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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE.
GUIDING LIGHT OR STUMBLING
BLOCK.

In the matter of drinking particular
ly does each of us become either a
guiding light or a stumbling block to
our neighbor. Because the evil of
drink is so widespread our attitude
in relation to it is of especial impor-
lance to those around us. And the fact
that we are or are not addicted to
drink, though at first sight it appears
to concern nobody except ourselves,
may be the means of breaking down
or building up some ones character
IN that particular point And the
strengthening of our fellowmen's char
acter in regard to liquor should be one
OF the gravest concerns to us all,
whether as citizens of the state whose
integrity is endangered by the drunk
enness of it's people or as members of
the Church whose progress, humanity
speaking, is hampered by the bad ex-
ample shown in this respect by her
children. g.,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
ALLEGIANCE, SPIRITUAL
AND TEMPORAL.

Father Phelan, the veteran edi-
tor of ''The Western Waterman
of st. Louis, does not believe that
the Right Reverend Bishop
Schrembs of Toledo, is orthodox
on the question of spiritual and
temporal allegiance and has taken
that prelate severely to task for a
recent utterance on that subject.
Much might be written on this
topic; but we refer to it merely
to quote the solemn teaching of
the illustrious Pontiff, Leo XIII,
who wrote: "God has divided the
government of the human race be-
tween two principalities, the eccle-
siastical and the civil: the one
being set over divine, the other
over human things. Each is SUI
preme in it's own sphere; each has
fixed limits, within which it
moves. Each is circumscribed to
it's own orbit, within which it
lives and works in its own native
right. Things civil and
political are subject, as reason and
equity demand, to the civil author
ity, Jesus Christ Himself having
commanded that the things OF
Caesar be given to Caesar, as the
things Of God are given to God. >
This is a brief, emphatic and
authoritative statement Of the
fundamental principle underlying
the relations between church and
state and defines with all-suficient
! accuracy and defniteness the
limits of allegiance to both. This
puts the matter in it's clearest
light and nothing need be added
| to it.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE.

10 take one drink of liquor seems to
be simple and harmless thing, but
the majority of men who persist in TAX
ing Just one drink" don't stop there.
You say you "can stop when you
wish" So you can, but thousands of
men who have died drunkards have
said the same thing till they reached
place where they couldn't stop.
Some of your real friends fear YOU are
almost there now. You can stop" if
you are man, and do it now, not to-
morrow. The tomorrow man" never
stops A real man can do anything
with Gods help, and God helps the
real man. Assert your manhood. Look
at the wrecks of once prosperous men
on our streets-men who could stop
once, but apparently can't do it now.
Just stand still one minute and you
will feel something pushing you on
and on and downward. 1t will push
harder tomorrow. Young man, | am
not a crank. l am your friend. Stop
now and say forever" You can do it,
Be man.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
EASTE R HY NJ n
TRANSLATION OF SEQUENCE
SUNG AT MASS.

The beautiful sequence which is
sung in the Mass for Easter, "Vic
timae Paschali," is believed to have
been written by Wipo, who lived in
the first half of the eleventh century
He was the chaplain to the Emperor
Konrad II, whose biography he
wrote. He wrote many poems, but
none with the beauty of this hymn
which seems to have been inspired
so faithfully does it describe the
Paschal mysteries. So popular did il
become that we find it in many of the
Paschal Mystery plays; and as can be
easily seen it served as a model fol
many limitations in honor of the
Blessed Virgin and the saints The
translation which we give is that by
the scholarly poet, Daniel JOSEPH
Donahoe, in his early Christian
Hymns:
Let Christians offer up their prayers
and praises
Unto the Paschal Victim.
The Lamb redeems the sheep;
The blameless Christ has brought
unto the Father
The heart of sinful man in peace and
love.
Lo, death and life have waged a won
drous war;
The King of Life, who died, now lives
and reigns.
"Tell us, o Mary,
What thou hast seen upon the way?'
81 saw the tomb wherein the Christ
hath lain,
And I beheld the glory of His rising
l saw the angelic witnesses,
The sudary and the grave-clothes.
Christ, my Hope, is risen indeed!
He goes before you into Galilee."
More credible the single word OF
Mary
Than all the wicked witness of the
Jews.
We know that Christ
Has truly risen from the dead.
o, Thou triumphant King,
Be merciful to us.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

