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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Foemen Pray Together
AN EXAMPLE OF THE SoFTENlNG
INFLUENCE OF APPROACHING
DEATH.

Reconciliation between wounded foe
men is, happily, common occurrence
on the stricken plain, writes Stephen
Stapleton in the Contemporary Re-
view. The malignant roar of the guns
may still be in their ears, and they
may see around them bodies battered
and twisted out of all human shape.
All the more are they anxious to tes-
tify that there is no fury in their
hearts with each other, and that their
one wish is to make the supreme part
ing with prayers and words of loving
kindness on their lips.
I have had from French officer,
who was wounded in cavalry charge
early in the war, an account of a
pathetic incident which took place
close to where he lay Among his
companions in affliction were two who
were far gone on the way of death.
One was private in the Uhlans and
the other private in the Royal Irish
Dragons. The Irishman got, with q
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

the mysteries Of nature, or the
delving into the recesses Of abb
struse principles and theories.
Many, on the other hand, seem to
live a life of imagination. This
faculty enables them to visualize
all things from the viewpoint of
airy fancy. In either case the
soul from time to time stands in
need of rest. It requires time for
introspection, in which it can take
account of it's own works, it's aims
and aspirations, it's dangers and
hopes.
All thinkers, men to whom in
tellect means much, realize the
necessity Of frequent periods of
mental solitude. There are times
when they yearn to withdraw
from the busy marts Of trade,
from the turmoil of forum or
office, and to readjust and
strengthen their ideas on the
present and the hereafter. In a
spiritual sense, Catholics are af-
forded such an opportunity by
means of mission or a retreat.
Even outside Of the spiritual
sphere, however, man experiences
a longing for periods of mental
rest: a time when he can be alone
with his thoughts, undisturbed by
welcome or unwelcome intruders.
and placed squarely face to face
with the problems and hopes that
go towards rounding out the
sphere of his Individual activity,
To break into this state Of mental
solitude is like rudely trespassine
upon the sacredness Of sanctu.
airy. If you have never realized
the need or experienced the pleas
ure to be derived from these inter
walls of solitude, you have missed
one of the greatest and most abid
ing joys of human existence.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

Hearings will begin July "a, at
the Department of Labor in Wash
ington, on tentative rules and
regulations for carrying out the
Child Labor law, which goes into
effect September 1. The hearing
will be conducted by the advisory
committee to the Attorney-Gen-
eral, the Secretary Of Commerce,
and the Secretary Of Labor, who
are designated as a board to make
and publish uniform rules and
regulations. 1t is to be hoped that
the Board will profit by the mis-
take made, and now admitted, in
England and France, and that it
will not allow boys and girls of
tender age to be subject to ar
duous labor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

Mrs. William j. Bpickley, of
Boston, who is Catholic, and
mother of the famous Harvard
football star, has given four of her
five sons to the country. William
j. Brickley, Jr., is yeoman with
the Naval Reserves at South Bos-
ton. Charles Brickley, whose
kicking has been a factor in many
a victory for the Crimson eleven,
is training with the Harvard Re-
serve Officers Corps. George
Brickley, the baseball coach, has
joined the Medical Reserve Corps
as hospital apprentice. Joseph
Brickley has joined the army unit
at Norwich University. 81 have
five of the finest sons there ever
were, said Mrs. Brickley, and I
want them to fight for their coun-
try and be glad to fight for it. -
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RACE RIOTING.

1t was to be hoped that during
the present national crisis all sec
tional feeling and partisan spirit
would be quenched in this coun-
try. For many years, in fact,
since. the time of the Civil War,
race rioting and lynching of
negroes has been a frequent oc-
currence in certain sections Of the
country. The antagonism between
white and black, an antagonism
that dates from the days of
slavery, frequently has cropped
out in the form Of mob violence,
often followed by acts of retalia-
ton and reprisal. The thinking
men of the nation have time and
again been called upon to apollo
gize to the world for these I'M
seemly outbreaks. 1t was thought,
however, that the present war
would tend to cement friendly
feelings on the part of citizens in
every state III the Union.
On Monday, July 2, a most dis
graceful scene was enacted in
East st. Louis, Ill. In a city Of
about sixty thousand inhabitants,
one of the largest industrial cen
tiers of the Mississippi valley, the
worst elements Of race hatred
were let loose. A seething black
quarter, ten thousand strong, was
the object of attack; the killing
OF a popular and efficient police
sergeant, the occasion. 1t seems
that fury and raging passions
were not much in evidence
amongst the men: they went
about their business of slaughter
ing with cool, deliberate, calcu-
lating method. According to re-
ports, it was different with the
women who took hand in the
bloody business. "They made
black women and girls their spe-
cial victims. One woman went
aronnd with a butchers cleaver.
Motley throngs Of these women
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VALUE OF SOLITUDE.

