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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
ANNAMITEs INCLINED TO BE GAY.

The Annamites are volatile, loving
gayety, and inclined to get the most
they can out of barren existence.
Father ALBERT, of Hadong, Tonkin,
says: 'The Annamites, among whom
| have been working for the past
twenty-five years here in Tonkin, APP
pear to me like grown-up children, so
quickly do they forget care and trou-
Bile the moment they are over. And
it is not that they have no crosses to
bear. On the contrary, they have suf-
fered untold misery. In spite of their
poverty they do not, refuse to help
those worse off than themselves, and
you would hardly believe that it was
their meager savings that erected the
pretty little church of which they are
justly proud"
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course, there were few exceptions)
to give them what they had never
known in life, and did not desire in
death. They could only be left to find,
as we. trusted, mercy and happiness
in the fuller life of which through no
fault of their own, they had been de-
prived in this one.
I'm striking contrast to these un-
fortunate men were, of course, the
Catholic soldiers. 1t is true that they
to see them crowding round their
priest even on the departure platform
to receive Absolution before going to
the front, to see their intimate knowl-
edge of what to do, even though in
their lives they had fallen far, to see
them returning desperately wounded
and in all cases seeking the priest as
soon as the doctor, was, to one who
for some months had witnessed the
mournful and palpable failure of the
notion of Catholicism, of which he
was still a minister and teacher, the
last deciding factor
by their fruits We shall know
them. Here in the most terrible
scourga which has ever visited the
world, when if ever men turned their
thoughts to God and used the religion
they knew it must be then. l saw the
fruits of the two systems knew
them.
"Of those who were there, Catholics
and Professionals, the great majority
had, but a few years before, been at
schools where their religion was
taught them. Perhaps quite a large
proportion of the Catholics had not
been devout in their religion and had
even ceased to practise it. But here it
was waiting for them unchanged, the
Faith which once learned can never
be forgotten, and which never fails or
falters. And in the hour of their need
they turned to it as naturally as a
child to it's mother.
When l saw, in that terrible time,
something of the real Catholicity of
the Church, the French, English, Bel
gian, and even German prisoners, all
receiving the same Sacraments from
the same English priest, the scales fell
from my eyes, and I saw the Catholic
Church as never had before. A month
later l had the happiness of being re,
-ceived into the Church of God"
The editor notes that Mr.. Berlyn is
now an officer in the Army, and is be.
lieved to be "the only chaplain to be
converted on active service by what
he saw of the practical results OF
Anglicanism.
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cHlNA's MISSIONARY HISTORY.

~
The presence of Christian mission.
aries in the Celestial Empire and
the venerable antiquity Of Chinese
Christianity is testified by stone
monument and its inscription written
in 7S1 and discovered at Singan-fu,
province of Shensi, in 1923. 1t gives
us a summary of Christianity in China
from 636 to $50. But how far Chris
tian influence extended in those CEN
turtles is not know, for these Chris
tians in China were banished in 7S5,
and the Christian missionaries who
entered China five centuries later
found very few traces of Christianity
left there.
At the. request of the famous Kubi-
lai Khan in 1871, the Pope sent Fran
ciscan missionaries to China, among
them Father John of Monte Corvino,
who was appointed Archbishop of
Cambalu (Peking) in 1897
The first Protestant missionary to
China. Robert Morrison, landed at
Canton in 1907, and the first Ameri-
can missionaries Bridgeman and
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
ANGLICAN CHAPLAIN.

About the best, because the simplest
and plainest account that we
have seen of the effect of Catholicism
on people in the Army is to be found
in an article in contemporary jour-
nal on 1.-THE Failure of sAnglicanism;
the, Experiences of an eX-Anglican
Chaplain" Mr.. Bernard Henry Berlyn.
