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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
OLD NUNS.
-PittSbur0 Observer

Our Lady smiles on youthful nuns,
She loves them WE'LL
Our Ladys smile like sunshine floods
Each convent cell,
But fondest falls Our Lady's smile
Where old nuns dwell.
Old nuns whose hearts are young with
For Mary's Son;
Old nuns whose prayers for faltering
souls
Have victory won;
Old nuns whose lives are beautiful
With service done.
Their love loyeless world would save
From Gods dread rod.
The paths where Sorrow walks with
Sin
Their feet have trod.
Their knees have worn the flags that
pave
The house of God.
Our Lady smiles on youthful nuns,
She loves them well;
Our Lady's smile like sunshine floods
Each convent cell;
But fondest falls Our Lady's smile
Where old nuns dwell.
Rep Jas NJ. Hayes.
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cross. This is not mere sentiment. 1t
is one of the most real facts in spirit
uality, that the greatest privations,
labcrs, sufferings, and even the most
cruel deaths, have been transformed
into ineffable, into real sweetness for
the saints.
Consider the life of St. Francis
Xavier: when under the burning
sun of India; and worn out by fatigue
and hardships, hungry and half-naked,
God SO inundated his soul with flood
of consolation and spiritual delights
that he often went to the cold brook
to battle his breast, to cool the heat
of the burning love that consumed his
soul" I'm. these Islands, said that
great Saint, bare of all worldly nee
essaries, are the places in the world
for man to lose his sight with the
excess of weeping; but they are tears
of joy What is true of the Super
natural order has it's analogue in the
natural order-love can turn every
sorrow into joy. We need greater
| spirit of divine love. Our day is
gloomy with the darkness of doubt
| and the GOODNESS of indifferentism
| We should invoke the help of the Holy
Spirit, daily, hourly, in formal prayer
| for light to know God, and love to do
EXCHANGE.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
FAITHFUL TO DEATH.

The New Zealand Tablet reproduces
this glorious story Of a faithful priest.
1t exhibits a Polish priest observing
the seal of the confessional. Who can
doubt but that Father KobloWicz will
some day be a candidate for canon
iZation!
. AN old Spanish provcrb has it
that "A secret known to two persons
is Gods secret a secret among three
is all mems property The saying is
singularly appropriate in SO far as
it applies to the confessional. 1t is in
very truth Gods secret. The editor
then cites the story Of Father Ko-
blowicz, told in 1873 by the Reich
zeitung' of Bonn. He was parish
priest of Oranon, in Kick (Russian
Poland), and bore a high reputation
for piety and zeal. A murder was
committed in his parish and his gun,
recently discharged, was found con-
cealed under the altar. He was tried,
found guilty, and condemned to penal
servitude for life in the mines of
Siberia. Twenty years later-1S73-
the organist of the Church at Oranon
lay dying. He summoned the author
tiles, and confessed that he was the
murderer. He had used the priest S
gun, hastily concealed it beneath the
altar, and in the search which ensued
had contriyed to cast suspicion on
Father KobloWicz. In a remOrSeful
mood he soon afterwards confessed
to the priest, but had not the courage
to surrender himself to the hands of
justice. After his dying confession,
orders were sent to Siberia for the
immediate release of Father KoblO-
wicz. He had died short time
previously. He had endured the slow
martyrdom of Siberian mines for
twenty years. He had borne that far
keener agony-the fearful ceremony
of public degradation at Zhitomeer.
He bore his heavy cross in silence
with him to the grave"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
DA VINCPs "THE LAST SUPPER"

During the last years of the fifteenth
century Leonardo da Vinci executed
for the Duke of Milan his masterpiece
of painting, 1.-THE Last Supper" wall
decoration in the refectory in the mon
astery of Santa Marie dele Grazie,
Milan. Owing chiefly to his use of
oil colors directly upon the wall, to
neglect and to vandalism, only ruin
of the grand original remains. But,
while for purposes or study it is neces-
sary to refer to the many copies by
Da Vinci's pupils, the best of which
are those by Marco d'Oggiono, in st.
Petersburg and in the Royal academy,
London, and to Raffaello Morghen's
excellent print, the original alone
gives the true though faint idea of
the wonderful lighting and melting
color. The painting was in every
respect epoch making, no less in pic
torial qualities than in the remark
able composition.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
GIVING SCANDAL.

