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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
THE PERSONALITY OF THE DEVIL

If the doctrine of Hell is indisput-
it is certain that the doctrine of the
existence and personality of the devil
is no less so. st is scarcely conceiv-
able that any honest man who believes
in Revelation should question certain
ly NO. disbeliever would doubt-what is,
in fact, the teaching OF the Bible on
this subject, reiterated in a variety of
FORMS, and with unmistakable EN-
phasis. in every book from Genesis to
the Apocalypse.
What Christ clearly taught through
out the entire course. of His ministry
is, that an individual maleyoledt
power, hostile to, the Creator anF to
His aims respecting man, and <apa-
Bile, under certain conditions, of in
fiuencing the human will, and having
for his aim. the moral ruin of man
kind. is engaged in a fierce and per-
sistent and never-ceasing conflict with
the world of which Chrif the Son of
God and Redeemer As Lord and
Master. This, in simple language, is
the orthodox doctripe of the devil,
which has been the belief of the Chris
tian world for centuries, and Without
which the teachirgs contained in the
Sacred Writings are simply unintel-
| ligible.
That this doctrine, too, should be
assailed and denied in the present day
need not caAse any establishment to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
BRITISH WRITERS AS CONVERTS
TO CHURCH.

The Pail Mall Gazette (London) the
other day contained this item: ut
would be interesting to know the ex-
act number of people of great intel
lect who were received into the Cath
Ollie Church in England in recent
years. The result would cause great
surprise" So it would! After read
ing the above it occurred to me,
writes Scannell O'Neill, to make up a
list of converts from the, ranks of
men and women of letters. The fol-
lowing list enumerates names of only
such persons as have been received
into the Church in England in recent
years:
Campton Mackenzie.
Mary Angela Dickens Charles Dick
ems granddaughter
Max Pemberton.
Lucas Malet (Mrs. st. Leger Harri-
SOM Charles Kingsley's daughter.
Mrs. Blanche Ware Cornish (Thack-
eray's niece and her daughter,
Mrs. Reginald Balfour.
Cecil Chesterton editor "The New
Witness'O. ST.
Ernest Oldmeadow.
Guy Thorne" (author of when 1t
I I Was Dark" etc. AZ xs
John William Conybeare. 81
Charlotte Graves C'Richard Dehan")
| Anita Bartle
Laurence Alma-Tadema.
Ethelreda Wilmot- Buxton.
Baroness d'Anethan (Rider Hagglrd's
| . sister,.
Joseph Clayton.
Honorable Maurice Barring.
Edward Harrison Barker.
Mrs. Stephen Gwynne.
John e. De Hirsch-Daviss.
Lord Alfred Douglas.
Constance, Countess pc La War;.
Lady Alfred Douglay/ (Olive Custance)
John E. Crawford Fitch.
] Leslie Moore SO
Mrs. Robert GoE
lC. C. Martindae, S. J.
Frederick L2ndseer Griggs.
/ Theodore Maynard (the poet).
/ Mrs. COUPON Kernahan.
Isabel Carke. ~
Mary Elice Walls.
RothsS Reynolds. s.
IRobSrt Coningsby Clarke. a
| Prsf.. John Swynnerton Phillimore
lBernard Holland. IA
christopher st. John. FN
4 Herbert Moore Ppm GA. Newman'Y
Helen Parry Eden. 81
Norman Wise Sibley
Richard Johnson Walker, editor o.
the British Review.
Sir Charles Paston-C Cooper.
Percy Cross Standing.
Mrs. Arthur w. Hutton. N
Capt. Henry Curteis.
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A SAINT FOR THE WEEK
ST. cAEsARIUs OF ARIES.

