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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Discovery in Palestine
FINE MOSAIC UNDER WHICH
RESTED BONES OF: ST. GEORGE.

A fine mosaic of the early sixth cen
tury Christian Church has been dis
covered in Palestine, northwest OF
Beersheba, under works recently oc
cupied by thes Turks. 1t bears a
Graeco-Syriac inscription referring ir
superlatives to Saint George, whose
bones were found beneath the mosaic
The latter has been somewhat in
jured by Turkish trench digging, but
is nevertheless fine specimen. 1t il
for the present stored at depot in
Cairo, where it will remain pending q
decision as to its ultimate disposal.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
PRIEST ON MISSION
REV. FRANCIS JAEGER APPOINT
ED ON RED CROSS MISSION.

According to dispatch the Ameri-
headed by G. A. Severance Of st. Paul,
has sailed for Macedonia by way OF
Italy One of the members of this
Mission is Rev. Francis Jaeger, pastor
of the parish of St. Bonifacius, Mimi.
Father Jaeger is chief of the Division
of Bee Culture at the University OF
Minnesota, where he has labored since
1913. One of the reasons for the Sc
lection Of Father Jaeger on this i'm
.portant Mission to the Balkans is be
cause of his knowledge of the Balkan
languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Croa
tian, Slovenian, as well as German
and Italian.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Federation President Dead
THOMAS 3. MtNAHAN FOLLOWS
LATE BISHOP McFAuL TO HIS /
ETERNAL REST.

Thomas B. Minahan, the first
president of the American Federation
of Catholic societies, died on Friday,
August II, in Seattle, Wash. With
Rt. Rev. James A. McFau1, the, late
Bishop of Trenton, N. j., one of his
classmates at Fordham University
and Archbishop Sebastian Messme1
of Milwaukee, Mr.. Minahan organized
the American Federation of Catholic
Societies, becoming first president d
that body, an office which he con
tinued to hold for five years, or unit
his removal to Seattle, as the fepre
sentative of the interests in the north
west of Thomas F. Ryan.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
BODY OF MEN IN A ROCKET OF
THE MOUNTAINS IN CHINA
AusTERlTY or THEIR LIVES
LEAD PRACTICAL AND CON.
.TEMPLATivE LIVES. y.

It is "a Peking custom. Every
Chinese New Year, when the streets
of Peking are filled with the unholy
din of the clash of cymbals> and the
beating of drums by the Chinese. cele-
brants of the one big festival of the
year, when it is; vacation time for
your servants and therefore likewise
for you,, you turn for refreshing to-
the Western Hills. The walls of the,
big city on the fat plain have become
irksome. You feel imprisoned. The
blue outline of the hills. twelve miles
to the west, as you take your late
afternoon stroll along the top of the
city wall in the crispness of a cold
February afternoon, invite you.
+ Ever since YOU came to Peking you
have heard of two famous places in
the Western Hills. One is the cele-
brated Tan Chao Sze, a renowned
Buddhist monastery of North China
and among the most beautiful. 1t is
the other place which attracts more
the Trappists YOU knew of them
dimly before coming to China, the
stern austerity of their lives, their
vow to silence, observes the Journal
of the American-Asiatic society.
In Pocket Of the Mountains.
On your tramp in the hills, you look
down over the crest of steep mount
tainside into sheltered valley which
1. ~ a.. ~, = ol,,,,o,, scotnuniJud and farm
of the Trappists in very pocket of
the mountains. The revelation of the
mediaeval life of Europe, unchanged
here in the mountains of China, inn
|mediately closes ones picture of mod
ern life on entering the big monastery
gate. The feeling of separation soon
becomes absolute, even to Wayfarer.
In the garb Of the Cistercians of ST..
Benedict-so of the. eleventh century, the
venerable Abbot of the monastery
greets his guests. He wears the heavy
Ewoolen gray cloth robe of the order
with the black scapular over it, the
hooded cowl and leather girdle. He
receives in a bare reception room and
| sits opposite at wooden table on q
stone floor. The big Prior enters.
He is the medical man of the monas-
terry. Their spirit of gentle hospitality
and warmth of feeling Immediately
takes possession. Both are French
men, both talk English. for the heads
of the monastery may talk, though the
others do not.
"A silent Chinese lay-brother, smil.
ling, soon appears with bounteous food
for the guests. The monks abstain
They talk with an inquiring keenness
of news of the outside world. They
ask many questions. They are natural
men, not filled with gloom and auster
ity, as the rigidness of their lives
would leave one to expect. very hu
man and always most kindly and gen
Itle-spirite their charm.
| Early after nightfall the Abbot an,
4 Prior leave for the closing prayers D
the day. This is at seven o'clock
| The bells OF the chapel ring, th'
q monks chant their closing hymns an,
retire to- start the day OF religion
lMorship again in the bleak Of tn
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
THE SISTERS COLLEGE
NEW BUILDINGS ANNOUNCED FOR
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

