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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
HENRY EMBARRASsEs THEM

The writer OF the pageant that
was produced as a part of the en-
tertainment for the triennial con-
clave Of the Episcopalians in st.
Louis had hard time answering
embarrassing questions about
Henry VIII, says an exchange.
No Anglican or Episcopalian is
proud of Henry and they are using
every effort in an endeavor to
prove that the old rascal had moth
ing to do with the foundation of
the Anglican Church.
The pageant author solemnly
and seriously informs us that the
separation of England from Rome
was not brought about by the in
fatuation of Henry VIII with
Anne Boleyn. He says that it was
due to the forces which were max
ing for the use Of the English
tongue instead Of Latin and that
were producing strong national
feeling which naturally brought
about ecclesiastical nationalism.
1t would be interesting to learn
from the gentleman what national
feeling brought about the continu-
alton of the marital escapades, of
King Henry and the other domes-
tic infelicities Of his majesty. One
of his various consorts did not
speak English. If the separation
from Rome was due to the forces
which were making for the use of
the English tongue, it is singular
ly strange that Henry did not put
stop to the use of Latin as an
ecclesiastical language. It is
equally strange that he ordered
Masses said for the repose of his
miserable soul. Above all it
would be interesting to learn why
Henry ever appealed to the Pope
to have his marriage with Cathe-
rine annulled.
We sympathize with the awk-
ward position Of our Anglican and
Episcopalian brothers. 1t is to
their credit that they are trying
to repudiate any association with
the bloodiest tyrant that ever sat
on throne since the days Of Nero.
Unfortunately they cannot change
facts or destroy historical evil
dence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
PITY FOR THE SUFFERING

One Of the characteristic traits
of present-day civilization is an
corresponding sympathy for the
fallen and the unfortunate. Or
carnations of every description
are continually putting forth ef-
fort that the suffering of others
may be lessened or eliminated.
The average man or woman is
ready to stretch forth a helping
hand at the sight Of misery or
poverty or misfortune, in what
soever form it may appear.
The Catholic Church in her all
embracing maternal love for the
children OF men has pointed out a
particular class of sufferers who
are worthy in an especial way of
colnmiseration and help, realizing
as she does that the Church suf-
fering is an integral part of the
Church at large. From time to
time she bids her followers ex-
tend the help of suffrage to those
who are temporarily detained for
past offences. The peculiar state
in which the Suffering Souls find
themselves appeals strongly to
every Catholic. Those who were
united to us by bonds of blood or
of friendship have passed off
from the stage Of life, and in
many cases are detained in a state
Of darkness. Mayhap a chum Vi
our early years, a companion of
our social moments, a person i'll
whose veins flowed the same blood
as in our own, now finds himself
cut off from our association. He
has gone forth with the slight
dust Of earth still clinging to his
spirit; and suffer he must until
that spirit be thoroughly purged
and cleansed. If while in life he
had asked us for slight favor
we would willingly have sacri-
feed our own interests in order to
serve his friendship by our devo-
ton. Now from the silent cham
Der of torture he appeals to us
with heart throbs and beseeches
us to do for him what he is help
less to accomplish for himself.
The souls in purgatory are not
merely strangers or those who
lived ages ago, they arc the very
ones whom we considered friends
in this life. From the deep dun
geon of expiation arises ever that
heartfelt supplication which ap-
peals to us in the sacred name of
friendship; "Haye pity on me,
have pity on me, at least you my
friends Friendship that is
worth while cannot remain silent,
nor can it turn a deaf ear to such
pleading. The Catholic who re-
fuses or neglects to succor those
who are now existing in the agon-
izing torments Of purgatory de-
serves the same fate himself when
he shall have arrived at that
abode Of suffering,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
AN EARTHLY RELIGION.

