The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-10-25

engraved on the cross. suppose
these beads are not a mere trinket,
but have some religious Specification. /"
Taking the rosary and holding the
cross up to the light, Mrs. Colville
read the inscription
Mildred Avery on her First Com
munion Day, 9Th, Dec, 1853"
'It is what we call rosary" she
explained as she returned it.
And what coincidence! The
eighth of December. Angela's birth
day and yours"
Yes, hadn't noticed that" he re-
piled. 1T is sure to bring me double
luck, isn't it?''
Il trust it will bring you many
blessings, if it has not done SO al
ready" she said. Then half hesitat-
ingly she added: "and, perhaps, some
day you will learn to use your mas
cot as your mother did.
Thank you, who knows?" he an
swered, as he restored the beads to
his pocket.
God and His Mother" she said in
her heart, for / feel sure that it is
just in that way Angela's petition
for lettering Chum' will be heard"
More than year had passed away,
since Frank Warmer babe good-by
to his travelling companions at Cape
Town. He had spent his time wander
ing from one sanatorium to another
making new friends, and not caring
to make any.
Dorothy Ashburn had consoled her
self by marrying his cousin, the next
heir of the Warmer estate. Frank
bore his lot as bravely as he could,
but there were hours when it seemed
too hard. From time to time he heard
from Mrs. Colville, and each letter
contained page of hieroglyphics pur-
porting to be a letter from Angela.
"She never forgets her promised
prayer for Chum," Mrs. Colville wrote
once, land is never tired of sound
ing his praises" These occasional
remembrances were the only things
that brought any brightness into the
dreary days of pain and exhaustion,
and the thought of the child's love
and prayer was a real source of COM
fort to the lonely man.
The mildness of it's climate led him
to Durham, and one Sunday evening
curiosity brought him into the Catho-
lie Church. 1t CHANGED to be the Sun
day within the octave of the feast of
Corpus Christi, the day on which the
solemnity of the Blessed Sacrament
is celebrated in South Africa
AS Warmer entered the church, the
sermon was just about to begin. The
preacher, stranger whose voice had
stirred thousands in the great Cathe-
drals of Europe, choosing as his text,
"He came unto His own and His own
receiver Him not dwelt on the con-
tinual Sacramento presence of Christ
in the church.
In a voice shaken with emotion, he
referred to an outrage recently per-
petrated on the Eucharistic God; and
begged his hearers, if they had any
faith and love, to join heart and soul
in the solemn act of reparation which
was to follow the procession of the
Blessed Sacrament.
At the mention of the sacrilege
some of the worshippers shuddered
and covered their faces with their
hands, and an old woman near
Warmer was sobbing audibly. He
listened in wonder. He had heard,
of course, of the Catholic doctrine
of the Eucharist; but hitherto he
had never realized what it meant
Did these people really believe that
the Christ of Bethlehem and Nazareth,
the plying, woodworking Christ
of Galilee and Judea, the Christ in
whose divinity he had once believed
was present in very deed and truth
in their midst, inviting as the preach
er said, all burden-bearers to come
to His feet and be refreshed? If he
could but believe! Yet his mother
had believed it.