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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
"A NOBLE WOMAN GONE

newly arrived emigrants were being
launched
In order to carry on this work, she
remained in Australia four years
longer than her husband, who had re-
turned to his post in India. Later he
gave up his occupation to join her
and to second her in her efforts. She
could not long confine these to mere
voluntary attempts at relief hut was
obliged soon to seek better legislation.
Most of the early emigrants to Aus
tralia were British convicts, exiled
under the transportation system, some
CT them for very minor offences, such
as violation of the game laws Mrs.
Chisholm insisted that emigration
should be family movement, and that
there should be a cessation of the
vexatious regulations which hampered
such desirable condition. She went
to England in 1846 to promote legisla-
tion toward this end, to found the
British Ladies Emigrant Society,
which provided matrens on emigrant
ships and safeguarded the moral in
terests of those on board and to estab-
lish her Family Colonization Loan So
ciety, an institution which in the first
two years of its life. emigrated more
than thousand parties to Australia,
and which contributed greatly to a
stable social condition in the island
commonwealth In 1853 she returned
to Australia, where she worked for
twelve further years, when poor health
compelled her to give UP her activi-
ties. A small pension was granted
her late in life by the government for
which she had done so much. In 1877,
less than thirty years ago, she died
in her native England.
Caroline Chisholm sets an example
which can well be followed. The
United States today has a problem of
the movement of peoples, it's immigra-
tion problem. 1t is bound UP intimate.
ly with the social and civic questions
of the city and the nation. These in
coming people are mainly of the Cath
olic faith. Here is splendid oppor-
tunity for Catholics, and especially
Catholic women, to exert themselves
for good. The story Of Mrs. Chisholm
should excite others to similar activi-
ties.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Sends 10000 kilograms
CARDINAL GlRsoNs USES UNIQUE
METHOD IN CAUSE or
CHARITY.

More than 10000 telegraph night
letters, appealing for contributions Of
.'at least dollar" to defray the cost
of new recreation building .at st.
Mary's Industrial School for Boys,
were sent out by Cardinal Gibbons to
Baltimoreans in ten hours on Decem-
Der Is. This deluge OF night letter ap-
peals, a unique scheme in Baltimore,
was worked out on the suggestion Of
Cardinal Gibbons and Brother Paul,
director of st. Mary's, who are i'm
charge of the novel campaign. Car
dinal Gibbons started the subscription
with $1,000.
To deliver the huge number Of tele-
grams in the record time more than a
thousand extra employees were taken
on by the telegraph company. Sixty
FIVE taxicabs and automobiles were
hired to aid the route directors and
messengers in covering the city and
suburbs.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Pope Blesses Federation
He PRAISES lTs ACTION REGARD.
ING THE CHURCH IN MEXICO.

- 6. I + @ {.
7 Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary
of State, has written to Anthony Mat
re, secretary of the Catholic Fedora
tion of the United States, acknowledg-
ing receipt of the resolution passed
by the recent national convention in
New York on "The Pope and Peace, Z
and aMexico,'' and expressing the
very great joy given to His Holiness
by the sentiments Of filial devotedness
and attachment to the Apostolic See
so nobly voiced in those resolutions;
as also by the spirit Of Catholic zeal
and fraternal charity which animates
your deliberations touching upon Mex
leo. In-token oftnis. special affection
for all the officers and members Of
your very well deserving Federation,
His Holiness imparts to you all his
paternal and Apostolic Blessing.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Dominican Ex-General Dies
VERY REV. FATHER coRMlER
PASSES AWAY IN ROME.


On December 19 solemn religious
ceremonies in the central Dominican
Church in Rome inaugurated the cele-
bration of the seventh centenary of
the establishment of the order. The
two new Dominican cardinals were
present, but a note of sorrow was in
terjected into the happy celebration
by the death of the ex-General of the
order, the Very Rev Father Cormier,
o. p, who passed peacefully away at
noon, just as the Solemn High Mass
closed. He had no specific illness, but
sank gradually under the weight of
his eighty-four years. So holy were
his dying hours that already the
thoughts ofthe prominent members of
his order who were present are turn,
ing towards the taking of steps in the
near future to introduce the cause OF
his beatifieation.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Chapel Of the Blessed Virgin
EFFORTS WILL SOON BE MADE.
TO COMPLETE THE FUND.

