The Irish standard., 1914-04-11
from the National Capitol
4#sa By Stanton Lawton
By Stanton Lawton

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revision and condification of the laws
affecting children in the District of
Columbia.
DR.. Kirby is president of the Board
of Catholic charities, under whose
able direction this body has accom-
plished many much needed reforms
in its methods of aiding the poor.
He has become a national figure
at Washington and is regarded as
one of the foremost living authorities
on all sociological questions.
Mission House to Observe Tenth An
niversary.
Preparations to observe with char
acteristic simplicity the tenth ami
versary of the establishment of the
Apostolic Mission House at Brook
land, D. c., on April 4th, are being
made by the Paulist Fathers, under
whose direction the institution is
conducted.
The Mission house was established
largely through the fundamentally
of the late Very Rev. A. P. Doyle,
G. S. P. warm personal friend of
Colonel Roosevelt, and the latter's
recent tribute to Father Doyle and
to the work of the Paulist Fathers,
published in the Outlook, has at
tracted nationwide attention to the
community.
The erection of the Apostolic Mis-
sion House ten years ago, was in re-
Spouse to demand for the special
training of diocesan missionaries
who, with the approval of the Ameri-
can Bishops, had banded together in
various parts of the country. The
ground on which the building was
erected was leased to the missionary
union by the Catholic University of
America. and Cardinal Farley of
New York is president of the union.
BY many it was considered rash I'M
dertaking, to start with hardly dol
lar. and practically no one on whom
entire financial reliance could be
palced. and to erect and pay for a
building that would be an adequate
home for a great missionary move
ment-but the effort was crowned
with wonderful success. and the mis-
sion house stands today monument
to the zeal, untiring and unfailing,
of its founder-Father Doyle.
1t is the most unique and pictur-
esque of all the buildings ON the
Catholic University campus. Built
after the style of the old Spanish
Missions in California, tall Mission
Cross just outside the loggia faces
the east. Starting out with eleven
priests. the house required eleven
chalices for the celebration of daily
masses. The gathering Of old Jew
elry for these chalices by the Paulists
is said to have been attended with
deep interest. Donations were sent
to Father Doyle from the most un-
usual quarters, and some of the sto-
ries associated with them were filled
with pathos and intense human in
terest. Personal history is woven
into the gold of all the church ves-
sells in use at the institution, and on
the bottom of each of the chalices
has been engraved the following in
scription: This chalice is made from
souvenirs, keepsakes and hairlooms,
around which many of the most pre-
cious memories in life are entwined.
Donated chiefly by converts. Pray
for the donors"
Within the mission house are nine
small affairs besides the main one.
Each one is dedicated to the mission.
airy patron of some of the racial ele-
ments that go to make up the Ameri-
can people.
The Rev. Walter Elliott, the veter-
an Paulist Missionary, is the present
rector of the Apostolic Mission
House than the capital of the nation.
Its career has only begun, for as
Gladstone said of the Catholic
church: ''She is every day charging
the boundaries of her vast empire,
her affairs are raised in every cline,
and her missionaries are to be found
wherever there are men to be taught
the evangel of Immortality and souls
are to be saved"
Canty's Field Musician Manual.
The war department has adopted
as textbook for the army and or
ganized militia, Field Musicians
Manual by Lieutenant Daniel ].
CAVITY. Co. E. 9th Infantry. Nation
al Guard, Massachusetts Volunteers.
To have any publication sane
toned by the war department and
authorize its use. is considered a dis
tinct honor, and General Leonard
Wood in commenting on the work,
says:
"The manual is an excellent one,
possesses merit, and reflects credit
legience in compiling same
upon Lieutenant Canty for his dill
gence in compiling same"
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