The Felician Sisters have leased
property on the grounds of the sisters
college at the Catholic university, for
the erection of house of studies.
The four provinces Of the order in
this country will unite in the erection
of this house, which will be the larg-
est of the sisters college group.
Two other communities will build
at the college as soon as conditions
permit namely, the Sisters of the
Holy Childhood and the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament The plans fol
these houses are already complete
but building cannot be started on ac
count of war conditions.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Death Of Mgr. Abbelen

Right Reverend Mgr. Abbelen OF
Milwaukee, Wis, died August "a, 1917.
He was born at Duelken, Rhine Prov.
ince, August 8, 1S43. He made his
studies at st. Francis Seminary, st
francis, Wis.,. and was ordained Jan
uary 20, 1868. In 1876 he was made
Spiritual Director Of the School Sis
ters of Notre Dame, whose mother
house is in Milwaukee. The funeral
took place with Solemn Requiem Higf
Mass on August 30. Burial was at Elm
Grove, Wis.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Archbishop Died Penniless

The late Most Rev. James Hubert
Blepk, Archbishop of New Orleans,
died practically penniless His execu-
tor announced that after funeral ex-
pensesghad been paid the estate would
amount to considerably less than $500.
The archbishop had pledged his $4,000
insurance policy to defray the ex-
penses of campaign for the restora-
tion of the st. Louis Cathedral.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Propagation of the Faith

3 New York Catholics in 1916 gave
ss10I. 900 toward the work OF the. So
ciety for the Propagation Of the Faith,
it was announced few days ago by
the, Rt. Rev. Mgr: Freri, general di-
rector in New York The entire
American contribution was $515, 451.
New York's was the largest since the
work started in 1840.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
New Army Chaplains

Four priests from the New York
and Brooklyn dioceses have been ap-
pointed army chaplains They are
Rev. John J. Byrne, Rev. George r.
Foley, Rev. Peter r. Hoey, and Rev.
George Tyson.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
TRlPPISTS OF THE PEKINC HILLS
Chinese winter gloom at two o'clock
in the morning.
A Dozen Chinese Trappists.