Caesarius had spent thirteen years
in religion when he fled to escape the
archbishopric of Aries. Trusting,
however, to Gods grace, and taking.
St. Augustine for his patron, he ac-;
cepted the burden, and ruled the
Church forty years. He had an ex-..
IRENE horror of the least wilful SIM
and aimed at perfection in all things.
His first care was to provide for the.
daily singing of the Divine Office, at!
which he wished the laity to assist as.
often as possible. He preached on all
Sundays and holy days, and prescribed.
spiritual reading after Mathis and
vespers every day, lest his flock
should faint through famine of the
word of God" His revenues, the
charge of which he left entirely to
others, were consecrated to Christ in
the person of the sick poor; and in
the siege of Aries he. melted down all
the sacred vessels for their use. BY
his writings, and by his presidency at
the Council of Orange in 529, he
caused Semi-P Plagiarism to be pro-
nounced heresy, and SO dealt its
deathblow He was twice driven from
his See; but was at last set free by
the Emperor Theodore, to whom he
was brought at Ravenna. 81 trembled,' =
said the emperor, when he entered
my presence. He has the face of an
angel" Caesarius went thence to
Rome, where Pope Symmachus gave
him the Pallium, and made him Vicar
of the Apostolic See. He died on the
eve of st. Augustine's feast 542.
| st. Caesarius insisted much in his
sermons on the dangers of little sins,
and on the fires of purgatory which
await those who are careless about
them. He says in one homily: IF
any think themselves clear of the
above. sins, and, because they fall not
| into deadly crimes, glory in the
perilous security on account of their
| innocence, let them fear lest the null
titude of little sins make their life a
burden, harassing and tormenting
| them like the teasing of flies or fieas
For just as we dread fierce and deadly
| beasts which kill at one bite. and
| shrink with horror. from tiny insects
which can torment us, so, by Gods
grace let us redeem both our mortal
sins and our venial offences by daily
almsgiving or prayer, and above al
by loving our enemies with our whole
heart"
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man. will catch them, that they will
man will get them, and by making
many other untrue, senseless threats,
The child soon discovers that none of
these things occur. He ceases to fear
the threat and becomes as disobedi-
ent as. eyer-perhaps more SO, since
such threats act like dares to con-
tinue.
One bad threat often made to chill
dren is that the policeman will get
them and take them to jail. Children
should be taught that the policeman
isfzas friend. not enemy. They
should be trained to know the police
man is one to guard them from harm
and to help them in trouble.
The evil of lie to child cannot
be estimated. 1t does not correct the
child's behavior. One loses the
child's respect, and ones authority is
consequently weakened A more seri-
Gus result, however, is that the child
learns to lie. Any lie is an attempt to
deceive and must have evil consey
quences both for .oneselfeand the chid
to whom the lie is told. One shodd
never make a threat one cannot per
form! Threats are bad at thefbest.
There are other ways to accomplish
ones purpose. If you VOID keep
your children honest witH you, be
honest with them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
THE CHURCH AND cALuMNY.

The calumnies that overwhelmed
the Author of Christianity have been
heaped on the heads of His servants;
if they have called the good man Of
the house Beelzebub, how much more
those of his household, and the.
singular beatitude has been singular
ly fulfilled, that against them should
be said all manner of evil. Among
the pagans the grOssest tales of foul:
ness and blood were current accusa-
tions against the early Christians,
guilty, it was said, of revolving in
cest, feeding on children's flesh, Civ
ing worship to monsters, their relig-
ion a dark and malevolent magic. BY
the heretics of. the early centuries
the Catholics were described as apos-
tates, man-worshippers, flesh lovers,
traitors, sinners, servants of Anti
christ, their Church a brothel and a
synagogue of Satan. The pagans in
their turn, when the victory of
Christianity rendered the old calum-
MES impossible, contrived in their
literary circles a conspiracy of 81
lence: to ignore the presence and
triumphs of the Christians was a
primary canon of good style. And
later the disasters of the, Empire gave
a new plausibility to the ancient
calumny that the Christians We're
the cause of every calamity: the
Tiber is in flood: cast the Christians
to the lion
But TO follow the devious course
of calumny would be long. Think,
for example. of the pages needed to
tell all that was falsely forged and
uttered in France against the Holy
See and it's servants when Philip the
Fair was on the throne and Pierre
Flotte the minister of his misdeeds
Rather let us keep our eyes at home
and look a moment at the great un.
holy legend that grew up in England
against Gods Church, dominated the
land for three hundred years, and if
driven at last from it's high place
still holding great multitude under
its malevolent spell. Ushered in by
coVetous mendacity in the reign OF
Henry WILL, augmented by the crafty
ISLANDERS of the following reigns, not
| ably of Cecil under James I, the le
gend reached it's climax in the homi
cidal falsehoods of Titus Oates and
the frenzy of Parliament and people
under Charles H., renewed in a
milder form in the Lord George Cor
| don riots century later, and again
in 1850 when Newman could sor
rowfully exclaim: Alas! there is nc
calumny too gross for the credulity
| of our countrymen, no imputation SO
monstrous which they will not drink
up greedily like water"
CTS. DeDas.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
GOOD NUNS IN AFRICA.