The human mind is like work
shop. Intellect, reason and imagl-
nation are ever busy projecting
their varied products before the
minds eye. Life and energy pal
pitate ceaselessly within the con-
fines of the human mind, and the
different workers therein have
need from time to time to rest
and recuperate. In the life OF
some persons reason and intellect
play the most prominent role.
These persons are ever alert, their
thoughts ever directed towards
the solution Of practical problems,
the formulation and execution OF
Well-laid plans, the unearthing Of
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
HEROIC PRELATES
FRENCH BISHOPS AND CLERGY
LEAD IN PATRIOTIC ACTS
URGE THE PEOPLE TO GIVE
GOLD FOR WAR.

The prelates of France, have not
been content with merely addressing
words of counsel to their clergy, be-
cause the Bishops of Sees, either in
vaded or partially destroyed by the
enemy, men like Mgr. Turinaz at
Nancy, Cardinal Lucon at Rheims,
Mgr. Tessier at Chalons, Mgr Mar
beau at Meaux, Mgr Lobbedey at
Arras, shared the dangers of their
flock and never ceased to relieve their
sufferings. Those of the regions long
held by the enemy, Mgr. Chollet at
Cambria and Mgr. Charost at Lille,
have had a more delicate and difficult
part to play, that of acting as the de-
tenders of their captive and afflicted
people. The accounts which reach us
prove that their calm firmness has, in
many cases, happily influenced the at
titude of the German invaders. The
Bishops of the interior districts have
been less sorely tried, but in proper
ton to the demands made upon them,
they too have been angels of strength
and consolation. From the outset
many of them took the lead in the re-
lief work organized for the benefit of
the victims of the war, especially for
the orphans.
When the French people were re-
quested to give their gold, in ex-
change for paper money, and to sub
scribe to the national loan, Cardinal
Annette, in the name of the French
Episcopate, urged the faithful to give
a patriotic example and to bring their
gold to the banks. The Bishops fol-
lowed his lead. They represented
that the giving of their gold to their
country was patriotic duty and that
Catholics were bound to set an exam
pie. In many places the cures were
chosen to receive the gold.
In the single diocese of Versailles,
100000 francs ($16O,OOO), passed
through the hands of the priests alone,
In working suburb of Paris, the
cure, who is well-known popular
writer, made an appeal from the pull
pit to his people; they responded by
bringing him 100000 francs ($6O,000),
in gold. The directors of many local
banks and the projects of certain de-
partments fully recognized the gen.
erosity with which the priests used
their influence to support the Govern
ment's request for gold, and NJ Ribot
in the French Chamber publicly
praised the spontaneous and energetic
action of the French clergy. For
once, the majority of the Chamber
applauded these words, and deigned
to recognize the services rendered to
the country by the cures.
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An Irish officer described in
The Daily Chronicle, London, how
the Catholic soldiers at the front
try to live up to their religion !:
Nothing is more noticeable, +" the
officer says, than the way the
Catholic soldier holds by his
beads. In the change and chance
and turmoil Of active service many
things get lost, but the Rosary
beads seem to be always treasured,
and every soldier at Mass seems to
have them. Prayerbooks are often
missing, but the Rosary as rule
never is. The writer has seen
men who were killed in the line.
Their little personal belongings
are carefully collected by COM
rades and safely kept to be sent
home, but the Rosary when found
in the pocket, is often, usually in
deed, reverently placed round the
dead man neck before he is
wrapped in his blanket for
burial"
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DANGER OF ALCOHOL.