This gentleman, we are informed by
himself, was appointed chaplain (High
church, to large garrison town
where he was told there was nice
new church where they had "cele-
bration on Sundays at a. IN. with
lighted candles for those who liked
them, and another without candles for
those who did not like them at II
noon This clergyman's security in
the Anglican Church had already been
severely shaken, he tells us, by the
conversions of the Brighton clergy
men, of Galley Abbey and Milford
Haven Communities, of many other
ministers and laymen, together with
the Kikuyu affair; and his experiences
now as chaplain put the finishing
touches on his preparation for Catho-
Iicism. 1t will be best to give the
salient paragraphs, for they are 50 true
to life. f
What hopeless task it was! OF
nearly $4,000 men in that garrison, at
least $4,000 were officially designated
Church of England. and although on
Sundays there were two Communion
services in the big church, and one
in the district church, the total num-
Der who communicated seldom ex-
ceeded sixty, and that number in
cluded women in both places! Less
than sixty out of $4,000 men, any one
of whom would, in a few months, quite
probably be dead! Was this the great
Catholic revival in the Church of
England after sixty years? How many
hundreds, how many thousands of
those who never came except when
forced to do so must have been
brought up in High Church parishes?
Here was the real Church of England
at last
1T was the most disillusioning and
terrible experience of my whole life.
In vain we preached, exhorted, and
warned. We visited barracks, hospital
and prison. Man after man, even
among the previously wounded, took
no interest in the Sacraments, not,
poor fellow, because he was hostile to
them, but because they meant, and al
ways had meant, nothing to him. It
Tas impossible in most cases (of
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found every calumny against the
Church, that he had ever heard or be-
lieved, refuted by non-Catholics the
most eminent in their respective fields
of work. These were the authorities
in history, in religion, in literature
whom the Protestant world most
respects, and they not only refuted the
calumnies against the Church, but de-
clared her continuity from Apostolic
times, her propagation of the scrip
lures, her sanctity, her charity, and
her great work in civilizing and edu-
eating the world. He discovered here
that the opinions he had held were
not shared even by really enlightened
Protestants, and whenever his old
prejudices threatened to come between
him and his Investigations, he pulled
out his little red book.
And he did read the Memorare faith
fully each day. If his sense of the
nearness of her whose aid he was i'm
ploring was not vivid, at least his
heart was grateful to the unknown
little woman, Tins mother, who was
carrying his eternal welfare in her
heart.
Mingling with all the rest, these
days, was the thought of Elizabeth
her courage, and her sacrifice which
he was beginning to comprehend At
times, he felt tempted to yield for her
sake, but he realized what an injus-
tice that would be to her brave heart.
No, he would probe to the bottom OF
this religious question, and whatever
it's result, he would offer to her a
wholehearted faith. For if he remained
Protestant, he knew he should be a
very different one from what he had
been before. He would be free from
bitterness and bigotry, and he would
gladly agree to allow her perfect free
dom in the practice of her religion and
in the education of their children in
whichever faith her conscience re-
qufred. ~ 3.r
Meanwhile, the lessons in catechism
progressed surprisingly well. It
amazed Frank to find that while the
Christian faith is SO profound, the
greatest learning can never hope to
exhaust the mysteries, it is at the
same time SO simple that child can
#expound it conyincingly. He learned
that Catholics venerate, but do not
worship, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
why they pray to her and to the saints;
he learned the purpose of the sacra-
.mentals and the significance Of the
ceremonies; he learned the nature OF
the august sacrifice of the Mass, and
why the liturgy of the Church is in
Latin; that 1T is a holy and wholesome
thought to pray for the dead, and the
depths of Gods mercy in the sacra-
.ment of penance. So the morning
came, when at the end of the lesson
Frank said, with a sincerity and
humility which his bantering tone
could not conceal:
.sAnd nov, Tim, i think you d better
instruct me how to 60 to confession, I
BY this time Tins arm was about
his employers neck and the bright
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GIRL SLAVES.

