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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE.

The following prayer for a priest
has been sent us by an old subscriber,
old in years and old on our list. He
will not have his name divulged, and
he dates his letter from the Middle
West" In sending in this prayer he
writes: God be praised! I have
ever loved priests, and could kiss the
ground they tread, be it in the back
alley or in the gilded palace. Nearly
all my prayers are for priests. know
by close observation that many of
their people do not pray for them, no,
not even by a short prayer now and
then. | am enclosing you a prayer
I once saw printed many years ago
not one of those silly pass-me-along
prayers, but good and true plea for
some particular priest to whom we are
very grateful. / lost the paper in.
which read it, and SO had TO write
it out from memory You have no
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THE CATHOLIC PHYSICIAN.

Next to the parish priest, the family
physician comes closest to the heart
of the we'll regulated Catholic house
hold. More than anyone else, except
the very nearest relatives, he is look
ed upon as quasi-member of the
family.
He is welcome at all times, because
he is never regarded as company, :"
and, consequently, there is no pertur-
baton, no scurrying around to ready
up the house or tidy up" the in
mates, when doctor" makes his occa-
sional CALL He is the intimate friend
of the parents, the cOnfidant of the
boys and girls, the fairy god father
of the babies.
In sickness and accident he is, I'M
der God, the reliance, the comfort, the
solace of all within the home. His
mere appearance brings faith to the
doubling spirit, courage to the timid
heart, hope to the respondent soul.
He is the good guardian angel of hui
manityy whose presence dissipates
despair. as does the morning sun the
rising mist.
The choice Of the family physician
Is, then, d most important matter.
Upon him depends not only the medi-
cal and surgical care Of the body; it
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
NEW Works. FIRST BISHOP.

New York is today, in point of mem
bers, one of the greatest archdiocese
in the Church. Yet it is little over 100
years since it was made bishopric
(April 8, 1909; and it was not made
an archbishopric till 1850.
It's first bishop was an freshman,
the Rev. Richard Luke Concanen,
O. p. He was living in Rome at the
time of his conservation, and imme-
diately set out for the field of his la
bors. He never got there. he died at
Naples. That city was then under the
control of the French. Finding that
Father Concanen was a British sub
ject, they would not let him depart.
He tried to elude the vigilant French
men, but his efforts were useless. He
died suddenly July 10, 1910 poison
ed, it would seem, by persons who
wished to get possession of his eff
fects and the sacred vessels which it
was known he had with him" Thus
he had spent two years trying to reach
the place of his labors, and died with
his desire mfulfilled.
Such was the troubled condition of
the times that the Bulls creating New
York 2 diocese. and dated April s.
1908, did not reach their destination
till the close Of the year 1910.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
PATRoNEss OF NURSES.

The abbess of Hildegarde, who
founded a school for nurses near
Bingen on the Rhine in the twelfth
century, made a special study of the
art of healing and instructed her
nuns in the use of medicinal plants,
the compromising of simples and dis
pensing of medicine, says The Ave
Maria. The abbess left behind her a
voluminous work, of her own writing,
in which are described the principles
accepted in the Middle Ages concern
ing the properties OF minerals and
plants in their relation to diseases.
She was the friend of Popes and en-
perors and was accounted a very
learned woman. She was as good as
she was clever, and after her death
was enrolled among the saints.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
TEACHING SINCERITY.
: Western World.

Girls as we'll as boys have to be
trained to take care of themselves
and be responsible for themselves,
and if they are not so trained, no one
can now be responsible for them or
protect them in spite of themselves.
Therefore, the first duty OF those who
are bringing up Catholic girls is to
be themselves such as Catholic girls
must be later on. This example is a
discourse in the vulgar tongue
which cannot be misunderstood, and
example is not resented unless it
seems self-conscious and presented of
set purpose The one thing necessary
is to be that which we ought to be,
and that is to say, in other words,
that the fundamental virtue in teach
ing children is great and resolute
sincerity.
Sincerity is difficult virtue to prac-
tice and is too easily taken for grant.
ed. 1t has more enemies than appear
at first sight. Inertness of mind, the
desire to do things cheaply, dislike OF
mental effort, the tendency to be sat
istied with appearances, the wish to
shine, impatience for results, all fos.
ter intellectual insincerity; just as
in conduct, the wish to please, the
spirit of accommodation and expedi
ency, the fear of blame, the instinct
of coneealment. which is Unborn ID
many girls, destroy frankness oil. char
acter and make people untrue who
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