AS we go to press there is every
evidence that the Holy Week serv-
ices at the Cathedral are attract
ing congregations of devout wor-
shippers limited only by the
capacity of the church itself. 1t
is a gratifying evidence of the in
terest which Catholics take in the
religious observances of the clos
ing week of Lent during which
the Church commentaries events
of such tremendous spiritual i'm
port to mankind Many. non,
Catholics mingle with their Catho-
lie brethren and show their inter
est in the services by their relig-
ious demeanor and earnest atten.
ton.
On Easter Sunday, no doubt
the Cathedral will be uncom.
fortably filled with people anxious
to participate in the last Easter
service held within it's walls. Be
fore another Easter dawns the ole
Cathedral will have yielded to the
onward march of industry, anC
the congregation will be wor
shipping beneath the magnificent
dome of the new Cathedral of St
Paul.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
THE FEAST OF HOPE
ON EASTER, CHRIST, OUR HOPE,
ROSE FROM THE DEAD.

Whatever strengthens our faith in
immortality, whatever gives us back
our right to life, whatever mitigates
the sting of death, makes an extra
ordinary appeal to our souls, and the
festival of Easter, which is the tri-
umph of life over death, which shows
us man risen, and Jesus Christ, our
Head, overthrowing for Him and for
us the empire of death, excites in us
the deepest joy, the most ardent
hopefulness. Surrexit Christus, spes
mea! we cry with holy Church.
Easter is the feast of hope and every
thing in her wonderful ceremonial
speaks to us of this heavenly virtue.
But Christ, our hope, has risen;
and Alleluia-that word from the lam
guage of heaven-thrills in our hearts
and echoes on our lips. Wherever di-
vine truth has penetrated, it is re-
peated. The frontiers of Egypt have
heard it: it has swept across the sands
Of the lonely desert; is has foated
above the gorges of Sinai and
along the banks of Canadian rivers;
it has sounded in the basilicas Of
Italy and in the humber sanctuaries
of missionary lands. 1t has reached
the far-off caverns of American In
dams, the huts of the negro in Cen
trail Africa, the burning plains Of
China, and the frozen mountains of
Tartary.
Alleluia! the Lord is risen! From the
glad green earth,
Where the religious spring
Offers the incense of her blossoming,
to the azure dome above, the tri-
umphant cry rings out, reminding US
that we, too, must rise from our lives
of GOODNESS and Indifference, to a
more ardent faith, a more fervent
hope, a more loving devotion to God
and to our fellow-man.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

ence, pours flood of light espe-
cially on what men most feared
the mystery in which death
was enshrouded. Before Christ
abolished death and brought life
and Immortality to light" men,
it is true, chung to a belief in a
life beyond the portals of the
tomb; they felt the STRINGS of
nature s limitations of immortal
ity." Indeed, in the story of man
there is nothing more sublime
than the SOULS instructive be-
lief in it's own undying life. But
this hope that men cherished was
faint and Pickering; the intima-
tions of nature were not enough
men craved for more light on the
problem that Of all problems most
closely concerned them. 1t was
our Blessed Lord who transformed
"the pleasing hope, the fond de
sire" of man into certainty. He
it was who poured a flood of light
into that unseen world into which
men had been dimly peering.
GAS I live, so shall we live ALSO
these words of the risen Christ
constitute the sure and certain
hope of our Immortality. Every
grave in our cemeteries is bright
even as Christ s tomb was bright
with angelic presences, for Our
Lords Resurrection is the pledge
and proof as it is the type and
model of our resurrection also.
It is a favorite thought Of St.
Paul that as Christ once and
for all rose from the dead SO
should the soul rise from the
grave of sin. They who on the
first Easter morn caught the vi,
sion Of the risen Christ-a vision
that could never fade from their
souls-could never again set their
affections on the things that wean
mems hearts from God. And
so should it also be with those
who have not seen but who be,
lieve. eff, then, we be risen with
Christ seek the things that are
above"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
LEAKAGE IN THE CHURC H
WHAT OBJECTIONS FROM THE
CHURCH MAY BE SET DOWN AS
PREVENTABLE OR INEVITABLE
LOSS?