The house of the Little Sisters of
the Poor, in Tunis, in which one
hundred and fifty old people are
sheltered, is situated on the summit
of high, sunny hill. No one knows
what miracles are wrought in favor
of these good Sisters, enabling them
to provide for their poor, especially
during these war times. They them.
selves marvel at it; because, as they
are expressly forbidden to receive
epdowments, they must live from day
to day.
ST. Vincent de Paul would surely
recognize them as his daughters, SC
devotedly do they. love the poorest
of the poor, whom they consider as
their lords and masters, and SO ear.
nestly do they strive to cultivate the
three flowers of his spiritual garden
simplicity, humility, charity!
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MERcENARY MOTIVES IN ALL
RELIGIOUS PROSECUTIONS.

Can you think the Irish were in
vaded and conquered and oppressed
and murdered and robbed for centur-
les, merely because the, English loved
and believed in the Protestant relig-
ion? suppose you know that those
brutal atrocities were carried on for
the purpose of giving to political
preachers in England possession OF
the churches, cathedrals, glebelands
and titles which belonged to the Irish
Catholics.
The soldier was also rewarded by
confiscation and plumber. The Church
and State hunted in couples, and Ire
land was the prey which they ran
down together.
Coming to our own country, you
find Massachusetts and Connecticut
in Colonial times under the sole dom
ination of political preachers. Their
treacherous wars upon the Indians
for purposes wholly mercenary; their
enslaving of white persons, as well
as red ones, and selling them abroad
or, swapping them for blackamoors' !;
their whipping, imprisoning and kill
ing Quakers and Baptists for theil
conscientious opinions; and their base
treatment of such men as Roger
Williams and his friends, will mark
their government through all time as
one of the cruelest and meanest that
ever existed"
DR. Alfred Nepfn
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-27
WHEN WE GO TO MASS.

The Church commands us to attend
Mass every Sunday. We should at
tend Mass because we owe everything
that We have to God; because we have
sinned and We wish through Jesus
Christ to be forgiven and to sin no
more, says Paulist. When we go to
Mass we should think of what the
Mass is. Do not think of business;
of your friends; of who is at the Mass
besides yourself; of what you have
just read in the paper. What would
you do if you were on the hill of
Calvary and saw Jesus dying for you;
the wounds in His hands and feet;
the thorns in His head the whole
body covered with blood and torn with
pain; the loving eyes looking in their
last gaze upon you;. the white lips
asking God to forgive you? What you
would do then, do now at the Mass,
for when you are at Mass Jesus is
asking for your love. When you go
to Mass put before your mind Jesus,
the loving Jesus on the altar; tell
Him that you are sorry that you ever
sinned against Him; tell Him that
you will never sin again, that you
will avoid those with whom you sin
and the places where you sin. Ask
Him to bless you and to bless all
who belong to you; ask Him to help
you in all that you need; thank Him
for all that He has done for you; and
then tell Him that you love Him with
all your heart and your soul and your
body and your mind, and that you will
never permit sin to tear your heart
away from His. Pray in this way at
Mass and don't mind what any one
else is doing. Pray as if you and
God were alone in the church. Don't
talk to others.
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WINDING ONES OWN AFFAIRS.