During the past two years the
ladies connected with the work of
raising sufficient funds for the chapel
of the Blessed Virgin in the new
Cathedral of ST. Paul. have labored
very zealously. In spite of their ef-
forts the required amount has not
been fully raised. Early in January
a meeting will be held for the pur-
pose of completing this fund. and an
endeavor will be put forth to bring
the amount up to the required $25,000
as soon as possible. During the past
week a friend has sent in a check
of $100 to the chapel fund in memory
of Very Reverend Thomas ]. Gibbons,
late pastor of the Cathedral, and Vicar
General of the Archdiocese. This
donation was the more appropriate in
that the late Father Gibbons was in
active charge of the collection for Our
Lady's Chapel
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
MRS. CAROLINE CHISHOLM, RENE.
FAcTREss or EMIGRANTs IN
AUSTRALIA.

Florence Nightingale, the far famed
English philanthropist, lovingly al.
luded to Caroline Chisholm as her
friend and teacher Men and
women of all kinds wrote in laudation
of her efforts. 1t is surprising that
Catholic should know so little of this
woman, who in early womanhood was
a convert to the Catholic faith and
who throughout her life of service
ever held strongly to that religion
which she had embraced. Her story,
as told in Caroline Chisholm: The
Emigrant's Friend" one of the inter
esting pamphlets of the Catholic
Truth Society Of London, recently
published, will bear a moments sum-
marizing.
Caroline Jones was born in North
ampshire, England, in May, 1908, and
was married early in life to Captain
Archibald Chisholm, in the East India
Company's service. Two years after
her marriage, in 1882, she went with
her husband to Madras. India, where
AICl WOEh MdO u.
Struck by the vices found in the mill
tary stations, she proceeded to work
against this sad condition, founding
her Female School of Industry for
young girls and the orphans of sailors.
Six years later her husband moved to
Australia for reasons of health, and
there her great life work was under
taken: She applied to the Governor
for assistance in the establishment of
an Emigrants' Home, especially for
the protection of girls coming into
the colony. 1t was the day of emigra-
tion from England and its nearby de-
tendencies to the Southern Island
Continent. Although her plan was
looked upon as visionary, she car
ried it through successfully, enlarging
on the activities as she found need.
A registry Office for farm laborers was
established, and later she began her
long and dangerous travels into the
Bush in order to settle emigrants on
the land, to provide wives for existing
settlers, and personally to superin-
tend the conditions into which the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
ST. FRANCIS And THE RENAISSANCE

did this through the supernatural, for
man Is not to be perfected by things
of earth-this latter, the pagan world
had tried and failed. He brought God
to man and made religion popular, a
part of the daily life of even the most
ignorant. His book was nature, his
preaching was example. He spoke to
the highest as to the lowest; all heard.
all understood. A new vista opened
to mankind. The trees and flowers
were no longer dumb, the birds sang
to men of better land; the brooks
babbled of an eternal life, all creation
spoke of God. This was the very life
of st. Francis. Quite characteristic is
the story related of how, moved to
tears one night by tlre song Of the
nightingale, he felt inspired to reply
to her and chanted alternately with
her the praises of God until far into
the night, until, indeed, he was ex-
hausted,-the legend adds that he
then praised the bird who had con-
quered him. Such was the impassion-
ed love, that filed st. Francis SOUL
yet it was but the expression of the
pent-up emotion of the age.
A Time of Reaction.
1t was time of reaction and conse.
quently of extremes. There we're but
two classes, the very rich and the
very poor. Feudalism had become op-
preston and was sowing the seeds of
discontent. The power of the Church
over her children had been weakened
by wealthy and worldly clergy EN-
peror and Pope were at war; the old
| question Of the mutual rights OF
Church and State had been settled
| indeed by St. Gregory the Great
(1O73-1085), but the work of restoring
the Papacy to its former prestige had
yet to be done by an Innocent III who,
in the event, handled kings as mere
toys and defeated once for all the i'm.
perial policy of subjugating the
Church. The Crusaders were also re.
turning from the East, bringing back
with them, 1t is true, many Of the
vices of the Orient, but also the seeds
Of chiyalry, from which as natural
4 development rose those wandering
minstrels called troubadours. 1t was.
In truth, a period of confusion, q
period Of transition; out Of it was to
come our modern civilization. But it
was not an age Of such corruption as
we sometimes hear; men. had emerged
from the dark days Of barbarian inva.
sion into the broad daylight of civil.
ization and they were intoxicated with
the mere material joy Of living.
| Such did St. Francis find the world
Born 1882, he was imbued from child.
hood with the spirit of the times
The gayest among the. gay, he at
tracted all by his brilliancy as he ex
hibited himself now in the armour OF
chivalry, now in the garb of poetry
He danced and sang for the very joy
of living. From first to last, he was
one with his countrymen. Conse
: quently, when he began to sing oi
heavenly love instead of earthly, mer
I we're surprised but not troubled ant
thus he reached their heart. He be
y Continued on page 81
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Bust Of Pope Benedict XIV.
VALUABLE MARBLE WILL BE SET
UP IN DENVER.