One young woman said the other
day that her feelings are hurt every
time she reads in newspapers about
grafters who have good old Catholic
names. 1t was her thought that peo-
pie outside of the Church take sort
of delight in pointing out supposed
Catholics who are grafters, or law
breakers of any other description. 1t
is doubtless true that there are preju-
diced people who have this kind of
pleasure, because what they read and
hear about offending Catholics seems
to be a proof of all the untrue things
they ever heard and believed about the
Church and it's evil influence upon it's
members.
That is what a man said to the
young woman: why is it that only
Catholics who break the laws are
pointed out as the wicked children of
church and their wrongdoing at
tributed by implication to the influence
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TO OURL LADY AFTER COMMUNION.

Mother, upon my lips today,
Christs precious Blood was laid;
That Blood which centuries ago
Was for my ransom paid;
And half in love, and half in fear
| seek for aid from thee,
Lest what | worship, wrapt in awe,
Should be profaned by me.
Wilt thou vouchsafe as Fortress, dear,
To guard those lips today?
Lessen my words of idle worth
And govern all | say;
Keep back the sharp and quick retort
That rises easily;
Soften my speech, with gentle art,
To sweetest charity.
Check thou the laugh or careless jest,
That others harsh may find;
Teach me the thoughtful words OF
love,
That soothe the anxious mind.
Put far from me all proud replies,
And each deceitful tone,
So that my words at length may be
Faint echoes Of thine own.
o Mother, thou art mine today
BY more than double right;
A soul where Christ reposed must be
Most precious in thy sight;
And thou canst hardly think of me
From thy dear Son apart;
Then give me for my sinful self
A refuge in thy heart.
True Voice.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
THE HEART OF A HERO.

You are no doubt familiar with
the horried scenes that were enacted
in France during the Revolution of
1890 The aim of the revolutionists
was to tear down at once both altar
and throne The inhabitants of the
Province of Vendee signalized them
selves by their staunch defense of
affairs. Among them was one, a man
named Ripoche, Drawer than the rest.
He was taken prisoner by the barbar-
Gus soldiers of the republican army
and dragged before a crucifix that
stood by the wayside, facing his own
home. ,aa
"You were taken with weapons in
your hands," they said to him; your
death sentence is already pronounced.
See there the home where you were
born and where your old father lives.
Your fate is in your own hand; obey
and we will spare your fathers life
and yours
The prisoners glance rested sadly
moment on the old homestead;
the thought of his poor old father
brought tear to his eye. Then he
asked:
What do you want me to do to
save my lifc?"
Take this axe they say, 'fand
chop down that Wayside crucifix and
you are free"
Without another word Ripoche
seized the axe; already his friends
feared the worst; they turned away
their eyes that they might not see
the awful deed; they thought Ripoche
would prove untrue and desecrate
the Cross of our Lord But see.
Raising the axe with his strong arm,
he brandishes it over his head, crying:
Death to him that dares to touch
the Cross of Christ; l will defend it
till my last BREATH
And with his back to the cross. he
swung his axe; a sacred fire cleaned
in his eyes, supernatural strength
seemed to have come upon him. For
a long while he kept his enemies at
bay. At last, ashamed and infuri-
ated, with a savage howl the whole
company rushed upon him and
crushed him BY their numbers. He
bled from a hundred wounds-and
still he !. clliagt to. the Cross. At
length they teaF him away by main
force they throw him upon the
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
A SAINT FOR THE WEEK
ST. slsiNNlUs AND COMPANIONS.

