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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
AN APPRECIATION or THE LATE
LAMENTED PRELATE AND
scHoLAR-ARcHslsHoP sPALD-
ING WAS WITHOUT AMBITION
WAS TRULY HUMBLE AND
BRILLIANT.

1t was in the early seventies that
first knew the late Archbishop John
Lancaster Spalding, whilst I was end
ing my studies in the Paulist schol-
asticate in New York. He spent a
year as our guest, being engaged on
the life of his then recently deceased
uncle, Archbishop Spalding, of Balti-
more. We were delighted with him.
He often preached to our people, en-
trancing all with his wholly spon-
taneous eloquence, and in the com
munity recreations his conversation
drew our rapt admiration for his per-
feet information on all topics of both
a liberal and ecclesiastical education.
John Spalding was what Lord Bacon
called "a full mind and all whatso-
ever he knew seemed ever ready for
use either Tor private talk or public
discourse; a happy hammered, bril-
liant, powerful personality, and with.
al an unfeignedly devout priest. He
never changed;l there were no Olsen
chantments In the course Of ones
friendship with him. Being an origi.
nal character he gave us many sur.
prises, but no disappointments BY
nature and by grace he was a worthy
scion of the heroic race Of the Mary,
land Catholic pilgrims.
do not intend to rehearse even
the summary Of John Spalding's ca
reerhis literary trfnmphs in both
prose and verse, his oratorical tri
umphs, mainly In the pulpit. but moi
seldom In the civic arena; his choice
by the Holy See as the pioneer
Bishop of Peoria. and his remark
able success In the difficult work d
organizing that now large and four
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

ishing diocese; his disinterested re-
fusal of the See of San Francisco and
his effectuating the happy choice of
his Louvain classmate, the late
Archbishop Riordan, in his stead;
his magnificent work as one Of the
Founders and the ever steadfast
fautor of the Catholic University; his
notable and essential share in the
colonization schemes of thirty years
ago. Our readers surely know of all
this from the daily and weekly press
reports of his death and funeral.
Was Always Fearless.
| have already spoken of him as
an original character; not odd, but
original One was Immediately i'm
pressed with John Spalding's phe-
nomenal fearlessness. There never
was truer knight than this straight
descendant of the English Catholic
pilgrims to Maryland, chivalric, un.
knowing fear. This gave his mental
accomplishments an immense impact
of personal force, and for his re-
H5lOuS AuAu6uCS 1t Won IldL loyalty
from men which is SO precious in our
day and nation for our priesthoods
leadership. His devotional life was
as openly child-like and unconven-
tional as. it was absolutely and tradi-
tionally Catholic and Roman; candid
to a fault as well in his piety as i'm his
intellectuality-if in a spiritual man
candour can ever become fault. In
all that he did and said in whatever
order of activity, you soon learned,
If you could come close at hand, that
to this man and his like it is as easy
to be a typical Catholic as a typical
citizen.
He seemed to be, truly was, who'll
" without ambition, witness his adj
vancing his friend, Patrick Riordan,
to San Francisco. Ambition is a kind
of arch-selfishness as insidious as it
is perilous. In soul so brilliant and
80 energetic it might easily find a
lodgment But he aspired only to be-
continued on page 81
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
The HOLY FATHER ON EVIL LANGUAGE

