tiller to bring forth the fruit
secreted in its bosom. He found souls
there waiting for the Bread Of Life
to be broken unto them and the young
priest took them for his own. He
worked and labored among them. He
famed to life the spark of Faith thai
the Padres had planted and which fol
so long time had lain dormant. II
that Garden of the Lord he saw the
promise of bountiful harvest. AND
his zeal grew. This man, who so re
Gently had been an invalid, took an
other mission on his shoulders tina
had grown strong in the service o
God. And the second mission pros
pered. Then the Baptists came
Baptlsts to Open a ProseIytizing
School.
They began holding service for thi!
Catholic people and their lack of sue
cess did not discourage them. Thu
missionaries were we'll paid and thu
work must be done. But new err
opened for the priest. An era of con
tinHal warfare to maintain his owl
began, and he was obliged to be eve
on the defensive. The fewness o
their converts set the Baptists think
ing, and they came to the conclusion
that they must have school, And
school is under project now. 1t will
be a UNCONVENTIONAL school for thu
purpose of proselytizing his Catholic
Mexicans They are backed by wealth
He has nothing but what is given him
and he must beg for that. Money viii
not be spared to call into being fins
modern school building. Free books
and well paid mission teachers will
be placed at the command Of these
poor Mexicans to rob them of theil
souls AS for his school-well-a little
adobe convent, with two nuns whC
have left the question of recompenst
to the Master, is going to be the grea
inducement that he will hold forth tt
these neglected children of the Faitl
to make them forget the regal build
ing that the Baptists are offerin,
them. And as yet he has not ever
the money to maintain this. But h,
must have the school and conque
them with their own weapons.
Planning Catholic School.
1.-THE school is never out of mind,
he writes. And the school is neve
out Of his mind because the passion
for souls is never out of his heart
And we know that he will get tn
school. The money for the mere MAR
tenance Of it amounts to almost
thousand dollars a year.
You, dear child of the Faith, probs
bly, belong to a prosperous parish
God has not placed you on the plain
of Texas nor left you to the mercy Q
a spasmodic charity. He has give
YOU freely His gifts. You are readin