Towards the end of the fourth cen
fury the people of the country round
Trent were still pagans, and st. Vir-
gilius, Bishop of that city, was full
of apostolic zeal for their conversion.
His own duties kept him at home; but
he found three Cappadocian stran-
gers-Sisinnius, Martyrius, and Alex
ander-ready for the work he had at
heart. He ordained Sisinnius deacon,
gave minor orders to Martyrius and
Alexander, and then sent them forth
to preach the Gospel of peace Con-
verts were made, and the first Chris
tan church arose; but God willed that
is walls should be cemented with the
blood of the missioners. The heather
tried to make the Christian converts
join them in an idolatrous procession
through the fields, and when the mis-
sioners forbade this they rushed in
fury to the church. 1t was evening
w1.ln they made their assault, and
the Saints were within, singing the
praises of God. They were beaten
with cudgels, and Sisinnius died that
night. But next morning his two COM
panions were again in the church and
again singing the Divine Office, as ii
nothing had occurred. They fled as
the pagans entered. Martyrius was
discovered in a garden hard by, and
dragged over sharp stones till he eX-
PRED Alexander saw the dead bodies
of his two companions burnt, and
when he refused to deny Christ was
himself thrown into the flames.
The Apostles of the Faith triumph
by defeat. Even the ashes of st. Sisin
MUS gave light to the blind-a token
of the spiritual light which was to
visit those among whom he had la
bored, and who sat as yet in darkness
and in the shadow of death. Shortly
after his martyrdom the people OF
Milan received his relics with great
devotion, and in the crowd there was
a blind man who had come all the way
from Dalmatia A vision had sent him
on this long journey to meet the relics
| of st. Sisinnius, and his journey was
| not on vain. He touched the case IL
which the relics were borne, and re
| ceived his sight.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
NEED OF CATHOLIC SCHOLAR
SHIP.

| am not blind to the fact that in
some centers in the United States
lecture courses are arranged and able
men-men with rounded scholarship
are invited to deliver addresses. This
is well. But there are lectures, and
lectures, and unfortunately not a lit
tie of the platform work and the fire.
works around banquet tables is simply,
to quote from Virgil, "Vox ct prae-
terea nihil." Men like DR.. James J..
Walsh have a message for the people
their addresses are informing and
uplifting much of the platform
work of our day is but flippant and
noisy. For our Catholic people, above
all, we have need of scholars on the
platform.
The truth is that today many of our
Catholic young men refuse to climb to
success or eminence by the slow
method of intellectual steps. They
prefer to be hoisted by the aid of
some Society, or by the fulcrum of
politics. But the latter process has
never given and never will give us
genuine Catholic leadership Such
Catholic young men may succeed, in
the words of Iago, in putting money
in their purse by serving Caesar
rather than God. But the great Catho-
lie layman, trusted and tried, is the
product of Catholic faith plus the high
est intellectual requirement.
DR. Thomas O'Hdodn. In Canadian Freeman.
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wore garments which had been laid
upon this shrine. Richard Occur de
Lion, on receiving his knighthood,
sent to Our Lady Of Charities rich
reliquary containing relics of st. Ed
ward. The Normans attempted to
carry off the shrine, but the people OF
Charities made it their banner, and
over the gate of the city set up the
statue of Our Lady, with the inscrip-
ton, '"Tutela Carnutum."
At this ancient shrine are still pre-
served wampum belts, sent two CEN
turtles ago as offerings to Our Lady
from the Huron and Abenaki Indians,
and the Church of Lorette, near Que
bee, preserves the reliquary sent in re-
turn by the canons of Charities. Be-
meath the church is curious LADY
rinth, which has been a puzzle to an
tiquarians.
-PittSbUY1 Observer
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
CHRISTIAN CHARITY A BOLD AND
ADVENTUROUS VIRTUE.