FIt is truly wonderful the anxiety
that possesses so many to even neg
lect their own affairs to thrust their
nose into the business of other peo-
ple,'' remarks the Catholic Universe.
IF such gossips would exhaust the
same labor in kindly acts of neighbor-
illness, what a delightful world this
would be-! If they would only extend
charity where they seek to create
mischief. how much it would add to
the comfort and indeed the number
of our days!s There is a species Of
gossip that. possibly works even more
mischief than the malicious one: it
is the moral crank, that believes
himself or herself possessed Of far
higher standard of conscience than
others, and extensively dictates their
conduct 1t is well for these censors
to remember q cardinal principle 81
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history OF MEXICO.
BY Eber Cole Byam.
PART XVI.

~ PART XVI.
II There were some fifty thousand
Americans in Mexico when the Madero
revolt started the. ball of anarchy
rolling. Some say the number was
nearer one hundred thousand. These
are all assumed to have been concern
ed more or less directly in the enjoy
ment of concessions and the rob
bing' of the Mexican "peepul." Here
we find another of the specious pre-
texts offered by the Mexican socialist
tionaries-through the medium
of their American socialist friends
in justification of their murderous en-
terprise. AS a result of it American
women have been outraged, their chill
dren and men folk murdered and the
accumulations of years of patient
thrift and industry destroyed And
their stay-at-home compatriots look
on in SNUG complacency, confident
that their sad fate has been deserved
because they were 'pernicious specu.
lators' enjoying Mexican "conces.
sions."
Mr.. Carranza himself has said that
| the pernicious American capitalists
".bribed'' Mexican officials under Diaz
| to let them invest their money in Mex
leo. This statement is an absurdity
on the face of it, and yet it has been
seriously accepted by SO great a mum
Der of the American people as to prove
the oft-repeated statement, There is
one born every minute.
| To purchase land in the United
States and hold it for a rise in price
is considered a perfectly legitimate en-
terprise and those doing success
i fully--are marked as possessing al
enviable good judgment, as well al
good fortune. 1t is being done every
day and the papers do not lack ad
lvertisements setting forth the goot
bargains to be had. Yet, upon cross
ing into Mexico, such enterprise be
comes .sperlicious speculation and il
cond emned BY the very Americans VII,
are on the lookout Tor bargains q
home.
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UNpERTAkERs

Practically any decorative vase may
be converted into lamp by artistic
mounting.
Fish, like meat, should be cooked
quickly at first to coagulate the albu-
men and retain the flavor.
A gas or electric hanging fixture
beautiful for the dining-room is one
that Stimulates the candle effect.
A little garden properly cared for
will supply fresh vegetables for a
small family.
When the hot water bag leaks do
not throw it away, but when needed
fill it with clean white sand. This will
hold the heat longer than water.
There is nothing better for clean
ing velvet and plush than to sprinkle
on dry salt and brush back and forth
until all dust and lint are removed.
This will leave the velvet bright and
clean as new.
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Lying Socialists.

A little patient investigation will
discover that the source of the
calumnies against the Americans and
their work in Mexico is socialistic,
and if the investigator persists he will
find that the whole business is social
ism. Therefore, sympathy with the
Mexican Revolution is sympathy with
socialism, and to. condemn the Mexi-
can Revolution is to condemn social
ism.
Americans interested in Mexico have
ever opposed Intervention or taking
sides with any faction, because they
feared the very evils which have come
with that interference. They realiz-
ed that ineffective meddling would
damage them to their grievous hurt.
They realized more or less distinctly
that it was not Huerta the socialist
revolutionaries were attacking so
much as the existing social order
which is accepted throughout the civ
ilized world. The. occupation of Vera
Cruz upon an admittedly false pretext
permitted the socialist radicals to
overthrow the existing order. and the
utter ruin of the country has been
the melancholy consequence.
Americans with interests in Mexico,
Americans living in Mexico, and Amer
leans with any knowledge of Mexico,
all begged and pleaded with the Wash.
ington authorities not to intervene,
not to interfere. not to NEEDLE in Mex,
leo. They knew full well the fatal
consequences, Yet in spite of all this
the propagandists continue menda
ciously to shout that Americans in
Mexico wanted Intervention
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charity that where an act is capable
of a good or bad construction-all
things being even the former
should hold. No one is obliged to go
around explaining his or her private
affairs to the busybody world. That
world helps no one, and its gossip
should never enter our lives, nor be
needed. Unfortunately it has, and
too often exerts the power of max
ing the innocent and the sensitive suf
fer"
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is 1T WORTH WHILE.

