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to come to him. If he uses the proper
means, he can be continent.
Let him take a look at himself So
cially, and brush up his manners, his
accomplishments, his education, and
his clothes. Let him frequent good
society. Let him see that he acts like
gentleman on all occasions. Let him
get rid of his awkwardness, his self
consciousness, his selfishness, his lack
of ease and his want of savior faire.
Let him take look at his business
prospects and get move on him"
to deserve promotion, to earn more
salary, to put more. money into the
savings bank.
Let, him take stock, too, of all his
young lady friends, and see which one
of them comes nearest to his idea of a
perfect wife-the helpmate, the closest
friend, the confidante, the confident of
her husband.
Let him not be caught by the bright
eyes, or fine Clothes, or coquettsh
manners. The character is the thing.
What he needs is a, woman of heart,
of principle, of affectionate DISPOSE
ton, OF virtue, of piety, of common
sense, of will to work in co-opera-
ton with him to make a home; of a
girl of good family traditions; a
woman who will love him and make
him happy, and not think first of her
self-how much she is lettering her
self by getting married; a woman who
will be a Catholic wife for a Catholic
husband, entering matrimony, in the
fear of the Lord, for the purposes for
which it was designed.
Let him pray, work, read, study,
save, and improve himself in every
possible way, so as to make himself
fit for marriage.
Let him pray earnestly for his wife
that is to be. She is somewhere.
Even before he is acquainted with her,
she is his, his to be, his very own, his
dearer and better self. Let him pray
God to take care of her in every way,
and make her everything that a good
Catholic woman ought to be.
SO, thinking of marriage and of his
future wife in the right way, he will
be kept out of harm, he will avoid
what would degrade and disgrace him
in the eyes of his beloved, he will do
his best to make himself fit to be a
husband.
-Etchdn0e.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK.
ST. JOHN cLIMAcUs.

John made, while still young, such
progress in learning that he was
called the Scholastic. At the age of
sixteen he turned from the brilliant
future which lay before him, and re-
tired to Mt. Sinai, where he put him
self under the direction of a holy
monk. Never was novice more fer
vent, more unrelaxing in his efforts
for self-mastery. After four years he
took the vows, and an aged abbot
foretold that he would some day be
one of the greatest lights of the
Church. Nineteen years later, on the
death of his director, he withdrew
into a deeper solitude, where he
studied the lives and writings of the
Saints, and was raised to an unusual
height of contemplation. The fame
Of his holiness and practical wisdom
drew crowds around him for advice
and consolation. For his greater
profit he visited the solitudes of
Egypt At the age of seventy-five he
was chosen abbot of Mt. Sinai and
there ''he dwelt in the mount of God,
and drew from the rich treasure of
his heart priceless riches of doctrine,
which he poured forth with wondrous
abundance and benediction" He was
induced by brother abbot to write
the rules by which he had guided his
life; and his book, called the Climax,
or Ladder of Perfection, has been
priced in all ages for it's wisdom, it's
clearness, and it's JUNCTION. At the
end Of four years he would no longer
endure the honors and distractions
of his office, and retired to his soil
tude, where he died, A. D. sos.
Amongst these men, st. John
writes. of the solitaries of the desert,
II saw many whose heads were
white with age, whose faces were as
those of angels, who by their fervor
Of spirit and converse with God had
attained a simplicity of wisdom and a
perfect innocence which had nothing
in common with the decay of reason
and the second childishness we often
see in old men of the world. Out
wardly they were marked by an eX-
ceeding gentleness, cordial and
seemly gaiety of heart; nothing
studied nothing put on; inWardly
their whole soul was turned towards
God, as simple and innocent children
turn to a loving father"
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THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.

