The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-04-03
THE LORDS AMOUNTED.

Mr. Joseph Hadley treaded his way
through the brightly lighted street
toward his home. Was it true that
his business had failed-that he was
utterly ruined? 1t seemed to him
that he was going through a terrible
nightmare--a horrid dream. Yet, 1t
was all too true, for the lurid head
lines Of the evening papers blazened
it forth, and he could even hear the
newsboys shouting out the awful in
telligence as he passed along.
He stumbled blindly UP the steps
Of his palatial home His wife met
him in the hall, and gasped in alarm
at the sight of his pallid face, drawn
with suffering and mental anguish.
Sinking into a chair, he brokenly
told the pitifuI story of ruin and fail
ure, while his only son, Eugene, stood
| listening with his arm encircling the
| trembling form of his mother.
After a few minutes, Mr.. Hadley
arose, and went into his library, clos
| ing the door with the injunction that
he was not to be disturbed. Some
hours later when Eugene had re-
| turned home from Confession, he
knocked softly on the library door,
intending to say good night to his
father before retiring; but there was
no response. Opening the door, he
entered to find Mr.. Hadley, his head
bowed on his arms which rested on
| the desk before him.
| Father" the boy said gently touch
ing his shoulder, Il came to say good
| night" But his father neither moved
nor spoke. He had been stricken with
paralysis, and death had come swiftly.
A few weeks later found the Had
ley family leaving their magnificent
home for a less pretentious dwelling,
and it was with an aching heart that
poor Mrs. Hadley left the old place
where with her husband and children
she had lived so many happy years.
At the time of his fathers death,
Eugene was planning to enter a
novitiate-the first step in the re-
/ ligious vocation to which he felt him.
self called. But now, at one blow,
his hopes had been shattered, for it
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! widowed mother and invalid sister,
who felt, almost as keenly as Eugene,
the great sacrifice he was called on to
make.
Il Il can never be a priest now!"
81 These were almost the first words the
boy uttered when he realized that his
! father was dead. So he was not
! destined for the priesthood after all,
nor would he ever stand in the holy
place to offer the tremendous Sacri-
| flee. How he had longed and prayed
for the time when he might be the
custodian of the Eucharistie King, one
of the Lords anointed
| Bravely Eugene set out to find en-
i ployment, and before long he found
t place in a grocery store. Later,
q he began to attend night school, and
when he had qualified for a career
! in the business world, he secured a
position with a large and influen-
, Itial law firm.
Despite the heavy cross they lay
: on his soul, Eugene was always cheer
: full and pleasant, and became very
? popular with his associates in the
Office, while the energy with which
he applied himself to his work, won
: the esteem of his employers, who very
: soon increased his salary consider
: ably. Years few by, but in spite of
his success and good fortune, his heart
!, cried out necessarily for the priest
: hood. "Quis ascendet in montem
Domini, ant quis stabit in loco sane
Ito eiug? WIG will ascend the noun