need of me-so want to say to my
priest-buttI have great need of you
you are Treasurer of the Tabernacle
And to whom have I to go, when nv
poor heart is crushed with sin and
sorrow, if not to you? And when you
raise your hand over me-ah, that
consecrated hand!-then l am once
more child of God. Hence my graft
tude to Almighty God for the great
dignity and power with which He has
invested His anointed. And when |
consider what takes place in those
same consecrated hands every morn
ing, l can only eXclaim: Awful Mira
Gle of love! | recall that st. Francis
of Assist once said that if an angel
and priest entered his room together
he would salute the priest before sa-
luting the angel. Pardon me for let
ting my thoughts flow forth SO I'M
guardedly; only l am hoping that
what comes so straight from my old
heart may go straight to some other
persons heart. Here is the prayer:
o my God, bless, sanctify and pro-
tect Thy representative on earth,
Father :. . who labors in Thy vine
yard for the salvation of souls pur-
chased by the Precious Blood of Thy
Divine Son. Give him prudence, per-
severance, humility, and patience.
Infiame his heart with the burning
ardor which consumed Thy Apostles.
May his life be as holy as the law
he processes to inculcate. Make him
a Priest according to Thine own
Heart. And let his light SO shine be-
fore men that they, seeing his good
works, may glorify their Father in
Heaven.-Amen
The MiSsf0nQYp
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
POINTS ON CONFESSION.
'-CdthoIic Register.

There is one subject that is always
of interest to Catholics as well as to
non-Catholics, and that is the Con-
fessional.
The tribunal was never meant to be
a bed of roses or cozy corner for a
lovely chat between penitent and con-
fessor. It's too serious for that.
Grownups take the matter of con-
fession very seriously and rightly So.
1t is serious and solemn act, but
that is not a justification for putting
off the action for an unreasonably
long period. Men, brave enough to
face a prison term or battle, quail
at the thought of kneeling before a
grating and talking to an obscure fig
ure in sepulchral darkness.
Confession shows the bashfulness
of men, the desire to hide their best
side, the fear of being considered
pious, the awkwardness of doing a
spiritual thing well, and all the while
they are far more serious in their
sorrow and good resolutions than the
surface indicates. They would whistle
if they could to throw off nervousness.
The world will never know the debt
it owes to the Catholic confessional
It's power for good will never be ap.
preciated or understood.
Keep your hand on your watch OF
sleep with one eye open when you are
near the Catholic who never goes to
the sacred tribunal. It's almost an
open confession that some moral code
has been, given up in practice. There's
a reason for his non-attendance
Confession is much like trial be
fore a judge in court, The main
difference is that in the spiritual
courtroom the priest is the judge and
| the prisoner before the bar is the
penitent. There are no witnesses tc
testify, the penitent is his own accusel
before. God. He always pleads
Guilty" and is more than willing tc
serve his sentence. Hence, honesty is
the mark of a sincere confession.
We pay big. fees. to freely consult
our legal adviser, who tells us how t.
| keep out of the clutches of the law
The lawyer has studied long and care
fully before the State licensed him tc
deal in the matter of mems honor anC
reputation His business is to keeI
us in strict conformity with the Law
of the land. Yet one man may be
strictly within ones rights before the
law and in following his legal privi
leges he may be outraging the divine
laws of God. This is just where the
confessor is a super-lawyer. His work
as a moral adviser is to direct the ac
tions of his penitent according to the
higher law. For years before ordina
ton he has studied the laws of Chris
tian morality and human acts. He un
derstands the treatise of conscience
and the ecclesiastical laws, and his il
| the Office of advising the man OF tlls
| world to conform. his actions accord
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
PLATING