The pastor of a local denomi-
national church is reported to
have made some astounding
statements during the past week.
After remarking that the Old and
New Testament are almost silent
as regards the future world, he is
quoted as saying: "Christ S chief
concern was about the kingdom
of God here on earth, and for this
He lived and died.
Assuming the correctness of
the quotation, we cannot but re-
mark on the countless number of
angles which religion seems to
present to many who are cropping
outside the true Church. For if
there is anything which a careful
perusal Of the Bible discloses it
surely is the fact that Christ
babe His followers to give up the
things Of earth and to take up
their cross and follow Him.
When he advised the faithful to
lay up for themselves treasures in
heaven, surely He spoke Of the fu-
ture life
1t is not our intention to be-
come polemical or to try to prove
the falseness of the above alleged
quotation from this local pastor.
But we take occasion to note the
vagaries Of the human mind
when left to itself in the matter
Of private Interpretation of the
Scriptures. The arena of religion
has provided some wonderful ac-
robatic feats on the part of Prot
estant ministers. There is not a
doctrine in the whole series of
Christian teaching which they
have not attacked. from the use
of sacred images to the divinity
Of our Blessed Lord. Some Of
their errors seem to be based on
sincere and earnest ideas, while
others terminate III nothing but
the crassest and most blatant ig-
norance. Even an agnostic, read
ing the Scriptures from purely
literary standpoint, will realize
and recognize at least the
import of their teaching. But
it is hard to define a mind
that will wrestIe with the
Scriptures not only to its own
destruction, but to its own stulti-
fication. A man reading doeu-
ment may disagree with its con-
tents, but he cannot, without pro-
claiming himself an imbecile,
deny that the document states
that which it states.
Every Catholic would do well
to utterly ignore statements pro-
ceeding from such unreliable self
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
SOME OF CHICAGO'S DRINK
WRECKAGE.

The general superintendent of
United Charities in Chicago, Eugene
T. Lies, in a letter to the Chicago
Post showed that intemperance was
the cause of poverty in one case in
every nineteen dealt with by the
United Charities 0,150 out of %, 105
casGS).
Further" says Mr. Lies, the 1,t50
instances Of intempGranCe means
simply the number of clear cases of
hard drinkers easily discovered by
United Charities field workers in the
families dealt with. 1t does not mean
that this necessarily covered all the
Incorporate persons in these families,
for all these are not in the homes
waiting to be counted when our
workers get there, nor are they all
reported freely and voluntarily by the
members of the family actually seen
by the workers.
Besides the many more hard
drinkers whom we did not discover
with the naked eye, there were
doubtless hundreds of other persons
III LlESS ldullllco WIZ "tIG SDCUuIHS
altogether too much money for in
toxicating liquors, which, if applied to
the food, shelter and clothing needs
of their wives and children, would
have kept them in more comfortable
condition.
FINALLY, without a doubt also,
many of the other unfortunate circum-
stances and disabilities discovered
last year by our charity visitors were
bound up with the drink evil Just
how much we can not say. On this
point we are conservative. But au.
thorities a plenty would point out
that at least some of the 4,031 cases
of acute Illness some of the 1856
instances of chronic physical dis
ability of the 1872 cases Of epilepsy
the '653 instances of insanity and
feeblemindedness' and other misfor-
tunes were attributable partly to
drink either in the individuals them
selves or in their progenitors.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
DOMAIN Or TEMPERANCE
TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN THE
SCHOOLS.

