The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-03

dence of it here. 1t is immensely vital
and effective. 1t is a spiritual food
that makes alvery robust sort of Chris
tian.
When you see the poor fed, even
tables set out for them, with soup and
bread and meat, in the kitchens of the
rich, when you see a general charity
of opinion, and courtesy always, you
begin to reflect on what makes all this.
| see here no selfish, lay, self indulgent
clergy They lead life West Point
cadet might not envy. 1t is work, and
it is hard work, and very plain fare
The younger priests are, being young,
full of life; they have their jolly times
at table or among their little flocks up
in the mountain villages 1t is we'll
that they unbend the bow occasionally.
more self-respecting lot of young
clergymen ] have never seen.
There is more prctense in a Massa-
chusetts manufacturing town among
the mill owners than one ever sees
here. There is one man in town worth
$10,000,000; he speaks to everybody
most Familiarity, and. is much liked
People seem to be glad he has those
$10,O00,000; | am"
Aboriginal Races.
In considering Mexican affairs, we
must always bear in mind what | stat
ed in my previous article, that four
fifths of the people belong to the abor-
iginal races of North America. Their
aptitude for what the Yankees are
wont to call, book larnin'" is not
great. We have tested their capacity
in that respect very fully in our own
country. The kindly student of his
tory and the benevolent observer of
human affairs must congratulate him
self upon the high standard of moral
ity to which the aboriginal inhabitants
Of Mexico have been conducted under
the leadership of the Catholic Church
and upon the grace and beauty Of their
manners which is a compliment to pa
tient and faithful Caucasian training
and has been commented upon with
admiration by people of cultivated
taste from all portions of the world. |
reiterate and emphasize the beautiful
results which Caucasians of the Cath
Ollie Faith have attained in preserving
and eleyating the Indians of Mexico.
The question now arises and should
be answered, "Where are the Congre-
gatiOnal Indians We leave others to
make reply. There might have been
some Congregational Indians because
the primary Colonists of New England
all belonged to that particular form of
Professionalism. The Congregationalists
of the period Of the Tudor and Stuart
Dynasty called themselves, Indepen-
dents, bat the gregationalists of to-
day are their "dscipuIi ct haeredes."
The student of history asks in dismay,
What has become of the Indian tribes
known, respectively, by the names,
Massachusetts, NaranganSetts, Alien
aki, PequOts?' The answer is read in
the annals of New England. They
were all slaughtered by the hide
pendents of the Seventeenth Century.
When the first settlers Of the Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony reported to their
much-revered pastor, Elder Robinson,
who had remained in Holland, that
they had encountered the natives in
battle, had killed great many and
had defeated and put to fight the rest,
the good man wrote them from Hol-
land saying, most pathetically How
much better would it have been had We
The words Of Robinson may be pom
dered with profit by the Robertsons of
succeeding days.
JOHN w. WILLIS.