An unknown artist once painted a
picture for an altar-piece, and called
it the Fountain of Life. 1t represented
the Redeemer of the World in the
arms of His sorrOWful Mother, after
being taken down from the Cross.
From large rock beneath their feet
flowed the abundant waters of saliva
ton, which are received into a great
reservoir. Apostles and evangelists,
martyrs, confeSsors, and virgins are
drinking of the water, or filling their
vases, and passing them on to others.
into a lower plain, where all sorts and
conditions of people are drinking,
with grateful looks. Then the streams
flow away in the distance, where chill
dren and cripples can reach them; and
they are taking up the water in their
hands, and drinking it with smiling
lips, often looking towards the great
rock.
The meaning of the picture is that
salvation is for all who will seek after
it,-that the Precious Blood is a life
giving fountain, forever flowing, in
eXhaustible, and accessible to the
whole world; that the Blessed Virgin,
on account of her nearness to Christ,
is mans most powerful intercessor;
that the saints, because of their fidel-
ity to the divine law, draw more
abundantly from the source of grace;
that the streams, are the sacraments
by which it is impaired to souls.
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SONNET.
CA Mother to Her Daughter on Her
Entering Religion.)

Mine was the hand thy baby steps to
guide,
Mine was the arm to which thou
first didst cling;
And while thy careless childhood's
days took wing
Thy soul did ever in my souls sight
abide
Then, so it seemed, missed thee from
my side;
And for space I sought thee sor-
rowing,
To find thee in the temple of the
King,
Upon the Bridegrooms business occu-
pied.
And there left thee, On thy choice |
smiled;
For did not He to Nazareth return
For eighteen subject years, that l
might learn
That she who stays behind, by Love
beguiled,
To traffic in the spirits great con-
Germ,
Shall none the less remain her moth
er's child?
Enid DinniS.
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LoURDEs OF TODAY.

Visitors at Lourdes today, on wit
Messing the magnificent professions
of the Blessed Sacrament, the count
less Masses said in the Basilica, and
the crowds of communicates who
throng to the affairs. are sometimes at
loss as to whether Lourdes is a
sanctuary of Mary or of Her Divine
Son. 1t is the shrine of both; for
since that night the shepherds found
Mary and Her Child together the two
can never be separated, and as in
Bethlehem She held out Her little
Son to peasants and kings, so now,
at Lourdes She offers Him in the
Holy Eucharist to both rich and poor,
and makes the granting of Her favors
dependent on her clients devotion to
the Blessed Sacrament.
Father Dwight, S. H.
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THE IMPULSE TO CONFESS.

'"The thirst to confess, to confide,
is universal impulse of the troubled
human heart" says writer in the
Western Christian Advocate. The
awful secrets which men carry in
thc'r lives create a hunger for con-
fessicl which gnaws out the heart of
happiness. They also produce men
tai atmosphere of fear, which is in
imical to all mental and physical
health. They keep all powers of the
soul hampered under self-deprecia-
ton and self-condemnation. Faith as
an expression of optimism, satisfac-
ton, happiness, confidence, assur-
ance, hopefulness, cheerfulness, cour-
age and determination becomes i'm
possible. Fear and dread make pos
sible the free action of pessimism,
dissatisfaction, grief, anxiety, despon-
dency, hatred, worry, moroseness,
anger and vacillation. The soul life
is lost in anarchy, while the physical
appetites, passions and lusts reduce
it to the lowest level of earthly eX-
istence. Then it is driven by remorse
into the dark recesses of secrecy, and
dread watches the door lest discovery
bring the sins of the life into the
knowledge of men. With a delicate
timidity the soul seeks opportunity for
confession.
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THE "ADESTE FIDELES."

AS the "Adeste Fideles" is sung I'M
til Candlemas Day, February 2, this
word about it's origin will be inter
esting.
Individual authorship the "Adeste
Fideles" may not have had The at
mosphere of the monastic scriptorum
breathes, however, through it's melo-
dious strokes. 1t is in many respects
unique in Christian hymnology More
than any other church song it blends
prophecy, history, prayer, exultation
and praise. Ii it were printed side
by side with the Ncene Greed, it
would be found an astonishing verifi-
cation of that august prose.
Every line of the "Adeste" is a
casket of faith and love. Upon it's
cadences many hours must have been
spent for the crystallization of sublime
truth into crisp and dazzling syllables.
"Adeste,' approach; "fideles,' We faith
full; "laeti," joyful; "triumphantes,
victorious; 'venite," come; adore
mus let us adore; "Dominum,' the
Lord.
The present musical setting had it's
origin in 1897, and is popularity at
tributed to Vincent Novello, who was
the organist at the Portuguese Lega-
ton in London at that time.
The hymn was sung on the CONT
nent in the Latin form, which was so
musical that it is memorized almost
without effort. 1t is found continu-
ously from the middle of the seven
teenth century. 1t is believed that in
many centers of devotion it was made
also recitation, as if in oratorio.
Plays drawn from Holy Writ were in
vogue during the same period. and the
~Adeste Fideles would have been d
|.congruous incident in either a, passion
lplay, 9 miracle play or a. Madonna
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ALL'S WELL.