not infrequently happens that impend-
ing death is discerned by his keen
glance or practiced touch alone, and
thus timely notice given for the adj
ministration of the last Sacraments
This is but one instance, indicative
of the sacred relation between physi-
clan and patient. Other considera-
tons only serve to confirm the need of
prayerful selection of the family doc
tor.
Nowadays there are many nasty no.
tons prevalent, which involve deliber-
ate and disgusting violations of the
Fifth and Sixth Commandments, I'M
natural crimes, prenatal murder; the
conscientious physician has excep-
tional advantage for exercising a
benefcent, restraining influence in
this regard He can become the coad-
jutor of the priest.
Of what imperative Importance,
therefore, is the family physician in
the home may be readily SEEN It is
equally evident that the Catholic
household should have at its service
Catholic physician, who, thoroughly
familiar with the spirit of our holy
religion, as well as with the best prac-
tice of his profession, will be virtu-
Gus and safe guide in fthe need thou
hast of him."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
INSURANCE

the flowers in the windows, or she
goes to call on some nearby acquaint-
ance.
cor it may be she just changes a
room around. Giving the furniture a
new position and changing the pic
lures makes a difference These seem
like very small matters and they are,
but they are the something different
and they go a long way toward keep
ing her cheerful and quiet-minded
ut is quite wonderful how these
small material changes and minor
pleasant interests can help people to
recover from the blasting of some
great loss. 1t seems hard to take up
the routine of living again after some
one, who was a large part of life, has
been eliminated. Yet you have to go
on and do your part and if you are
wise you deliberately interest yourself
in something new"
IT ho
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
POPULAR APoLoGETIcs.
Adapted from the German of Rev
Peter Mikes, S. j., by Rev.
James Watcher.
SECTION VI.
So. The Existence of Christ.

50. The Existence of Christ.
Objection: The Dutch Socialist, Do
mela Nieuwenhuis, says in his Life
of Jesus that to the question wheth
er Jesus Christ is historical person
or not, we can not just answer yes
or no Internationally. The German
Socialist Bebel (Christentum und So
zialismus, p. y, considers Christ a
myth like the old Egyptian sun god;
his existence is "nebulous."
Answer: u The existence of Christ
is historical fact as clear as the
sun and has nothing in common with
the clouds that hover about the old
myths or the imaginary Socialist
states of the future. Since Bebel and
his companions know at least some
Latin they may read about Christ in
Tactius (Annal. XI. Az, Suetonius
Vita Claudii 25), Pliny the Younger
(Epist. X. go.
They need not fear these writer's
they are no Church Fathers, but old
Romans, real heathens, from the first
century after Christ.
y Nieuwenhuis contradicts himself
with astonishing equanimity right on
the first page, where he doubts the
existence of Christ and then, in his
own words, from the undoubtedly
genuine letters of Paul. quotes what
the Apostle says about Christ Even
the radical Protestant theologians no
longer accept this fantastic hypothesis
in earnest.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
IT'S so EASY.