| A Dozen Chinese Trappists.
/ There are about twenty of the Trap
Ipist Fathers in the monastery, eight
lof them French, German, Dutch and
Canadian, and dozen Chinese. Then
there are about seventy Chinese lay
brothers of secondary rank who do
more of the work and less of the GER
emonial than the Fathers. The monks
Support themselves. Every activity
| in the monastery, from the building
| of their churches and their cell liv
| ling-quarters to the raising of their
| food, they and the lay-brothers per-
form themselves. 1t is part of the an
Icient system of the Cistercians. The
I.Trappist system of life is perhaps the
most rigid in the Western world.
When man enters the order he gives
up everything he has. AS a Trappist
he owns nothing, not even the clothes
he wears, which belong to the mon
astery. He places himself absolutely
under the discipline of the monastery
at the will of the Abbot. He takes
vows to refrain from speaking except
with the permission of the Abbot, to
whom he yields absolute obedience.
IHe lives in little cell with stone
! floor and no fire during the cold Chi
nese winters. He wears the same
clothes at night that he wears during
| the day and has few more. He rises
at two in the morning to go into the
church-its atmosphere is icy-for the
chants and prayers that continue at
intervals until five or six in the morn
ling. At nine comes the morning di-
lyersion, the working in the gardens,
on the farm, in the buildings, carpen-
tering or at whatever labor the Abbot
assigns. From two to four again he is
at his manual tasks. The choir monks
devote more time to their prayers
| than the lay-brothers, but the latter
| file into the church for regular inter-
walls of prayer and chanting during the
day and early evening.
Famed as Agriculturists.
| The fame which the early Cister-
clans achieved as agriculturists and
horse and cattle raisers, in their sys-
tenn of making themselves independ-
| ent of the communities in which they
lived by reason of their determination
to support themselves through their
own effort, is present in this monas-
terry in the deep mountains of China
lin two products of the order In
Peking if you can put on your table
some of the famous Trappist cheese.
YOU are an honored character. Like
wise the wine which the Trappists
make is famous in North China But
1.-THE monks themselves have vowed to-
abstain from wine, meat and even
fish. For greater part of the year
Ithey are fasting or semi-fasting. On
certain days they have only brad and
water. On two days of the X4ar they
go barefooted. They do severe PEN
ance for even slight offenses, as the
ldropping of food at the table. They
! cannot leave the monastery without
: permission of the Abbot.
The great Gregorian chant books
{ with their illumined colored letters,
L from which the monks in the chapel
. chant their prayers, transplant the
monastery back to the Middle Ages,
Certain symbols and ceremonies here
are strangely similar to those Of the
sl Continued on page s.A
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
Large Request to Charity

A total of nearly seven million dol
lars is left to charitable and educa.
tional institutions by the late Col
Oliver 3. Payne, non-Catholic. The
bequests were made without regard
to creed, st. Vincent's Charity Hos,
pitai. cleveland, O., receiving 5000,
900.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
II. The Called.

The vocation with which the New
Testament chiefly deals is the Chris
tfan vocation, that is, the call to be
a Christian. This is SO divine, so ex-
alted and so comprehensive that it is
the source of all Christian callings.
1t is divine: No man can come to
Me-" says our Saviour, unless the Faith
er, who hath sent Me, draw him. (Jno.
C, 44): Again He said, No man can
come to Me unless it be given him by
My Father Ibid. CO.. 1t is exalted:
"He hath delivered us, says st. Paul.
land called us by His holy calling"
-(2 Tim. 1, 81. 1t comprehends all vir-
tues: BE you therefore perfect as
also your heavenly Father is perfect"
mark 5, 48). In fact every Christian
in Baptism renounces Satan and every
thing profane; he puts on Christ and
everything holy; he is called out of
darkness into the admirable light of
Christ. made a temple of the Holy
Ghost, a member of Christ's mystic
body; he has for code of ethics the
divine Sermon on the Mount Exter-
nal conditions may hinder or dwarf
the growth of this elect plant, but the
newness of life it has received of it
self is capable of and demands every
DEVELOPMENT. Hence the general
terms in which all Christians are adj
dressed: You are washed, you are
sanctified, you are justified in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in
the spirit of our God" q Cor. 6, 10).
Reckon that you are dead indeed to
sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus
our Lord (Rom. 6, III. BE Jealous
for the better gifts" Il Cor. IL, 31).
''He that can take, let him take it,
eMark 10, 12). Even those who fall
below the highest promptings of the
Spirit, the Christian vocation urges to
other worldliness 1T remaineth thai
they also who have wives be as II
they had not; that they that buy as
II they possessed not, and they thai
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-09-01
ADDRESS OF VERY REV. JAMES
C. BYRNE, v. G., ON THE occA-
SION OF THE RECEPTION AND
PROFESSION AT THE VISTA
TIoN CONVENT, ST. PAUL, MIMI,
AUGUST IS.
Mary hath chosen the better
part which shall not be taken
from her.-Luke 10, 52