There are some things so brave
and SO strong, that the world stands
in awe and amazement in their pres
ence. Of these the foremost is
Christian Charity. Charity is not, as
it has so frequently been misrepre-
scented, one of the prudent and eau
tious virtues-it is the opposite; it
is bold and adventurous; it finds its
chief delight and accomplishment in
taking chances; it is the virtue of the
strong, not of the weak.
1t is strong, because like fortitude,
it suffers long and is kind; it is brave
and free, because it thinks no evil;
it is adventurous, because it hopes
all things and endures all things.
And these aspects of Christian Char
ity, translated into the terms of every
day life, mean just this: that the
exercise of Charity has nothing what
ever to do with the worthiness or I'M
worthiness of it's recipient. In other
words, Charity is duty and not a
matter of judicious speculation.
This is borne out by brief survey
of the Christian Saints. The Chris
tain Saints have without exception
been remarkable for their exercise of
the virtue of Charity. And, with the
impetuosity that comes from the fire.
quent practice Of this virtue, they
never paused to think whether the
object of their Charity was deserv,
ing or undeserving. They saw but
one thing. that a fellow man was in
need, and, for the love of Christ
they fastened to his assistance. And
very curiously, the less worthy OF
deserving the recipient, the greater
was the zeal and charity of the giver
Organized charity has it's place in
contemporary life-so, too, have the
police. But Christian Charity sprans
from something more spontaneous
than a social organization-it sprang
from a deep and all-pervading love
of Him Who is called Charity itself
And because He was the worlds
most heroic figure, so this virtue
which is most like unto Him in ma
ture, is the worlds most heroic vir
tue.
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of that church," He thought that
Catholics have as much right as any
body else to break laws, to be graft
ers and criminals, without having the
blame for what they do attributed to
their Church.
Suppose there is man who has
many enemies, people who hate him.
Will it not delight his enemies to dis
cover that the mans son is no good?
Will not those enemies rejoice over
the humiliation and sorrow that an
unworthy son brings upon the man
whom they hate? Of course they will
be glad; they will find in the weak
ness or wickedness of the son a sort
of victory over the parent whom they
detest and whom they would wish to
see the whole world despise.
That is what happens when a son
of the Catholic Church brings disgrace
upon the Church; the enemies of the
Church are glad, because here they
convince themselves they have proof
of the unworthiness of the institution
they hate and which they have been
taught to look upon as an evil thing.
1t is not strange that Catholics who
know, love and adhere to Catholic
teaching are hurt when the other
members bring the smile of scorn to
the lips of anti-Catholics.
1t is not the highest motive for
| avoiding the giving of scandal to have
in mind the. shameful delight of ene-
mics of our Church and religion, but
it is one thought that should help
Catholics to overcome temptations and
to lead good, very good lives.
| s.= ..- ...-..--.---. ..-- Western World
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
ONE GATE INTO TIE CHURCH.

The Catholic Church is city to
which avenues lead from every side,
towards which men may travel from
any quarter, by the most diversified
roads by the thorny and rugged ways
of strict investigation, by the, more
fiowery paths of sentiment and feel
ing; but arrived at its precincts, all
find that there is but one gate where
by they may enter, but one door to
the eepfold-narroW and low, per-
haps, and causing flesh and blood to
stoop in passing in. Men may wander
about its outskirts, they may admire
the goodness of it's edifices, and of
its bulwarks, but they can not be its
denizens and children if they enter
not by that one gate of absolute, I'M
conditional submission to the teach
ing of the Church.
cardinal TVSen10n.
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G. K. cHEsTERToN AND JOB.

The Book of Job with an introduce
ton by G. K. Chesterton should prove
most helpful in these days when SO
many are tried even as Job was tried
by an accumulation of evil, says Fa-
Their Hull. The following passage
from the introduction is very strik-
ing:
Here in this Book the question is
really asked whether God invariably
Furnishes vice with terrestrial punish
ment and rewards virtues with terres-
trial prosperity. If the Jews had an
swered that question wrongly, thew
might have lost all their after influ-
ence in human history. They might
have sunk even down to the level of
modern well educated society. For
when once people have begun to be-
l1eVe that prosperity is the reward of
virtue, their next calamity is obvious,
II prosperity is obvious, it will be re-
garded as the symptom of virtue.
Men will leave Off the heavy task of
making good men successful. They
will adopt the easier task of making
out successful men good. This, which
has happened throughout modern
commerce and journalism, is the ulti-
mate Nemesis of the wicked optimism
OF the comforters of Job. If the Jews
could be saved from it, the Book and
Job saved them. We see
JOB tormented not because he was
the worst OF men, but because he was
the best. 1t is the lesson of the whole
work that man is most comforted by
paradoxes. Here is the very darkest
and StrangeSt Of paradoXeS. and ii il
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
AN ODD SYMPOSIUM.

popular magazine publishes SYM
postum in which men and women over
eighty years of age tell what they
think of life and what they have been
able to do with it after their eightieth
birthday. The editor states that two
hundred and fifty letters were re-
ceived from men and women from
eighty to hundred and five years of
age-more from women than from
men, and more from the west than
from the east. They are rather an in
spring collection of human documents,
full of cheerfulness, courage, joy in
usefulness. And the one note that
stands out most insistently in the ten
or twelve letters published is that
these old people, with only one or two
exceptions, testify that the force that
has helped them most in life, and
that keeps them happy and hopeful
as they near death, is faith in God
and the practice of religion. They do
not state their creed. Probably few
of them know that sure anchorage to
be found only in the Ancient Church.
But it must be something even to the
young and irreligious readers of popu-
lar magazines, to hear this unanimous
testimony, in anything but a religious
atmosphere, given by those wisest and
most experienced in the worth and
uses of life, to the only force that
makes existence profitable and death
comprehensive.
Catholic UniDeYSe.
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WALK TRUSTlNGLY.