1t also seems to be a favorite oc-
cupation or pastime for quite num-
Der of people, young and less young.
What? Why, criticising either the
pastor or his assistant 1t must be
more or less of general practice, or
the small leaflets handed out by the
missionary fathers when they go
around trying to help the pastor and
his assistant to save souls would not
have short paragraph printed there
on which says:
Refrain from criticising the pastor.
Pray for him and do all you can to
aid and support him." Or words to
this effect.
1t may not be that critic is born
every minute, like one other species
of the race, but one or two may de-
Velop every week, or month or year.
Anyhow, they are said to be plentiful
enough and to spare. The pastor may
not be saint at this period of his
sojourn on earth; neither may his as
sfstant, for that matter. Being men,
bers of the human family on earth
they have not, perhaps, been able thus
far to arrive at perfection, no matter
how hard they have striYen in that
desirable direction.
Our Saviour was perfect and still
the critics of His day did not let Him
escape their shafts. Some blamed
Him for receiving sinners and eating
with sinners; others condemned Him
for telling the Truth, and did not en-
terrain very high opinion of Him
because He was the Son of Joseph,
the poor carpenter of Nazareth.
Your pastor may not even look like
a holy man, but appearances are
often deceptive; at all events, he is
called to be a saint and is the
'makin's" of one, even as you are
called and have a duty to strive after
sainthood too. The pastors mission
is to help you to advance towards
holiness and it may be that he can
do this in part by seeming to have
faults, which you may bear with pa
thence and humbly. Perfection is
gained by hard work and the over
coming of ones self. so by denying
ones self the luxury of criticising
some progress is possible, nay prob
able
Business men say, boost, don't
knock" a slogan that might be
adopted by every parishioner who sim
cerely wishes to remain true Chris
tian. If you have full statistics show
ing all of tt" faults of pastor and
assistant, have you likewise tabu-
lated list of all their virtues and re-
deeming qualities? The latter may not
be SO easy to discover and appreciate
at first, but renewed efforts will bring
success at last.
Western World.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
THE LEGEND OF THE EDELWEIss.
From Gertrude E. Heath's "Leqends
of the Madonna and the Christ
Child"

There came friar to my cottage
door,
And tiny flower in his hand he bore;
1t was plucked afar, from the snow
and the ice,
Men called it the beautiful edelweiss;
The purest blossom in all the land,
For it came straight down from Our
Lady's hand.
Know you the legend? The words are
sweet:
Listen, my children, while | repeat
This is the story the good friar told,
AS drew him in from the wind and
the cold:
Our Lady spins in the heart of the
sun;
White, white are the skeins that he1
hands have spun;
For her lambs are pastured in Para.
disc,
Their eyes like the stars of the edel
weiss.
Her hands grew weary, her wheel fell
fast,
And a bit of the wool through the
other passed.
And so l found in the snow and the
ice
This dainty bloom of the edelweiss,
Fresh and fair from Our Lady's hand
o snow-white bloom from the mystic
land! $3.50 ~
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
BANIsHING MORBID AND PER
VERIFIED THOUGHT.

Keep yourself fit physically and
you are not so apt to grow morbid
and unwholesome mentally, is the adj
vice that Aunt Bride of the Sacred
Heart Review gives to an uneasy SOUL
Continuing she develops these con-
structive thoughts:
1.-THE positive way to keep healthy
minded is to become so occupied with
wholesome interests and thoughts
that there is no room for the morbid
the sickly sentimental, the perverted
curiosity, the resentful irritation and
envy or any of the other contagious
which so often work their microbes
into our minds and lessen, if they do
not spoil, our usefulness.
mo doubt you are already doing
some useful work in the course of
earning a living. Most of us do, but
some of us save our mental health
in doing it and others lose it. The
sure way to lose it, you know, is to
feel abused because you have to work
at all and to compare your miserable
lot with that of some one else. Of
course you don't know thing about
the other woman's problems, but to
your morbid mind she seems to have
all the peach while you get the pit
Probably it isn't so at all. She may
have plenty Of troubles invisible to
you.
I'm any case it isn't healthy-minded
to wall and nurse a crouch. Try get
ting a little extra sleep and deliber-
ately search for the pleasant side of
your work. Make yourself laugh a
little. Shut your teeth on your COM
plants and tell the girl next to you
something pleasant. You have no
| idea how easy it is after one or two
| efforts.
1T may be you have real reason
for complaint about your work or the
conditions under which it is done
THAT happens. But justice was
never brought about by worrying and
complaining and finding fault. The
only results you get that way are in
efficiency and the loss Of your job,
Perhaps your unhealthy minded
ness doesn't reach the extent of hat
ing your job. You're just dull and
out-of-sorts. Sometimes that is the
result of staying indoors too much
and sometimes it's because of too mo-
notonous days. Get out more for
walks and do something different.
1T is surprising how even the
I slightest change in the routine will
break the monotony and rest mind
i grown tired of the same thing over
land over. It's like shifting from one
| set of muscles to another when your
body is tired.
"One of Aunt Brides housekeeping
friends sometimes sticks to her work
until she can no longer keep the ir.
ritation out of her tones. She feels
| like taking a bite out of a post as
she phrases it. And then she goes
down town some afternoon. She
comes home made over with couple
of yards of dimity to make some new
curtains for the kitchen, or she has
| the material for some new shirt
waists or a new dish or two. Or. per
haps she has only heard dozen new
monograph records at the store and
has bought one.
And of course there. come to her as
to the rest of US, days when the mo
notony is too much for her and hel
purse is empty. She can't take hel
Recreation in shopping. Then she
1 goes for a Walk and observes tlie lvari
GUS changes I'M the nelghborhood Tho
new houses and the new curtains ant
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
WET WASH LAUNDRY