How Jared the fight with thee today?
Not we'll? All, nay,
Thou hast not lost; thou canst not
lose,
However much they tear and bruise
The painting breast, the straining
thews
Which are thy spirits citadel.
If thou and Faith, upon the walls,
Are comrades still when darkness
falls.
Rest now. In sleep thy veins shall
swell
With Hopes new wine; and like a
bell
From valleys deep heard on the
height,
Thy 1eagured soul, throughout the
night,
Shall call to thee: "All's WELL"
1t is thyself alone that may
Thyself betray.
Arise again! Arise and fight!
Gods smile is in the morning light; -
Lift thou thy banner brave and bright
Above thy spirits citadel.
What matter if it's fall be sure?
The pilgrim soul thy walls immune,
Clinging the wings of Azrael,
In face of all the hords of hell,
Shall take, full-armed, it's homeward
flight,
And DER thy ruins, from the height,
Shall call to thee: "All's WE'LL"
PHILADELPHIA Ledger
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THE GOOD WIFE's MISSION.

A iudicious wife is always nipping
off from her husbands moral nature
little things that are growing in
wrong directions She keeps him in
shape by continual pruning. If you
say anything silly she will affection
ately tell you so. If you declare that
you will do some absurd thing she
will find some means of preventing
you from doing it. And by far the
chief part of all common-sense there
is in the world belongs unquestion-
ably to women. The Wisest things a
man commonly does are those which
his wife counsels him to do.
A wife is a grand wielder of the
moral pruning knife. If Johnson S
wife had lived there would have been
no hoarding-up OF orange-peel, no
touching all the posts in walking
along the streets, no eating or drink
ing with disgusting voracity If
Oliver Goldsmith had married he
never would have worn that memora-
BILE and ridiculous coat.
Whenever you find a man whom
you know little of oddly dressed, or
talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccen-
tricity of manner, you may be sure
he is not a married man; for the cor
ners are rounded off, the little shoots
pared away in married men. Wives
have, generally, much more sense
than their husbands, even though
they be clever men. The wifes adj
vice is like the ballast that keeps the
ship steady.
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POPULAR APoLoGETIcS.
Adapted from the German of Rev.
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev. James
Watcher.
LXXVIII. Immortality and Super
naturaliSm.

LXXVIII. Immortality and Super
naturalism.
Objection: The Scholastic and in
fact all Christian philosophy is super
naturalistic, that is, it separates our
existence and the end and purpose of
our existence: human existence is in
this world and it's end and purpose is
in the world beyond. Modern philoso-
ply unites the purpose of existence
with existence itself. That is the
view of the Berlin Professor Paulsen
Cf190S). This last view seems to me
to be the correct one.
Answer: OF course if there is no
life beyond then there is nothing left
but the Epicurean maxim: Let us
eat and drink and enjoy every pleas
ure for tomorrow we shall be dead.
That in truth is uniting the earthly
existence with an earthly purpose.
Not only Christian but mere natural
philosophy proves the existence of
man beyond this life and his purpose,
mans general happiness with Cod
Man has a double purpose, present
and a final purpose, The present pur-
pose is connected with this life and
consists in the service of his Maker;
the final is connected with his exist
ence beyond and consists in his beati-
tude with his Creator. 1t is self-evi-
dent that the former purpose must be
subordinated to the latter and that it
is also the necessary condition of at
tanning to the final end. Above both
these purposes is the purpose OF God:
His greater honor and glory. SO
everything is in the most perfect
harmony.
LXXIX. Disappointment and Illusion
the Cause of the Belief in the
Immortality of the Soul.
Objection: The belief in immortal
ity and the dreams of an eternal hap
piness. as can be easily understood,
have their source in disappointments
in this life; the miserable seek con-
solutions, and if they do not find them
in this life, they build with idle hopes
the air-CaStles of an eternal happl-
ness. But a reasonable man must
consider these things as illusions, and
must not expect like children to win
the big prize in lottery and think on
the top of the distant mountains
heaven and earth are united; but ii
we ascend the mountains heaven has
disappeared.
Answer: II 1t is true man has in
himself an ineradicable desire after
happiness, and this desire shows itself
especially in times of suffering. But
not only the disappointed and I'M
happy experience this desire but all
normal people at all times, in all
lands, in all circumstances, the most
ancient and the most modern nations,
the learned and the ignorant, with
out previous instruction, without re-
Election, as the infidel philosopher Won
Hartmann (+1906) says correctly:
"As soon as man bethinks himself
what he really wants, he knows that
it is many-sided lasting joy, satisfy
ing his nature, that is, beatitude'
CDas sittliche Bewusstsein = Moral
Consciousness 20). All philoso-
pliers, believing and infdel, Christian
and heather, even the Stoics, agree
on this.
(To be conCluded.)
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NOT MUCH TO OUR CREDIT.