Leakage" in the Church stands for
an incontrovertible fact, says the
Freeman's Journal. The term itself
is somewhat misleading. 1t is the
cause, moreover, of much confusion
Of thought. Metaphor is not definitive,
and in this case, as description, it
fails. The Church is SNot an old tub
which has sprung leak, neither are
it's members inert fluid particles held
together by external pressure from
running out, or flying into space like
a liberated gas. Misapplied metaphor
may be made responsible for misdi-
rected energy. But, discarding the
metaphor and closing with fact, in
the reckoning of loss and gain in the
Church it is impossible to question
the heavy toll of loss that is made
day by day, and which follows gain
like a shadow as evil follows good.
1t is the mystery Of free-will. 1t is
memorable, it is inevitable, it is just.
The Church, if it is properly under
stood, is life. The Church is a society,
a Kingdom. It's members are free.
They are free to choose, free to will.
The King will have free subjects, and
none other. In that spiritual kingdom
there is absolutely no room for slaves
of thought or will. That is what per-
sons outside the Church fail to realize,
and some inside the Church fail to un-
derstand. The one thing the world
has yet to learn is that the Kingdom
of Christ is freedom. 1t is a society
of free souls. 1t is that or it is moth
ing. The doors are open wide for all
nations and individuals to enter. They
are as wide for them to depart. By
consequence the tale of gain and loss
viii go on as long as the world lasts.
Prodigals will turn their backs on
home and go into far country to
feed on the husks of swine, to return
again to their fathers house. Spurred
by pride or passion, or over-confidence,
some viii go out into the darkness, to
return in chastened mood and hum
bled spirit, and some, alas. will go
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

Catholic Chaplains and instructors
in poor houses and jails, to which
positions the authorities would
not dare to. appoint Protestants.
Creelman makes no mention of the
large amount which Protestant
office holders draw from the I'm
perial Government. Moreover, he
contrasts the amount which Cath
olics pay in "local" taxes, with
what he says they draw from the
"public" treasury which receives
not only the local but the Impe-
rial taxes as we'll
Nor does Belfast stand alone in
its discrimination against Catho-
lie office holders. The corporation
of Derry pays out $4,000 year
in salaries to Protestants and
$2,100 to Catholics; and SINH
lar conditions exist elsewhere
throughout Ulster.
These are samples of Ulster s
boasted tolerance! Bigotry and
intolerance are bred in the bone
of the Ulsterite and bigotry
reigns as a fundamental principle
in his attitude towards his fellow
Catholics. He is an adept at boy
cotting on account Of religion. 1t
must be said-if it be to his credit
that the Ulsterite is honest in his
bigotry. His neighbor may be
good man, as men go, and a
loyal citizen, as far as discharging
the duties of citizenship are con,
cerned, but if he is a Papist he is
to be prosecuted simply on &C
count of his religion. The Ulster.
tie goes on the principle that a
Catholic has no rights and none
are conceded to him of which he
can be deprived by any means
known to unreasoning bigotry.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
A GROWING SENTIMENT.