Do you realize that less than two
per cent of men begin to drink after
they have grown and settled down?
There is no animal in nature that
when it has reached the time of
maturity and is ready to leave par
entail care will go forth and eat or
drink anything poisonous; neither
will the human animal, and the line
of Investigations into the antecedents
of the drunkards indicate that sixty
nine per cent of the drunkards have
their habits contracted before they
are twenty-one years old; thirty per
cent before they are sixteen; seven
per cent before they are twelve.
There is the root and the source,
ease. Who is it that is teaching these
boys to drink? 1t isn't the old
drinkers. They have no motive in
that direction.
1t is the great business, the organ
lied liquor traffic, operating through
it's instrumentalities of saloons, and
bars, and blind tigers, and bootleg
gers, which is creating the very at
mosphere in which the lives of the
boys are unconsciously nodded
Alcohol is protoplasmic poison:
it poisons the elemental life principle
out of which all life is built, whether
of plants, or animals, or men. When
alcohol strikes this elemental proto-
plasm it draws off the water.
This elemental protoplasm must
have water When alcohol penetrates
little farther it precipitates coagu-
lation of what is known as the protein.
For instance, if you drop a raw egg
into alcohol it will harden. The
hardening process of the little ele-
mental life cells interferes with the
nutrition coming in, interferes with
the oxygen in the red blood cells.
interferes with the throwing out of
the waste produce. 1t is a proto-
plasmic poison. 1t is the finding of
science.
Just remember this: seven parts
of alcohol in one thousand parts of
your blood will bring dissolution very
quickly. No creature with circula-
ton was ever known to survive when
it attained six parts of alcohol in one
thousand parts of blood
Osborne Farmer.
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preached, not to be liked, but to
be accepted and lived. Suppose,
pray, you did not like the sermon !!
What of ito The preachers in the
New Testament were not anxious
that their sermons should be liked.
Never ask that insipid ques-
ton, How did you like the SER
mon?' Such a question Injuries the
one who asks it, and debauches
the person who answers. 1t trains
men to measure sermons by false
standards, and to seek for enter
tainment rather than for truth. 2
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21
Order of the Alhambra
SUPREME BIENNIAL CONVENTION
TO BE HELD IN SYRACUSE,
N. Y, SEPTEMBER 8 AND a.

1t has been decided to hold the bien-
NAL supreme convention of the Order
of The Alhambra in Syracuse, N. Y,
Monday and Tuesday, September
and 4, the delegates to be the guests
of Navarro Caravan No. 81 of that
city. One of the principal features of
the convention program will be the
erection and dedication of an Alham-
bra memorial tablet to mark the place
in Syracuse where Mass was celebrat-
ed for the first time in New York
state.
There are now 81 caravans in the
Order of The Alhambra, as far west
as San Francisco; north as far as St
Paul; south as far as Empire, Canal
Zone, and east in Boston and Dover,
New Hampshire. Only members OF
the knights of Columbus are eligible
to membership in the Order of The Al
hambra.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

The chief of the st. Louis detec-
tive force is a keen observer. He
says: 81 am frequently asked
what is the type of the man who
goes wrong, The answer is that
there is no particular type.
There is clear type of man, how
ever, who never is in trouble.
This is the man who lives within
his means, who saves a part of his
earnings each day and week and
year. 1t does not matter how
much he lives within his income
and saves. F"
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THE ONE CHURCH.