Ihere are numerous customs among
the natives in Africa, which are so
many obstacles to the propagation of
our holy religion. One of the greatest
OF these concerns marriage. Young
girls are truly slaves; the father of
the family gives them in marriage to
Whomsoeyer he pleases, without con-
sldering the likes or dislikes of those
most CONCERNED. In short, they are
sold to the highest bidder, even at
the most tender age. For many years,
then. the future son-in-law makes
presents to the father, works for him,
and pays the yearly taxes for him,
which every negro owes to the gov
eminent. In a word, he must do like
Jacob who workedt for seven years to
win Rachel. From such a state Of
affairs, great difficulties stand in the.
way of our Christian young men and
girls. Some of our Christian youths
might wish to marry young girls who
are inclined to become Christians, but
the poor girls may already have been
sold to heathens who have advanced
a considerable sum for them, and the
families terrified at the idea of being
obliged to return the money, refuse to
allow their children to marry Chris
tians. Some of the young girls who
daily attend our institutions are
quite advanced, and are eager to be
baptized, but until they are entirely
free in regard to marriage, l cannot
baptize them.
Thanks to the generous benefactress
of the Sodality of st. Peter Claver,
was able to remove the obstacles in
the way for one who has distinguished.
herself by extraordinary diligence.
On the feast of the Assumption of
Our Blessed Lady, the little negress
in question was baptized and given
the name of Ida Josephine Anna Mary.
She comes from heather. family liv-
ing near the Mission, but hereafter
will live in a good Christian family
of which both husband and wife are
members of the Apostleship of Prayer.
have reason to hope that she will
prove herself worthy of the interest
OF ner KIND protectors; and that her
fervent prayers will draw down the
blessing of God upon them. Little
Ida also received her First Holy Com
munion on the day of her baptism,
and became member of the third
degree of the Apostleship of Prayer.
In the future, when she receives Holy
Communion, her first prayer will be
for those who we're so good as to have
pity on her, buy her freedom, and
adopt her. She thought it too good to
be true, when I told her of her good
fortune, and she burst into tears of
joy. Would that the other girls-150
in number-eould be thus provided
fort Ten dollars is oftentimes
enough to ransom a girl of this kind.
Address subscriptions for the echo
from Africa" SO cents year, and the
NEGRO Child" Is cents year, to
American Headquarters of the Sodal-
ity of st. Peter Clayer for the Ameri-
can Missions, Fullerton Bldg, eth and
Pine Streets. st. Louis. Mo.
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head was close to the dark one. And
so began that friendship which did not
end, even when Tim, the Office boy, be-
came member of the firm of f. j.
Comstock and Company.
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What" said Frank sharply.

WHAT SalAu FRANK SHARPLY. is
that in the Catechism?"
mo, Sir, butSi So"
''Well, young man, suppose we stick
to the catechism. What does the
catechism say?9
1T says that he didn't like to obey
the Church, and then, he wanted to
preach his own IDEAS
"And why shouldn't he? Why
shouldn't a man preach what he be-
lieves?" ~
YES, he's got to do that, too, only
he's got to believe what's true"
.But, Tim, some men believe GER
tain things that other men cannot be-
lieve at all. Isn't the best man can
do to preach what he honestly thinks
about things-to the best of his abil-
ity?"
'""No, Sir-that wouldn't be any use.
If he's going to preach he's got to
preach what's true"
yes, lad, but who can tell him
what's true?"
Tim looked at Frank as if doubling
that he had heard him correctly.
There was an innocent but unmis-
taxable contempt in his tone as he
said:
why, the Church tells him; that's
mostly what it's for"
Frank could anticipate the child s
next answer, but still he asked:
land who tells the Church 2"
God" came the instant response.
Frank patted Tins rudy head:
Its a great system you Catholics
have, isn't il?
Yes, Sir Tim replied quite seri-
ously, and, as Frank seemed to have
forgotten him, he started off in search
of his broom. But Frank recalled
him:
None of that" he cried, reaching
for the broom. did you suppose I'd
let you off as easy as that? You've
rather got the best of the argument
SO far. Let's go back to Martin
Luther In Martin Luther's time,
wasn't the Catholic Church corrupt?''
mo, Sir Tim replied, promptly.
Now, Tim-aren't you Catholics
told about the wicked priests in those
days?'
e"Aw-Sir, that was mostly lies
those stories-just like the ones they
tell-now"
Frank paused. 1t was true that
Protestants did Systematically vilify
THE Catholic Church and her priest
hood; if it were found that these
stories were calumnies, it would look
as though those of Reformation days
might be, also.
so you believe the priests weren't
bad, eh-and that they aren't bad,
now?''