Is it worth while that we jostle a
brother
Bearing his load on the rough road
of life?
Is it worth while that we jeer at each
other
In blackness of heart?-that we
war to the knife?
God pity us in our strife.
God pity us all as we jostle each other,
God pardon us all for the triumphs
we feel
When fellow goes down; poor heart
i broken brother,
I Pierced to the heart; words are
keener than steel,
\ And mightier far for woe or for
veal.
Were it not well in this brief little
journey,
On over the isthmus, down into the
tide,
That we give him a fish instead of a
serpent,
Ere holding the hands to be and
abide
For ever and aye in dust at his
side?
Look at the roses saluting each other:
Look at the herds all at peace on
the plain.
Man, and man only, makes war on
his brother,
And dotes in his heart on his peril
and pain
Shamed by the brutes that 80 down
On the plain.
MS !.
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WHEN WOMEN GROW CRANKY.

Turning sour seems to be one of
the dangers of middle age, says Aunt
Bride in the. Sacred Heart Review.
It's one of the pitfalls q woman past
forty needs to keep sharp eye out
for. 1t seems to be especially under
foot for the unmarried woman or for
the childless wife. The woman who
has half dozen youngsters in vary
ing stages of growth bringing her
their problems and interests and re-
curing her attention in thousand
ways at once, is less likely to turn
bitter or pessimistic unless downright
mental i'll health overtakes her.
To see your youth slipping and not
to have any absorbing interest is de-
pressing. Unless you have grown a
fine strong character you are almost
sure to be embittered. Self-pity rears
its head. You feel that life has
cheated you somehow. You ought to
have had more love and happiness,
considering the way you have worked
and given yourself. Maybe it's all
true enough too. A lot of people do
seem to be bit cheated when it
comes to distributing the prizes. Yet
to give way to bitterness and self-pity
is fatal so far as getting the results
you crave are concerned. The woman
who whines gets absolutely nothing
by whining.
When you live in little town up in
the hills summer is quite likely to
bring visitors who once lived across
the road but who long ago sought
pastures new and far away. The
neighbors who gather afternoons to
make bandages were discussing one of
the visitors "She looks not a day
over thirty-five and she must be- ten
years older at least" remarked one
of the old residents. "She certainly
doesn't show it in her face,'' assented
another. She said no more, but a
shrewd listener calmly interpreted:
Yes, 1 thought that too. Her man
ner is distinctly forty-five. She said
a sharply critical thing of every one
and there's pessimistic, bitter note
running through everything she says
OF course she's had a disappointing
time of it and / feel really sorry for
her. She started out so bravely and
has so little to show for her gifts
and energy. But she will have more
disappointments if she keeps on that
bitter tack ] noticed a lot of people
who used to be keen about her COM
pany when she came up here for the
summer didn't make so much of her
this year. of course she attributes it
to some unworthy motive, but really
it was nothing but that acid note of
hers.'
What a pity you can't warn peo-
pie somehow when you see them COM
ing to crooked milestones and turn
ing into unhappy ways. You can't
do it, of course.
Simply don't allow yourself to say
sharp things about people. To be
sure your tart criticisms may be
quite warranted by the facts, but just
remember that your remarks are
much more likely to influence your
audiences opinion of you than their
opinion of the people about whom you
say IHem. nDoH I ue CyHlCdl anu Ill
ter and pessimistic in your point OF
view. Don't seem down on young
people. Keep sweet. OF course 1t
isn't easy, but stick to it for awhile
and presently you will have turned
your mind in the right direction and
to say the pleasant, quiet, friendly
optimistic thing will be a settled
habit.
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dissolves the personal God into a
mere abstraction, and denies the SUI
premacy of the human conscience, can
scarcely be expected to believe in the
personality of the evil one. Neither
truth, as writer already quoted
very forcibly observes, is compati-
BILE with a refusal to recognize the
Christian idea of sim" And that idea
has to be got rid of at any cost.
- C.. RduEeyf