In one or his works, "a Rose of
Yesterday the late distinguished
author, F. Marion Crawford, affirmed
eve are cowardly generation and
men shrink from suffering now, as
their fathers shrank from dishonor
in rougher times. The Lotus hangs
within reach of all, and in the lives
of many it is always afternoon as
for the Lotus Eaters. The fruit takes
many shapes and names; it is called
DIVORCE, it is called Morphia, it is
called compromise, it is designated in
a thousand ways and justified by ten
thousand specious arguments, but it
means only one thing: Escape from
Pain"
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THE PooR-Box.
(To be concluded.)

Usually it hangs from the wall near
the church door. 1t is simply marked:
For the poor" The Catholics pass
ing out from worship see it as they
near the door or reach towards the
Holy Water font. AS the throngs
crowd together, passing out from the
best attended Masses, or at the close
of popular evening mission, few
appear to notice it. Rarely does, one
see another drop coin into the slot
that shows it's thin black line above
the sign that tells the purpose of the
box. But how wonderful are the re-
suits from that modest box! In some
of the city parishes almost all the
money dispensed by the St. Vincent
de- Paul Conference comes from the
poor-boX offerings. In one large and
far-from-rich parish these offerings
amounted to more than two-thirds of
all the money disbursed by the So
ciety in the parish. The shivering
derelict at the rectory door, the hun
cry children in the ten6ments, the
deserted wife, the stricken family
all have felt the good that flows from
the poor-boX. It's contents are chiefly
small coins. They are the offerings
of the poor for the poor. No portion
of the gift is consumed on. admin
istrative or overhead expenses. I'm
like some of the organized forms of
non Catholic charities, where eighty
cents of dollar given for charity is
eaten up in salaries or other non
charitable expenses, every penny in
the poor-box of the Catholic Church
goes to the poor.
: Catholic NeUs.
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ASxloI!oN41 ~
lDoc7RlNAE s easGa(9 EiTGRGicAL-l


eign, saying, Here is the ten shill
ings you want. Go home, and give
up your superstition. You might pray
forever to that statue before it would
give you ten shillings."
Next day he passed by the same
place, and saw the old woman in the
same position and occupation.
What are you doing here now?'
he said, Indignantly.
I'm thanking the Blessed Mother
for answering my prayer, and help
ing me in my distress"
But she did not help you'll gave
you the money!"
ITO be sure you did, your honor
but it was her that put the thought
into your good, kind heart. God bless
YOU"
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members are becoming inoculated
with the shameless virus. Last week
we saw a picture of a Catholic young
woman in a st. Louis paper who took
the leading part in a play presented
by the members of SITS Young
Ladies Sodality. Judging by her
picture she must be sadly in need of
clothes and we would suggest that the
proceeds be turned over to her to be
invested in clothing to cover her
shame, for when shame is lost all
virtue is lost-and when womans
virtue is lost, you there behold the
saddest scene since Lucifer fell from
heaven!
ILoctorf GofhnItn
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WHEN SHAME is LOST, ALL
VIRTUE is LOST!