Vocation to the ecclesiastical state
or to the religious profession is a sub
ject Of perennial interest. Year after
year serious young people are con
fronted with the question: 'Am
called of God to take orders or to
enter religion?" Either because they
shrink from manifesting the secret
workings of their minds, or because
they are afraid of consulting with
those whom they falsely suspect of
being self-interested, they often pre-
fer to answer the question themselves.
1t is the part of wisdom on such
momentous matter to seek advice.
But with or without advice the under
lying principles of an ecclesiastical
or of a religious vocation should be
carefully studied We Shall consider
the question mainly for the benefit
of the anxious candidate or postulant
who is afraid to advance lest he go
counter to the Divine viii. Bishops
have their rules by which, according
to the needs of the times, they judge
of the fitness and ability of a candi-
date for holy orders superiors of re-
ligious houses, who must have care of
the whole community, likewise are
guided by special rules before intro
ducing new member. But these
considerations concern election rather
than vocation. We must not confuse
these two subjects, vocation and cleo
tion. 1t is one thing to have a suffi-
cient call, it is another to be chosen
to the religious or ecclesiastical state.
|. The Chosen.
The word called" we judge is twice
used by st. Paul, in regard to him
self in the sense of chosen" Paul, ;"
he says, called to be an Apostle9
Rom l Corr. But our Saviour en-
phatically said: You have not
chosen Me, but 1 have chosen you
And as regards ST. Paul in particular,
He said, This NAN is to me
a vessel of election (Acts 9. 15).
Thus Moses by Gods direction chose
Aaron, the Apostles with the aid of
the people chose the first deacons, and
at the present day the Bishops with
divine authority choose the candidates
for ordination, and the Bishops with
the superiors of religious houses by
direction of the Church choose the
postulants. By this election the vo-
cation of the individual is made eff
= fective. BY the example of our Saw
Jour and by apostolic Injunction only
men are eligible to the ecclesiastical
state. If it is to the election by legi-
innate authority that the Apostle re-
fers when he says, Neither does
any man assume the honor (of the
priesthood) to himself unless he is
called by God, as Aaron was (Heb
5, a, the question of vocation is very
simple. AS in the case of Aaron
Moses was the representative of God,
so now in the selection of candidates
God is represented by legitimate au-
thority in the Church. If, however, the
Apostle refers to an antecedent call
before election,-a call which without
revelation no superior may know as
Moses knew, we must search for such
a call in the general teaching of the
Christian faith.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-08
"HAVE A HEART" DAY
Big ONE FOR KIDDIES.
Day Nursery and Djspensary to Have
Tag Day Saturday.

If some sweet young thing walks right
up to you next Saturday and asks you to
have a heart" don't walk away re-
marking on the freshness of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, but put your hand
on your pocketbook and extract there
from enough to pay for the little tag.
shaped like a heart, which is to be sold
on that day for the benefit of the Day
Nursery and Dispensary Association, 495
H street southwest, where little tots are
cared for while their mothers are at
work.
The only salaried employe at the nurs-
cry Is one trained nurse, who is assisted
by members of the free clinic conducted
in conjunction with the dispensary, and
every washingtonian who has a heart
that beats a little quicker for these lit
tie almost orphans" is urged to contrib
ute.
Young women will be stationed at
every busy corner. in every large store
and office building in the city, with in
structions to "go to it," and as the money
will go direct to this charity, and if the
city. a large amount is expected to ac-
crue from the heart sale for the baby
boys and girls at the nursery.
1t is hoped that the fat, towsled headed
little youngsters who spend their days at
the nursery, dependent for their few
wants on the kindness of those who re-
member babies and how helpless they
are, will get just as much milk and at
tention as has heretofor been theirs, and
the pretty girls who sally forth with their
hearts literally on their sleeves are pre-
pared with a bid for funds that is hard
to beat
The Washington herald., 1917-05-08
TuesdnH. MAY s. 1917.