1t is strange in this age OF COM
parative enlightenment to hear in
telligent people sometimes speak
in a most unintelligent manner on
the subject Of religion. Argu-
ments wax strong, and sometimes
wrathy, on the relative merits Of
high church and low church, of
soft shell or of hard shell forms
of belief within the same denoml-
nation. It is often said that this
or that denomination is as good as
the Catholic Church because it is
almost the same as Catholicity.
Even Catholics themselves, mad
vertently at times, will, i'll con-
versation, rate other denomina-
lions according to their so-called
proximity to the Catholic Church.
Thus, those creeds that accept the
largest number of our beliefs, at
least in appearance, are said to be
very close to us. All this argues
a deplorable lack of understand
ing in the matter Of real religion.
Religion is from God, else it is
Of earth, and, therefore, but a
tawdry imitation. There is no
such thing, there can be no such
thing, as one religion being as
good, or nearly as good, as an
other religion. Christianity, in this
sense, is not a relative but an alb
solute term: it admits Of no COM
PARSONS, it stands by itself, it is
born of God, and is entirely out
side the sphere Of man-made in
ventions. Man was made for God
and eternal happiness. In order
to ensure mans arrival at that
goal, Christ founded a Church
not many churches the
soul of man might be safely guild
ed on the road to happy eter-
nifty. If human beings of high or
low degree, be they monarchs,
philosophers, or renegade Chris
tians, have seen fit to set up con-
venticles of their own, it is only
by an abuse Of exact terms that
they call these conventicles
churches, or their teachings, re-
ligion. True, they usually retain
a few tatters and rags Of Chris
tianity saved from the various
heretical shipwrecks that have in
undated humanity. But these tat
tered rags are but a silent witness,
an accusing proof of the splendor
which originally clothed these
peoples when they were arrayed
in the glorious garb of true Chris
tianity.
There is but one true Church,
as there is one God, one Christ,
one baptism, whereby men are to
be saved. Argue as one will, the
stern fact remains, based on his
torical evidence, that all churches
and denominations outside the
Catholic Church are but the re-
suits Of man s feeble efforts to ape
the Almighty in establishing the
one true Church. There is about
as much resemblance between
these artificial forms of religious
belief and true religion, as there
is between the pirouetting of an
amoeba in a drop of water and a
mighty comet blazing through the
skies.
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DOCTORS AND FATHERS.

Among the glories of tradition
and our Catholic heritage not the
least cause for legitimate pride is
the lives and deeds of all those
stalwart champions whom we call
the Doctors and Fathers Of the
Church. AS is known, the age Of
the Fathers closed with the death
OF st. Bernard; the Doctors are
those OF all ages in the Christian
era who have been so designated
by the Church. In the develop
ment of Christian doctrine no new
form of belief was generated: no
new teaching was imposed by the
Church outside the doctrines left
by Christ. The Catholic Church,
in spite Of assertions often heard,
has invented no new forms of be-
lief. She has but interpreted the
application Of Christ's doctrine to
meet the varying needs Of the
times. The principles enunciated
by the Divine Founder of the
Church have remained ever intact
in spite Of various assaults from
without and occasional detection
of members from within. The doc
trine laid down by Christ in the
beginning is literally and precise
ly the same as taught by the Cath
Ollie Church today. Man is essen
TALLY the same today as in ancient
times, he possesses the same i'm
mortal soul, and the teachings of
Christianity, adjusted to the needs
| OF that soul, must ever remain the
same, for the adjustment was
made once and for all by Christ.
In the course Of time, however,
alien enemies, and sometimes rem
egade sons, have dared to raise
their hands and their power
against the mother that nursed
them. On such occasions God has
sent valiant champions to repel
the assaults of the enemy, to van
quish him in battle, and to pre-
serve unsullied the robe Of
Christ s spouse. At every period
in the history of the Church, when
heresy dared to raise its head, a
brave leader appeared to thwart
the Vaccinations of human or dia-
bolical invention. There were
giants in those days, and they
were the Fathers Of the Church.
Heretics and infdels met more
than their match in crossing intel
lectual swords with these defend
ers of the faith. In the course of
her history not one single accusa-
ton ever has been leveled at the
Catholic Church but it has been
met with quick and victorious ref
utation. Throughout her career
the Catholic Church has been
made the target for every obJec-
ton that possibly could occur to
the human mind: and on every oc-
casion writer's and apologlsts have
been able to dissolve the objection
by applying the test of real Chris
tianity. True, heresy is still ram
tpant in the world: SO is material
ism, so also, is sin. The Church
does not expect to eliminate here
| sy completely any more than she
expects to entirely eradicate sin.
For wherever man free will re-
mains intact there also will man
use that faculty to uphold and to
(shield his error or iniquity. The
true Catholic, however. need
never fear, for in the Church OF
God there are giants also in these
days, and there will be even to the
consummation of the world.
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DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE
HOW TO CURE THE HABIT OF
DRUNKENNESS.