If there is anything in numerous
signs of advancing decreptitude, the
days Of John Barleycorn in the land
are numbered. The prohibition move
ment few years since regarded as a
feeble and somewhat eccentric agita-
ton fostered by few extremists CON-
monty regarded as fanatics, has fed
upon battle and gained strength from
defeat until it threatens to throttle
John Barleycorn and all his hosts.
And what is even more ominous to
the thinking men engaged in the
liquor traffic, there is quietly grow
ing sentiment all over the United
States, outside the organized prohibi-
ton forces, against the use of in
toxicants. In every business, profes-
sion and trade the tolerance of drink
ing is becoming less daily. Men in
every walk of life, even including the
liquor trade, are quietly but definitely
deciding that they cannot afford to
befuddle their brains and injure their
health with drink.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

We have received copy of the
long-expected Index of the Catho-
lie Encyclopedia, which completes
that epoch-making work. 1t was
worth waiting for; and we con-
graduate the editors on the
thorough and painstaking manner
in which they have discharged the
task which they assumed in
undertaking the publication of
this scholarly work.
The Index enhances the value
of the Encyclopedia a hundred
fold by making it a comparatively
easy matter to find out all that it
says on any one subject. In addi-
ton to the index proper, the
volume contains about ninety
pages of new articles, comprehen-
sive Courses of Reading on a
variety of subjects and a list of
subscribers who helped to finance
the project.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

The College of St. Thomas is
not in politics. This was made
known last week to the promo
tiers of an intercollegiate booster
club for one of the candidates for
Mayor Of st. Paul, when it was
announced by the authorities that
no one was authorized to re-
resent the College officially in
the proposed political association
AS an institution the College of
st. Thomas takes no part in polit-
zeal campaigns. 1t leaves its IA
Guilty and students entirely free
to exercise their rights as citi-
zens by voting as they wish.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
A PERCENTAGE DOOMED.

The late DR.. Norman Kerr said:
Suppose there were a thousand young
men before me now If they were
animated with the deepest Christian
principles, if they had attained the
highest culture, if they had all the in
telligence or wealth of society at COM
mand-no matter what their other
circumstances, provided these thou
sand persons all began to drink today
without knowing their physical and
hereditary tendencies-I say within a
certain number of years a certain
number of these thousand will become
drunkards, and there is no possible
way of avoiding that unless you get
those persons to abstain altogether"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
A diSnatch from Rome

A dispatch from Rome-we give
it for what it is worth-says
"The question of Italian partici-
patton in the exposition is still in
allegiance. The new Minister of
Agriculture is not keen for send
ing any money for participation in
the show and the action of the
government tentatively deciding
to be represented at San Francisco
is likely to be reconsidered."
Perhaps, after all, the protest
evoked by Ex-Mayor Nathan un.
popularity in certain circles in this
country has had an effect on the
Italian Government. But, let us
not be too sanguine. While we
await developments let us add to
the volume of the protest from all
quarters.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

According to dispatches from
Denver, Colo, Rev. Otis L. Spur
geon, National Secretary of the
Knights Of Luther, received a
severe beating at the hands of
several men who took umbrage
at the accusations of immortality
which he hurled against the Cath
Ollie priesthood in the course of a
lecture in that city. Probably he
deserved all that he got and more
but no matter what provocation
there may have been for the as
sault, it is to be deplored that
the men took the law into their
own hands. It must be admitted,
however, that it is sometimes more
than flesh and blood can bear to
listen to the utterly vile and un-
founded charges made against the
representatives of the Church,
and we do not wonder that decent
people are wrought up to such a
pitch against their unprincipled
traducers that they are moved to
take the law into their own hands
knowing that, in the majority of
cases, there is no other means of
redress open to them. When Mr..
Sturgeon RECEIVERS, which is not
unlikely, for it is hard to kill such
a doughty "Knight of Luther, -
we hope he will have a more
wholesome respect for the valiant
KNIGHTS of the Church.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