For several years. writes W. J.
Bray of the Normal School, Kirksyille,
Mo-, in the Journal of Education, "the
schools have been giving some atten-
ton to the influence of alcohol on the
human body as a factor in our social
and economic life. This instruction
has borne good fruit. There is need,
however, for renewed activity on our
part, along this line. DR.. Crothers
says: Statistics show that, both in
Europe, and in America, over fifty per
cent of the deaths of cerebral hcm-
orrhage, heart disease and nephritiS
are of those who are consumers of
alcohol More than 5000 people died
in the State of Missouri alone from
these diseases last year. Our prob
lem is obvious. Data furnished by
insurance companies show that from
ten to fifteen per cent more deaths
occur among non-abstainers than
among abstainers. They say, further
more, that a moderate drinker of forty
should be charged at the rate of an
abstainer of fifty or fifty-fye. The
Medico-Actuarial Mortality Investiga-
ton in New York in 1914 showed that,
among those guilty of occasional alco-
holic excuses, the mortality is from
one and one-third to one and three
fourths times the expected at all ages,
and among the steady users from one
and one-third to two times the eX-
pected.
1T is fact, and not sentiment, that
is killing the liquor traffic. Of the 25S
alcoholic persons examined by DR..
Lambert in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, siXty-nine per cent began the
liquor habit before the age of twenty
one. Does this seem to indicate that
the work of the school along this line
has been all that it should have been?
1T has been definitely proven by
the experiments and observations of
DR.. Forel, DR.. Stockard, DR.. Gordon,
DR.. Demme, and DR.. BeZzol3, that
even moderate drinking Of alcoholic
beverages so damages the germ cells
that the children are almost certain
to be blighted in their prospects, and
as result, if in fact these children
survive, society is forced to care for
them as detectives, either physically,
| mentally, or morally. In any case it
| is the business of the school to recoS-
nize the dangers that confront society
| BECAUSE of the use of alcoholic bever-
ages, and to impart this knowledge in
such way as to make the most pro-
found impression upon the child
mind
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
LETTER OF CARDINAL GIBBONS
CHANCELLOR OF THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY EXPLAINS THE
NEEDS OF THE INSTITUTION.

AS the first Sunday of Advent ap-
breaches, the regular time for the An
nual Collection for the needs of the
Catholic University Of America, we
trust that our earnest appeal will meet
with generous response on the part
of all our Catholic people. The Uni
versity, on it's side, is today serving
Catholic education most efficiently, by
the superior training given to our
Catholic teachers in all parts OF the
United States and by the increasing
number of scholarly young priests ard
highly educated young laymen who go
forth annually from its halls to fight
the battles of our holy faith. Very
rapidly there is growing up at the
National Capital highly equipped
Catholic seat of good studies, devoted
to all the higher interests OF the
Catholic Church, and developing a
body of superior teachers IN all de-
partments of human knowledge.
Let me place before you few facts
more eloquent than any words. In
twelve years the degree students OF
the University have grown from Ito
to 62O, not speaking of about 1000
students in its affiliated institutions
and summer schools. The professors
have increased from twenty-eight to
eighty-three. It's buildings, universal
ly admired in washington, have in
creased from three to seven, and are
already quite insufficient for the de-
mands made on them. Its site, origin
ally SO acres, includes now IA acres,
and is easily the choicest IN the
National Capital. Its library counts
already over 100000 volumes, and in
all it's departments there has been a
corresponding increase Of scientific
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Young men Of the new Cathe-
dral Parish, st. Louis, No., will
see themselves coming late to Mass
in motion pictures, which will be
a feature of picture night" at
the new Cathedral festival. "Let
them see themselves as others see
them" Father Francis Gilfillan,
pastor, explained to a reporter.
1t might prove a good lesson to
them. After they see the great
crowds of parishioners going into
church in time for services and
then view themselves rushing in
all the way from five to fifteen
minutes late, it may cause them to
regulate the time of their arrival
with the commencement of serv-
ices.
Might not the scope of this in
noyation be SO enlarged as to
screen all late comers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
COMMUNION or SAINTS.

