The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-05

having telescopes would not see the footprints of God in nature; having telephones they would not listen to
 His warnings. In their perversity, they turned their backs upon the Church and stopped their ears to the warnings of the gospel. In bold eff frontery, they Haunted the red flag of rebellion in the face of their Master. They drove His Church into exile-con- 1scating His churches while they per secuted and banished, as the dregs Of society. His annointed priests and con- Isecrated nuns-
 As a consequence, the patience and meekness of the Master were over wrought Indeed, His loving heart would draw all men to Him with the cords of love; but a rebellious world would have nothing of love. Then the christening hand of God, as of old, was lifted to punish rebellion so as to pre- serve a semblance of justice. Wars and earthquakes and calamities of all kinds were necessary to awaken men: to bring them to their senses; to pull them down from their lofty pfnnacles of pride and beat them level to the dust in humble prostration before their Lord and NIoster.
 DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
 God, "who rendeth all things sweet1y, ever takes good out of evil, Already has this grim visitation of God with its untold horrors, produced ben eficent, spiritual results. Men face to face with death become serious. In France and Austria where confession als were comparatively empty. they are now besieged with an army of contrite penitents. In Germany the power of the Almighty is recognized to be greater than the newest type of war machine. In the French army are F. GOO sexiled priests fighting shoulder to shoulder with their fellow patriots while they finger often on the battle field to prepare their dying brothers for eternity. Everywhere these ex- fled priests report renewal and re- vivaI Of the faith.
 The ba.nished nuns, also, have re- turned and are the faithful nurses on the field of carnage, while their former prosecutors, in treachery to their country, have fled to Bordeaux to live lives of 1uxuriant ease These faith fu1 priests and nuns, in the future an nals of history, will falsify the oft heard charge that priests and relig- ions cannot be loyal to their country.
 Are men reaping the whirI-wiad which they sowed? God alone knows. It is not mems business to read the purposes of His visitations. But this we do know:-It is better to be chas- tened here than hereafter. Better a good, provided death even upon the field of battle than wicked and sud- den death in the sinful palaces of peace.
 This war indeed is terrible It is worse than the worst we can say of it. We can never know it's horrors But with the eyes of faith, each one can see in it for himself a. grim mon ster. a scourge, a powerful object less on of Gods greatness.
 Europe probably will not be the same after this war geographically and politically; surely Europe will be diff ferent eIigiously-more humble, more serious, more religious minded Today and every day of the month of the rosary all good Catholics will pray for a cessation of hostilities They will ask the Rosary Queen by her beads to do for society today what she did three centuries ago, Ten million Catholics storrning heaven for peace with their rosaries will be able to break open the gates thereof. And many will send down the dove of peace bearing the olive branch of pardon for the war ring nations She will also pour oil and wine into countless hearts that have been torn open. not by shot or shell, but by the sufferings and death of fathers and husbands; brothers and sweethearts upon these newest but bloodiest batt1efelds.s