The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-06-21
APOSTOLIC WORK IN DAKOTA.
Father VoqeI, of Indian Missions, Ac-
counts in His Report for Every
Cent Received.

The report gotten out by Father
Vogel, missionary among the In
dams of South Dakota, of his work
for the year of 1911, is as fine and
complete an accounting as any priest
could get out, or any Bishop could de-
sire.
Father Vogel has ten churches and
four missions and wherever he can
find time to eat and sleep, to say moth
ing of compiling so elaborate report
is a mystery that will not be solved.
Father Vogel is burning with zeal for
his chosen people, for it is by his own
voluntary act that his lot is cast
among the Indians.
The pamphlet which Father Vogel
has caused to be printed is hardly an
artistic piece of work. The letters are
small and the display is bad enough,
but he has little money to spend for
Injuries. The report was necessity,
and with him economy was a big fac
tor, so Father Vogel has limited him.
self to facts The report with its fig
ures and odd Indian names only stops
short of being literature. The love of
the priest for his chosen people is told
graphically enough when one reads
that one church is one hundred miles
away from his headquarters and an
other eighty and another forty, and
when the realization of the fact that
this missionary has ten churches and
four missions is borne upon one,
some faint idea of his Xavier-like zeal
is formed.
His missionary headquarters are at
the Church of Corpus Christi, and the
financial report of that mission heads
his list. But the second one, Saint
Joseph's Church, is of equal interest.
Father Vogel must be genius in sys-
tenn as we'll as great missionary for
in his financial report he has &C
counted for every cent received from
his dear red children.
His headquarters are at the Church
of Corpus Christi, and from that sta
ton he visits his other churches"
and his four missions-fourteen in all.
From Corpus Christi, Saint Joseph's
Church is eighty-seven miles, and
Saint Peters Church is forty-fve
miles. The Church of Saint John the
Evangelist is only twenty-five miles
distant, and Saint Mary's Church is
twenty miles away. Then comes the
Church of Saint Paul. That church
is forty miles away and Saint Leo's is
one hundred miles from Corpus
Christi. Saint Luke's is ninety miles,
and Saint Mathews is forty-five miles,
and All Saints-the last of his
churches is fifty-two miles distant.
Then he has his missions at Lantry,
sixty-two miles away, Dupree, seven
ty-two miles away, another mission
at Isabelle, seventy-fve miles and one
at Timber Lake, ffty-five miles. This
is all he takes care Of! Looking over
it it looks like a small sized diocese,
but it is only the field of Father Vogel.
At the end Of the report Father Vo-
gel gives greeting to his people. He
tells them of the plans he has for say
ing Mass among them, and he tells
them of their duty towards the,
Church. But" he says, take care of
your family first, and then if you have
a little for me, you may pay it to the
treasurer of your church, and he will
pay me a fixed salary. There will be
no fees charged for marriages, bap-
tisms, nor funerals" This announce
ment is indeed characteristic of the
man. What there is left-providing
there is anything left-is for him.