/ our supreme benefactor offended by
those blasphemies launched against
our Divine Redeemer? All Christians
must have felt outraged by them, be-
cause a person who loves takes as
| done to himself the injury done to
| friend, and he who is not ungrateful
is afflicted when insult instead of
homage is heaped on his benefactor.
But you, of all others, who are en-
rolled in league against blasphemy,
cursing and unclean talk, must have
been specially shocked. Your sodality
is of nature to make you fulfill your
| duty of reparatiOn to your outraged
Lord. For that reason we would wish
that the faithful Of Rome give in
their names in great numbers to this
Holy League and that they vie in
| noble rivalry among themselves in
offering to Jesus prayers and pious
calculations, notifications and other
acts of devotion in reparation for the
outrages which blasphemous tongues
or pens dipped in the poison of a
lurid sect have done to His Divine
Majesty.
When a brother is visited by mis-
fortune you are solicitous to offer him
your sympathy and by various tokens
OF affection to endeaVor to assuage
the wound opened in his heart. Now
it can never be said that blasphemy
does harm to that God who is of Him
self infinitely happy, but he who loves
God must be afflicted when His SOW
ereign rights are disowned and His
holy name publicly dishonored, and he
must in consequence exert himself to
prevent repetition of the blasphemy,
and secure that the outrage done by
it to God shall have due and prompt
reparation.
We think we should be doing you
an injustice, dearly beloved children,
were we to insist in exhorting you to
increase in zeal in your work of rep
aration for blasphemy, after the re-
cent insult done to God-for every
body who thinks and feels it is enough
to know of certain insults to deplore
them and desire to see immediate rep
aration done for them. But we do
hope that your work will find many
imitators and that clouds as it we're
of incense may ascend to God to OBJ
tain the conversion of those pr:sS - 4,
so hasely outraged Him. In the hope
of seeing this desire of ours fulfilled
we are confronted with the thought
that your sodality has been placed un-
der the protection of the ever Blessed
Virgin. At the foot of the cross Of
Jesus stood His divine Mother, and
in her heart echoed painfully the bias
phemies the executioners launched
against the August Victim; praetere-
untes blasphemabant cum. All!
perhaps it was the prayers of Mary
which enabled these blasphemers
shortly after to go down the hill
striking their breasts and repeating:
Truly this was the Son of Cod
Matthew XVII, SO.
May the intercession of the ever
Blessed Virgin of the Valley obtain
efficacy now for the prayers and good
example of the members of her sodal-
ity, and for them, their families, and
all who initiate them obtain that
abundance of heavenly favors for
which we trust that pledge may be
found in the Apostolic Benediction,
which with fatherly affection we i'm
part to all present.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
WILSON ATTENDED
REQUIEM MASS
THE PRESIDENT ASSISTED AT
THE HIGH MASS FOR THE
LATE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR.

Some of the impressive pomp and
regal splendor of the formal court of
the Hapsburgs was displayed in Wash
ington, D. c., on Wednesday, Novem-
Der 20, at the Solemn Requiem Mass
said for the repose of the soul of the
late Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria-Hungary. Cardinal Gibbons pom
tificated. President and Mrs. Wilson
Joined with the diplomatic representa-
tiyes of the Central powers and neu-
trail nations to pay tribute to the mem
ory of the dead monarch. The scene
was one of the most impressive
Washington has ever witnessed.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
ARCHBISHOP SZEPTYCKI
HE is INTERNED IN HOUSE OF
DETENTION.

AS to the fate of Mgr. Szeptycki
Archbishop of Leopolis, news that is
now very reassuring has reached
Rome. The contradiction of the re
port of his death which was circulated
in Germany some little time ago
proves to be correct But the Arch
bishop. according to "L'Unita Cato
lica," has been interned in the monas
terry of Sendal, which ordinarily serves
as a house of detention for "seditious'
members of the Orthodox clergy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
Joe Scott's Lecture
ideal CITIZENSHIP WILL BE
THE SUBJECT OF THE NOTED
cALiFoRNIAN's ADDRESS IN
THE AUDITORIUM ON DEcEM.
Der 13-LEcTuRE FREE TO ALI
INVITED BY THE ST. PAUL
FOURTH DEGREE ASSEMBLY,
x. OF c.

Ideal Citizenship with particular
reference to political, industrial and
religious conditions in the United
States, will be the subject discussed
by the Honorable Joe" Scott Of Los
Angeles, California, in the St. Paul
Auditorium on Wednesday evening,
December 13. The lecture will be
given under the auspices of the st.
Paul Fourth Degree Assembly,
Knights of Columbus, and will be free
to all to whom invitations are extend
ed by that organization.
Justice Schaller of the State SUI
preme Court will call the meeting to
order and introduce the Rabbi Rypins
who will preside. A musical program
viii be rendered by the cadet band OF
the College of ST. Thomas.
Joe Scott is one OF the most promi-
nent attorneys Of Los Angeles and an
orator of note. He has message for
all. irrespective of class or creed.
He paints an inspiring picture of
the true American citizen and patriot
in words that make lasting impress
sion on the minds of his hearers.
Notwithstanding the insistent de
mands of q busy life, he finds time
to appear on the lecture platform be
fore his fellow citizens and speaks I'd
them of that which Is nearest to their
fhearts-their beloved country and the
ideals of American patriotism which
| it holds up before them. From pres
lent indications, capacity house will
greet him in this. his first appearance
before an audience IN the Northwest
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
Monsignor Feuerstein Dead
WAS WELL KNOWN PRIEST or
THE SIOUX CITY DIOCESE.