A marble bust of Pope Benedict XIV,
the only one in America, is to be pre-
sented to the Denver Cathedral by
Werner Q. Reed, the eminent mono Cath
olic millionaire, father of two converts
to Catholicity. It is now being execut-
ed by the Italian sculptor Aureglia.
Mr. Reed presented magnificent bust
OF Plus x by the same sculptor to the
Cathedral The bust was set up here
shortly after the late pontiff died. It
is one of the most magnificent speci-
mems of sculpture in the West. The
cost of these busts has not been made
public, but it is known that they rep
resent very great expenditure.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
THREE BISHOPS PRESENT
SOLEMN SERVICES FOR VICTIMS
or THE MEXICAN REvo-
LUTON.

AT Solemn Requiem Mass cele-
brated for the repose of the souls of
the victims of the Mexican Revolution,
at the Cathedral of San Fernando,
there were present in the sanctuary
Right Rev. Ignacio valdespino, Bishop
of Aguascalientes who pronounced the
final absolution. Right Reverend Juan
Herrera, Bishop of Tulancingo. and
Right Reverend J. w. Shaw, Bishop oil
San Antonio. There was also very
large number Of refugee priests and
Others in attendance.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
SOCIETY
BROOKLYN, NJ. Y, MAKES A RE-
MARt<kRLE SHOWING.

At the annual meeting of the st.
Vincent de Paul Society of Brooklyn,
N. Y, just held, reports showed re.
ceipts of $5S S,825.47. and disbursements
of $53,97S.04, for the year. The great
er part of the receipts was from the
poor boxes in which $39,561.62 was
collected during the year in the dio.
cese. The society received donations
of $7,841.5O. 2.272 families were re.
llieved during the year, 2,09S visits be.
ing made. The society in Brooklyn
now has sixty conferences with $50
active and eighty.ive honorary mem
bers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD IS MAN
IFEsT THROUGHOUT HISTORY
HOW ST. FRANCIS FOUND THE
WORLD, AND THE LEGACY HE
LEFTIT.

A new idea of the Providence of
God unfolds itself if we review his
tory, however briefly. Christ came
when men had reached the highest
culture possible without God. He
filled their soul with all it desired and
gave them a guide to absolute perfec-
tion in the person of His Church.
When she, like a divinely-appointed
beacon had become firmly estab-
lished, hordes of barbarians from the
north swept down irresistibly over
the face of Europe as instruments in
the hand of an all-wise God to purge
the highest culture of the world, the
Christianized Graeco-Roman civiliza-
tion, from all traces of paganism.
Thus in 40 Rome was sacked by
Alaric. All that was false in heather
learning had to die; only the truth
must endure and this had been taken
up by the Church of God as her own.
This stupendous task accomplished
the world awoke to a new life, to a
renaissance of spirit, of civilization, oi
literature, of art, in a word, of all
that we possess today.
This movement is called the Renais
sance or rebirth. Historians com
monty place its origin in the middle
of the fifteenth century and the perioC
well merits the name, for at this time
the Turks by their advance into the
Byzantine Empire, had dispersed the
Greek scholars throughout Europe
with the result of rebirth of Greel
| ideas. But careful students are com
| ing more and more to trace the origin
OF this movement back to the "pool
1 little man of God," TO st. Francis o
Assist. For centuries history ha,
busted itself in an effort to get at thu
facts and has had little time to seel
the underlying philosophy Of the var
ious movements But men are nov
coming to see that st. Francis will
his simple, whole-souled love Of ma
ture furnished the spirit which CAV,
life to the Renaissance.
italy, Home Of Learning.
| Italy was the home of the Renais
i sance just ais 1t had been the center o
| the highest development Of the grea
Roman Empire. Its fair blue skie
had been the inspiration Of the al
/ cient poets singing to multitude G
/ gods. And now that this land 9
poetry and music had been purifie
| by the burning breath of the horde
from the north. what more nature
| than that the immortal seeds of divin
harmony should there revive unde
the benign influence of the Church {
Christ. the custodian Of all that
good and beautiful. Such awakening
however, must be gradual; men
minds must be prepared lest in
mersed in grosser things they pass
the ioyelier things Of life without Sc
ing. This was the work Of st. Franc
Ito develop the natural in man. I
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Catholic Patriach Slain
LEADER or SYRIAN CHURCH AS
ssAssiNATED RY BAND
4 or TURKS.