You swing the Child to your shoulder
steady.
| see your quiet smile as you sit
And watch the little Son thrive and
eat
The vine curls by the window space,
The wings of angels pass and repass.
Up in the rafters polished and olden,
There's Dove that broods, and his
wings are golden.
You who kept Them through shine
and storm
A staff, shelter, kindly and warm.
Father of Jesus, Husband of Mary!
Hold us your lilies for sanctuary
Joseph, honored from sea to sea,
Guard me mine, and my own roof-tree,
Man of the House.
-CdthGHne TDnon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18

1 see you rise at the dawn, and light
The fire and blow till the flame is
bright.
l see you take the pitcher and carry
The days well-water for Jesus and
Mary.
You knead the corn for the bread SO
fine,
Gather them grapes from the hanging
vine.
There are little feet that are soft and
slow
Follow you whithersoever you go.
There's. little face at your workshop
door,
A little one sits down on your floor;
Holds his hands for the shavings
curled,
The soft little hands that have made
the world.
Mary calls you; the meal IS ready
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-05-18
ST. JOSEPH.

Joseph, honored from sea to sea,
This is your name that pleases me,
Man of the House.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-04
Soup Eating Lost Art.

Owing to the high cost of ingredi-
ents soup eating may become a lost
art. America today holds the medal
for spectacular and musical soup eat
ing. There is no nation so accom-
plished in the art of eating soup audi
bly, as ours. No race of people extant
can eat soup and keep up steady con-
versation without stopping it on its
shirt bosom) as successfully as the
American. A foreign writer once re-
marked that he dearly loved to hear
an American eat soup. Some nations
drink their broth and bouillon In 81
lence or sop it up noiselessly with
bread, thus robbing the process Of all
its interest. But America blows its
broth cool, then unsteady sucks 1t
from the spoon, allowing 1t to hit the
base of the empty stomach with the
chug Of a pile driver. The way some
of US strain soup through our mus
taches is decidedly artistic. But, like
many of the lost arts of our aborigines,
the doom of soup eating is In sight
Cartoons Magazine.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-04
MEANING OF JAcoBITE TOAST
Glasses Raised To "the Little Gentle
man in Velvet" Had Peculiar
Significance Centuries Ago.

"To the little gentleman in velvet"
was a favorite Jacobite toast in the
reign of Queen Anne. By "the little
gentleman in velvet the Jacobites
meant the mole that raised the hum
mock against which the horse of King
William III civilian of Orange)
stumbled while riding in Hampton
court. The king was thrown heavily
to the ground, breaking his collar bone.
A severe Illness ensued under which
the kings feeble constitution gave
way, and he died early In the year
1902. He left no children and the
crown passed to Anne, a sister Of Will
liam's deceased wife, Queen Mary, and
a daughter of the deposed king, James
II. 1t was the plan of the Jacobites
to bring back to the throne James the
Pretender, a son, it was claimed, Of
James III by his second wife, Mary OF
Modena. The execution of their plans
was not attempted until the house Of
Hanover came to the throne. The at
tempt of the Pretender James in 1715
was a miserable failure, but the at
tempt of his son, Prince Charlie, In
1745, was a more formidable affair. He
collected a considerable force in Scot
land, invaded England and reached
Derby before compelled to retreat. He
was finally defeated at Culloden.