!. On Saturday, December 2, the Right
Reverend Mgr. F. x. Feuerstein, V. F.,
of the Sioux City diocese, died sud
denly Of apoplexy. Mgr. Feuerstein
was pastor of the Church Of st.
Joseph, LIE Mars, Iowa, and was one
of the best known priests in the state.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
Priest Aviator Decorated

The Able Miribail, a young pro-
fessor at Saint Caprals. in the diocese
of Agen. France, and in the wartime
an aviator, who was taken prisoner
after the raid on Karlsruhe on June
20, has been awarded the Cross Of
the Legion Of Honor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

Men must be made to hear the
preaching of Christ, the messenger
from Gods own bosom, come to tell
men of their destiny, of the purposes
of their existence upon earth, OF re-
wards or punishments awaiting them
beyond the grave. Men do not wish
to hear the message: all the greater
the need of repeating it. Men say
Christ must be siIenced, His words
driven into oblivion: all the more i'm
perative it is upon His heralds to
sound the trumpet, to awaken the
sleepers from their fatal lethargy,
lest it lead them to eternal perdition.
The teaching of Christ is authorita-
tive, based on miracles physical and
moral which allow no doubt as to His
divine commission! and the message
is unmistakable. The message is
that men are commanded by their
maker to be Of righteous living: that
man is not mere matter: that the
soul of man is created to live forever
The teaching of Christ is that, while
men move across the earth, the love
and mercy of God are cast before
them in mysterious prodigahtya that
they may be righteous and win tc
themselves eternal regard. The
teaching of Christ it is that after the
death of the body there is the 1udg
ment, and after the Judgment there
is for each one either Heaven or Hell
This teaching is the very bone ant
marrow of the Gospel of Christ. Teal
lit out of the Gospel, diminish it'
meaning, impair it's consequences
you hurl Christ from His throne, yol
deny His mission as Teacher ans
Master. He came not upon earth t.
argue as do teachers of mere human
philosophy. He came to teach, t.
command, to vindicate divine majesty
eo Yindfcate divine justice. He tolt
clearly and emphatically the destin!
Of man as wrapped up in the mys
tertous counsels of the Creator. HI
told Of sin, the rebellion OF the crea
ture against the Creator, as the evi
of evils: He told of judgment. g
Heaven, of He'll: land His words shal
not pass away" Christis whole mis-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
THE FIRST SUNDAY In ADVENT

sion, Christ's whole teaching has as
| its solemn conclusion the dreadful day
when He shall come down again upon
earth, with great power and
majesty" to judge all men. The day
of days, the day of justice and of ire,
will surely come: And when the
Son of man shall come in His majesty,
and all the angels with Him, then
shall He sit upon the seat of His
majesty: and all the nations shall be
gathered together before Him, and
He shall separate them one from an
other as the shepherd separateth the
sheep from the goats: and He shall
set the sheep on His right hand, but
the goats on His left. Then shall the
King say to them that are on His
right hand: Come We blessed of my
Father, possess you the Kingdom pre-
pared for you from the foundation. of
the world. Then shall He say
to them, also, that shall be on His
left hand: Depart from me We
accursed into everlasting fire prepared
for the devil and his angels :.
and these shall go into everlasting
punishment; but the just into life
everlasting" So spoke the Divine
Teacher: so shall it be- Men may
protest as they may: men may writhe
in their rebellion as passion dictates;
! in naught do they change the order
ings of Almighty God. Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but My words
shall not pass away"
There is judgment: there is Heaven,
there is He'll. Did Christ forget to
preach those words, unmindful were
He of the essential attributes of the
Supreme Master of men. God is, and
must be, the master. If men, His
creatures, were allowed without end
to cast into His face their cries of
rebellion, to shout aloud Il will not
| serve" He were abdicating His su-
preme majesty and constituting man
His master. There must be the final
day of reckoning when His hand, so
long suspended by love and mercy,
| finally descends upon the rebel and
says to him-Serve me now under the
blow of my justice since you have so
| long refused to serve me amid my
| smiles of my love. God is the SUI
| preme Arbiter of moral righteousness;
/ therefore must He uphold the laws
| o1 righteousness. We're unrishteous-
ness permitted to have it's sway with
out ultimate restraint, Indifferent it
were to men whether they be right
eous or unrighteous: and God were
accounted as caring not whether they
| be righteous or unrighteous. Further,
in the fatal trend of human nature
| towards the depths of lower passion,
men left without the fear of punish
ment would rush madly into sin, ex-
claiming-'let us eat and drink, for
tomorrow we die" In sheer justice
to His own righteousness, in sheer
love of human souls, God must pro.
claim the Second Coming of His
Divine Son, Saviour and Redeemer
to judge tribes and nations and open
to them according to their merits OF
demerits, Heaven or He'll.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