Ignazio D. Efren Rahnani. Patriarch
of the Syrian Catholic Church in the
viIiayet of Antioch, has been assas-
sinated by a band Of Turks. according
to news received at the Vatican, in
Rome. The assassination took place
in the Patriarch's s residence at Mardin.
Information received at the Vatican
is to the effect that the situation in
Syria is alarming. the population being
terrorized and in a starving condition.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
De La CARA LECTURED
INTENSELY INTERESTING DIS
COURSE ON MEXICO DELIVERED
IN X. c. HALL in MINNEAPOLIS,

The Mexican question was discussed
from all angles by Senior de la Cara
at The knights of Columbus Club
rooms, Minneapolis. Tuesday evening.
December 26. The successive govern
ments have all entrusted Senior de la
Cara with missions which have been
of an entirely national type. He has
been legal adviser from the Depart
ment of F'omento and Interior of Mex
leo. For twelve years he was Con-
gressman. 1S98-191O. He has been the
attorney in Mexico for such interests
as those of the Guggenheims, Pullman
Palace Car Co., and other prominent
American and Mexican corporations.
Senor de la Cara is undoubtedly one
of Mexico's biggest men.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
CHURCHES DESTROYED

A tornado which swept over Atlanta,
La, December s, wrecked the Catholic
Church there. Two men were badly
injured and child killed.
News has reached Dallas that st.
Rita Church, Hanley, Tex. was burned
to the ground December 8. The
church is attended by the vincentian
Fathers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
CONSIDERATION OF
BISHOP RUSSELL

The conservation of Right Reverend
Monsignor William T. RUSSELL. pastor
of st. Patrick's Church. Washington,
d. G., as Bishop of Charleston, S. c.,
is to take place in the Cathedral in
Baltimore with Cardinal Gibbons off,
ciating during the first week in Feb.
Tuary.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
THANKSGIVING SERVICES
WILL BE HELD THE LAST DAY OF
THE YEAR IN THE ST. PAUL
CATHEDRAL.

Sunday evening, December 81, at
eight o'clock, special services of
thanksgiving will be held in the ST.
Paul Cathedral. The object of this
service is to return thanks to AL
mighty God for the benefits received
during the past year. A special SER
mon for the occasion will be preached
and the congregation win unite in
singing the TIE Deum and the thanks
giving hymns.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
BE!QUEST TO CHARITY
$4,000 LEFT TO VARIOUS cATHo.
Llc INSTITUTIONS.

Catholic institutions will receive the
bulk Of the $4,000 estate left by Mrs.
Ellen J. p. Shea. of Jersey City, N. r.,
who died on November 28. Ten thou.
sand dollars is left to the Sisters of
Charity Of Convent Station, N. r., for
two scholarships, as a memorial to the
decedent and in honor Of her daughter,
Mrs. Rita B. Burke. Other bequests
were: Passionist Sisters at 'Carrick,
Pa, $4,000; Trappist Fathers, of Ken.
lucky, $1,000; Holy Name Cemetery of
Jersey City, $1,000
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Rockefeller Aids Church

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of the Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company, who re-
Gently assisted in the erection OF a
Catholic Church at Berwind and who
sold the Union Church at Primero to
the Catholics for their exclusive use
for $500, is now assisting In the erec-
tion of another Catholic Church at
Morley, Colorado.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Scholarships Presented
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ALUMNI
MAKE GIFT.