The April number Of the mis-
sionary" commentaries the tenth
anniversary of the dedication of
the Apostolic Mission House,
Washington, D. c., an institution
erected in the vicinity of the Cath
Ollie University for the training of
priests for mission work among
the non-Catholics in the United
States. 1t is under the direction
of the Paulist Fathers with the
Rev. Walter Elliott as Rector. The
cornerstone was laid on April "a,
1903, in presence of a large con-
course Of prelates, priests, and
laymen, and the dedication cere-
mony was performed by Cardinal
Gibbons on April IA of the fol
lowing year.
The Apostolic Mission House
owes it's origin to the late Rev. A.
P. Doyle, G. S. P, whose labors,
courage and good judgment were
largely responsible for it's founda-
ton, erection and endowment.
During the last decade Of years
it has been the center and inspira-
ton of missionary endeavor in this
country. 1t not only trains
priests for the missionary apostle
late but it has sent many mission
aries into the remoter districts of
the south and southwest and
helped to support them in their
endeavors to lead the lost sheep
into the one true fold.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
MGR. CERRETTI PROMOTED.

On the sixth Of April His Holt
ness Pope Plus x. created an
Apostolic Delegation in Australia
and appointed as his first official
representative in that country the
Right Reverend Mgr. Bonaventure
Cerretti, Auditor of the Apostolic
Delegation at Washington, D. C.
The news Of Mgr. Cerretti's ap-
pointment to this important posi-
ton will be received with great
satisfaction by his friends in the
United States. It is a well-de-
served tribute to the ability and
success with which he performed
the duties of his present position
in Washington. His departure
will be a great loss not only to
the Apostolic Delegation but to
the Church in the United States
He is without doubt the best Off
cial who has ever occupied the
important position of Auditor of
the Apostolic Delegation in this
country. He is a scholarly pre-
late of judicious temperament and
wide experience who enjoys an
enviable reputation as canonist
and whose knowledge of ecclesias-
teal procedure is invaluable to
one entrusted with such important
duties. We congratulate Mgr.
Cerretti on the distinguished hon
or which has been conferred upon
him by his selection as the off
cial representative of the Holy
Father in the Commonwealth of
Australia.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

A local suburban weekly has
blossOmed forth into a full-fedged
anti Catholic sheet, aping it's Au-
rora prototype of unsavory fame
It's endorsement of certain candi.
dates for office, and their tacit
approval of it's bigoted attitude
towards the Catholic Church by
advertising in its columns, will
not recommend them to the better
class of voters who deplore the
efforts made by newspapers of
this kind to create and foment
sectarian bigotry.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

The latest social "stunt" was
pulled off in Minneapolis last
week. The guests at a fashion
able dinner, given in honor of a
prospective bride and groom,
were treated to a mock wedding
ceremony at the home of one Of
the guests. Evidently these So
called society leaders see no harm
in travestying ceremony which
is invested with more or less re-
ligious sacredness and solemnity
by even the ordinary type OF
Christian. They must have a
very abnormal and uncultured
idea Of what constitutes fun, and
they must be very hard up for
legitimate means of entertainment
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

The Official Catholic Directory
for 1914 has not yet reached our
desk. If the issue is delayed much
longer it will seriously detract
from the usefulness of the volume
and will make it necessary to pub
lish supplement containing the
changes which have taken place
since the beginning Of the year
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

when they resort to the discred-
tied methods of the cheapest bur-
lesque to amuse themselves. We
know they will not have many
imitators in their inane attempts
to play the buffoon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
NEW ARMY CHAPLAI \

On March 20 the resignation of
Chaplain Louis Paul Rennolds, United
States navy, took effect, and with the
permission of his Eminence Cardinal
Farley, Rev. John J. Brady, stationed
at st. Veronica's Church, New York
City, has been designated to fill the
place.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11
SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1914.

Do you know anyone whom
Oliver Wendell Holmes descrip-
ton of bigot fits? He says: The
mind of the bigot is like the pupil
of the eye; the more light you
pour upon it, the more it will
contract.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

Entered as second-class matter, jan
uary IL, 1911, at the post ONCE, St
Paul, Mimi, under Act Of March 3, 1879
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

Rev. JAMES M. REARDoN, Editor.