There is need today of the loud
and insistent proclamation of the
Second Coming of the Lord Jesus
Christ To-day this Second Coming
the coming of divine justice-is un'
thought of, set away from human
thought, if not totally denied. The
doctrine, the ethics of present times
is-"Let us eat and drink, for to-mor
row we die" Earth is the all in all:
so, let us grasp what we may of its
passing shows and brief pleasures
seeing nothing beyond its horizon
nothing above the clouds that encircle
it. Let us eat and drink, for to-mor
row we die" Let us sip the nectar
of life's spring-time, scent the flowers
of it's summer, enjoy the fruits OF its
autumn; and then crumble into for
gettable dust with falling leaves ano
Withered roses, all to be over wheT
death palsies hand and limb and put:
the seal of it's darkness upon eye anC
forehead.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

The Catholic Church is the loyal
herald of Christ Therefore, however
much others are silent on sin and
Judgment, on Heaven and He'll, she
repeats those words ceaselessly and
courageously. Men may listen or may
refuse to listen: her duty is to preach
the truths, proclaimed by Christ: and
she breaches them. Judgment, Heav-
en- and Hell are the signal-words OF
her pulpits Were she silent, she re-
pudiates the preaching of Christ, she
repudiates her divine mission as His
heir and duly-appointed herald. Were
she silent on judgment, Heaven and
He'll, she were the fatal enemy OF
human souls, seeing them rushing
into eternal perdition without crying
out in loud warning, that they shun
the pathway of sin if they seek tc
shun the punishment of He'll, that they
walk in the path of righteousness il
they hope to cross the thresholds OF
Heaven. Harsh is the voice to mer
engulfed in sin and passion: but
| speak she must the truths of Christ
since His teaching must prevail. Ant
the teaching of Christ will prevail;
Heaven and earth shall pass away
but My words shall not pass away"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

Brethren, what shall we say, what
shall we do, as looking beyond the
grave we behold the Second Coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ? Where
shall we stand as we witness His
Coming, with great power and
majesty?" Where shall we be as the
angels bid some to the right hand OF
the Judge and others to His left?
Where our place, on the right hand or
on the left? What words shall We
hear-"Come We blessed of my Father
and possess the Kingdom prepared
for you from the beginning of the
world" or depart from me ye cursed
into everlasting ffre?" So sure as
God reigns and Christ is the master
of truth, so sure is it that, say what
we will, do what we will, one day we
shall be judged and shall enter either
Heaven or Hell. What then. Breth
rem? Surely each one now says-or
the right hand of the Judge must
be. Therefore, let US now live a!
God commands us to live: Let u'
cast off the work of darkness and pu
on the armor of light" stunning sir
as the sole evil pressing upon man
kind: stunning sin at all cost, at al
sacrifice. And. if sin there has been
let us repent while life still lasts
j & =
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
THE SECOND COMING OF THE
LORD.
Sermon by the Most Reverend
Archbishop.

The ecclesiastical season opening
this morning is named Advent-the
word meaning the coming-the Com
ing of the Lord Jesus Christ. There
was the First Coming-in lowliness
and poverty, in the Stable of Bethle.
hem. There will be the Second Com
ing-"with great power and majesty
the day of the final consummation
of the career of humanity upon this
earth of ours. The First Coming is
that of love and mercy-the invitation
to men to open minds and hearts
to the truths and graces of the King.
dom of God. The Second is that of
moned to give account of their ac-
ceptance or of their rejection of the
gifts of mercy and love betokened in
the mysteries of Bethlehem. God, so
to speak, divides in their application
the attributes of His divinity. At
first it is love and mercy even to the
apparent exclusion of Justice: but
justice must have its time, it's rewards
and it's punishments. God, however,
loving and merciful, cannot dispossess
Himself of the attributes of Justice:
else He were not the Supreme Master
of men, the Supreme Arbiter of the
moral order. And so, how ever long
retarded, there is the Advent of JUS
tice, the day of plenary and final ac.
counting. This is the Second Advent
of the Lord as made known to us in
the Gospel read on the first Sunday
of Advent.
The Second Coming of the Lord
with great power and majesty" at
the end of the world, has it's anticipa
tion in a less visible form, though
not with lesser reality, at the hour OF
death. Then the sentence is read out
announcing definitely to each one his
lot for all eternity, whether in Heaven
or in He'll. This is the particular
Judgment. Whether we view the one
or the other, the particular or the
general, the solemn question imposes
itself where shall stand. what Nsrd
shall hear when the book of life is
thrown open to my gaze and deeds OF
misdeeds there recorded call for re
ward or for punishment?
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-22
Cop AND OIL MEN
IN A BLOODY FIGHT