l.. The first remedy consists in
giving up at once the use OF all in
toxicants whatever. To say and
promise that you will no longer drink
to excess, but will drink only moder-
ately, is an illusion. 1t was moderate
drinking that gradually plunged you
into degrading vice.. and what mod
crate drinking has once accomplished
in your regard, it will accomplish
again. If you are in earnest, give up
Immediately all use of intoxicants.
If you have not the courage to do so,
pray earnestly and sincerely for it to
Jesus and Mary until you obtain it,
as many others have obtained it be-
fore you.
2. In the next place, it is absolutely
necessary to quit the occasion of
drunkenness, and thus avoid all
danger and probability of relapse, for,
says the Holy Ghost, ''he that loveth
| danger shall perish therein" (Eccl. 3,
I27). You are not sincere or in
| earnest, if you persist in associating
with the same boon companions and
| frequenting the saloons as before.
You must keep away from them alto
| gether.
| 8. Thirdly, it behooves you to make
a good and sincere confession, hearth
ly detesting your sins and firmly re-
solved to die rather than again be
guilty of the same sins, or expose
yourself to the proximate danger Of
relapse You must make your peace
| I'll 70 ,av+
His blessing and constancy to your
resolutions.
A. Frequent and fervent prayer is
necessary to secure perseverance, for
of ourselves we are all weak and help
less, and are unable to accomplish
anything without Gods help, which
He will surely give every day to him
who asks it every day in prayer.
With Gods help and grace we can do
all things, however difficult they may
be.
5. Perseverance has to be secured
by frequent confession and Com
munion, for these sacraments have
been instituted in order to impart to
us the strength necessary to overcome
| our 0Vll udUlCS dIlu lIlClludLlOuS. Ill
the sacrament of penance our soul is
J washed and purified of it's sins in the
| blood Of Jesus, and in the Blessed
Eucharist we are fed and strengthened
, with His body and blood, united in
, timately with Him, and enabled to
lead a truly sober and Christian life.
j., Why do so many repentant drunkards
relapse again into that degrading
! habit? Because they do not go often
enough to confession and Holy Com
{ munion.
6. AS a powerful remedy and pre-
sentative the repentant drunkard
should join Catholic (and none
other) temperance society, such as
the Knights of Father Mathew, the
| Total Abstinence Society. Some of
these Catholic temperance societies
, are also mutually beneficial to the
members in case of sickness or death.
Many of their members have never
tasted intoxicants but have Joined
these societies partly as a preserva-
ton against temptation and danger.
and partly for the sake of giving good
example and encouragement to their
fellow Catholics.
| -"SeyDion Natter
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1t is often asked, remarks an ex-
change, why every man of sense
and intelligence does not see the
claims Of the Catholic Church.
Eliminating the fact that faith is
a gift of God it must be believed
that there are many who don't
want to see the Catholic Church in
its true light. They will not be-
lieve permanently what their in
tellect must perceive and accept.
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Recently a Congregational min
lister, in all address before an edu-
cational society, declared that it
was necessary to abolish all sec
tartan feeling in such a crisis as
this. That is a good doctrine not
only for time Of war but for time
of peace as well. 1t is a poor
patriot who seeks to emphasize his
own love of country by suspecting
that of his neighbor.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-21

The Catholic Historical Review,
for July, contains the concluding
articles of a series by Right Rev
erend Bishop Corrigan. These
papers treat Of the Chronol-
ogy and Origin of the American
Hierarchy. In the present number
the author considers the provinces
of Chicago, st. Paul and Dubuque.
A concluding section gives brief
outline of the Ruthenian-Greek
Catholic diocese of America.
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st. Paul has so far taken a
prominent, even a leading, part in
patriotic activity. Let all help to
insure the success of the great
work undertaken by the Knights
of Columbus; it is chiefly for God
and country, and will rebound to
the honor of the Knights and of
the Church itself.
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Christian Brothers College

Letters have been sent to former
patrons of Christian Brothers College
in st. Louis, by the institutions au-
thorities announcing that it would not
open this fall. The College, which was
destroyed by fire last year, was or
ganized fifty-five years ago and had
been IN continuous operation until this
year. A new site will be obtained.