Eyes, Sir. OF course, there's some
bad ones, always, like Luther was an
IAN Judas; he was the first bad
priest, you know
Tim, there's something bright
about that head of yours beside the
hair, eh9 Tell me, now, who started
the Catholic Church,
Jesus Christ
How do you know? Don't tell me
the catechism says So!
Tim grinned- The Church says SO
and she can prove it, too.
How?''
tHow?n TINS eyes grew bright
with the excitement of the argument,
why, haven't we got all the records,
the Bible and say. do yoh want me TO
bring you q list Of the Popes? The
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head was close to the dark one. And
so began that friendship which did not
end, even when Tim, the Office boy, be-
came member of the firm of f. j.
Comstock and Company.
SO
1t was almost two months after hear
ing his first Catholic sermon, that
Frank, with a wonderfully light heart,
called again at the Brewster home.
Tell Miss Bess it's Frank" he be-
gan, exultantly, to the familiar
servant who admitted him, for in his
joy the wretched weeks and months
of their separation were blotted out
of his heart. Then he remembered.
Bringing out card, he scrubbed on
it.: Il am Catholic, and the maid
departed with it up the stairs.
Elizabeth was writing in her room
when the silver tray with its precious
burden was presented to her. She
looked at it with eyes all but blinded
with happiness. When the servant
had withdrawn, she kne1t moment
before a statue of the Blessed Virgin
ON her prayer desk:
Dearest Mother. thank thee" she
murmured. Then she softly descended
the stairs.
Seldom had st. AIMS been the scene
of SO jubilant a wedding as was
Franks and Elizabeth's. Their MANY
friends, both Catholic and Protestant,
filled the church, and their mingling
on that happy day, brought with it u
mutual good-feeling far reaching In its
results.
K To Tins unspeakabIe regret, he
found that he was too old to be page,
and too young to be an usher. He dis.
covered SO many ways Of being use.
full, nevertheless, that Frank declared
he didn't believe he could have got
married without him.
The browning joy to Elizabeth was
that Clare Norris could be her maid of
honor. 1t was Clare's last appearance
in the world. Immediately after per-
forming this service of love for her
friend, she was TO enter the Order OF
the Little Sisters OF the Poor.
you happy, happy girl" said Clare
to Elizabeth. as she babe her goodby.
How wonderfully God has blessed
you"
And though Elizabeth felt a little
natural, human heartache at sur
rendering her friend to her life Of self.
sacrifice. still Faith helped her to say,
And you,- too, dear
Her brightest smile lighted Clare's
lovely face: 5la
"Ah. yes" she murmured, me, most
Of all.
The End. 49,
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5000 PER MONTH.

Apostle Peter was the first one. And
then, you know, the bishops. The
Apostles were all bishops, and they
consecrated other ones, and there's
always being bishops consecrated-
didn't you ever see one? l have. But
that's the main way, you see it never
stopped-it's going on yet. Doesn't
that prove it?"
Tim, do all Catholic boys know as
much about the Church as you do?"
NO, Sir, lots of EN- are awful care.
less. I've been on the altar ever since
/ was seven years old, and now I'm
Incensor. I've won lots of prizes for
catechism."
Let me see, Tim; your father isn't
living, is he?"
NO, Sir. He got killed last year
on the Kranfoot Building
Frank remembered the accident
caused by a broken scaffolding.
You're the oldest?"
Yes, Sir. There's three younger'n
me. Mama thinks maybe, when the
baby gets old enough to go to school,
she can go back to school-teaching
She used to teach in the Bryant
that's where. go. She does sewing
now
well Tim, think this lesson in
religion is worth about a dollar"
Tins eyes grew large. He looked
at the dollar wistfully, but he tried
to decline.
Frank laid his hand, again, kindly
on the bright curls.