Jones, Moore's friend, struck him with
a railroad spike.
Tho story told by Mraz is substan-
TALLY as follows:
Il was on duty at the corner OF
Fourth and West Pike streets as a
traftic officer. when a man approached
me and said there was a big fight at
the interurban station. went there at
once. and found a negro bleeding pro-
fusely from wounds in the head. I
took him in custody. He pleaded his
innocence. saying that he had been as
saulted. Several persons. men OF good
repute. told me that the negro was in
nocent Of provoking the fight. They
pointed out Moore. whom they said
had assaulted the negro. arrested
Moore and told him TO come along with
me. He struck me in the neck. l did
not strike him then. A minute or
two later he hit me again and thon I
hit him with my mace. After we had
reached Fourth street, near the corner
OF West Pike street. Moore assaulted
me again, and at the same time Jones
struck me from behind with a rail-
road spike, began using. my mace
then. striking Moore twice. Other Of
MoOEe's friends iumped on me and
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-22
Who Makes a Monthly Report
on the Same to the City
Water Board.

II is plain that the public health
of Clarksburg has been immensely
benefited by pure and wholesome
public water supply. In this country
800 900 persons suffer annually from
typhoid fever and 10000 die of II.
Thus, in the course Of decade. one
person in every thirty-three contracts
the disease by taking into the mouth
germs discharged from the human
body. or those who recover sub
stantial number die later from other
causes resulting from depleted vital
lty. still others never completely re.
cover from the effects and although
they may live TO old age their useful
ness has been cuTtailed. Typhoid
fever is an easily preventable dis
ease. Since Il cannot he contracted
naturally without taking the specific
germ into the mouth, to eradicate It
involves only the purity of food and
drink.
The local water works and sewer
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-22
LOCAL WATER SAFE
SAYS STATE EXPERT

age board desires to be Of service in
improving the health tone OF the
community and II especially wishes
to see the end Of typhoid fever In
greater Clarksburg. The city water
Is the best scicncc,.Ean produce. Its
purity 10 assured S5I1 II In carefully
guarded by skilled and experienced
men.
The monthly report OF DR.. Aaron
Arkin. chief bacteriOlOglst for the
state board of health. after an OK
animation Of the city water. follows:
West Virginia State HygiCnlc
Laboratory.
Morgantown. w. Va.
June %. 1916
Report on the ARCHAEOLOGICAL EX-
animation OF Water.
Clarksburg Water Works and Sew
erRgc Board.
Clarksburg. W. Va.
Gentlemen:
The following results we're OBJ
tained on samples OF water taken
June 16:
Colon bacteria in Il &C. None.
Colon bacteria in / &C. None
Colon bacteria in 10 &C. None.
Interpretations: Absolutely safe.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-22
SPANISH KING
Receives a Confidential Letter
by Submarine from En-
perOr Of Germany.

MADRID. via Paris. June GA
German submarine arrived today at
Caratenga. The officers disembarked
and left for Madrid with a conHden-
tial letter for King Alfonso.
The arrival Of the German subma-
rinc. U-S5, at Caratcnga was officially
confirmed. The submarine is anchor
ed alongside the Spanish cruiser Cate
luna. The secretary OF the German
embassy at Madrid has left for Cara
tenga TO receive an autograph letter
from the German emperor to King Al
fonso. supposed to be thanks for re-
ception given interned Germans from
Kamerun.
The section Of the press. which IA
vOrs the German side in the war, pub
fishes articles today eulOgizing the
German sailors for their naval exploit.
The submarine came from Pola, the
Austrian naval base.