This Is not an important day in plane
tary direction, according to astrology.
Early in the morning Mercury is adverse
and in the evening Neptune is in benefc
aspect
There is a sign read as presaging news
paper agitation over matters that may
cause serious embarrassment to the
President and Congress.
The navy is under a good sign, which is
read as promising brilliant achievement.
Trouble over officers or persons in au-
thority at Washington is forecast for the
navy, after a sensational event which
will occur before the next new moon.
Writers, and especially those who con-
tribute to the newspapers, come under a
rule indicating that they will meet with
many obstacles in the line of work in the
next few months, as the stars seem to
warn them that severe censorship will be
established in the United states.
Women have the augury of extreme
success in rendering public service. suf-
frage has the best possible leading of the
stars.
Scandal involving the mayor OF a great
city is likely to cause widespread notice.
Warning is given that the stars promise
a general uncovering of deeds long hid
den.
England may expect heavy losses on
the high seas during the whole summer
quarter, If the signs at the entry of the
Sun into Cancer are to be believed. After
June % the United States may have a
serious naval disaster.
London astrologers give the warning
that unwise financial reforms or plans for
financing the government at Washington
may be approved.
Many strange deaths probably will oc-
cur in the principal cities of the United
States before midsummer.
June will be a month marked by an
Increase of weddings, especially among
persons Of wealth.
Danger of an epidemic of crime in New
York, Boston and Chicago again is fore
told.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is may he
ANNOYED through writings or legal docu-
ments.
Children born on this day may be diff
hcult to guide, but these subjects of
Taurus are usually lucky in business.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-08
German Vessel Seizure
Authorized by Congress

The House yesterday passed the Cub
berson-Webb Joint resolution providing
for the taking over Of the interneo Ger
man merchant ships in the waters Of the
United States and Its insuisr possessions.
except such ships a. were iuterned n
the harbors OF the American Virgiu
Islands.
The resolution authorizes the President
70 take over the ships and 20 use them
as be may see it. The resolution a. Il
passed the House was in exactly the
form already passed by the Senate 20
that all that IL now requires IL ths
signature Of the President 10 make IL
a law OF the land.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-08

hand mirror to look at him-or should /
say nerE Have you ever done that?
'Ihere was little baby girl playing
around the studio about three years old,
VINO USED TO climb up on my lap and say:
your eyes"
Wasn't that dear?
! peneVe with all my heart that IL is
our thoughts and acts which mould our
character and SO II must be our thoughts
Whch give beauty TO that Self looking
OUT OF the eyes at the world. II you are
tender and compassionate, then your ex-
preston will be beautiful. II YOU are op-
umistie and CHEEKY you will find uncon-
scious smiles turning up the corners of
your mouth.
remember once when I was a little
girl about nine. there was another girl
In the same hotel where / was stopping
who had very deep dimple in her chin.
II was not merely a little cleft place.
1t was real. round. deep dimple, and
oh, now wanted one like it. Then / got
an idea how to have one, and mother
caught me at Tiny first experience in
beauty doctoring. l took the rubber out
OF the end Of lead pencil, and set in
front of looking glass, pressing the
little round metal end into my chin as
hard as l could. Oh. dear, how j cried
because mother wouldn't let me get a
dimple that way; but now as look back
on 1t, 1t seems TO me as il all the worry
ing over beauty doctors and their cures Is
just as childish. 1t isn't your clothes that
make you beautiful, it is the way you
wear them. 1t is your face that makes
you beautiful, it is the character e1-
pressed by your face. ] don't think
beauty is only skin, but soul deep.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-08
WAR TAX BILL REPORT
To House IS AWAITED
Measure Designed to Produce $780,.
100000 Less Than Asked.

There Is a possibility that the Ways
and Means Committee will be ready to-
day to report to the House its war taxa
alton measure. Notwithstanding that the
measure as at present framed is designed
TO produce nearly $40. 900, 900 less than the
amount Of revenue sought by the secre-
tary OF the Treasury the members Of the
committee feel that they have drafted a
bill which viii take care of all the pres
ent needs OF the Government in ready
cash and that IL by reason Of not fol-
lowing the Injunction OF the Secretary Of
the Treasury to the letter II becomes
necessary to let the Government bond Is
sue for The wars purposes have several
additional years of life that is a matter
for posterity to take care of.
The committee came to a tentative
agreement yesterday with regard 70 the
rate OF the excess profits tax. settling on
IL per cent Of the excess Of per cent
of net profits of firms and corpora tions
In order 10 make the estimate revenues
balance the committee is now consider
ing boosting the corporation tax TO per
cent.