The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-04-29

back in the hospital. AAetheE7 SIX
weeks / lay there and was back in my
mission by October. .,.c Fl AZ
Now, where was a poor, missionary
to get the money to pay doctors and
hospital bill for, this long spell of siX
months daily visitation and daily. Hursl
ingyr And moreover all the while my
teachers We're running the school, and
was to pay the, expenses m. i!
Back in my mission again, iteis inn
possible to describe the amount of
work which had accumulated, besides
other special and troublesome new
work that came on at such an inoppor-
tune time. 1t would require, "a knowl.
edge Of the circumstances here to uAi
derstand it. !. ...,s,-.- ! III.
The spiritual work which had been
at standstill SO many months had
accumulated. There are over four
hundred Communions daily. when am
in the parish. .a4.trr H.
y, We had reached the end of the year
and the weather had been extremely
bad for the last two months. Typhoohs
were about and the rainfall was inces.
SAINT, the weather was quite exceptions
al for the time of the year. The fourth
of January brought another and very
heavy cross. A very, severe, earth.
quake passed over at 1880 a. m. on
that day. 1t lasted only "a seconds
and gave about five severe pitches.
The result was very cruel for me. The
tower of my church was erected only
about 70 years ago by the Spanish
priests. It's walls were six feet, thick,
but, it came down. The bells were
buried under debris and also "a fine
baptismal font 7--- ~a4 81
~ Another result of 1.-The quake ! was
that the church was SO ripped that! no
one would go into it again. The
church also was built 10 years ago; 1t
had walls four feet thick. 1t had been
damaged by an earthquake fifteen
years ago which had brought down
the facadeEof the church, This facade
/ had rebuilt = The roof also had been
smashed in and this l put back too.
Now in this earthquake the roof was
again smashed in. The church and
tower were such, as you see in the
Spanish missions in California. n Also
the house or converts. All are. now
wrecked. -
\ Now have no church and no house
The house was wrecked by the former
earthquake, and now the wood part OF
it is rotten and threatens to give way,
Most of the poles of the house are
hanging on, instead of supporting the
house, because being so long in the
ground they have become rotten and
hollow. -
Nevertheless, this house is; the only
place in which l can keep the Blessed
Sacrament. When the wind is strong
| cannot sleep, for expecting the house
to come down, and when walking
through the house I'm afraid of it Civ.
ing way. -. p,a ,.
| say. Mass in the school, but this
has no ceiling and the roof. fairly runs
water, and as the rain, is incessant
now, you can guess the lakes of water
in it; and mind, we have no benches
here. The floor is the pew. and, that IS
wet
The parish consists of 54,OO0 souls
There are no white men within a
twenty.mfle radius: The parish has a
school of 500 children, A teaching
staff of ten teachers. The salary, of a
teacher is 1920 per year. Who viii
undertake to support one, year BY
year?
There are 114,17S Holy Communions
in the parish during the year. The
people are poor. They are willing to
give their labor free, but have nc
money. If l had few thousand dol
lars i could do good deal with ii
towards restoring this fine old, Spanish
church, tower and house to, their for
mer glory. ,sat ,.u@ ~
This is my plight now, and the story
of last year. Well might we say
Come to my aid, o Lord, o Lord
make haste to help me. ..,..
God grant. that those, who loxe Him
might be moved by this story ia help
me.
My address, is: Rev, w. Cain, Cab.
atuaIl, Yloilo, Panay, Philippines. (.
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