One Of the most consoling doc
trines of the Catholic Church is
without doubt that which teaches
us that we are all members of
one vast corporate body. The
difference between Christianity
and the older religions was that
paganism catered chiefly to the
physical man and to the needs Of
the time. The body was glorifed
to the detriment Of the spirit.
Where the future was considered
at all the promises or threats Of
reward or of punishment were
hazy and vague. Christianity en-
tering the world babe mankind
look to a destiny beyond the
present. Paganism existed for
the present; Christianity, for the
future. True it is that the pagan
had his Lares and Penates, but
they considered that dim mem
DRY of the past with no assurance
OF reunion in the future.
To the Christian all things were
on one plane; the barriers Of time
had been removed, and he looked
upon the present and the future
with one and the self-same eye.
He spoke of the departed as of
one who was but absent tempo
rarily. In the early inscriptions
on the catacombs Of the East and
West, rarely if ever do we find
mention of death. The deceased
was merely departed, he
slumbers. !" Such were the senti-
ments that animated the follow
ers of Him Who had entered
through the portals of time to the
glories Of eternity. The living
spoke and thought Of the dead in
much the same sense that Christ
Himself told the people about the
young girl in the Gospel when He
said, "the girl is not dead, but
sleepeth. - This solidarity of ex-
istence that united in thought the
living and the dead entered into
every phase of the early Chris
tian's life. His relations, his
friends, were not dead, they
slumbered.
The Middle Ages exemplifed in
the highest degree this germ
thought, peculiar to the very ma
ture of Christianity. The body
of the Church was believed to
comprise three distinct classes,
those on earth, those in purgatory.
and the blessed in heaven. Buoyed
lup by this belief the Christian
sought consolation in the hope of
a speedy reunion, much the same
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
In order to prove itself the old

In order to prove itself the old
est Catholic newspaper in the
United States, The Catholic Tele-
graph Of Cincinnati, Ohio, pub
lished in it's last issue fac smile
of the first page of its first paper.
Its first issue appeared October
%, 1881. During this span of
cighty-fve years the Catholic
Telegraph has always stood for
everything that would uphold the
Church with all that the Church
means. We congratulate our con-
temporary and trust that when it
reaches the age Of Methuselah it
will still be as vigorous in spirit
as it is now.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
NOT WANTED IN THE ARMY.

Col. John S. Hoover, who is in
charge of recruiting the federal army
in Texas, says the Texas national
guard needs 1900 more infantrymen,
sixty more cayalrymen and sixty-fYe
engineers.
Time was when the habits of a sol
der were of the free and easy nature.
That day is over. OF this Col. Hoover
says:
In the last few months / have
seen and been with 1900 officers, and
not once have | seen man drunk.
The army has cut out drinking, just as
every business concern in the coun.
try has cut it out. 1t has become n
business organization of the highest
efficiency, and booze fighting is no
longer tolerated"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
UNDER Secretary A CATHOLIC
OF WILLIAM PAT
RICK BYRNE IN DUBLIN OF
GREAT IMPORTANCE.

Great surprise has been manifested
by the appointment Of William Pat
rick Byrne as under secretary for
ireland. Mr.. Byrne is an Irishman and
a Catholic. He has been very sue
cessful in the English home Office
where he has taken an active interest
in social reform. There is belief in
many quarters that this appointment
is but the beginning Of series of
radical changes in England's policy
towards Ireland, change that fore
casts better times for Erin.
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IEs IS 81 sc t$Ss K ~ @tS SSss@ se IL
ence proves that the mode Of con.
lastruction that formerly was con.
sidered sufficient preventive oil
loss by fire is not really effective
Building ordinances Of the past
either were not enforced with
sufficient vigor, or when enforced
were found, many times, wanting
During the past few years the
larger cities have adopted repres-
sive as well as constructive
measures which will mean a ire
mendous saving of property and
of life.
Our Catholic institutions -
schools, churches, colleges, hospi-
tails and Orphanages-are TO be
found in the same class as the
average public building. When a
fire occurs in one of these struc-
lures, erected according to the old
notion of fire protection, very fire.
quently a holocaust is the result.
The st. Louis Republic in an
issue Of last week takes occasion
from the great fire in the Chris
tan Brothers, college to warn its
readers and the public i'll general
Of the danger of inadequate fire
protection. While stating that
the Christian Brothers college fol
lowed all the laws of the build
ing ordinances at the time the
college was constructed, still it
points out that this great fire
could have been minimized and
lives saved. 1t says: "It is not
necessary to propose that all non
fire proof buildings be torn down
or reconstructed. 1t is enough to
put in automatic sprinklers and
provide special hydrants and
stand-pipes. In many institutions
the installation Of sprinklers rep
resents a real and immediate
money gain, the savings on insur-
ance being in excess of main
tenance cost and interest on in-
vestment. This kind Of fire pre-
vention is indicated not only by
safety considerations but by
business considerations as well.
If the Christian Brothers college
had realized its. peril, it's manage
ment would have made haste to
provide against it. In this fact is
the key to future possibilities.
The community has the opportun-
ity-and the power-to impose
regulations which will render I'M
possible the burning of any such
buildings through a fire original
ing within it's walls. To use that
power will be to save life and
save money, which is good bus
mess and good humanity. F"
1t would be well if the heads Of
all Catholic institutions were to
look into this matter thoroughly,
and even invite the proper author
tiles to investigate existing con-
ditions with view to providing
against any possible future cata-
strophe. The past few years have
witnessed appalling. fires in many
of our Catholic institutions, and
while death has not always re-
suited, still there are enough ex-
amples to make us pause and pro-
vide for the future. Surely one
human life is of more value than
the small financial outlay that
might be necessary to safeguard
4Io+ 1;eo o,oJ ,,,o,,1- o+bo-c
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
BUILDING PROTECTION.