What vast portion of our lives is
spent in anxious and useless forebod-
ings concerning the future, either our
own or that of our dear ones! Pres
ent blessings slip by, and we miss half
their sweet flavor, and all for want. of
faith in Him Who provides for the
tiniest insect in the sunbeam. Oh,
when shall we learn the sweet truth
in God that our little children teach
us every day by their confding faith
in us?-we who are so mutable, so
faulty, SO irritable, SO unjust; and He,
who is so watchfIil, SO pitiful, SO low
ing, SO forgiying. Why can not We
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-06-02
HON E..

If you have home, Christian
home, where love is, thank God for
it. Thank Him every day you live
ness of the multitude of men and
women in the world. Few indeed are
the causes for thankfulness that are
greater than real home. If God has
given you that, He has given you one
of His best gifts. Your praise of Him
for it should be coupled with the sort
of loving, helpful and considerate life
that makes home happier, place
for all it's members.
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ground, and placing their bayonets
to his heart, they repeat their god
less demand:
"Tear down this superstitious sign,
and we will spare YOU"
ct is the sign of my Redemption. .
Ripoche replies; Il embrace it," And
gathering together his remaining
strength, he folded his arms around
the foot of the Cross. Immediately
a score of bayonets pierced his heroic
heart.
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by all human testimony, the most re-
assuring. l need not suggest what a
high and strange history awaited this
paradox of the best man in the worst
fortune"
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walk trustingly over that days ap-
pointed path, thorny or hoWery,
crooked or straight, knowing that
evening will bring us sleep, peace and
home?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-24
Cow Is Victor
In World Butter Test

NEW YORK, y. Y. Dec. 24.-Ac-
cording to an announcement just
made by the American Jersey Cattle
Club, the registered COW, Nive La
France C%331961G), owned by Pickard
Brothers of Marion, Oregon, has
broken the worlds butter record for
Jerseys If the Junior ~33-year-old
class. ON this COWS official test,
which was completed on october 20,
she produced 12,744.S pounds of
milk. S92.63 pounds of butterfat and
r05O.15 pounds of estimated butter
(S5 per cent fatD thereby breaking
the previous record of 975.1O pounds
butter, held by Sophie's Bertha
t3132SSD-a COW bred at Hood
Farm, Lowell, Mass, and now owned
by f. w. Aver, of Bangor, Maine.
Vive la France was bred by ovid
Pickard and f.. j. Farnam of Marion,
Oregon, and both her parents were
also oregon bred. She was sired by
the great bull, Golden CLOVIS Chief
(6146O) and out of Sugar-in-the-
rarrel C220474D Golden CLOVIS Chief
Is the sire of three cows with aver
age records Of 1000 pounds II IA
with 700 pounds. He has IS dauGh-
in the Register of Merit-the
honor roll Of production Of the Am
erican Jersey Cattle club.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-24
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give peace or war and he chose
war. ITO Paris" was the Ger
man cry and with it an inso-
lent boast that the emperor
would take his Christmas din
ner in the French capital. He
was unable to keep that boast
but it should not be forgotten.
1t reflects the spirit of Pots
dam and the hypocrisy of the
Berlin peace manouvers now.
The kaiser wants peace, not
from sentiments of humanity,
but because he knows the Jig
is up. Having failed of victory
against an unprepared foe he
a realization that the
longer the war continues the
worse it will be for Germany.
wants peace because he
thinks he could drive a better
now than he could
after the United States has
brought its forces into play and
the German armies have been
thrown back upon the Rhine.
The allies would be asses to
heed Berlin peace talk now.
The kaiser should have shown
a streak of humanity in 1914.