That's all right. It's worth it
And l think I'd like to arrange for
some more at the same rate"
Tins face expressed his bewilder
ment.
you think this is pretty queer
don't you? The truth is, Tim, want
to know something about your religion
and don't want everybody to know
about it. You get out your catechism
and show up here tomorrow morning
at seven, can your
"Sure-yes, sir. Can / tell my
mother?"
yes, tell your mother-on the quiet,
now, mind! am going to make you
earn that money!"
Thank you, sir. You bet will
mean, I'll sure try"
- g.
The catechism lessons were pune.
tuated with an incident of some con-
sequence One morning, Tim labor
ously united brown paper package !:
Please, Mr.. Comstock, Mama wishes
to know If you would wear this little
medal, and say every day this prayer.
She says it won't make any difference
If you don't see the good of it, If you'd
just be willing to do it. She says it,
too, you know And she sent you this
here book to read, too"
Frank felt d foolish confusion as the
child fastened the image of the
Blessed Mother to the inside of his
vest, and he perused the Memorare.
The prayer had been carefully written
out in delicate hand. The book,
he saw, was called, The Catholic
Church from Without. He slipped it
into his pocket, and it was constant
companion for many weeks Each of
these messengers of faith did its 1espe-
cial work for Frank; and the service
OF this little brochure was to give him
confidence. "A few moments contem.
plation Of its pages, served to take
away the feeling that he was being
tricked BY clever Catholic arguments,
which came to him SO often. Here he
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Abeel- began work in 1880. True re.
ligious freedom was not guaranteed
until 1912, when the treaty of Nan
king, concluded between China and
Great Britain, gave formal sanction
to missionary effort in China,
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Many of the women in pagan lands
can be reached only by their own sex.
Therefore, women workers in the
apostolic field are much needed to up
lift their sisters who are dragging
out existence in mental, physical and
spiritual bondage.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-03-13
DEATH or AGED LADY.

Mrs. Albert Elbrich died at the fam.
ily home In the shiloh settlement last
Friday night. aged 20 years. She
came to Texas from across the seas
30 years ago. locating with her hus'
band In Bryan. where they resided for
two years. then removed to shiloh,
where they lived thirtyseven years.
She is survived by her husband, two
sons. Frank and Albert Jr.. and two
daughters. Mrs. Frank weinsteter OF
Shiloh and Mrs. Rosa Fleickenstein
OF Brennan. Funeral services we're
held Saturday afternoon by Rev. Faith
or ]. p. Gleissner OF st. Joseph's
Catholic Church. OF which she was a
devoted member. interment taking
place in Shiloh Cemetery.
To the bereaved relatives the sym
patty OF many friends is extended.
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/ . Q. ~ cnscFs MAKE CLAIM
or DISCRIMINATION.


A mass OF figures and maze Of
legal technicalities are being unfold
ed before Judge J. D. Harvey OF the
Eightieth district court In an effort
by counsel for the International a
Great Northern Railroad Company to
show discrimination by state tax Of
ficials. The injunction hearing to re
strain the collection of the intangible
tax is expected to take up most %
next week.
Strong objections are being heard
by the court from County Attorney
sewall Myers to the introduction OF
testimony by abstractors and tax ex'
perts on how property is assessed In
Harris County. All property is as
sessed at It's true value. MIR. Myers
declares. and no testimony Is neoes'
sary. The railroad declares that It's
assessment On intangible assets Is
greater in proportion to other assess
ments. and that other property Is not
taxed at its full value
why does the state board tax the
capital stock Of the international 4
Great Northern at premium OF S.
O0o. 900 and the capital stock OF the
Galveston. Harrisburg a San An
tonic Railroad at g discount OF $1,000
OoOs" Is a question that the plaintiff
Is asking.
Tax Commissioner A. p. Bagby says
other railroads were taxed on the
basis Of figures prepared for former
tax boards. while the international 4
Great Northern was taxed on intangi-
BILE assets by the formula" a compli-
Gated method Of figuring.
Taxes amounting 10 100000 In
thlrty.eight counties In the state are
involved In the hearing and both sides
are making a strong fight.-Houston
Chronicle