AT the recent meeting of the Alumni
Association of the University of De-
troit. Mich, memorial scholarship
was presented in the name of the late
Rev. William Francis Dooley, S. j., the
former president of the university.
Another was presented by an anony-
nous donor, on behalf OF the Annunci-
alton parish of that city.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
No Midnight Mass in Paris

There were no midnight Masses in
Paris on Christmas eve. Cardinal
Annette, Archbishop of Paris. so de-
cided. The Christmas services took
place wholly in daylight in order to
economic in lighting and fuel.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
ST. PATRICK'S CHAPEL

During the past week the following
contribution has been received by "The
Catholic Bulletin for st. Patrick S
Chapel in the new Cathedral:
Forwarded by Father Cremin:
Miss Helen Graham, Red Wing,
MINI. ......,. ....,.s.. :....,. 5000
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-30
Pope Sends Christmas Gifts

Pope Benedict on December is sent
twenty thousand Christmas hampers
TO Italian war prisoners.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-18
STREET RAILWAY PLANS.
Will Operate Cars to Bloomfield and
Dornick Hills by Thanksgiving.

The Ardmore Street Railway com
pany has been working industriously
to get the line in operation during
the month of August. 1t looks now
like the cars will be ready to start
anyway by the first week in Septem-
ber. The roadbed has been rebuilt,
new wiring has been done, old cars
are being repaired and painted and
new cars have been ordered. When
the line first starts it is our infor-
nation that they Will not run further
than Twelfth Avenue for the time
being. However the line will be
Strengthened to Jorena Park and cars
will be made to give service to the
Bloomfield seminary. That institu-
tion ought to be ready for opening
during the month of October. The
company hopes to give Bloomfield
and Dornick Hills street railway
service by Thanksgiving day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-18
First Christian Church.

Bible school, communion and preach,
ing service 10 a. m. Subject of morn
ing sermon: "Be Glad"
Christian Endeavor I p. m.
Praise and preaching service s p. m.
Subject of evening sermon: God 5
Cali to the Sleeper"
The male quartet of the Central
State Normal, of Edmond, Okla, will
sing at both the morning and evening
services. Joe NJ London Jr, is a
member of this quartet There will
be no charge TO hear this music at
our church. The recitals will be sa-
cred and will furnish quite a treat to
music loving people.
Strangers and visitors in the city
are given an invitation to worship
with us; also, all other friends are
invited. j. w. BURNS,
Minister.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-18
NEGRO ADMITS HE
AIDED IN ROBBERY.

McAlester. Okla. Aug. 17.--Milton
Spears. the negro who helped to rob
the bank OF Crowder Monday after
noon. was run down and captured this
afternoon hiding in the underbrush
along Gaines creek. three miles from
the scene Of the robbery.
Peritent'ary bloodhounds were
used in today's chase. Spears ad-
mits participation in the robbery and
in his confession confirms the sus-
picious Of officers that an convict,
white. wanted on several similar jobs.
organized the raid The white man
got all the loot except S1o. Spears
declares. The negro dropped the $40
when he quit his horse for the un-
derbrush. the money, a revolver and
the horse falling into the hands OF
the officers the afternoon of the rob
berry. Spears had $3.50 and an "OwT'
revolver and was dressed as an ordin-
airy cotton picker when captured.
While lodging through the under
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-18
Carter Avenue Methodist.

Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Epworth League at p. m.
Our big revival meeting begins in
the big tent on the lot just east of
the church at II a m. Sunday, the
20th. The central purpose of this
meeting will be the revival of all
Christians who attend and the CONVEX
sion of all sinners who are willing to
Weld their lives to Jesus Christ, the
worlds Savior. DO you need this re-
yival? Have you any loved ones or
friends who neeG salvation? If so
)will you join US for the glory of God
and their conversion in this revival
effort? The least that could be ex-
pected of you as a member of the
church is that you be present at the
very first service Sunday.
No effort will be spared to make
the tent as comfortable as possible
for all and to make you feel that you
are heartily welcome and more. Your
presence and cooperation is very
much desired. w. T. FREEMAN,
Pastor