Our reverence for Mary Immacu-
late joined to the memory of our
mother, sisters and other sanity
women with whom we have come in
contact during life causes us to place
members of the gentle sex upon a
tribute of our respect and generation
as long as they remain upon that
pedestal But when they by their
own conduct step from off that ped
estal and place themselves in posi-
ton to welcome the lustful shafts of
human brutes-then our reverence is
changed into pity and mingled with
loathing. Take for example the ques-
ton of dress among women of today!
Why, if our mothers, sisters or ac-
quaintances could have dared dress
as some of their children dress nova
days, they would have been regarded
as fit inmates for the underworld.
when shame is lost all virtue is
lost" is an old, tried and true saying.
Apply this test to many of our Cath
Ollie women today The shameless,
shocking manner in which some of
them expose parts OF their bodies
parts that God, nature and modesty
intend to be covered-can have only
one effect, and that is to disgust good
men while it arouses the vilest pas
sions of the animal in> degenerates.
Such so-called Catholic women will
tell you it is fashion and that they
must conform to its rules. My God,
What are we coming to- 1t is the
fashion you say! But what about
Gods laws and the dictates of con-
science, What about scandal! What
about sin. What about your death
bed. What about judgment. What
about hell, The meek and gentle
Christ has pronounced woe-a triple
woc-an eternal woe upon the scandal
giver. You are giving scandal. You
are arousing hellish fires of passion
within degenerate hearts. You are
enticing souls onward and downward
to hell. What answer-what explain
alton will you give Christ in Judg-
ment? Will You tell him it was the
fashion to thus dress? Alas! You
are even now sealing your own judy
ment for the Judge will remind you
of st. Paul's advice to all true fol-
lowers of Christ when he says in the
Bible: BE not conformed to the
customs or the maXims or the fash
ions of the world. Remember. you
are not members of any man-made
church, you are not inlidels or pagans
but you are Catholic women, children
of Mary Immaculate and followers of
the thorn-crowned, cross-burdened
Jesus. Look at your stainless mother,
Mary, Are you not ashamed to dress
thus in her presence? Behold your
leader, Jesus Christ! Observe how
his sad, searching eyes rest on you.
Are you not ashamed to thus approach
the altar? Are you not abashed to
rush in, thus dressed, where angels
fear to tread? No wonder the sanity
Archbishop OF Montreal felt obliged to
call upon his priests and forbid them
to give Holy Communion to women
not properly and modestly attired.
How soon will other Bishops feel
obliged in conscience to make SINH
lar law in their dioceses? 1t is to
blush! 1t is to weep! Would to God
that our Catholic societies may set an
example in the matter. Members of
the. Young Ladies Sodality in each
parish should stand as a wall of brass
against all such shameless dressing,
especially among their members. But
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OUR LADY's GIFT.
: Catholic NeUs

One winter day, some years ago, an
English tourist was tramping through
a poor district of Connemara. He
passed the church. In the church yard
he saw an old woman praying before
the statue of the Blessed Virgin. Of
a kindly disposition, he stopped and
asked the old woman why she was
praying to the image.
"Shure, your honor I'm not pray
ing to the image; I'm praying to the
Mother of God, and asking her to
help me in my distress, for if don't
have ten shillings for the agent on
Monday morning I'll be turned out
of my little cabin on the road
The gentleman put his hand in his
pocket and handed her a half-soYer-
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CAPTIVE SOULS.

Where lies that dark and dismal isle
Beside a sea of tears,
A thousand captiVes mourn q while
The faults of earthly years.
And there they throb and watch ant
pine,
With feverish desire
To sing and praise their King Divine
With the angelic choir
And, oh, the JOY that lights their eye
When, in that exile there,
They see against an even sky
The snowy sails of prayer!
-BYother M0tlieU, c. S. c.
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play. It was usual in these plays to
introduce the folk melodies which in
every country have become the basis
of the national music. AS these plays
were gradually prohibited by the
Church on account of violation of
strict decorum, which insensibly crept
in, oratorio succeeded to the vacated
place, and many of the melodies dis
appeared or we're framed into new
settings.
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OF course, the sovereign cure for
worry is religious faith. The turbu-
lent pillows Of the fretful surface leave
the deep part of the ocean undisturb-
ed, and to him who has hold on vast
er and more permanent realities the
hourly vicissitudes of his personal
destiny seem relatively insignificant
things. william James: Talks on
Psychology.
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Happiness is a. roadside plant grow
ing by the way of usefulness.