The principal cities throughout
the country seem to be pretty
much awake to the necessity of
adequate building protection.
The enormous number of fires
many of which were preyentible
that annually devastate the
large cities of this country shows
a lack Of knowledge Of the prin-
ciple of cause and effect. Expert
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28

We have always been accustOm-
ed to consider the Swiss a simple.
God-fearing, well-behaved people,
but the Catholic Hierarchy of
Switzerland has just issued a
vigorous pastoral letter in which,
among other things, the bishops
thought it necessary to strike at
the feminine fashions of the day.
SO far does the denunciation go
that priests arc cnjoined to refuse
Holy Communion to persons who
approach the altar improperly
attired.
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fectly equipped for all reasonable de-
mands of our own time.
May God bless every generous giyer
to this holy work.
j. CARDINAL GIBBONS,
Chancellor of the Catholic University
of America.
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The National Spiritualist Asso-
citation went OH record recently i'll
favor of cremation. The Catholic
Church has always forbidden the
practice of cremation as being an
insult to the body which has been
sanctified by the reception of the
Sacramento.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28

progress of our common Mother, the
Church, should not neglect this impor-
tant duty of renting pews. Parents
should see that all the members of the
family occupy the family pew during
divine service. Besides the assurance
of the presence of their children,
parents feel themselves more at home
therein. The family pew is an induce
ment to attend divine service.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28
Ex-president Eliot has q

Ex-president Eliot has given
forth another oracular pro-
nomcement. lie says: "The
clergy must follow scientific
views if they are to remain
force for good. The flu
ture of the clerical profession de-
ponds on its conforming i'll it's
training and it's professional con-
duct to the standards i'll truth
seeking which modern science has
set up" The childishness dis
played in this statement is in keep
ing with other utterances of this
great founder Of the new religion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28

Nothing is more beneficial to the
Church Suffering than the Holy
Sacrifice. Let us offer Mass every
day during the month of Novem-
Der at least for those among our
friends and kinsfolk who may be
in need of spiritual refreshment.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-28

constituted spokesman. Crimes
may be committed in the name of
religion, but the mark of foolish
ness may also be earned by mis-
guided minister Of an earthly gos-
pei.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER %, 1916.

November is the month dedi-
Gated to the Holy Souls. Collec-
tons are being taken up through
out the country for the suffering
in Europe; let us offer up our
aims every day for the suffering
In purgatory.
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Idle from circumstances, restless by
disposition; loving Incidence. yet hat.
ing quiet; she was oficious without he
ing useful, and busy without being oe.
cupied. Lady Morgan.
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Rev. James NJ. Reardon, Editor.